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Here is a site that may be useful to our class when trying to find ideas and sample css style sheets to help with building our own sites. There are examples of a variety of layouts including two and three columns.

Useful XHTML Tutorial Site...

This is an article that gives you time saving CSS-techniques. It is a cookbook of web-architect shortcuts. The Links and References section also has a list of other valuable resources as well.

More tricks and techniques you can use to make your site better with CSS. This site links you to various others to provide you with tips and codes you can utilize.

Ok, so I'm sure none of are kids...age wise (not talking mentally here). I know I learn best when something is dumbed down and in every day speak. So we'll consider this to be junior geek talk. Works for me! And hopefully for you too!

Here is PHP and MySQL manual that Professor Halavais directed me to when I was having (and still having) trouble with Module 4's challenges.

A handy "cheat sheet" for various problems that can be solved by using MySQL.

For this class and all my web hosting experiences, I have only used Bluehost.com web hosting services. They make it so simple and easy to host your sites - multiple sites are really easy to host ( a folder file system). You can upload to the server using FTP or a secure web disk if using a mac. Sites are then hosted on 2 platforms - public or private. Thus allowing for secure areas for additional site functionality. What is also great about this service is that I have a file server wherever I go - no longer do I need to worry about carting a flash drive or disk with me everywhere, all I need is my computer. They are 100% reliable, was easy to transfer my domains to them and host all my pages. Definitely recommend it.

I found this site by searching "HTML for Dummies" I had read the book version some time ago when I was starting out with HTML and got distracted by something and lost the book. It gives you some great tips on how to do what you want to do!

The official MySQL Reference Manual. This manual provides reference one needs for dealing with MySQL.

This column offers a helpful "cheat" for programmers seeking to have a vertical background color extend all the way down the page. A quirk in CSS sometimes results in making it difficult for columns to extend the full length. The solution is to create a vertically tiled background image that "forces" vertical columns to extend all the way.

I know I am jumping ahead a little bit here, but I saw this and decided to start tagiing some stuff down the road a little. This might help with some stuff in the futureI know I am jumping ahead a little bit here, but I saw this and decided to start tagiing some stuff down the road a little. This might help with some stuff in the future.

I know I am jumping ahead a little bit here, but I saw this and decided to start tagiing some stuff down the road a little. This might help with some stuff in the future.

I found this really great site that details browser compatibility with CSS tags. It doesn't depict all css tags (prob. because they all don't have bugs), but details the bugs and compatibility that are known. What is nice is that it lays them out in a tabular format and includes many browsers (including the iPhone).

This may be my new favorite coding assistant. I found it on the Web Developer's Handbook, as linked to from CSS Zen Garden's CSS Resource Guide. Seriously, this rocks.

How can I tell if anyone else has previously bookmarked this?

Here's an interesting site I encountered looking for CSS cheat sheets. I'm not sure how useful it might be, it because the entry is dated 2006. But the eye-candy on the page attracted me.

Have to check the bookmarks in the group.

This website is also from w3schools. And this involves changing colors of text, background etc. It shows examples like the book does and is very easy to follow.

Five basic rules to follow when converting from traditional HTML to XHTML 1.0. Librarians are good at explaining stuff.

This site also helped me out last semester. The biggest problem I had just simply understanding the concepts behind HTML. Once I got the patterns down, it was just a matter of learning the tags, etc.

This site is from w3schools. It is detailed instructions and examples of how to change your fonts in CSS. Its important because it carefully explains how to change fonts in different parts of your body.

Some people collect coins or stamps. Imelda Marcos collected shoes. I collect domain names and have been registering different ones for over a decade. No, I'm not a squatter, but I did take KerryEdwards.org 18 months before there was a Kerry-Edwards ticket. They didn't offer to buy it. But I did sell TheFrequency.com to some guy for $15K; he hasn't done anything with it. I've used Network Solutions, Register.com, GoDaddy and Yahoo! Domains. If I'm maintaining a site myself, I usually stick to Yahoo! because it's dumbed down and easy to use. I have a Web Hosting Starter account there for my personal site www.ahoving.com. It takes a few extra clicks to get where I need to go to manage the files, but I haven't had too much trouble with it. You can upload files directly (no other FTP client needed). And there's none of that DNS stuff I sometimes run into that totally confuses me.

Review of Yahoo! Web Hosting

This is a simple document that explains how to add an API. It breaks down the different types and the pros and cons of each. As I searched for API info this one seemed the easiest to digest.