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Search Engine Optimization To The Limit
Most professional search engine optimizers know how to obtain high rankings in Google using tricks that break Google's inclusion guidelines. Using some of them can risk knocking your site completely off Google. On the other hand, some of them are legitimate and powerful and not necessarily against Googles guidelines. This article explains a legitimate approach.
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Google's Webmaster Guidelines for Effective and Ethical Site Indexing
There are many important things to consider when designing web pages and web applications with respect to how the major search engines position you in their search results. A site that cheats can end up being left out of the results entirely. This Google document is important to read to get the best possible position for the sites you build.
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Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (The Official CSS Standard)
(W3C) This is the accepted 1998 standard for Cascading Style Sheets - how to design with them and how user agents (browsers) should render from them. Not enough developers refer to the W3Cs official standards documents, but they should. They take only a little longer for you to read than your average tutorial, but your understanding will be much deeper.
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Automatic Page Syntax Validation Service - W3C
Supply a URL, upload a file or paste in some code - HTML, XML CSS or almost anything that qualifies as a markup language and this automatic tool will analyze your code for correctness and compliance to standards and report the results. It's a handy way to check for some basic errors in your pages that may only show up on some browsers or under some conditions. It's also a great way to learn about some things you may be getting away with in your code but that ultimately would add value to your site if they were fixed.
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HTML 4.01 Specification - (The Official HTML Standard)
(W3C) This is the accepted 1999 (latest) standard for HTML - how to design with HTML and how browsers should render from it. Any developer or designer who really wants to deeply understand HTML and create the very best and most functional pages which work best in most browsers needs to read the relevant W3C documents as part of the foundation of their craft. Plus you will learn some cool tricks.
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Character Entity References in HTML 4
(W3C) < > " © ® « » é É - These are just a small sample of some of the characters you may need to produce in an HTML page but cannot explicitly type or can't use because they are part of the HTML markup itself. This is the official reference standard for these characters and the codes which create them and there are hundreds of them.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX - Customizing it via Javascript and XML
Surprisingly, the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX application itself is quite customizeable and extensible via XML and Javascript - consequently you can readily tweak a number of files to customize Dreamweaver in ways you can't do from within the application. This is Macromedia's PDF on how to do this. Specifically, you'll learn how to customize the Insert bar, menus, browser profiles, third-party tags, and other aspects of Dreamweaver.
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BrainJar.com - Excellent Tutorials and Source Code for CSS, Javascript and More
A Javascript and CSS menu bar that works just like windows menu bars - no better even - really one of the best you will ever find. Great tutorials on the DOM, the DOM Event Model, CSS Positioning and more.
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CSS Tutorial (W3 Schools)
All the tutorials at W3 Schools are really good - and they emphasize the Client-Side Markup Languages as their specialty. You really can't ever know CSS well enough so wheher you 'hack' CSS or are just getting into it - read this tutorial. You will also see many other great topics on this site.
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Robots.txt Creation Tool
Automatically generate a basic robots.txt file for your site. Robots.txt tells spiders and crawlers where they can and can't go on your site.
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Robots.txt Syntax Reference and Information
This is a very informative page which includes a good syntax reference and also lots of other information and links to other resources with respect to robots.txt.
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RichInStyle.com - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorials and Articles
This is an outstanding, indepth site for learning the real-world issues and techniques of using CSS, including obscure bugs and advanced methods. It is a large site cover a wide array of important issues. This is a resource which will help webmasters make effective use of CSS with a minimum of wasted time and debugging.
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Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
A good intermediate-level discussion of what caching is and how and how not to control it using HTTP headers, meta-tags and common coding techniques. This tutorial provides a link to more indepth, technical references but in itself is technically useful to the programmer. It is also a good description of the issues to consider and strategies to use for various types of sites and content.
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XHTML vs HTML Tutorial - Introduction and Why Developers Should Move Towards XHTML
(htmlfixit.com) This is a nice overview if you are just now catching wind that you need to plan for the near future and make all of your web developement XHTML compliant. Reading this will also take the dread out of it as you'll realize it's not that big of a deal. You want to take advantage of the emerging mobile markets don't you? As a nice introduction, this article covers a lot of the technical details well.
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Cross-Site Scripting Attacks / HTML Code Injection - In-Depth Technical Analysis
A very detailed analysis of how XSS/CSS (cross-site scripting) attacks occur in various forms. This article provides the kind of detail level required by serious web application developers, including multiple examples and references. A great, authoratative article which should be read and more importantly, implemented, to truely protect your web application.
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Content-Type Header, UTF-8, Unicode - Character Encoding and International Chracter Sets
This article starts with a brief history of character sets and encoding from ASCII's 128 characters through the Internet age and International character sets with thousands of characters. It explains why programmers and developers must employ a working knowledge of modern character encoding. What it means to use a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 header is explained. Strategies for developing to global standards which can handle all languages are discussed.
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