Font Fairy Free Fonts The Font Fairy has done a lot of work putting together this resources for all the available free fonts out there. Great resource!
These character entities will validate!
Character entity references in HTML 4 which will validate with the W3C. Dreamweaver does not use these entities automatically.
CSS link order tip
If you are styling links with a style sheet, there is a preferred order for the style declarations that will make everything work as intended. The order is:
a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:active
The memory device to keep this link order in mind is LVHA, for link, visited, hover and active.
Password Protection with htaccess
The hosting company where a site is located probably has an htaccess tutorial specific to your server. Here are a few other htaccess tutorials.
· bruce-hamilton.com – .htaccess password protection tutorial
· Big Nose Bird’s Security and htaccess page
· Using htaccess files with Apache
Tip for Testing Web Pages Locally
If students are testing a page in progress by viewing in the browser and pressing reload/refresh numerous times, the page sometimes does not refresh because of persistent cache. Make sure the browser preferences for cache are set to “always” update pages and this will solve the problem.
Web Log Review of Web Teacher
Web Teacher got a glowing review from Web Log Review. Read all the good words in this review.
Mac Tidy: XHTML Conversion Tool for the Mac
The W3C has long offered HTML Tidy, a wonderful tool that changes your HTML to XHTML with no pain, but it was a Windows only application. Now we have Tidy for Mac OS and Mac users can convert to XHTML painlessly, too.