Archive for October, 2008

Tools for Creating Web Pages

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

There are many great tools available today for creating web pages. These include basic to advanced text and HTML editors, full-blown web development packages, and at least one browser toolbar designed specifically for the web developer.
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Using Entity Names

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Some characters have special meaning in HTML documents. When you want to use these characters in your text, you can use their “entity names” to prevent browsers from misinterpreting them. For example, the lesser-than and greater-than signs (<, >) are used to form tags in HTML code. Using the entity names < and > instead of < and > prevents browsers from interpreting the characters as tag brackets.
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Wordpress Permalinks and <−−more−−>

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I am using a very basic permalink,

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.

When I wrote my first post, I used the <−−more−−> tag to create a short teaser on the home page. On clicking the “Read the rest of this entry ยป” link, the full post was displayed starting from the the break point on the home page instead at the beginning of the post. Furthermore, the permalink included “#more-3.” The permalink looked like this:

…/2008/10/06/wordpress-comes-to-select-digitals/#more-3

At wordpress.org, I discovered a neat plugin that fixed both problems. The plugin is More To The Top. After uploading and enabling this plugin, the permalink now looked like this:

http://www.blog.selectdigitals.com/2008/10/06/wordpress-comes-to-select-digitals/

WordPress Comes to Select Digitals

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Select Digitals has entered the Web 2.0 Age with a new WordPress Blog.

I installed the latest version of WordPress(version 2.6.2) guided by an earlier tutorial,

“How to Install and Style WordPress 2.5″.

I then modified the default Kubrick theme for my Blog.
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