HTML

Posted by ljmacphee on January 31, 2007 under HTML, useful sites | Be the First to Comment

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the markup language for formatting webpages.

If you are just beginning here is a great HTML reference site. I use it often
HTML Reference Guide

If you want a ‘howto’ teach me manual to download this one is excellent Dev Helper Go to ‘Learning HTML’ and download the manual. Or HTML net has a nice online tutorial.

This is the organization that sets and maintains all the standards, there is quite a bit of information and tools there. W3C What ever they say is the right answer no matter what any other book or site might tell you.

It will take you all of a Sunday afternoon and a pot of coffee to learn all you need to know about HTML. Better to do it yourself, if you use a web editor program you’ll end up with lots of cruft in your pages and they’ll be far larger than they need to be.

No matter you say, T1s for every house. But the web is shifting and changing and you want your site accessible from cell phones and portable wifi units as well. So size and good HTML habits still matter.

More Information:
HTML Playground
Math Symbols in HTML
HTML Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters
HTML predefined icons( scroll down )
ASCII Character Codes Chart

In the beginning

Posted by ljmacphee on January 29, 2007 under blog information | Be the First to Comment

There was ftp and telnet and all was good.

Then there was html and www.timestocome.com was born,
then there were frames and we kept up,
and then came applets and still we kept up,
and then came scripting and we fell behind a bit,
and then css,
and xhtml,
and blogs,

and we fell behind while we were busy doing other things.

So here we are again.

I’m going to take all the old timestocome webtools stuff over here first, there’s a bit of it and it’s still popular after all these years. While I’m doing that I’ll be learning more about this new fangled blog website building and wap site building and I’ll add in what I’m learning as I’m learning it.

Sitemaps for videos

Posted by ljmacphee on January 4, 2007 under search engine | Be the First to Comment

. . . the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, along with relevant metadata. Here’s an example:
xmlns:video=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.0″>

http://www.example.com/videos/some_video_landing_page.html

http://www.example.com/video123.flv
http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123
My funny video
http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg

[ more information Google Webmaster Blog]

Just as using sitemaps for your html pages makes it easier for search engines to find and catalog your site, video sitemaps will help to sort through zillions of online videos. Especially since sitemaps for videos are new, get yours done and get a jump start on the other websites.