Archive for 2005

Validating HTML/XHTML implies checking HTML/XHTML file for conformance to W3C recommendations and standards. One can use W3C Markup Validation Service for free. I highly recommend using W3C Markup Validation Service to validate HTML and XHTML as it really helps us to eliminate code errors. However, in my opinion, validating HTML/XHTML is not as important as using this service to remove code errors. Here are few tips that will help you to validate HTML/XHTML file when needed.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Harper Perennial P.S. Edition)” by Eric Schlosser. I was shocked to learn about the facts of the fast food industry.

If your HTML/XHTML and CSS is still not standards compliant and are still struggling to decide whether it’s worth it or not then “Designing with Web Standards” by Jeffrey Zeldman is an essential reading.

FireFox is the best thing that happened in the browser industry. I am a compassionate FireFox user. However, I do not disregard Internet Explorer at all. As a HTML coder, I find diversity in browsers a blessing. This is because when one browser forgives an error the other browser will display it. Hence, it’s all good! Here, I want to recommend following FireFox extensions that are helpful to a web developer.

Here is a HTML technique that can be used to create a table for data such that we can freeze the first column and add a scrollbar for rest of the columns.

Audio Interview of Mahatma Gandhi on 17 October 1931 recorded in Kinglsey Hall, London