HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language used for creating web pages. In modern web pages, HTML is used to markup the contents of the website, while CSS and Javascript are used to define the styles and behaviors respectively.
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Can I make a website template based on a PC game?
I was thinking to create a WordPress theme related to Starcraft 2. The theme would be free (under GPL). Am I allowed to do this or is it a copyright violation?
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Where can I find GPL licensed articles which I can use in a commercial project?
I'm designing some web templates, and I need to add some sample content in them, like articles and stuff. I was wondering where can I find such sample articles to include in the template demo? I dont ...
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Are there any snippet software app for windows user?
I'm a web designer, and I'm used to collect snippets of code I find in the internet.
I found snippely as a great snippet app but it doesn't have export or import features when I'm going to different ...
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What font technique is being used here?
While I was attending this event (http://worldtour.fogcreek.com/) I noticed this page had custom fonts for the Address part in the top left corner (i.e "Fog Creek Software 55 Broadway Fl 55....") When ...
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Are there any cross-operating-system, cross-browser bugs of which web-programmers should be aware?
Perhaps this belongs on superuser, but I'll try here on stackoverflow first
I develop on Ubuntu and was wondering if it's safe to assume that my site will look the same in, say, Chrome, when viewed ...
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What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing?
This is a silly question but i am bit confused. Can any explain What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing the pages?
Thanks in advance.
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Trying to collect input values using hidden input fields
I have the following fields:
First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />
Last Name: <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />
Is ...
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How can I resolve HTML validation errors when using Facebook Comments?
I am trying to validate my document that has the following facebook comments tag
<fb:comments width="425"></fb:comments>
I am getting validation error:
Line 333, Column 45: Element ...
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Do new lines in the title tag affect SEO?
I is common thing that if you have some login that creates the title tag content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:
<title>
Title |
Category |
My Site Name
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Link of image and text
I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way:
<a href="/link"><img src="image.jpg" ... />This is caption</a>
Meaning I combine both and text inside the ...
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Are there any good reasons to avoid using the noscript tag in an HTML5 header?
I need an efficient and aesthetically-pleasing way to gracefully degrade site appearance for users with Javascript disabled and, while I am not aware of any problem with adding a link to an ...
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Bad webpage with excellent content. Ideas? [closed]
I am currently building a system that automatically create a redesign of an existing webpage. The new webpage should have better graphic design, better industrial design, and a state of the art ...
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How do I get iFramed images to show up in RSS?
I switched to Skydrive for my image hosting recently, and after getting the page formatting the way it needed to be, I ran into an issue with my RSS feed. In particular, when I used img src= the image ...
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Adding my blog to my website
Hi
I've got a blogspot blog. I want to display my posts in my HTML-Based website. What should I do? I've already tried adding it as RSS but failed. I want everything to look natural. I don't want my ...
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Do Flash head banner texts need to coincide with the text on the underlying HTML banner?
Let's say you have a flash head banner on the page that you are trying to optimize. Let's also assume that you've incorporated an underlying HTML banner for SEO purposes. Now, do you think Google ...
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Google Analytics shows 0 Visits?
I checked Analytics yesterday for pageviews, and had several hundred of them (for yesterday).
Not today when I check "Yesterdays" stats (which yesterday showed several hundreds), it shows 0...?
How ...
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Could link decoration be considered deceptive?
A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors..
The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text.
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What's the best way to show a message for only IE 6 and IE 7?
What's the best way to show a text message for only IE 6 and IE 7 ?
Should I add a html tag to my webpages and normally hide it with css for all browsers except the above mentioned ?
And when I use ...
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iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how
I have a two-pronged question.
First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an ...
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Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links
I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a ...
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Which is faster, adding rounded corners to images, or adding rounded corners in CSS
Which of the following will load faster,
Creating a square image and adding rounded corners via CSS
Adding rounded corners to the image by default and not using the extra css.
Also, if 2 is ...
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Is there anything wrong with targeting the alt attribute in css?
I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I ...
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how can i a centered and fixed div on html?
first of all sorry for my english. :)
I need to do a html web with a table, td, div, any kind of this, fixed and centered (vertical and horizontal) of that size: 1010px of width and 565px of height. ...
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What possible causes are there for a page to display differently if hosted in two different places?
If viewing the same page in the same browser, but that page is hosted in two different places (in our case, locally v. over the internet) what kinds of things can cause it to display differently?
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To <p> or not to <p>?
I recently had a debate with a colleague who claimed that a <div> tag should be used over a <p> tag when formatting paragraphs.
The case against the use of <p> is that it produces ...
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Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height
I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear.
The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of ...
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Disqus integration in website.. what is wrong? [closed]
I try to embed a disqus forum in a website I created. I used the exact code and instructions they give on the installation instructions. I just don't get it. Not much on Google either. Is something ...
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Web page element width
i saw this on a website, and looked a bit through the css, but coudn't quite find what I am looking for.
How to make a html element let's say a <div> with width of eg. 3000px but make so that ...
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Do you have stats/trends for use of different HyperText Markup Languages?
For example: html-XYZ, xhtml, html5
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why is having (or excluding) 'www' in the URL affecting how my site displays to users?
I am cleaning markup on a website for my first customer. I did not build the site; I want to remove the table-based design and replace it with proper CSS, before I add a shopping cart to the site.
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Problem with description of my site and google search
My HTML page :
http://www.faressoft.com
<meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />
When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the ...
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How do you save/export changes made in Firebug?
Using Firebug to edit CSS, how do I save/export changes made to the CSS?
TOOLS: Firefox, Firebug
MAJOR UPDATE: If you know of a way to lock the forward/back/refresh on a FireFox tab, please let me ...
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How do you make a favicon appear on a redirected site?
I have a Wordpress blog hosted on my domain. I have redirected a URL to a subfolder of my domain where the blog is installed. How can I get a specific favicon to appear for that blog but NOT for my ...
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CSS style viewer/tester
Is there a site out there that has a bunch of typical html for seeing what the css looks like once applied?
I mean, something full of table, a, div, span, p, whatever. You go there, paste in your ...
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Top and bottom gradient using CSS
I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ...
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Why does the website heading on pubvantage.com display arbitrary text when it is listed in google search results?
the website www.pubvantage.com has a permanent redirect to http://exchange.contextweb.com/sellingdesk/pubvantage/.
The problem is, when a user enters the query +"pubvantage" in google, the site ...
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What's the best way to put invisible for user but indexable link?
I have several sites on the same topic but still competitive to each other. I would like to put cross links on these sites in text so they won't be visible/"clicakble" but still indexable by search ...
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Communicating image size, best practice
If you are developing a html document strictly using current best practice of keeping styling out of the markup how do you best communicate image sizing?
Past best practice wants image height and ...
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Open a page that redirects without clearing cache
I've taken over a website that has an index.html page that redirects. This page gets cached. Obviously clearing the browser's cache entirely would solve the problem. Is there any way to go directly to ...
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Uses of LINK tag
The <link> tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages.
I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will ...
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Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?
I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use ...
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Options for adjusting paragraphs?
On my company's website, we have a page (here) that I have been asked to adjust. What is desired is to take the first paragraph and adjust it to trim down the amount of space between words. My first ...
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Multi column flyout menu [closed]
I want to build a horizontal menu bar with a multi column flyout of the hovered item. It should be done with html lists, css and javascript (if needed) only.
There should be a max height of the flyout ...
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Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?
I have read that I should make the contents of my <title> and <h1> tags the same.
Is that the case or is does Google look at the content of those 2 tags separately?
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Who Is Against CSS and JS?
I know there is a group which promotes very basic HTML. They advocate against CSS and JavaScript. Does anyone know the name of this group?
Just to be clear this was a website, or a foundation, or a ...
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Is it possible to make all html links to share the same title?
The thing is I have a table containing ~2000 rows where each row contain a link that has the same title e.g.
<a id="1" title="A very long string common to all my links that i would like to have ...
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Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?
Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML ...
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Linux HTML/XML W3C Validation Utilities
What programs can I use to validate HTML/XML markup?
Basically, I want a local, command-line based, version of W3C HTML validation service (like lint) that I can use for detecting errors.
Update
I ...
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Tableless layout table generator [closed]
I am looking for a table generator based on div tag that can generate html code.
