Articles tagged with “reference”
- Taking Advantage of the X-Robots Tag
- Controlling the spidering, indexing and caching of your (X)HTML-based web pages is possible with meta robots directives such as these:
I use these directives here at Perishable Press and they continue to serve me well for controlling how the “big bots” 1 crawl and represent my (X)HTML-based content in search results.
For other, non-(X)HTML ...
- Content Negotiation for XHTML Documents via PHP and htaccess
- In this article, I discuss the different MIME types available for XHTML and explain a method for serving your documents with the optimal MIME type, depending on the capacity of the user agent. Using either htaccess or PHP for content negotiation, we can serve complete, standards-compliant markup for our document’s header information. This ...
- More Killer CSS Reset Styles
- Just a note to let everyone know that I have updated my previous CSS reference article, A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles. The updated version features two more excellent CSS resets, as well as the updated Meyer reset and a link to Eric’s official ...
- An Easy Introduction to Web Feeds
- This article will help beginners understand a few “feed” essentials: what they are, how they work, and how to use them..
So you are a little new to the Web. As you surf around, you keep noticing these little orange squares and multicolored boxes placed next to phrases such as these:
Subscribe via ...
- What is My WordPress Feed URL?
- For future reference, this article covers each of the many ways to access your WordPress-generated feeds. Several different URL formats are available for the various types of WordPress feeds — posts, comments, and categories — for both permalink and default URL structures. For each example, replace “http://domain.tld/” with the URL of your blog. Note: even though your blog’s main feed is ...
- What is the Difference Between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1?
- As some of you (e.g., Louis) may have noticed during the recent site redesign, I decided to switch the default doctype from XHTML 1.0 Strict to XHTML 1.1. Just in case you were wondering, XHTML 1.1 is different than XHTML 1.0 in three important ways 1:
On every element, the ...
- A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles
- Using CSS to style semantically meaningful (X)HTML markup is an important key to modern web design practices. In a perfect world, every browser would interpret and apply all CSS rules in exactly the same way. However, in the imperfect world in which we live, quite the opposite frequently happens to be the case: many ...
- Much ado about nofollow: The Perishable Press Dofollow Series
- Okay, I know what you’re thinking: “Oh great, not another article about WordPress nofollow!!” Well, if that sounds like you, I have good news! This is the last post (at least for awhile, anyway) concerning all things nofollow, dofollow, and even no-nofollow, for that matter. In fact, this post isn’t even about nofollow! It’s simply a summary of the articles I have written involving nofollow-related topics. The articles fit together so well, one might suppose they ...
- WordPress Plugins Featuring Nofollow Blacklist Functionality
- Is that spam or are you just trying to comment?
Removing nofollow attributes from your WordPress-powered site is a great way to encourage comments and attract visitors. Many commentators will leave useful, constructive feedback, but there will always be a few losers who would attempt to game your generous link love. Fortunately, identifying these mindless link whores is relatively easy. Here are a few priceless examples of actual spam (i.e., linked) comments left here at Perishable Press (links ...
- Comprehensive Reference for WordPress NoNofollow/Dofollow Plugins
- Recently, while deliberating an optimal method for eliminating nofollow link attributes from Perishable Press, I collected, installed, tested and reviewed every WordPress no-nofollow/dofollow plugin that I could find. As of the writing of this post, I have evaluated 12 dofollow plugins, all of which are freely available on the Internet.
In this article, I present a concise, current, and comprehensive reference for WordPress no-nofollow and dofollow plugins. ...
- Bare-Bones HTML/XHTML Document Templates
- In this post I have assembled a concise collection of conforming, bare-bones document templates for the following doctypes:
Document Templates
XHTML 1.0
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Frameset
XHTML Basic 1.0
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML Basic 1.1
HTML 4.01
...
- Unicode Character Reference for Bloggers
- [ Keywords: unicode, utf-8, encoding, character, reference, quote, copyright, bullet ]
Virtually every article written here at Perishable Press requires at least one or two “special” characters. Some of these characters — such as quotation marks, hyphens, and dashes — are very common, while others — such as the copyright symbol, bullet, and arrow — happen less frequently. As a blogger, I find myself repeatedly using a select ...
- The Friendliest Link Targets in the Neighborhood
- [ Keywords: link, target, blank, replace, self, parent, top ]
The target attribute for anchor elements () specifies the location in which the referenced document should load. For example, to open a link in a new window, we would use a target value of _blank. Although this is a commonly employed technique, the target attribute has ...
- URL Character Codes
- URL’s frequently employ potentially conflicting characters such as question marks, ampersands, and pound signs. Fortunately, it is possible to encode such characters via their escaped hexadecimal ASCII representations. For example, we would write "?" as "%3F". Here are a few more URL character codes (case-insensitive):
%3E
# %23
% %25
{ %7B
} %7D
| %7C
\ %5C
^ %5E
~ %7E
[ %5B
] %5D
` %60
; %3B
/ %2F
? %3F
: ...
- Offline Resource Library
- The Perishable Press Official Offline Resource Library (requires username & password)
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Formats
- There are currently three formats for expressing date/time in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). All examples represent the date, "July 04, 2050". The time for all three formats is expressed as "hour:minutes:seconds".
Here is the preferred, standard format1 for the Internet. This format is defined by RFC 1123 (updated from RFC 822):
# RFC 1123 Standard GMT Format
Mon, 04 Jul 2050 07:07:07 GMT
The programming language C uses the ANSI standard format1 in its asctime():
# ANSI Standard GMT Format
Mon ...
- XHTML Document Header Resource
- This XHTML header tags resource is a work in progress, perpetually expanding and evolving as new information is obtained, explored, and integrated. Hopefully, you will find it useful in some way. Even better, perhaps you will share any complimentary or critical information concerning the contents of this article.
Table of Contents
Important Information
XML Declaration
The !DOCTYPE
The html tag
...
- Press Color Archive
- Our official location for dumping notable color swatches:
| #1A1A1A
| #383838
| #666677
| #E1E1E1
| #F0F0F0
| #F2F2F2
| #F3F3F3
| #FFFFEE
| #CCDDAA
- A Complete CSS Template File
- To help maintain consistency when developing new CSS-styled websites, we have created a complete CSS template file. The file contains every HTML/XHTML tag known to man. This includes tags such as BASEFONT and CENTER, which have been deprecated; tags such as COMMENT and MARQUEE, which are exclusive to Internet Explorer; tags such as SPACER and SERVER, which are exclusive to Netscape Navigator; and even tags such as !DOCTYPE and BASE, which are included merely for the sake ...
- A Closer Look at Perishable Press
- What is Perishable Press?
Perishable Press began as a virtual journey into the digital chaos of the blogosphere. While initially designing the site, we began posting a variety of content, primarily information related to the project itself. During the development process, as the site exploded into a frenzy of ideas, possibilities, and experimentation, we continued to post code examples, useful links, and tons of reference material. ...
- Digital Units
- Digital units and their relative capacities1:
Byte: (100 bytes)
A single digital character.
Kilobyte: (103 bytes)
A small page of digital text.
Megabyte: (106 bytes)
A small novel, or a screen-resolution digital image.
Gigabyte: (109 bytes)
A symphony in hi-fi sound, or a pickup truck filled with paper.
Terabyte: (1012 bytes)
One-tenth of the printed collection of the Library of Congress.
Petabyte: (1015 bytes)
All of the email produced in the world in one day, or about a half-million hours worth of television.
Exabyte: (1018 bytes)
Two exabytes estimated to be ...
- About Perishable Press, First Edition
- [ Editor’s Note: This post contains the contents of the first version of the “About Perishable Press” page, which was online since the site’s launch in August 2005 until updated in June 2007. The content is posted with an historical archival date to avoid disruption of regularly scheduled programming. ]
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Purpose »
Philosophy »
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I have been blessed with the gift of creativity. ...