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I downloaded Opera Version 9 - Beta 2.
It is far more standards compliant than Firefox, which makes it worlds more compliant than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To be fair to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 7 will close the gap on Firefox, but not on Opera, we may have to wait for IE 8 for that… heck we [...]

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Open Letter to WordPress Theme Designers is an excellent, well, exactly what it says, open letter to theme designers. I would add to that, don’t hard code the date/time stamp into the theme. If you have a specific way you want it to be seen, make it the default in the theme’s option page, which [...]

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If I activate the following in my CSS, for some reason the items go on a single line:
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CSS:

.feed {

    background: url(/images/rss.gif) no-repeat left top;

    padding: 2px 0 8px 20px;

}

The HTML for the section in question is:
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HTML:

<h2><?php _e('Subscribe'); ?></h2>

<p><a href="sniped php code">Entries</a></p>

<p><a href="sniped php code">Comments</a></p>

<br />

The <br /> had to [...]

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Flash websites drive me crazy. Not do to the fact they use Flash. Flash is good, however, one should still have a web standards based site behind it. Heck, the improvement to the site's Google score alone would make it worth the while. The web standards page can slide out of the way with a [...]

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Your link of the moment is Browse Happy, which contends that "Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe," and offers stories on those who moved to other browsers.
I would go on with more of my thoughts and opinions on why everyone should switch, but I'll let that site do it and I will go to [...]

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While trying to find out more about designing a site with CSS, I found the CSS Zen Garden. What is cool, is that the HTML that makes up the page is always the same, the only thing each page changes is the CSS style sheet. You really need to follow the links to the example [...]

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