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xml, xhtml, html magic

Friday, October 19th, 2001 at 10:01 AM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Yesterday’s Webreference newsletter reviews Molly Holzschlag’s newest book, XML, HTML, XHTML Magic. OK, I admit it. I reviewed it and I was tough as nails – 100% honest and 0% bull.

another sleepless night

What a bad night to sleep lousy… the day before I go in front of the camera and get more poundage added. So, my eyes will look bigger than Gonzo’s (I couldn’t think of anyone else on three hours of sleep).

p22 fonts

Shirley shared a great link for fonts. Wow. I like the Frank Lloyd Wright style fonts. If I had the luxury and need to buy fonts, I’d head right over to P22. I’m glad I didn’t find this Web site when I was searching high and low for a western-style font because I would’ve bought it to use on a Web site that never panned out. P22 has the best looking one I’ve seen to date called “Way Out West.”

a list apart

Speaking of fonts, ALA has spoiled us with another double issue! I started with Typography Matters by Erin Kissane. It’s good to see spelling and punctuation get coverage as you know I am an ardent supporter of grammatically correct content especially on professional pages. I don’t worry about content on blogs and people have caught my errors, of course. It’s the graphics and businesses Web sites that shouldn’t have such errors. Anyway, the article also offers something I had not thought about before… “typographically correct punctuation.” The article discusses the use of straight quotation marks as opposed to curly quotation marks. I’ll leave you hanging here so you can go read the rest of it for the details.

The other article is about a common discussion topic for women — the trouble with men. Err, wrong magazine, it’s actually the Trouble with Em ‘n En. Creative title drew me in — hook, line and sinker. OK, am I using the dash correctly? Again, I never bothered with the — dash since I’m too lazy to look up the character when it’s faster to do this – twice. Yeah, I should use the Visibone HTML card that I have right here at my desk with the handy dandy quick character reference.

If you don’t have time to read the article, then walk away with the following advice that I learned today: “The entire range from through Ÿ are invalid characters, and consequently should not be used.” However, there are some other useful rules listed in the article that are new to me. Need to squeeze that new found knowledge into the overly crowded brain. Another touchdown from the kind folks of ALA!