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  Articles  While working on a script I often find myself writing, deleting and rewriting quick lines to output the content of variables to the screen so I can keep track of the program execution. There are many ways to print output and here are a few ideas that save time and make life easier.  Inserting an audio file into a web document should be a somewhat uneventful task. Actually, if you do not care about standards it is rather simple since the non-standard <embed> tag works very well in 95% of browsers. It only gets complicated when trying to follow the W3C specification. In this article I provide both methods and you can decide for yourself. DOCTYPE stands for Document Type Declaration and is a requirement for several web documents including HTML and xHTML pages. It must be placed at the beginning of a document and lets the browser (or any other engine interested in making sense of your markup) know what type of technology you are using and which version. If you’ve got a website, you’ve probably got one or more forms on it. Since visitors usually don’t want to take the time to fill out the full form - and we do want all the obligatory information - we all have to use form validation. Me personally, I like to do my validation server-side, because if a visitor really wants to annoy you he (or she for PC’s sake) will disable client-side scripts. Yes, that is right, they do it; I’ve seen them do it. All your hard work and all your scripting goes down the drain and you are left empty-handed if you used them. I’ve worked a lot with forms, and I’ve come up with my own little standard way of doing this. The example I’ll give is in PHP since there’s an area for it on this website. With SVG, we can create graphics from plain text. And although it’s not widely supported yet, let’s have some fun with it? It’s XML-based, it’s easy, and it’s fun. And what better way to do it, than combining it with PHP and making it dynamic. Why, you ask? Because we can! Now that we have a rectangle that takes our given variables, what we need is...  How would you get people to your site if the search engines didn't exist?
Imagine one day you flip on your PC, log on to the Internet and go to google.com. The browser alerts you and says that there is no website found at that address. No problem you think, as you head on over to Yahoo.com - same thing, no website found at that url. Now something seems fishy, go to MSN.com because you know Microsoft will never run out of money and their search engine will be up. Nope, instead you get another alert box telling you that there is no website found at that url.
Imagine that! XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepage msn.com in XHTML.
Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why bother switching?
Ever thought about the way a web page is browsed? Have you taken time to study common scan patterns? It makes a big difference to know how your visitors interact with your pages and this article is a good starting point. The background of a page is an important element. Since it occupies the entire screen, a good choice will probably go unnoticed while a bad choice can easily drive your users insane. Here are a few ideas to keep in mind when designing backgrounds for the web.
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