Of late, it has come to my attention that someone is stealing this site’s (my) content.

I guess I should be honored that I am writing something that someone finds useful.  On the other hand, it offends my sensibilities that these folks did not have the common courtesy to request the right to reproduce my content — which by the way, I would have granted– or provide a link to or mention of my original posting. Afterall as a BLOG publisher I want people to read my materials.

Anyway I found a wonderful posting on Lorelle’s site that provides a brief how-to guide on dealing with content theft. I highly recommend you read Lorelle’s  articles/ post s on the subject (and there are quite a few).

As for my journey into this realm, I’ll add brief notes of what I have done in this post (so watch for updates here):

1. My first activity was to send the offending site a Cease & Desist demand (you can find guides on how-to write these by searching the web).  In the demand, I allowed that even at this late stage I would grant them permission to use my content if they met certain conditions such as asking me for permission and providing links to the original pages. This action was not as easy to accomplish as you might think.  Their site has no contact page… so I posted the cease and desist demand as a comment to every posting of mine that I could easily find as a WordPress Comment.

more soon….

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CSS: Style Sheet Guidelines

Web applications should always adhere to W3C standards and validate correctly. Numerous excellent CSS style Guides are available that discuss the how-tos of achieving these objectives, below are a few:

References:

• Miha Hribar
• Interface / CSS Coding Guidelines
• NYPL Style Guide

Tutorial:

• Style Master CSS Tutorial

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Over the years we have come across numerous useful websites; sites that communicate useful information on web development, standards implementation and more. A few are listed here (we’ll update this list as time goes on…)

Standards

The following sites provide detailed information on web standards. Please remember that all of sites should adhere to applicable web standards! Use these sites to ensure your code complies with the relevant standards.

• 508 – accessibility compliance standards
• CSS Standards
• HTML Standards
• Semantic Web Best Practices
• RDF and SPARQL Standards
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• w3c
• Web Standards Group
• The Web Standards Project
• XML Core Working Group

Tools

• Dynamic Drive- Scripts and add-ons
• Cleanup your CSS
• CSS Menus & More (Stu Nichols)
• CSS Page Layouts
• Morgue File- Free Open Source photos
• Rounded Box Generator
• Spiffy Corners- generate nice css boxes
• Stock Xchange- Free Open Source photos
• WebSite Audit
• WebSite Grader

Tutorials

• Ajax Tutorials
• CSS Listmania
• Fix IE Bugs- Explorer Exposed
• w3schools Tutorials (html, css, and more)
• Web Style Guide
• W3c compliant Site Listings

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