Today we will be making a tag cloud, these have been very popular lately in the whole Web 2.0 scene. An example of what we are going to make can be found by visiting any one of numerous sites out today. A tag cloud is broken down into 2 parts, the tags and the cloud. The tags are keywords given to certain elements of a site, usually a news item, article or tutorial. A cloud then grabs all the tags and sorts them; during this sorting any tag that is found or used multiple times will have a bigger font size to stand out against the ones that are not used alot. The bigger the font size, the more this tag is used widely.
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Lets start off by assuming you know the basics of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). XHTML stands for eXtensible HyperText Markup Language, allowing itself to be more versatile, compatible, and cleaner then its predecessor. It is aimed to replace HTML as a global web language and has the ability to support xml applications. XHTML is recommended for any web programmer.
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Meta Tags, what are they? They are lines of code placed in your html file between the files head tags. But what do they do? These are tags in html which tell a search engine information about your web page. This is useful in many ways. It allows a search engine to find your site based on your site name, its domain name, the content within the site, description about the site, author of the site and more. A well designed set of meta-tags can improve your site's chances of being hit by several hundred percent. So what meta tags can I use, and how do I use them?
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Lets begin by setting up a scenario. You just woke up and jumped out of bed, you just finished breakfast or you just arrived at work. You plan to start off this wonderful day by reading your emails and getting them out of the way. You launch your mail client and wait for the connection, your "new mail" notification pops up, it beings downloading the new messages (you get a bit of joy out of this), you then click the inbox icon which is associated with the current amount of mail in it (you have alot and are quite pleased), but then... Once you are in your inbox, you realize something horrible, your inbox is full of spam! Literally 95% of your emails you were planning on reading are spam. It aggravates you, you wonder how this happened and why you get so much irritating spam! Well in this tutorial, we will teach you the basics of how to encrypt your email to stop spam bots in their tracks and safe ways to stop bots from fetching your email address.
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I believe its that time again. I do not have much time to update my site or write tutorials because I am busy with many exciting projects (below) and in the process of starting a web developement firm. I shall be back soon with a graphic heavy website that deals with nothing more then a personal blog, portfolio, scripts and tutorials. I dont expect this design to happen anytime soon but until then you can take a fancy at the following websites.
Note: Tutorials and scripts will return shortly!
