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Time is an evil thing especially when you have a lot of ideas for articles but not the time to pretype and to publish them.

I‘m trying my best but school takes up a lot of time right now. I just thought I let you know before you start to worry…

Who doesn’t know the situation when you release a website and within a short time you get complaints of users with browser X who say that xyz doesn’t work on the page.

These days there are many browsers out there and of course you can test your page on them if you have the time. Even then there is the chance you missed one or two and then you are back at zero. Also, it is possible that a design doesn’t allow users with a disability to use the page.

So what to do?

First of all it is a good advise to use valid HTML and CSS. Also make sure you don’t abuse JavaScript, Flash and Gifs. If you are reading this article, I assume I don’t have to tell you about these things…

But how can you validate your HTML, CSS and Accessibility?

Well, I will tell you which tools I’m using to validate my websites. These tools are not perfect, but if you use them properly you make sure that they cover each others weakness and leaving you with a valid website at the end. Also, there are some things you can’t validate by using a tool. You need to know the guidelines for HTML, CSS and Accessibility (WCAG) Continue…

Finally the announced new look for Google Webmaster Central is live. I visited Webmaster Central yesterday and it wasn’t updated, so please don’t punish me if this is “old” news…

The Webmaster Central Homepage

I am not sure, but I believe they didn’t only add new icons and changed the overall design, but also added one or two more options. I don’t recall seeing a link to gadgets for your website but maybe it was just hidden in a sub menu.

Overall it makes a really clean and easy to use look. I’m really tempted to try one or two of the new things I see on there…

What’s new on the Tools page?

First of all of course the look. They got rid of the greenish design and moved to the “Google Standard Blue” as I like to call it. It looks pretty now.

They also changed the navigation and it is way more intuitive now. However, they didn’t add any new features. They only removed the tool rating options and the improved the overview for each category.

What do you think about the new Google Webmaster Central page? Are you using it?

Further Reading: Webmaster Tools by Google

If you have a look at my sidebar, you see that my menu options have little dots (or images) to the left. Thanks to CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, you have many options to style your list, ranging from no style to one of the many default styles. You are even able to use an image of your choice!

So how do you edit and style your list?

Of course you are able to use almost any of the available CSS properties, like borders, background, font and so on.

A list without icons

Let’s assume you want to use the list to create a menu, but you don’t want to have the default list icons added by the browser, because it would break with the design. How do you remove the icons? With a tiny bit of CSS of course:

ul, ol {
list-style:none;
}

This code will remove any list style, leaving you a list without the list icons. It works for both types of lists, order and unordered. If you prefer using in-line editing, just add a style="list-style:none;" to the “ul” or “ol” tag and you are set. Continue…

I still remember the 9/11 2001…

I still know what I did when I learned about what happened…

I am from Germany, still, I was as shocked as everyone else…

I did not loose a friend or a relative, but…

I feel with everyone who lost a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, a child, a grandfather, a grandmother, an uncle, an aunt, a nephew, a niece, a cousin, a friend, a loved one…

I have great respect for the firemen and women, police officers, paramedics and other helpers who risked and/or lost their lives…

Although I do not agree with many of the decisions made by the government of the United States, I believe it is necessary to punish those who planned, prepared and executed the plans which made hundred of thousands innocent people suffer.

I know that the terrorist who piloted the airplanes who crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the terrorist who piloted the machine which was brought down before another attack could be executed, can’t be punished. However, I hope they will burn in hell, even though I do not believe in God.

I know that some of the terrorists who pulled the wires got caught and punished or were killed in firefight.

I hope that the 2,974 people who died as an immediate result of the attacks will rest easier. I hope that their relatives, friends and loved ones have it easier now, but I know it will never be like it was before.

I can’t do much. I can only hope that this article reminds everyone of this cruel day.

I still remember how I came home from school and switched the TV on to watch J.A.G (a series) just to see the news. At first I didn’t believe it, but then I realized: This is not a “joke”. This is real. Those planes did crash into the WTC.

One image I will never forget. The image of people jumping of the World Trade Center.

I do not know why they decided to jump. I only know they made a decision and no one will ever understand their decision.

I do not know how I would have reacted if I would have been in one of the Towers, or even in one of the planes.

I only know when, where and how I learned about what happened.

I still remember my reaction…

I will always mourn the senseless deaths of innocent people…

I will always honor the bravery of those people who tried to help and those who died trying to help…

I will never forget…

Update: Tay Zonday published a great song on YouTube. You can watch it after the jump. Continue…