Chimeric Dream

In my first tutorial, I covered the basics of building your first web page. However, at the end of that article, the result was bland and plain looking.

In this tutorial, we will go over the basics of style, expanding on the code we wrote originally. Feel free to download the source files to follow along as we go.

We will be spending most of our time writing CSS code. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the language that describes the presentation of a document written in HTML.
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I recently read an article on "How to REALLY Build a Web Page", and I was sorely disappointed. Although I tend to know the majority of what is covered in your average "beginner" article, I enjoy reading them to see others’ takes on the basic premises of web design and coding.

Unfortunately, that particular article left something to be desired. Therefore I wanted to write my own take on building a basic web page. This post will focus on the initial steps to build the HTML (and the steps you should take before writing your first line of code).
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According to the Project Euler website, “Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems…”

Always a fan of puzzles, I have decided to share my attempts and solutions here.

Note: If you are trying to solve Problem #28 for yourself, DO NOT READ AHEAD!
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According to the Project Euler website, “Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems…”

Always a fan of puzzles, I have decided to share my attempts and solutions here.

Note: If you are trying to solve Problem #5 for yourself, DO NOT READ AHEAD!
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According to the Project Euler website, “Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems…”

Always a fan of puzzles, I have decided to share my attempts and solutions here.

Note: If you are trying to solve Problem #1 for yourself, DO NOT READ AHEAD!
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This MOD helps distinguish between sticky topics and regular topics on. Sticky topics remain above the rest of the topics, but they are labeled with a header of “Important Topics”. The rest of the topics are separated by a bar reading “Forum Topics”.

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Google Sitemaps gives webmasters the ability to affect how the content on their website is indexed by Google. They provide an additional layer of SEO to a website, potentially improving a site’s presence in Google’s index. The following is a snip from Google’s “About” page explaining their Sitemaps program:

“Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to Google, complementing our normal methods of crawling the web. We expect they will help us crawl more of your site and in a more timely fashion, but we can’t guarantee that URLs from your Sitemap will be added to the Google index. Sites are never penalized for submitting Sitemaps.”

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This bit of code is something I came up with a few years ago. I was trying to come up with a way to generate passwords and secure database names when I decided to build a function to do it for me. Basically, it takes your input, hashes it, then suggests potential passwords or database names.

I have no illusions that this is the most groundbreaking code snippet out there, but hopefully it will be of some use to people.

Since creating the original ASP function, I have made a PHP version of it as well.

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