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    Learning HTML

    I always believed that being professional does not mean knowing everything, professionals simply know where to find the answers. The more HTML you do, the more you will remember, hand coding helps, same with CSS. Explaining is good to, I don't know how often I expalined things here to help the others in my early days and then slapped my forehead at a connection I made in the process. So even if you tghink you do not know much, help out here and it will help you learn.
  2. Usually when people speak of disabilities and web accessibility, they talk of permanent problems surfing. This is not always the case. About a year ago a member here had his PC die. For a while he was stuck surfing the web with his Wii. It was a wake up call and he said he would pay more attention to accessibility. It was temporary and bad from what he said. Another example is myself. Not a speed typer, I am typing with one finger. It is raining here on packed snow, I slipped and broke my collar bone last night. So one arm is strapped to my chest and hurts like the devil, leaving me one finger and hand to type with. Luckily it was my left shoulder, so I can use the mouse still. See, accessibility is not just about a minor group, it is about everyone and you can loose you PC or break a bone... what will you do then if most sites are inaccessible? Just do what you can and hope that others do the same.
  3. 80% of Alaska has likely never been walked on by humans, the entire population likely lives on 20%. Dissapear, yes... survive? That is another issue.
  4. On Sep. 25th 2008, President Bush signed an Ammendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that effectively redefines what is to be considered a disability. This can be very important to anyone with disabilities so please pass it on. This could overturn the VA's rejection of my request for reevaluation. It may also redefine disabilities for web design.
  5. If they used "Hacked" then it was one of the script kiddies to dumb to know the right term. I know a few hackers who are very upset seeing crackers called hackers. Real Hackers are proud of it and attack crackers where they can. Professional Hackers and Crackers know the difference and use the correct terms. Otherwise they are wanna-be's.
  6. OK, the thread made it sound like just the permissions were reset, I must have missed any reference to actual defacing... my bad, sorry.
  7. The tools, are they mostly plugins or stand alone programs? The state blocks that site, so I can't visit it.
  8. ...if the police are after you... people think Alaska is lawless like going out west in the 1800's.
  9. Minor technocality, the site was Cracked. Crackers crack sites and do harm. Hackers hack sites only on request of the owners to reset or check security. The Press got it all wrong years ago and it stuck. Hackers are the good guys. If it was cracked, why would they go through the trouble just to change permissions and not delete or change files? Sounds more like a mistake or error on you side or the host... resetting it.
  10. The guy who won was hospitalized last night after beibg beateb with a tire iron by a 20 year old California man with open warrants in both states.
  11. Last week today we had 9 degrees, today's high is to be 43 and more rain.
  12. We spend allot of time laughing at the tourists in their winter cloths in spring and fall and their clear plastic garbage bags/ponchos form the cruise liners. Guess what, it rains in a rain forest. *snicker*, even in January!
  13. Just Barrow, Nome, North Slope Oil areas or Fairbanks. For instance Fairbanks, normal winter temperatures around -40. I have heard stories about how you can let a little air out of your tire, move it a little each day and have 4 sided, 6 sided, 8 sided tires all winter. Or throw boiling water in the air and it will not touch the ground, it evaporates instantly in the cold and the dryness of the air. Cold inversion that keeps smoke and exaust so close to the ground that you cannot see your own feet. Not for me either. If you ever get a chance to see the repeats, Watch "Tougher in Alaska". The host is from Sitka, my part of SE Alaska and he travels all over showing why everything is harder here. Fairbanks Firemen have heated water trucks... if not their water would freeze before they could put out a fire in winter. How about repairing power lines in -60 weather. Or building power lines in some remote native village where you can only get the equipment in by snowmobile over frozen rivers, so you have to be finished by spring thaw. Most places stop construction in winter, they start working in winter. It is a great show to watch and funny often times. (By the way, we have but one small pool for 33,000 people. So to swim you either go to one of our rocky North Pacific beaches or swim at the Glacier. You should see the faces of the tourists who see our young children swimming in a kettle at the glacier! "Is it cold?" Well there is the Glacier a mile away dropping icebergs into the lake. Up there you see snow caps melting into streams like this one and meet the lake at places like this... no, it is not cold... once you are numb it is quite pleasant! Of course the sun warms the shallow water we swim in... a little. So the take off their shoes and step in and scream language I shall not repeat here. We have also even had tourists demand the Forrest rangers call the Police as we are abusing our children allowing them to swim there. This is Alaska, no water is warm, we wear sjhorts and sandles when tourists are wearing winter coats and earmuffs! ROFL)
  14. My wife pointed it out to me... I find it not identifyable as Google... but people will get used to it and then it will be.
  15. It still shows under Photoshop, but not sure if it will get pushed down or not. If So, we may have to post it twice as you are right about being good for the Photoshop section too. Does it work with other programs like Firefox or is it a stand alone? I can't open it from work.
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