HTML to XHTML

Hi All,

This might be of more interest for the webmasters of our group. I still don't understand this totally and trying to figure what I need to do with my few websites. Rich M., one of our faithful members, has talked to us about XHTML and how he is designing all his new websites to meet the XHTML standards.

I have installed the newest version of wordpress and word press is stressing how their code is XHTML compliant. Also, I am listening to an affiliate marketing seminar and the moderator is saying how important it is to make sure your websites are XHTML compliant.

Here is link from WordPress about XHTML about the subject.

I am hoping my webmaster friends can tell me what I need to do with the website I have and h0w to move it into the XHTML compliant websites.

There is website that can show if your site is compliant - XHTML tool

I understand basic html but I am confused with the code changes in XHTML. Hopefully we discussed this some more and help us all. If you can add to this subject, please add some comments.
God Bless,
John

Blogging - Carving Out a Plan for Profit

Hi Guys,

I received the latest issue of Website Magazine and the cover story was about Blogging, so I am going to highlight some of the major points of the article.

1. To start a good blog, go and see what your competition is doing blogging wise.
2. Go to Compete.com and put your competitor websites in there and see who is getting the most traffic. Try to find 10 competitors.
   
3. When going to your competition blogs, see which topics are getting the most comments for other viewers. - This will give you some ideas on what readers are interested in hearing about.
4. Earning Money with your blog - Google Adsense, Value Click, Tribal Fusion
   
5. Email subscriptions offer an excellent way to send targeted offers. Consider an email signup box in a prominent position on your page. Feedburner (now owned by google) has a free email collection service.
6. If you feel your content is strong, consider exclusive content and paid subscriptions. The Word Press has a membership plugin and require payment to see all or some content on the blog.
   
7. You need to incorporate Video to your blog
8. To help get advertiser creditability - Make sure you tell about how many facebook, myspace friends you have, or twitter followers, or digg friends you have.
9. Earning money - You can also use affiliate links
   
10. Another way to Earn Money - You can be a paid for content provider. You will need to let your readers know you are being paid for posting your content. To be an advertiser writer go to ReviewMe and PayPerPost
11. Earning Money with supportive services - Blurb.com gives publishers a free downlowad to take content directly from your blog and lay in out into a book format for publishing. Also Lulu.com is another publishing option.
12. As you write your post - MAKE sure you make note of important topics or those that are just scratching the surface of a greater issues.
13. Basic SEO for blogging - Create sitemaps and submitting them to the search engines, key word optimization, linking strategies.
14. Blog Networks - Technorati and MyBlogLog, and facebook's Networkedblogs
15. Good idea to get involved with social sharing, Digg.com, Mixx.com and Bookmarking sites like Delicious.com. While these sites can be beneficial but take a lot time, stay focused.
16. Blogs have evolved from online diaries to essential business tools. Use your blog to inform readers, extend your brand and make new contacts. But at all times and through ever step of the way use your blog to profit.

They noted in the article about DailyCoyote.net, a highly successful award winning blog.
Some points she made in the article.

• When Dooce.com link to her, the blog boomed
• She blog post regularly every day at the same time. Her readers count on it and expect it
• The best source of income is the subscribtions to daily photos, calendar prints and the book deal
• She spends about 25 hours a week on the blog
• She uses twitter help grow

I hope this helps you guys. I really feel blogging could be the tool to help grow anyone's business.
God Bless,
John

Skpe Meeting Night

Hi All,

Attending:
John Mac
Rich M
John N

Look at this site: http://www.addthis.com/tour

I think I will using this link and try it on my DolphinWorld.org site.

We are going to have a great speaker at May 7th meeting from Alex. Dictionary.com will talk with us.

I have installed this program http://www.ccleaner.com/ on my computer its free and it cleans all temp files very easily.

Rich is busy with his websites, adding more banners and graphics. John N is going to Jamaica and will start using Tweeter tonight. He wants to tweet his trip to Jamaica.

Anyone have anything to add to the notes?
God Bless,
John

Windows Key Board Short Cuts

Hi All,

Here are some Windows Key Board short cuts. They will cut increase your speed doing work with your PC. You Apples user don't need to worry about this.

I hope this helpful. Does anyone out there have any shortcuts that is not on this list that you want to share?
God Bless,
John

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

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APPLIES TO

• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows 95
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Starter
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Successful Website

Hi All,

Alex's friend has this very success website.

Free Dictionary.com Check it out for ideas.

Alex said his friend will speak with us when we meet again.

God Bless,
John

Note from General Meeting - April 2 2009

Hi Guys,

Who was here:
John M
Rich M

Some things we talked about:

1. Looked at Rich's banners and did a blog post on it. Please add some feed back for Rich.

2. Talked about Zeus and latest updates. If you don't know about Zeus, it is a link exchange program. I used to use it a lot and Rich still use it more than. It definitely helps with back links. Go to: Zeus Program

Rich needs to fix his submission pages for the links - interior pages were not work. John needs to fix TropicalAdventure.com links pages.

3. We talked about the webmaster tools from Google. We looked at my back links for www.dolphinworld.org - I had over 2,000 back links. Its a great tools to use.
( Check out tutorial of tool)

4. We talked about the graphics that Allen created for me to use on myspace. Rich liked that idea and may use it for some his pet sites. To see dolphin myspace graphics

5. The next Skype meeting we are going to start the Google Adword professional Series. Next Skype meeting April 16.

Anyone seen anything new about Business, Internet, Affiliate Marketing, please post on this blog.

Don't forget to add your website on this blog, get a free back link !!!

I think that is it.
God Bless,
John

Website Advertising Banners for Rich

Hi All,

We need your opinion of what banners you like.

Rich is has made a bunch of new banners from Photoshop CS3.

Please go to:
http://www.best-whole-food-nutrition.com/testbanners.htm

Please rate the 3 468 width X 60 ( retangle) and the other 3 150 width X 400 ( almost like a square).

Just comment in the blog to make it more helpful for Rich and deciding what would make people click the ad.

God Bless,
John

My thoughts on IE 8

Gentlemen,

Firstly I'd like to say 'well done' with the blog. I think it's a great idea and hopfully will help us all. My only qualm is with the name, seems like John forgot to include Brasil in the title. Oh well!

I think I was the first (if not only) one of us to install IE 8. I'm pretty sure I was the first one to uninstall it as well. John asked me to provide a little feedback, so here goes:

The installation was painless and everything went according to plan. Visually, for the user, there is little difference in the appearance of the browser itself. The biggest change is that is seems to render pages like the other browsers (Chrome, Opera and Firefox). Hopefully this will alleviate, if not end, the nightmare of having to create separate style sheets for IE. There is a cute little button to the right of the address bar that allows IE 8 to diaplay a page as if it were an older version of IE - this is interesting for designers and programmers.

IE 8 is still in beta and so is not being widely used yet, but we should be prepared to make our pages readable in all versions. The easiest way to do this (so far) is to force the new browser to view the page as if it were the old browser. This is accomplished by adding a single line of code to the header of each page:
<meta equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7"> .
This code forces the browser to use the rendering engine of IE7.

So far the reviews of the new browser has been mostly positive, but there have also been a few detractors (if you have MS then you won't like IE8 - no matter how good it is).

Here are a few links to more infomation:
WIKI PAGE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8
Official Page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/default.aspx
Microsoft Developer Network Page about how the new browser works with CSS:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531205(vs.85).aspx (very good - recemmended!!!)

If you're wondering why I uninstalled it so quickly...
I has to do with an online banking program that I use that didn't work with the new browser version. I couldn't figure out how to run versions 7 and 8 at the same time so I ended up uninstalling 8 so that I could access my bank account again. As soon as my bank creates a program that is compatible with IE 8, I plan to upgrade again. I liked the new browser very much.

FYI I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic on an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3 Ghz with 4 GB of memory.

That's all for me for this week. I won't be able to attend the meeting this week as I will be traveling.

Have a great Meeting!!!