Wordpress is a funny beast, really it is. Usually, building a Wordpress site involves something like digging through a hundred pages of templates until you find one that’s merely passable. Once you do, you grab it and start hacking away at everything to make it your own - CSS, HTML, everything. And it’s fine. Really, it is - the internet’s built on sharing ideas. The problem appears once you start inheriting other people’s problems. In this case, I had to hit the refresh key just to get my divs to float correctly.
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Okay, well maybe top 10 is a bit of a misnomer, since these are just 10 free and public domain stock photo sites that I find useful from time to time, but the list still applies. Everything on these sites is free at no cost to you, though please do check the rights on each image, as they may be licensed under a Creative Commons license that requires you to give credit to the photographer.
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Doctype - that mysterious tag at the top of everyone’s code that not a lot of us really understand. Sure, it’s supposed to be there, but just what the hell is it, and why?
Perhaps a good place to start is with the misconception that a lot of new web developers and designers have - that code is code and really, if it’s in ‘HTML’ then it should look fine anywhere, right? Not quite. First, we have a plethora of different browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Lynx, the mobile versions of these, and a ton of secondary browsers (okay, if you’re still using Lynx, you’re a bit SOL). Following this whole browser variable, there are different languages you can code in, and I’m not referring to scripting. HTML isn’t the same as XHTML, and there are different modes for both. So how does the browser decide how to render each differently? By using doctypes!
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