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Archive for November 2006

Crash Course: HTML

Posted by: Corey on: November 24, 2006

Lets jump right into it here. HTML is based on tags. Each tag performs a specific function, and most tags have attributes that modify them. In HTML, tags are delimited (separated) by < and > signs. Here’s what a tag should look like:
<tagname attribute=”value” attribute=”value”>content</tagname>
As you can see, the syntax is very simple. The tag [...]

Check Your Myspace Mail Via Cellphone

Posted by: Corey on: November 15, 2006

I’m currently about half-way finished with a project that allows a user to check their Myspace Mail inbox through WML and WAP (mobile internet standards). The user simply visits this service, dubbed mBridge at the moment, on their mobile phone. They will be prompted for their Myspace login information. mBridge will pass the credentials on [...]

CSS: Make it all Uppercase/Lowercase

Posted by: Corey on: November 1, 2006

There’s a rather unknown property in CSS called text-transform. It allows you to force all the text for a particular element to be transformed to UPPERCASE, Proper Case, or lowercase.
strong {
text-transform: lowercase; /* force text to lowercase */
text-transform: uppercase; /* force text to uppercase */
text-transform: capitalize; /* force text to proper case [...]


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