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Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog, add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!

Viralink

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When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from here will also link to your site!

Rules
No Porn Sites
Only 1 link per person (i.e don’t hog the viralink!)
Please don’t tamper with other peoples url’s
Enjoy!

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stevestuff

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http://www.microsoft.com

In alliance with web compliance standards, Microsoft has violated the official W3C standards - who would have thought? It came to my attention when browsing through daily posts at Digg.com, when I came upon “Is Microsoft learning from Web standards mistakes?” by Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia Thursday, July 19 2007 04:49 PM.

After reading the article, I became curious as to how compliant Microsoft’s websites actually are. Doing a W3C web standards check of http://www.microsoft.com, the website failed violation with a mere 28 errors. Then I went to “Get it now - Internet Explorer 7 downloads.” This site, not only does not include a “DOCTYPE Declaration,” it failed with 136 validation errors !!!!

So what’s this all about? - - “Do as I say, not as I do” - - appears to be the message from “The King.” So, where are we to go from here? Where are we to go for clean, uncompromising service?

… this is definitely a sour apple for all us professionals trying to obtain clean markup standards!!

SHAME ON YOU, MICROSOFT!

Even so, I have dignity - I have pride - I will do my best to comply with The World Wide Web Consortium, yet I realize that some of the ads I place on my site do not comply, at least my own mark-up is highly superlative to most of the Microsoft websites (I see MSN passed).

There still remains something all of us can do - use the better browser -

Sites I found relating to this topic:

Does Microsoft Care About Web Standards?
4/29/2004
http://www.alttags.org/archives/2004/04/29/33/

Is Microsoft learning from Web standards mistakes?
By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia
Thursday, July 19 2007 04:49 PM
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62028670,00.htm

Acid2 Browser Test
Acid2 is a test page, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Please take the Acid2 test!
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

Explorer Exposed!
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
These CSS bugs are all found only in Internet Explorer, versions 5 and higher. To see the demos properly, they must be viewed in IE, of course.

WTF? Microsoft steals Apple Universal Logo
http://flickr.com/photos/47714080@N00/309724870/

… sorry to disinfatuate all you IE users - and still, I am using Windows!?!?

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OK, so I haven’t posted anything here or at my Wierd Websites blog for close to a month - it’s not that I’ve been lazy or disinterested, I been BUSY! … still, I feel neglect, I am a responsible individual.

Now, halfway through my education for web developer at Bates Technical College, I have had to finish up on a lot of studies - including my final in Web Design - of which I aced with my re-make of Web Design by Steve, my web design website. It’s quite a transformation from what I had previously, although I really did like the original design - it just wasn’t as informative and as adaptable as the new site.

And I’m still working with Jennifer Colley of Posh Home - a high-end furniture store here in Tacoma, Washington - I’m in the process of re-designing her site to enable exhisting and new customers to access information and services that previously required direct attention.

August is time off for students at Bates Tech - but for me, it will allow me time to catch up on my programming courses - come fall I’ll be in Java 2 and C++ … God help me!

Whaddya think of this picture? Results of multiple modifications with Photoshop and IrfanView - gimme a comment!

stevestuff

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