HTML or XHTML: Does It Really Matter?

Long time web-developers fluent in HTML may not immediately grasp the difference or the importance. Here is a snippet.

XHTML is a reformulation of HTML. The main difference is a few simple rules - as XHTML is more strict than standard HTML. This article reviews how XHTML can be used to create better Web sites.

Check out the full article and download the .PDF on LinkTogether.com.

Create a Website - What You Need to Get Online

It can seem difficult to explain to the uninitiated the steps needed to get a website online. It's not actually difficult, but there is a checklist of things that should be followed each time and it can be confusing to navigate. Here is a video that Network Solutions put together that makes it much clearer.

Here's the video description.

Learn how to create a website and improve your web presence. Understand how to get online and how domains, hosting, SSL, online marketing and email work together.

That makes it pretty simple.

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

Ask yourself the simple question. Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?.

LinkTogether.com Launches!

Network Solutions just launched a new Beta community portal that I'm pretty excited about.

Web Developer Community for Designers, Developers, and Coders | LinkTogether

As the title suggests, this site is for web professionals of all varieties.  Unlike MySolutionSpot, which is for business professionals and marketers, and the more general Network Solutions Forums for clients using our hosting or e-commerce products, LinkTogether addresses a specific need and community. 

What I really like about the image featured on the home page is that it shows a bit of the behind-the-scenes process of creating and building LinkTogether prior to it's launch.  You have a conceptual whiteboard with the current features "Today" and the roadmap spelled out in "Next Steps." 

I'm not in a department that deals with the LinkTogether planning and development, but the great thing is that this niche community will grow itself and is already getting some active members. I can't wait to see where this will go.

If this new community sounds familiar, it was originally posted about on Solutions Are Power. Go check it out!

UPS Worldship in Version 7

Anyone looking for a way to continue to use UPS Worldship in Network Solutions E-commerce version 7 should see the following recent forum thread: Ups Shipping CSV to XML. It seems that the instructions posted in the last post might be able to get this to work. Obviously, since it relies on a third party converter tool, this is not really a supported feature. But for the time being it might prove useful.