What's New on ahref.com (10/2/2001)

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NEW ARTICLE

ht://Dig for Beginners

Need a search engine for your website? ht://Dig is fast,
powerful, relatively easy to use, and free. Find out
how to set it up, and use some of the more useful options,
in this article:




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NEW ARTICLES ELSEWHERE

Recent news articles and tutorials from other web publications.

at News.com:
W3C Patent Plan Draws Protests
The W3C's plan to become more accomodating when it comes to
including patented methods in their web standards recommendations
has drawn a firestorm of controversy after some last-minute
publicity. (10/1/2001)


at NewsBytes:
Lawmakers Put Brakes on Expanded E-surveillance
Congress has indicated that it will not sacrifice civil liberties to
give the Bush administration the expanded powers it asked for in its
anti-terrorism bill. (10/1/2001)


at A List Apart:
Reading a W3C Specification
A guide to interpreting W3C specifications - what commonly-used
words mean, how to tell what's required and what's optional.
(9/28/2001)


at WebMonkey:
WYSIWYG Editor Shootout 2001
WebMonkey tries out the three major WYSIWYG web page editors -
Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, Microsoft FrontPage 2002, and Adobe GoLive
5.0 - and recommends Dreamweaver 4. (9/28/2001)


at ONJava.com:
Load Balancing Web Applications
A comparison of options for load balancing web applications/servers:
DNS round robin and hardware load balancing. (9/26/2001)


at WDVL:
Building Web Sites From Start to Finish
The steps to take with a client before building a website: meeting
to determine what they want; setting a price; etc. (9/25/2001)


at InternetNews.com:
Battle Brews Over Authentication
Sun and 32 other companies, joining forces as the "Liberty Alliance
Project," plans to deploy a user authentication service to rival
Microsoft's Passport system. (9/26/2001)


at Web Review:
Introduction to XSLT Part III
Using XSL and XPath to convert an XML document to HTML. (9/21/2001)


at Zend:
Cookies and Session Tracking
An excerpt from "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0", showing
how to track users with cookies. (9/20/2001)


at USA Today:
'Dot-info' Web Addresses Become Active
Afilias, the company running the .info top-level domain, says about
52,000 trademark holders have registered domain names under .info;
they expect to issue about 250,000 more by the end of the week.
(9/24/2001)


at ZDNet:
Nimda: Another Worm, More Patches
The Gartner Group recommends that corporations that have been hit by
the "Code Red" and Nimda viruses immediately "investigate
alternatives" such as servers from iPlanet and Apache.
 (9/21/2001)



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NEW SITES

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RankWrite Roundtable
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in search engine rankings, through writing the right content
and tags for your site.



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