…and half a dozen of the otherSpecial ALT characters you can create with your keyboard.
Absolute columns: how to get multiple columns of the same height without using tables.
Some excellent stuff here about coding tables, which shows you how to get alternately coloured columns for tables (data tables, presumably). Plus loads more stuff. Worthwhile, even for experienced CSS coders.
A simple standards-based slideshow system.
It’s relatively easy to set up. Only a few lightweight files to download. Choice of different looks available. Very elegant, if you ask me. (Whaddya mean, you didn’t ask me?)
Two experts when it comes to CSS and HTML. And good writers to boot. Go read them. Now.
The full title for this page is “Differences between the 3 principal 8-bit character sets: Microsoft’s ANSI, ISO-8859-1 and Apple’s MacRoman”. I found it useful when looking for the correct number to put in a style sheet; one of those occasions when I wanted to specify some content to appear in one of those ‘a:visited:after…’ situations. (If you are an Explorer user, you might as well ignore that last bit.)
Phew, that’s a bit of a mouthful. So I’ve renamed it Unicode characters for short.
If you go to the main Alan Wood homepage, you’ll find loads more about character sets.
A bit general, but a useful starting point if you’re a bit stuck for…well, a starting point.