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Language Tutorials

• HTML ＆ CSS (30+ pages)
• Javascript ＆ DOM (27+)
• PHP (15+)
• HTML5 Tags

Misc Tutorials for Webmasters

Adding Widgets

• Adding Google Custom Search Widget
• Adding Web Share Widgets to Your Site
• How to Add a Comment System to Website
• Disqus javascript Code
• Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code
• Syntax Coloring with Google-Code-Prettify

• How to Create and Update a Sitewide Logo (Favicon)
• Blocking Image Leechers in Apache

• Google Webfont Tutorial

Video

• Using iframe to Embed Youtube Videos
• HTML5 Video and Audio Tag
• How to Embed Video with Valid HTML
• Intro to Video Streaming and Video Audio Codecs
• How to View Comments in JPEG, PNG, MP3 files? (ExifTool Tutorial)
• Software for Video Capture and Screencasting

Info for Webmaster

• Web Tech Stats 2010
• Website And Domain Lookup Tools
• The Journey of a Foreign Character thru Internet
• Web Browser Market Share 2010-02

For Programers

• Atom Webfeed Basics
• Emacs and HTML Tips
• Batch Check HTML File Size
• URL Percent Encoding and Ampersand Char
• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode
• “Zen-Coding” and “Emacs-Buddha-Coding”

Web Browsers User Tips

• Restore Last Session in IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera
• Customize Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): Menu, Tabs in Separate Row
• How to Change Firefox Mouse Wheel Scroll Speed?
• How to Clear or Set Proxy in Firefox and IE
• How to Delete Flash Cookies
• Cookies, Super Cookies, Your Privacy
• Using Google Chrome Sync Feature and View Your Account Info on Google
• Opera Pain; Opera Browser Problems

Web Tech ＆ Opinions

Web Tech Opinions

• Anti-bot Test: CAPTCHA!
• What is HTML Microformat
• Keywords and Taxonomy

Web Design

• Fixed-Layout vs Flowed-Layout
• Web Design: Should Hyperlinks Have Underline?
• Website Tabs Style

Web Browsers Behavior

• Google Chrome, SPDY Protocol, Browser War II
• Safari “.webloc” File is Using Mac Resource Fork
• IE9 Went into Compatibility Mode; Renderer Crash
• Web Browsers Unicode Support; Firefox 4 Sucks?
• Unicode Character Equivalence Support in Web Browsers

HTML Correctness

• HTML Correctness and Validators
• Google and Amazon Generates Invalid HTML
• How to Embed Video with Valid HTML
• Google Earth KML Validation Fuckup
• W3C HTML Validator Invalid
• Programing: GNU Texinfo Problems; Invalid HTML
• HTML5 Doctype, Validation, X-UA-Compatible, and Why Do I Hate Hackers
• HTML6: Your JSON and SXML Simplified
• Why Does HTML5 Kill the ‹big› Tag?

Misc, Unsorted

• HTML, CSS, javascript, Web Tech and Browser Timeline
• Google URL Shortening Service URL Format
• URL Shortening is BAD
• Internet, Future, Old School Net Lingoes
• Browser Support of HTML “q” Tag for Quotation
• HTML “html”, “head”, “body”, Tags Are Optional.

• Interesting Web Tech Related Articles

HTML CSS Browser Behavior Problems

• The Problems with CSS
• What's a Letter in CSS's first-letter Pseudo-element?
• CSS's “ex” Width In Different Browsers
• CSS “pre” Problem: No Linebreak After Tag

HTML5

• HTML5 Tags
• HTML5 Canvas vs SVG
• Javascript Execution Order; HTML5 Asynchronous Javascript
• HTML5 Video and Audio Tag
• HTML5 “figure” ＆ “figurecaption” Tags Browser Support

Online Issues

• Cookies, Super Cookies, Your Privacy
• Software Piracy, Open Source, Free Software, Copyright
• Facebook's Ethics

Web Tech Gossip Articles

See: Web Tech Gossip Articles

misc; unsorted

• How to Connect Twitter, Facebook, Blogger?
• What's the Difference Between Google's “following” a Blog vs Subscribe?