Well after a very hectic move, I’m back online with a new cable modem which also runs my digital home phone…what’s so cool about the digital phone service is that I can call anywhere at any time in Canada and the US (except Alaska and Hawaii) for free!

I was a long-time Bell Canada customer but it was costing me over $60 per month just for regular service without any long distance charges…now for the next year I will only pay $34.95 and then it will go up to $45 or something…anyway, it doesn’t matter…I will save big time on long distance and that’s the bottom line

The move was rather hectic…I was still packing as the guys were loading… it was supposed to rain but it held off until Sunday though it was rather humid. I must have drank a gallon of water!

On Saturday night we had a bonfire…we demolished an old picnic table that was left by the previous home owners, so it went into the firepit! Then we relaxed the rest of the night by the fire until we basicly passed out of exhaustion. It felt good to sleep in on Sunday and we needed it after 3 weeks of intense renovations and the move.

We still have stuff left at the old house and I’m going over there on Wednesday to clean the place and get the rest of the stuff we have there…We threw out bags and bags of garbage and gave a lot of stuff to charity because we had so much accumulated…I guess we’re pack rats

Now I’m unpacking and my office was the 3rd room to get organized…I had to put the kitchen and bathroom ahead of my office, of course I love decorating so the next few days will be a lot of fun for me…putting pictures up, arranging furniture…etc…then I think I’m going to just relax for a couple of days during the long weekend…I think I deserve it!

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Well after a very hectic move, I’m back online with a new cable modem which also runs my digital home phone…what’s so cool about the digital phone service is that I can call anywhere at any time in Canada and the US (except Alaska and Hawaii) for free!

I was a long-time Bell Canada customer but it was costing me over $60 per month just for regular service without any long distance charges…now for the next year I will only pay $34.95 and then it will go up to $45 or something…anyway, it doesn’t matter…I will save big time on long distance and that’s the bottom line

The move was rather hectic…I was still packing as the guys were loading… it was supposed to rain but it held off until Sunday though it was rather humid. I must have drank a gallon of water!

On Saturday night we had a bonfire…we demolished an old picnic table that was left by the previous home owners, so it went into the firepit! Then we relaxed the rest of the night by the fire until we basicly passed out of exhaustion. It felt good to sleep in on Sunday and we needed it after 3 weeks of intense renovations and the move.

We still have stuff left at the old house and I’m going over there on Wednesday to clean the place and get the rest of the stuff we have there…We threw out bags and bags of garbage and gave a lot of stuff to charity because we had so much accumulated…I guess we’re pack rats

Now I’m unpacking and my office was the 3rd room to get organized…I had to put the kitchen and bathroom ahead of my office, of course I love decorating so the next few days will be a lot of fun for me…putting pictures up, arranging furniture…etc…then I think I’m going to just relax for a couple of days during the long weekend…I think I deserve it!

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I will be packing this computer up for the move and will be offline until Monday. Packing up my office usually takes me a few good hours so I have my work cut out for me tomorrow.

Until Monday then…

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We bought a house and it closed on August 1. It is a fixer-upper that we got for a very good deal and it sits on over half an acre in the north end of Welland, Ontario

For the past 3 weeks we have been cleaning and renovating our new house…and it’s almost ready to move into. The big move is this Saturday. Already? Oh my, I have so much packing to do.

Anyway, that it why I haven’t been as active online lately.
From this Friday through to Monday evening, I will be without internet access. The local cable company will be over on Monday afternoon sometime to hook us up. I guess I’ll be doing some reading before bed instead of spending time online for those days…that is if I’m not too exhausted from the move.

What’s in the works for September:

• I will be creating a couple more free XHTML templates which will also be ported into WordPress Themes
• a new Bryce 3D art gallery
• A poetry contest with prizes…(huh?…isn’t this a web designer’s site? yes…but I love to read and write poetry and so I’m supporting amateur poets!)

Stay tuned!

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Many visitors to this site have downloaded my XHTML templates and then email me to show me how they are using my work.
Some are less-experienced coders or do not really know how XHTML differs from HTML.

Here are the most common errors I’ve come across:

1. Not closing empty elements
• Wrong: <br>
• Right: <br />
2. Not closing non-empty elements
• Wrong: <p>This is a paragraph.<p> This is another paragraph.
• Right: <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p>This is a second paragraph.</p>
3. Improperly nesting elements
• Wrong: <em><strong>This is random text.</em></strong>
• Right: <em><strong>This is random text.</strong></em>
4. Nesting block-level elements within inline elements
• Wrong: <em> <h2>About Us</h2></em>
• Right: <h2><em>About Us</em></h2>
5. No alternate text for images (using the alt attribute, which helps make pages accessible for devices that do not load images or screen-readers for the blind)
• Wrong: <img src="images/logo.jpg" />
• Right: <img src="/images/logo.jpg"
  alt="Company Logo" />
6. Not putting quotation marks around attribute values
• Wrong: <td colspan=2>
• Right: <td colspan="2">
7. Using the ampersand outside of entities (use &amp; to display the ampersand character)
• Wrong: <title>Love & Marriage</title>
• Right: <title>Love &amp; Marriage</title>
8. Using uppercase tag names and/or tag attributes
• Wrong: <BODY><P>My Web Site</P></BODY>
• Correct: <body><p>My Web Site</p></body>

By making sure you don’t make the above mistakes, you are well on your way to having an XHTML website that will validate.

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