I am moving to http://www.tanzilo.com
March 30, 2008
Hello visitors,
I have prepared my personal blog using the WordPress package. So, from now on I will be writing in my personal blogs. I wish to continue writing more articles, codes & tutorials for my visitors.
OK. Here is my personal blog : http://www.tanzilo.com
Everyone is welcome.
If you are a website developer, it will be a really valuable action if you test whether your page passes the W3C validation standard. But why should you do this? If your pages pass W3C standard, it is often guaranteed that your pages will load quicker in modern web browsers and be easier to maintain. You can validate your pages directly from World Wide Web Consortium’s website. And the link is here: http://validator.w3.org.
We can write a JavaScript that can validate a page on given parameter. Below I have written a very simple JavaScript function to test a page’s web standard. But you can customize it according to your requirements. This kind of JavaScript function can be helpful when we have lots of pages and we need to check them one by one by just clicking a button. Now let us make a HTML page with a JavaScript function and we will give validator.html as its name. The page’s code is as below:
<html>
<head>
<title>W3C Web Standard Test</title>
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
function testMyPage(webpageLocation)
{
var url = ‘http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=’ + webpageLocation;
window.open(url, ”, ‘width=775, height=500, status=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, location=yes’);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name=”Button” type=”button” value=”Test My Page” onclick=”testMyPage(‘www.wordpress.com’);” />
</body>
</html>
A new window opens with your given page location i.e. url as below:
Remember that the above window may not appear if you have a pop-up killer active. I suggest you turn off the pop-up killer program (if any) to test the code.
Now, if your page passes the validation, you will get a “This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!” message. You will also get a congratulations message. If you want, you can use available options such as Show Source, Show Outline, Validate error pages, Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy etc. and revalidate the page.
If you want to test the current page, the validator.html page’s code will be as below:
<html>
<head>
<title>W3C Web Standard Test</title>
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
function testMyPage()
{
var url = ‘http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=’ + window.location.href;
window.open(url, ”, ‘width=775, height=500, status=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, location=yes’);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name=”Button” type=”button” value=”Test My Page” onclick=”testMyPage();” />
</body>
</html>
What I have done here is — I just changed the webpageLocation parameter to window.location.href.
I must mention one thing and that is you cannot validate i.e. test web standard of any page that is located in your localhost.
Thus, this is very easy but important to validate our pages. I believe validation should be a part of professional website development although it takes some time. But it is a benchmark of the quality of your webpage.
OK. That is all I know.
I was searching for some good osCommerce tutorial articles and/or resources for developers. Actually using osCommerce package, it is easy to create online store quickly. It is an open source and completely free project for all to make an online shopping store. During my searching to several sites, I found a very useful site that offers video flash tutorials and/or training. I think both the online shop owners and developers (if working for maintenance as administrator) can be benefited from these video training pages. Actually these video trainings are more helpful for the online store owners who want to manage their online store built on osCommerce by themselves.
Well.
Here is the link: http://www.demodemo.com/tutorials_osc.html
And you will find video trainings on the following subjects:
1. Installing osCommerce
2. Configuring your store
3. Adding categories
4. Adding products
5. Adding product attributes
6. Configuring currency
7. Adding payment modules
8. Adding shipping modules
9. Configuring sales tax
10. Editing your home page
11. Editing left and right columns
12. Editing your header and footer
13. Creating specials
14. Managing customers
15. Sending out a newsletter
16. Sending out email
17. Managing your banners
18. Backing up and restoring your database
Although the page lists topics like Installing osCommerce and Configuring your store, I would like to recommend the store owners to give this work to a professional site developer(s).
But one thing is important to mention. That is – you can only install the simple looking online store using osCommerce package following the Installing osCommerce tutorial. But to give it a professional & customized look and feel, you need to go to any professional developer. The developer then can changes the skin of the page to make it cool looking.
That is all for now.
About Myself
December 4, 2007
Hello,
I am actually a website designer and programmer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science degree in 2006 from North South University. But before that I have been working as a free-lance website designer and software programmer for the last three years. Besides, I am also doing my MBA from the same university. I use HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript etc. for the front-end design and MySQL & SQL Server for the backend (i.e. database) design. I also use AJAX and XML.
Recently I created my account in WordPress.com to write articles. Actually I am planning to write articles on technologies, specially web technology. Often I am learning new things and I believe that sharing these knowledge will be a part of my education. I have learned a lot from others’ articles and used open source codes & projects many times before. I think this is a great time to join the queue. I believe writing articles will also increase the dimensions of my knowledge since I have think a lot, read a lot, edit a lot before I deliver the final article.
That is all about me and my reason to come here.
Thanks for reading my profile.
Regards,
Tanzil Al Gazmir
