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Include the content instead of copying it. The content displayed to the user might not be compliant, but at least your web site will be.

For VBScript I tend to use google to find specific things. I haven't found one site that really covers enough in one place. Most people will write off VBScript being that it is Microsoft and Windows is evil and all that.

Seeing as I use VBScript mainly for natively being able to pull information from LDAP directories from a Windows XP machine I must at least defend it.

MS Scripting Guy, DevGuru, 4GuysFromRolla, and last but not least ActiveXperts.

It depends if I want info on WMI, LDAP, or general WSH Objects.

For VB or MSVC++ its MSDN.

The main source of information just is.

*Ducks*

When I was getting my feet wet with standard stuff like SQL, JavaScript/DOM, HTML, etc. I found devguru.com to be very helpful. It's a great quick reference for several common languages/formats (mostly web-oriented). I think it's one of the best for legacy stuff like ADO, ASP, or VBScript.

JavaScript isn't OO enough for you?

Ooh, mouse clicks... I'd just go for Alt+whatever. I found out how to do those, too: see here.

Having learned the things I'm about to list in a less-preferred order, I recommend learning in this order. Some may overlap a bit.

First, learn a lot more about HTML than you know. Learn how to create the correct structure in your sites, and try to avoid excessive tags such as tables and divs. Use page headers (h1, h2,...) and paragraph (p) tags and avoid line breaks (br) unless you're actually attempting to do a line break and not just creating space. Here's a good article to read: http://brainstormsandraves.com/articles/semantics/ structure/.

Learn XHTML, and while you're at it, learn a little bit about basic XML and how it works. W3Schools has a good introduction. XHTML, XML. Don't go too far just yet with XML.

While you're learning XHTML, you'll inevitably encounter CSS. The W3C has plenty of links to articles. Make absolutely sure that you learn CSS, it is the pivot point of learning truly professional looking web development (even if you don't want to do it professionally).

Eventually, you'll need to either build your own system for a blog (as you mentioned you'd like to do), or use a blog management system such as Wordpress. If you choose to do it yourself, you need to learn 2 things. SQL and PHP. I recommend using MySQL (an implementation of SQL) because it's free. Most webhosts will support PHP and MySQL as well, so it's more widespread. W3Schools has the easiest introduction to SQL that I've seen. PHP.net has a complete PHP reference. Make sure to check out the mysql section, because that's what you'll be using most.

Scripting comes next. DevGuru has a pretty good, although incomplete reference for basic JavaScript. Basically, just do a search on Google for Javascript reference and you'll pretty much be able to find anything you want. As you get more advanced, try to understand more complex JavaScript such as the Prototype library, among others.

At this point, you'll have a firm grip on web development. Go back and refresh your skills with XHTML and CSS and you'll find out how much you still have left to learn.

There are many other things to learn about web development, specifically if you want to do web programming and application development. That's a whole other can of worms though.

Try...Catch

Here's a few of them: http://www.devguru.com/home.asp

• General Javascript documentation: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/qui ckref/javascript_intro.html
  
• Writing to <div> tags from Javascript: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/index.php?t ut=0&part=14#dhtmlCONT
  
• Accessing XML Nodes from Javascript: http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmldataislands/
  Every other tutorial I found says to use something like node.firstChild.text for getting the value of an element, but I couldn't get that working on Firefox or Safari. This just mentions to use node.firstChild.nodeValue which did the trick for me.
  

• http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
• http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
• Layout-o-matic
• firdamatic
• http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/css/condcom. html
• http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/c ss_index.html
• CSS Quick Reference
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Try this: create a page with a hidden layer

Um... layer tags aren't standard HTML. It is a Netscape invention. So, this is one place where IE does the right thing. See here

"Jet SQL has certain limitations compared to the other versions of SQL. In general, Jet SQL is not designed to manage a database, but rather, it is used to retrieve information from a database. To cite two limitations, Jet SQL, by itself, cannot create a database and cannot manage security . This is where the Microsoft Data Access Object, commonly called DAO, enters the scene. DAO contains libraries which are designed to manage databases. While, yes, you can use Jet SQL without DAO, you are effectively limiting your options to handle the data. For example, with DAO you can create a database and manage security. Likewise, Microsoft's Access offers the ability to create and maintain databases."

The %01 part should come _before_ the @... and no, it is not just as simple as this... the url must also be unescaped..

See Here [DevGuru] if you don't know what to 'unescape' means...

(Yes, this means that it will be difficult pulling this one off over i.e IRC, where special characters don't necessarily show up on other peoples terminals)

If you need a good web site, I find these guys have a very good reference for JS, HTML, ASP, vbScript, CSS, XHTML etc, etc

DevGuru is also a good one if a bit Microsoft-centric.