This blog has been running for a very long time ... and so some of the tags I use are a bit out of date old fashioned. These days, our scripts tidy up / convert many of the tags when old articles are called up from archives but we still maintain the blog using the older stuff. For the sake of my proofreaders, here are the commonly used tags and special characters.

• Tags

<i> to </i> for italic
<b> to </b> for bold
<u> to </u> for underline
<s> to </s> for strinkethrough

<code> to </code> for fixed width font for source examples
<font color=xxxx> to </font> for text colour - examples in this old post
<a href=xxxxx target=zzz> to </a> for a link
<img src=xxxx width=xxx border=x hspace=xx align=left /> for an image
<br clear=all /> to start a fresh block after an image

<table><tr> ... </tr></table> (more attricbutes are used here)
<th> ... </th> table header cell
<td> ... </td> table data cell

• Special characters

&amp; ampasand
&lt; less than
&nbsp; non-break space
&bull; bullet
&pound; pound sign
&copy; copyright symbol
(written 2011-11-12)

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  [2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make? - (2009-06-18)
  [1811] Alternative URLs using % symbol encoding - (2008-09-27)
  [1463] All the special characters in HTML ... - (2007-12-07)
  [1431] Getting the community on line - some basics - (2007-11-13)
  [1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) - (2007-05-14)
  [1160] HTML - example of a simple web page - (2007-04-24)
  [993] Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-16)
  [857] Strikingly busy - (2006-09-06)

W512 - Web and Intranet - Site Design Aspects
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  [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01)
  [1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02)
  [1353] Mood shots - (2007-09-16)
  [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
  [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
  [1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30)
  [918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08)
  [859] Put the answer in context - it may be printed - (2006-09-08)
  [823] An excellent use for a visitor count? - (2006-08-05)
  [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
  [718] Protecting images from theft - (2006-05-12)
  [649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17)
  [556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful - (2006-01-06)
  [510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site - (2005-11-29)
  [391] One mans pleasure is another mans poison - (2005-07-26)
  [352] Improved mining techniques! - (2005-06-19)
  [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
  [319] Accommodation and landing pages - (2005-05-21)
  [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
  [261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29)
  [229] A fortunate accident - (2005-02-27)

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