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Volume 3.11 Issue 2

AH! News
Introducing Aristia

AH! Trends
That's the style!

Link Up!
http://www.htmlhelp.com/

Our Site!
www.ewokvillage.com

AH! Relief
This is off the web: www.thehumorsource.com

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Introducing Aristia

There is a new keeper over at ArisHost. Everyone, meet Aristia! Starting this week, Aristia will grace the pages of the newsletter, as well as help launch ArisHost's new interactive tutorial program.

Aristia ushers in several changes that will soon be implemented in ArisHost. It all begins with the interactive Flash Tutorial-touted to be an attractive and engaging learning tool for newbies to ArisHost, and its services and control panel. Aristia takes them through the different services of ArisHost, and then gives easy step-by-step directions in using the control panel. Users are sure to find their way around ArisHost faster and easier.

The ArisHost Tutorial is set for launch by the last week of November. As early as today, people over at ArisHost are excited with this development. In an interview, a company officer teases, "This is just the start of a whole new slew of improvements at ArisHost. There is so much more to look forward to. And they're all worth the wait!"

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That's the style!

Surprisingly, it is only this year that browsers became compliant to standards that make Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) usable. Before this development, CSS-though touted to eliminate browser-specific markups-has not been viewing correctly in certain browsers since it was developed back in 1996. CSS support has been a bane for those using non-CSS enhanced browsers. For these browsers, style tags are ignored while still displaying their content. The outcome is then a splotchy website with text content where there shouldn't be. Web designers have learned to go around this problem by enclosing their style tags within HTML comment tags. Still, skirting the problem has not offered much of a solution.

With the present standard compliancy, there's a greater chance that most browsers will view CSS formatted websites correctly. But then, these CSS-enhanced browsers continue to be limited by varied bugs. One might ask if it's even efficient to use CSS. Bugs include ignoring text-align and body-width commands in Internet Explorers of Windows 95 and NT, and the loss of style after using tables in Netscape Navigators for both Windows and Macs. Most CSS users would again advice going around these glitches-but is it worth the bother?

The advantage with CSS is that it eases formatting for multi-paged sites, and helps foster layout consistency. A lot of expert designers would attest to these, and just brush off browser flaws as minor considerations. In the end, it is them who decide if CSS is to their benefit and if they are willing lose a fraction of the Internet audience in favor of ease in style format.

References:
Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos: Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web; 2nd edition,
Addison-Wesley 1999, ISBN 0-201-59625-3

Web Standards Projects
1998 - 2001
www.webstandards.org/css.html

CSS Pointers Group
css.nu/pointers/bugs.html

ArisHost LinkUp! Link Up!

http://www.htmlhelp.com/

A number of online tutorial sites have called htmlhelp.com as one of the best resource on Cascading Style Sheets. We found ourselves agreeing when we visited the site, with its no-nonsense layout and topics; and, of course, in depth discussions on the basics and techniques in CSS. Their HTML tutorial is also one of the best and most comprehensive we've seen online. Instructions are simple and easy to follow, and there are even examples to help illustrate lessons.

ArisHost LinkUp! Our Site!

The ArisHost site of the week: www.ewokvillage.com

Now this is one fun and interesting site! True to its name, the website is much like a community of Star Wars fans. It's a fine and playful web of online huts, and opened doors where surfers/Star Wars fans meet. In the Party Hut, you could pound the trooper (chat), insult ewoks (post messages), and tell a few stories (post fan fiction). You can join discussion groups, and exchange banners and information about your Star Wars website. There is an Information Hut, but don't think you'd get the answers from here-not yet anyway. But do check out the hut and Ask Wicket. Wicket's like your online galaxy far-away Magic Eight Ball. These, among its other features, make ewokvillage.com a must-surf site!

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What can we say but… TIME does passes, and makes for a good laugh every now and then.

This is off the web: www.thehumorsource.com 1970: Long Hair
2000: Longing for hair

1970: The perfect high
2000: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1970: KEG
2000: EKG

1970: Acid Rock
2000: Acid Reflux

1970: Moving to California because it's cool
2000: Moving to California because it's warm

1970: The perfect high
2000: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1970: Growing pot
2000: Growing pot belly

1970: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your parents
2000: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your children

1970: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
2000: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor

1970: Our president's struggle with Fidel
2000: Our president's struggle with fidelity

1970: Paar
2000: AARP

1970: The Grateful Dead
2000: Dr. Kevorkian

1970: Rolling Stones
2000: Kidney stones

1970: Being called into the principal's office
2000: Calling the principal's office

1970: Peace sign
2000: Mercedes logo

1970: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2000: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1970: Passing the driver's test
2000: Passing the vision test

1970: "Whatever"
2000: "Depends"

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Question of the Week
Is CSS a whole new set of Internet coding that I have to learn? Can I get by without it?
-- Lorena C.
Rumford, MA
Aristia Says
I could help you with your problem, Lorena…. No, CSS is not entirely a new set of HTML tags. It actually makes use of several familiar HTML tag keywords, although they're formatted quite differently. Although you can get by without it, the plus with using CSS is that you don't have to format your fonts, headers, and whatever format class you create again and again-all you need to do is call that CSS class. It's so simple and makes designing multiple-pages websites a whole lot easier!
A Tip from Aristia
It helps to plan out the design of your website before you actually code it in HTML. This helps with the site's format consistency-your website will view better. CSS will do you good in this aspect as it plots out the styles across pages and sections within your site.

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