DevNewz

08.01.00

INTRODUCING...
DevNewz.
So many ideas, so little knowledge. Where are those bits of information that are going to help make our dream sites a reality? Right Here! This newsletter is made of the website developer in mind. It is full of useful tips, resources, tutorials and just plain outstanding websites. Come join us for some Java and cookies and enjoy this newsletter on the Internet Cutting Edge.
Sincerely,
Pete

Aaaargg! I need answers...
What is XHTML? How can I detect if the user has a Flash plug-in? How can I add an image to a favourite when someone bookmarks my site? If you want the answer to all these questions and more, take a look at this SERIOUS FAQ site for you Webdevelopers out there.
New Frequently Asked Questions

I Wanna Make Those Cool Flash Sites...
A lot of you geeks want to seriously get into Flash because of it awesome vector-based capabilities. Here is a nice tutorial site with 19 articles broken down into beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. Just go to FlashPlanet and click on the "Tutorials" link on the left.
Flash4 Tutorials

Developing on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Platform...
The biggest part of the Readiness Kit is documentation for what is different about Windows 2000 development. If nothing else, the Kit pulls together in one place a tremendous amount of documentation and information for modifying applications to make effective use of Windows 2000 features.
Being Prepared

...Singing the Cross-Platform Blues?
The nitty-gritty, not-always-pretty details of how the two major browser platforms differ in their implementations of HTML. If you take some time to understand some of the basic differences between Navigator and IE, you can considerably minimize those unhappy experiences when first viewing your designs in the other browser.
www.webtools.com

Smart Cookies?...
Have you ever come across a web site, that refuses to accept the fact that you don't take cookies? ..... describe how to utilize cookies in your web site without forcing cookies on your visitors.
Intelligent Cookies

Answers.com® - Handle more questions™
Manage online customer service inquiry volume while REDUCING COSTS. Answers.com ® provides simple Web enabled customer interaction tools that allow your customers to ask questions in plain English and get answers on your Web site.
Answers.com

...Marrying Flash and
IE 5.5
Macromedia Inc. this week announced a new level of integration between its Flash Player and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. for the first time enables developers to manipulate rich media Macromedia Flash components on a Web page using custom Extensible Markup Language (XML) tags.
Macromedia, Microsoft Expand Ties