One of my other goals with the CornerPixel web site is that I want to work on helping designers and developers who use CMS's to produce better standards compliant web sites even while using a CMS.

I will be setting up a couple CMS's in the near future.  One DotNetNuke (DNN) and one Umbraco site.  I will post in a couple weeks with URL's when I have those installed and skinned. 

The other thing I will be doing is providing DNN admins with good standard compliant skins in the near future.  There has been many who say that this is impossible, but I have seen several out there that have been done very well, and I intend to provide a similar service.  I think for free at first but I won't commit to that yet.

Well just wanted to update you and tell you all to keep checking in to see those CMS sites in action. 

Also please notice the cool RSS link at the top of the page. 

Thanks for listening,

~Mike

Well I went and did a little research and found I could download the TinyMCE editor and give that a try.  Unfortunately that didn't work.  I followed all the instruction and couldn't get the editor to show up.

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a pretty awesome programmer and he mentioned that DasBlog had LiveWriter support and that I should try that avenue especially if it was the editor within DasBlog that was giving me fits. 

So I took my friends advice and this is a post I am doing via Windows LiveWriter.  I am also going to include a picture because I want to see how that works and where the picture ends up.

So there you have it.  My Logo, except with the wrong URL.  Lets see what happens.

~Mike

I just got done yesturday rambling on about web standards and how much I want to be a web compliant designer and developer.

Well, I just found out when I tried to validate my blog page that I was NOT able to validate the markup.  I am using a blog application called DasBlog and have found that by default it spits out a capital "P" for the paragraph elements and a capital "A" for anchor elements. 

I have used the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE and this is an issue.  I could change the DOCTYPE to HTML, but I don't want to. 

Does anyone know of a good blog application (hopefully ASP.net) that will validate, or does anyone have a clue what I would have to change in the DasBlog source to get it to validate right?  I have seen other peoples DasBlog sites that do NOT have capital letters for elements.

I guess all in all it comes down to trying your best and there are some cases you just have to except a little less than perfect.

I have been asked by a few of my users and many other people I know to write a guide to Web Standards.  I usually just point them to some of the good books already out there, but now I have another tool.

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

This is a good online resource to learn about web standards, and why web standards are important.

I encourage the readers here to check this out and bookmark it.  It is a very nice tool to have and it never hurts to read this sort of stuff over again.  You never know what good tidbits you can get from it.

Have fun reading,

~Mike