Thanks to those who wrote about fixes and improvement to the style guide. We have updated the Tips section on authoring XHTML with DreamWeaver.

Thanks to David Perini for the link to the DreamWeaver extension that converts your pages into XHTML. Note that this is a zip file, not a Web page. I have tested it on a few pages and like it. Remember that you still have to validate your pages and check your work. I suggest that you back up files that you intend to convert. What if something goes wrong, terribly wrong?

Thanks to William of styrofirm.com for the tip on configuring DreamWeaver to close non-closing elements. If you are comfortable with JavaScript, it is quite easy to customize the software so that it writes <hr /> instead of <hr>, <br />, instead of <br> and so on. Full details await you in the Guide.

Thanks to JZ for the CSS validation fix. The problem was that the system identifier was pointing to a relative destination. Once we added the correct URI to the DTD, we were set. If that is too much to think about, just copy and paste.

Week one: I was asleep in bed by 7:30 or 8:00 PM.

Week two: I was out by 9:00 or 10:00 PM.

Week three: I could not sleep at all. Among the things keeping me up were the cost of marking up historical texts with the Model Editions Partnership DTD, a slippery vagueness about the details of my new job, and a book deal with New Riders.

Be careful about what you wish for.

If Kate Spade designed Web sites, this is what her portfolio would look like.

NYPL’s potential budget cut looks like it might pass $18M. We may be facing a loss of $25M to next year’s budget. If you use the NYPL, please write a letter of support.

Another mirror project submission.