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Yahoo's Media Player

This week, I began setting up my new band's website and I wanted to find a media player to add to the site to play a few songs we had recorded as a demo. I started with the usual suspects: JW FLV Media Player, XSPF Web Music Player, Flash MP3 Player, ...

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Embed Google Earth into your Website's Maps

Google has released a browser plugin which allows their popular Google Earth maps to be directly embedded into your website's Google Maps. The functionality works similar to the Satellite or Terrain maps as an extra button appears which allows visito ...

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Flash and Valid XHTML Standards

You have just about completed your latest website by dropping in an embedded Flash movie or YouTube video and now you are ready to move it live. As a final test, you run your site through the W3C Markup Validation Service only to learn that there are ...

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Copyright Date in PHP

I came across a site where, every year, the copyright date in the footer had to be manually updated on every page! With PHP, the following snippet of code can be used so that the date automatically gets updated each year: Copyright <? echo date(" ...

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