This is a good opportunity for some of us who like to learn some html, xhtml and CSS basic stuffs.
Web standards software and learning is having 14 weeks long free course on HTML and XHTML for CSS, starting this week.
Every week they will be updating the page with new chapter and old chapter will disappear, so you better not miss out on this. The following is the schedule of the course:

About this free course

In HTML and XHTML for CSS we cover the foundations of standards based markup with HTML or XHTML. At the end of this course you will have seen all the basic elements and attributes and be able to use them confidently to create valid, standards based web pages. The course is very hands on: you get to develop a site as you work through the various aspects of HTML. But all the necessary theory, explanation and illustration is covered as well, so by the end of the course, you won’t just know what to do, you’ll also know why.

• Week 1: (15/08/05 – 21/08/05) Introductions
• Week 2: (29/08/05 – 04/09/05) HTML and XHTML
• Week 3: (05/09/05 – 11/09/05) Elements and attributes
• Week 4: (12/09/05 – 18/09/05) Block and inline elements
• Week 5: (19/09/05 – 25/09/05) Site management
• Week 6: (26/09/05 – 02/10/05) Links 1
• Week 7: (03/10/05 – 09/10/05) Links 2
• Week 8: (10/10/05 – 16/10/05) Graphical elements 1
• Week 9: (17/10/05 – 23/10/05) Graphical elements 2
• Week 10: (24/10/05 – 30/10/05) Validation and meta data
• Week 11: (31/10/05 – 06/10/05) Frames and special characters
• Week 12: (07/11/05 – 13/11/05) Tables
• Week 13: (14/11/05 – 20/11/05) Forms 1
• Week 14: (21/11/05 – 27/11/05) Forms 2 + revision quiz

Have fun following along the course.

This is one nice color picking palette for designers. It allows you do choose edit mode and provide RGB code as well as Hex numbers.
colorblender.com/

Colourlovers.com is another good site with lots of color sets and palettes.

By default, once you create web applications/services, the project files are saved in Inetpub > wwwroot directory.

To move from default location to your own project directory you must:

1. first, set up the folder in required directory,
2. Create Virtuary Directory using IIS to point to your folder,
3. Using VS.net create new web application with the same virtuary directory name you created in Step 2.

The new project now will be saved in the folder you speficied rather than in default wwwroot folder. This makes it alot easier to manage your project files and better work folder organization.

Ramona Creel of OnlineOrganizing.com gave a few tips of how to say NO. Read details at onlineorganizing.com.

1. I am in the middle of several projects
2. I am not comfortable with that
3. I am not taking on any new responsibilities
4. I am not the most qualified person for the job
5. I am not enjoy that kind of work
6. I do not have any more room in my calandar
7. I hate to split my attentions among projects
8. I have another commitments
9. I have no experience with that
10. I know you will do wonderful job yourself
11. I need to focus more on my personal life
12. I need to leave some free time for myself
13. I would rather decline that do mediocre job
14. I would rather help out with another task
15. Let me hook up with someone who can do it
16. NO
17. Not right now but i can do it later
18. Somethings have come up that need my attention
19. This really is not my strong suit

I would say some of the tips are not the best way of saying no but worth noting them out incase you might need to say “no” sometime.

This is incrediably! The best solution I’ve ever come across to annoy people with email.
Just check these articles at “Open Loops” there is 3 parts article on “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email”

1. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email – Pt. 1
2. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email – Pt. 2
3. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email – Pt. 3

Email can be the source of aggravation in the receivers. By following these rules, you can make them mad enough to choke you…

Sending email to aggravate someone is easy. There are so many tactics at one’s disposal. Initiative is even on the side of the sender. But, if there is a person who has gotten your thong in a knot and they seem to be begging for a good pimp-slapping, there are some things that you can do when you’re on the receiving end of the email. The amount is not as copious as for the sender, but they can be just as effective.

These are the summary of tips given in above three articles. For details, you just have to visit the site and read for yourself.

• Ramble when you write
• Use an inappropriate subject line
• Use all caps
• use no caps
• CC everyone you can imagine, especially their superior
• Use a lot of sarcasm and off-beat humor in your email
• Use email to deliver bad news
• Send a flame message quickly
• Have a long signature line
• Send many attachments
• Don’t tell the recipient why you’re sending the attachments
• Send “action or else” messages
• Use plenty of acronyms and buzzwords
• Send repeated corrections
• Use the “Urgent” flag often
• Request receipts on every email
• Forward messages but don’t say why you did
• Don’t consider the recipient
• Write your email to one person and send it to someone else
• Ignore their email
• Configure your email client to not send receipts automatically
• Use the “Reply to all” button
• Ignore the topic when you reply
• Forward their email to someone else
• Misspell their name
• All of yesterday’s suggestions about spelling, caps, punctuation, etc, still count
• Mention an attachment and don’t attach one
• When you send an attachment, make it from one word processor
• When you have an memo to send, write it in Word (see above) and just “Send as…” and make it an attachment
• Use email to send announcements
• Use email to chastise everyone
• Give an opinion and don’t state what about
• Send an empty email
• Forward all chain letters!!

Wow, a lot hah! Dare you send like that to me! x-(