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in-house tools

web design, implementation and maintenance tools developed by Derby Web Development to help make designing, implementing and maintianing websites a doddle

obfuscator

converting ascii codes to html: one approach to beating spam

A page put together 'in-house' where an e-mail address can be modified so that a human can read it but, hopefully, a spambot cannot

To use the obfuscator, javascript must be enabled on your machine

entities

ascii, html, decimal and hexadecimal codes

A large (96kB) table of the HTML 4 entities for Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) characters, symbols and Greek letters sorted into categories of Alphabetical Characters, Arrows, Currency symbols, Mathematical symbols, Punctuation and Typographical symbols

Visit the rather large page » entities.html

frmConvertToAscii

convert curly quotes to utf-8

replace illegal (non-standard UNICODE Consortium) characters with the nearest equivalent ASCII character

Visit the page » convert-to-utf-8.html

noscripts

how and why scripts can and should be disabled

A page that uses both <script> and <noscript> tags to show/hide relevant info depending upon scripts being enabled or disabled, with a brief description of how and why scripts can and should be disabled - plus links to free browsers

Visit the page » javascript.html