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I was attempting to create ROR Sitemap for Ecommerce Partners website and I noticed interesting phenomenon. In the article SHTML Makes Updating Website Easy, I have added some example of the code in the content:

& lt ; a href – “index.shtml” & gt ; home & lt ; /a & gt ;

You will notice that after href I have a “-” instead of “=“. Initially, I had “=” after href but the link was not clickable as I had replaced “>” with “& gt ;”. I didn’t ever think that the link can still be spidered until I discovered it while creating ROR sitemap. I noticed that search engine spider was trying to crawl it and since it’s relative URL, it was getting in a loop. To avoid it, I had to replace “=” with “-”. If anyone has a more sophisticated solution to this problem, please let me know.

I tried putting the code inside a text area in a form. Also, I tried to insert it between <code> HTML tag. No success! The only way it was possible was by changing “=” to “-” after HREF. Any thoughts?

Same isssue was going on with the codes in this article, How to Add Alternate StyleSheets?

Here’s a tip on how to make the background of a div semi-transparent. It works in FireFox and IE. I had used this technique when I did the HTML for Soxx.com. I’ve no clue how to make it work in Safari and Opera. So, if someone knows please let me know. I’ll be happy to add it to this article.