Tedger.com

Something you may or may not have noticed is Tedger.com now has a footer. At first all there was in the footer was a link to my website e-mail address (faux-encoded against spamming). Now I’ve added web badges.
Web badges if you aren’t familiar to them do two things. 1) Advertise something that the creator of the website endorses or 2) Display something about the nature of the website or website creator. My badges do both. For a Detailed explanation of what my badges click “more…” below. Well I guess I’ll go from left to right first is this badge:
This badge is to advertise the Firefox web browser. A while back my website was unusable by users of Windows’ Internet Explorer. IE is a vastly inferior browser and I’d highly recommend that Windows users download and use it. I created this badge on my own using the Firefox image from a badge on Spread Firefox! campaign which I whole hardily support. As long as credit is given where due anyone is free to use any of my badges.
2) Use Safari!
On the Mac side of things there is the exceptional browser Safari. I use it, it’s excellent and has more of a Mac feel than Firefox does (it should it’s Apple’s baby). I use both browsers but when I’m on my Mac it’s Safari All the way. I also created this badge for myself.
3) Adium X!
This badge is to advertise the amazing open source chat client Adium. Adium unfortunately for those not using a Mac isn’t available. Oh well, one more reason to switch ;). This badge was taken from a friend’s website with his permission.
4)Growl! RAWR!
Growl is another open-source program for Mac OS X that provides a global events system, it’s a little hard to explain, but amazing to use. This was also borrowed from Crash on Launch
5)Made on a Mac .
This badge is pretty self explanatory. Most of the work done on the website is at some point and somehow done on my Mac. I found this online, and slightly modified the colors. Unfortunately I forgot where I found it.
6)Powered By Apache
The content is made on my Mac but the site is hosted and shared with the world via my linux webserver and the Apache webserver. “Powered by Apache” didn’t fit, so “Apache Power” works. I made this badge using an image from the Apache organization’s website.
7, 8 ) The next two badges are a little more important and I’ll explain those last
9, 10) The last two badges relate to the content.
A trend spreading around the web is RSS. RSS allows you to quickly find out if a website and/or blog is updated so you don’t have to constantly visit and you’re always up to date. Like the Adium and Growl Badge’s these were borrowed from Crash on Launch.

Ok back to those two W3C badges.
W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium. The W3C is an organization that recommends, aids in developing and maintains web standards. These standards are pretty varied but the one’s people are most likely to have heard of are: HTML, CSS, HTTP, PNG. These standards allow people to create webpages that everyone can view and enjoy. Part of this is creating “Valid” code that ensures that web browsers can use and understand it. I display these badges on my website because it uses Valid XHTML (a newer form of HTML) and Valid CSS (something to make layout and design easier for websites).

In theory my valid code should work as intended in every browser. However this isn’t the case. As I recommended earlier in this post, get away from Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that I have put in a lot of effort to make sure my website is viewable by all, and have gone as far to ensure that I have valid code, some pages on my website still don’t load properly in Internet Explorer. This is one of the many reasons I made that recommendation.
So we’ve come full circle from the first badge to the last ones, and back.