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Here’s a small handful of characters I find myself using a lot.  It makes for a cleaner HTML if you use the code vs. pasting in some version of it from another document (like MS Word) which may actually be  using a non-standard character and not appear correctly on everyone’s computer.  So, when possible, I use the following HTML codes: & &amp; “ &quot; < &lt; > &gt; » &raquo; « &laquo; Registered TM ® &reg; Copyright © &copy; Non-Breaking Read More >>

There is many, may times I’ve wanted to display the current year – the most obvious spot is in the footer like with copyrights.  Having to “hand edit” your website every time the year changes is time-consuming — and frankly a bit silly. So, you have a few options available. 1) An easy one it to just not use a year.  Frankly, it’s not needed and I’d much rather see no year than to have something that says “2003″. Example: © My Company Name (FYI - the html code for the copyright (c) symbol is &copy; ) 2) You can Read More >>