We all studied grammar at school and punctuation was an important part of it. But majority neglects the rules of correct punctuation online. And I am not talking about instant messaging, forums or chats. My attention catches blog posts and respectable websites once in a while. Well, I am not that nerd who will notice missed dot or comma. But putting minus instead of dash or inch symbol instead of quotation marks is not serious at all. To tell the truth, it is just so much more appealing with correct characters.

Here I wrote a short but handy list of HTML entities I use.

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This month turned out to be very productive for some geeks I know. Two mind-blowing services appeared on a vast expanses on the Internet.

The first project I’m going to present you is developed by my beloved husband Anton Dubina and called Software Defender. Finally, it’s released and I am so happy that I’ve been there when it was in development stage, knowing all the magnificent work that was done. I almost love it as if it was my project (I’m not trying to steal your fame, Anton!)

This online service is just a must-to-use for those who own any kind of digital products. If you want to protect your products, make customers use them according to the terms of license agreement and prevent habitual refunders — go ahead and try it right now!

Demo account is available (login: demo / password: demo) so you can check what is in the pack.

I’m proud to say that logotype for Software Defender was designed by me =)

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Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites…
A List Apart: Articles: The Web Design survery

An online magazine for web designers “A List Apart” included all people who anyhow contribute to website creation in a term “web designer”. And I can’t agree more, as any of the participants design their own aspects of website and influence overall user experience.

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