It's very common to see people write <3 to represent a heart in email, but you can use a special character code and create the heart right in your HTML. I ♥ special characters. These articles will show you how to write hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds, arrows, male and female symbols, even musical notes, flats and sharps.

More Symbols and Special Characters

• Add Symbols to Your Web Page
• Punctuation and Other Characters
• Currency Characters
• Mathematical Characters

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Working with Web design clients can be challenging. They often expect miracles to happen while they wait, preferably only a couple of seconds. They want Web pages built from nothing and costing nothing and they expect you to deliver them yesterday. There are many aspects of Web design that have vary different interpretations if you are a non-Web designer than they do to Web designers. Pass along the 6 Things Your Web Designer Wants You to Understand to all your clients. And don't forget to add your own thoughts as well.

More About Working with Customers

• 6 Things Your Web Designer Wants You to Understand
• Customers are Part of the Job
• Is the Customer Really Always Right?
• Have you ever done something a client wanted against your better judgement?

This week I'm curious to find out what Web editors are popular. I know that there are many more Web editors than the 9 I've listed here, so if you use one not on the list, please list it in the comments. Chances are I already know about it, but I didn't realize it was as popular now. Why do you use the editor you use? What features do you find most useful? How do you keep the cost of your Web editor to a minimum? Do you prefer WYSIWYG editors or text editors? (And if you use more than one, choose your favorite or the one you use most often.)

I've received several suggestions that Flash is the worst thing to happen to Web design in the 2000s. But is it really "boring bloatware" or "a waste of time" (the splash pages, that is), or is Flash just "over hyped"?

tnfan62 says no. He says:

Flash is fine, when used moderately. Too many web sites designers view it as a way to "glitz" up their web sites, and instead, it is more of a hindrance than a help.... More and more, Flash is being manipulated for malicious codes, such as malware.

What do you think? Is Flash the worst thing ever? Or is there something worse for Web design that came out of the 2000s?