John questions

• Limiting a comment to 250 characters
• Using Bitly API to shorten URLs
• Making fixed-width rectangle that floats in center of screen
• Date format with all capital letters
• Giving table rows a solid, continuous background color
• Using Double-Quotation Marks in a URL
• Using Chinese Characters to Name MySQL Tables
• Auto-populating a Textarea with PHP variables
• Changing the color of the text and cursor in input box
• Allowing users to Refresh browser without the "Confirm Form Resubmission" pop-up

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