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is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format, based upon SGML, for describing the structure of hypermedia documents - plain text (ASCII) files with embedded codes for logical markup, using tags like <A> and </A> to structure text into tables, hypertext links interactive forms, headings, paragraphs, lists, and more. It can be created and processed in a wide range of tools from simple plain text editors to sophistocated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring tools.

Usable Forms for the Web - Part 2
Usable Forms for the Web provides developers with instant solutions to their form-building problems. It is the first book to tackle the subject in a concise, task-orientated fashion, with substantial on-line support. This weeks installment covers Grouping Controls, Using Labels, Splitting a Form into Different Pages, and more. From glasshaus.

Usable Forms for the Web
Designing Usable Forms provides developers with instant solutions to their form-building problems. It is the first book to tackle the subject in a concise, task-orientated fashion, with substantial on-line support. From glasshaus.

HTML Special Characters and Browser Compatibility
HTML 4 includes around 250 special characters, or character entities, such as § ± ¶ and ‡. But which ones work in Explorer 5 and Netscape 4, and which ones only show up in IE6 or N6? Andrew Starling goes on a browser compatibility hunt, scattering all 250 in the breeze to find out where they land.

Introduction to HTML
A quick and easy primer on HTML.

An Introduction to Web Design
This is a three half-day course designed by Selena Sol. It deals with The Basics of HTML, Hyperlinks and Images, and Advanced Formatting by means of step-by-step instructions, examples, and exercises. Editorial notes by the WDVL staff link the material to more advanced references.

HTML 4.01 Tags
This article lists all the tags and their possible attributes in a single, printable page. A handy resource to bookmark for quick information!

D.J. Quad's HTML Tag Reference List
Quadzilla Archive
September 5, 2000
The complete list of all HTML Tags with examples, both HTML and display. Most HTML Tags here are supported by both Netscape ane Explorer, but there are a few that are browser-specific. Some Tags here aren't HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 (proposed), or 3.2 standards (including major proposed standards from all versions), but do offer major enhancements.

Cross-Browser
Articles on developing dynamic HTML that works on both major browsers. Annotated links to the main sites for DHTML.

The Structure of HTML documents
HTML documents are structured into Head and Body.

• Block Elements: Headings, Paragraphs, Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists
• Forms: User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
• Frames: Multi-view presentation of documents
• Links: Hypertext and Media-Independent Links

HTML Tools
For creating and manipulating HTML.

Website Navigation
This page deals with how to design a website to optimise the user's experience and benefits from it. Especially oriented towards the "Information Architecture", i.e. designing the organization and navigation systems that help users find information, this topic is a meld of concepts from traditional architecture, library science, user interface design, and usability studies.

Navigation 101
No matter how good a site looks, or how much useful information it offers, if it doesn't have a sensible navigation scheme, it will confuse visitors and chase them away. A simple, understandable navigation scheme can increase your number of page impressi ons, boost return visits, and improve your conversion rate. It's a critical aspect of site design that has a direct effect on the bottom line.

HTML Resources
Further resources for discovering and learning HTML.

HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother?
Most pages on the web don't comply with the W3C's HTML specifications. In some cases this is because their authors wanted to take advantage of proprietary extensions; but in many other cases, the pages could easily have been made more compliant without any problem. This article explains what the issues are, and why you should and how you can, bring your pages into compliance with the HTML standards.

XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language
What is 'Validation'? XHTML is a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an application of XML 1.0. XHTML 1.0 specifies three XML namespaces, corresponding to the three HTML 4.0 DTDs: Strict, Transitional, and Frameset. Each of these three namespaces is identified by its own URI. XHTML 1.0 is the basis for a family of future document types that extend and subset HTML.

Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples
Update: XHTML 1.0 was released on January 26th as a Recommendation by the W3C. XHTML 1.0 is the first step toward a modular and extensible web based on XML (Extensible Markup Language). It provides the bridge for web designers to enter the web of the future, while still being able to maintain compatibility with today's HTML 4 browsers.

Character Set
Quadzilla Archive
August 24, 2000
The following table describes the complete character set for Internet Explorer 4.0 English (U.S.).

The Dastardly "favicon.ico not found" Error
There have been two burning questions among developers recently: "What is that favicon.ico not found error that is filling my Error_log?" and "How do I get a custom icon next to my bookmark link in Internet Explorer?" These may sound like unrelated questions, yet both can be answered at the same time. This article explains how to create the icon, where to place it on your server and how to add it to your html files.