XHTML: What you need to know
Marc Plotz
With everyone connecting in different ways your coding practices could be causing heartache for your users. We'll help you tackle this issue by showing what XHTML is and how it can help you reach your maximum audience.

Designing Usable Forms
glasshaus

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
Andrew Starling

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
Alan Richmond

This is a quick introduction to HTML, with many links to further information. Those links which are for HTML elements lead to pages which have further links, often into the HTML 4.0 Specification, W3C Proposed Recommendation.

Introduction to Web Design
Selena Sol

Introduction to Web Design is a three half-day course designed by Selena Sol.

Page Layout, Margins, Indenting, and Columns
Alan Richmond

The commonest type of question asked about web page design is "How can I indent text?" or "How can I make columns?" or "How can I make margins?". These are all layout issues, which HTML was not originally designed to address. However, some techniques are available to solve these problems.

D.J. Quad's HTML Tag Reference List
Quadzilla Archive

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.

Frames
Quadzilla Archive

Netscape originally introduced frames in version 2.0 as an advanced way to navigate through a site with multiple, scrollable regions. Frames are a great way to separate your content from your navigation, or anything else you'd like to be always visible.

Build Traffic Through Good Site Design
Charlie Morris

Everybody knows about web site promotion; submitting to search engines, creating reciprocol links, banner swaps and mailing lists are necessary steps to building web site traffic. But when all is said and done, the most important traffic-building technique of all may be site design.

Navigation 101
Charlie Morris

Good navigation varies somewhat for different types of sites, but there are certain basic principles that apply to most business sites.

The Dastardly "favicon.ico not found" Error
Linda Cole

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.

Advanced HTML Tables
Andrew Starling

If you've been using HTML tables for a while then you'll know they don't always work out as intended.In this article we investigate some of the bugs that can trip you up, and also look at advanced uses, including nested tables, colored borders and free-standing panels with text wrapped around.