HTML Tutorials
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HyperText Markup Language is the fundamental building stuff
of the web. We present several articles, tutorials, and
references on HTML.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Introduction to Web Design
Selena Sol
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Introduction to Web Design is a three
half-day course designed by Selena Sol.
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Page Layout, Margins, Indenting, and Columns
Alan Richmond
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Build Traffic Through Good Site Design
Charlie Morris
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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.
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Navigation 101
Charlie Morris
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Good navigation varies somewhat for different types
of sites, but there are certain basic principles
that apply to most business sites.
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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.
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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.
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