The Bare Bones Guide to HTML. NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML. This is a primer for producing documents in HTML, the hypertext markup language used on the World Wide Web. This guide is intended to be an introduction to using HTML and creating files for the Web. Links are provided to additional information. You should also check your local bookstore; there are many volumes about the Web and HTML that could be useful. Getting Started Terms to Know World Wide Web Web Standard Generalized Markup Language--a standard for describing markup languages Document Type Definition--this is the formal specification of a markup language, written using SGML HyperText Markup Language--HTML is an SGML DTD In practical terms, HTML is a collection of platform-independent styles (indicated by markup tags) that define the various components of a World Wide Web document. What Isn't Covered This primer assumes that you: HTML Version HTML Documents What an HTML Document Is HTML Editors Getting Your Files on a Server If you have access to a Web server at school or work, contact your An.
Affinity Wiki XMLSlides - John Rankin. Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY. Introduction to TIDY When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Dave Raggett has now passed the baton for maintaining Tidy to a group of volunteers working together as part of the open source community at Source Forge.
Tidy can now perform wonders on HTML saved from Microsoft Word 2000! Cascading Style Sheets. What is CSS? Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. These pages contain information on how to learn and use CSS and on available software. They also contain news from the CSS working group. Software Nearly all browsers nowadays support CSS and many other applications do, too. To write CSS, you don't need more than a text editor, but there are many tools available that make it even easier.
Of course, all software has bugs, even after several updates. More » Learning CSS For beginners, Starting with HTML + CSS teaches how to create a style sheet. Another page also has some books, mailing lists and similar fora, and links to other directories. The history of CSS is described in chapter 20 of the book Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web, by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos (2nd ed., 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-59625-3) More »
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