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HTML Tutorial
Why have I decided to write an HTML tutorial? Well... I'm sick of badly designed and implemented websites. If you want to read my rant on that, go to this page. And so, in order to combat this army of crap web pages, I have decided to write a tutorial explaining how to write a web page well. This tutorial is not yet finished. There are still some missing chapters.
Contents
- Chapter One: Philosophy
- A brief chapter outlining the philosophy of this tutorial and explaining what its two main philosophies (standards compliance and seperation of style and content) mean and why they are important.
- Chapter Two: Basic HTML
- The basic structure of a web page, including the definition of a few elements:
<!DOCTYPE><html><head><body><h1>to<h6><p><a><div><span><title><link><meta>
- Chapter Three: Adding Some Style
- Some basic styling using CSS. CSS is not really the subject of this tutorial, but I will touch upon it in a few places.
- Chapter Four: HTML Entities
- How to insert special characters into HTML.
- Chapter Five: Advanced HTML Tags
- Some more HTML tags to add structure to your documents, including:
<ul>,<ol>and<li><dl>,<dt>and<dd><em>and<strong><abbr>and<acronym><q><cite><code>,<kbd>,<samp>and<var><br><pre><hr>
- Chapter Six: What Next?
- Pointers to the HTML and CSS standards, a brief discussion of XML and XHTML, links to CSS layout tutorials and beyond.