HTML Primer
If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start
To the Reader...
These tutorials are set up so you can move through them over a week's time. One tutorial per day. However, if you can go faster, do it! Some have told me that they finished the primers in a day. Good luck.
Creating Simple, Yet Effective Sitemaps in HTML You may have considered adding a sitemap to your website at one point, but never got around to it. This tutorial will tell you why you need one, and will show you how to create one using HTML.
Web 101 Links: When and How to Open a Link in a New Window For many website owners out there, one of the top objectives is to get visitors to their pages and keep them there. This tutorial will show you how to create a link that opens up a page in another tab or window, allowing your visitors to stay on your site!
Web Design 101: Creating Drop Caps in HTML and CSS A long time ago, it was very common practice in books and magazines for the style template to call for a Drop Cap. A drop cap is a means to stylize a paragraph and to add a little splash and flavor to a page, and this tutorial will show you how to create it using HTML and CSS.
Web Developer Class: Creating a Call Out Box For Your Web Page Let's say you have a content site and for some of the articles you want the readers to pay special attention to a certain piece of information. This tutorial will show you an easy and simple way to create a Call Out box for your content pages!
HTML5 Development: Form & Keyboard Events Recently we have covered some of the major event categories for HTML5. In this installment we'll take a look at the "miscellaneous" categories that we have not yet covered. We'll see what HTML5 offers in new form events as well as most of the form and keyboard events developers have become accustomed to in HTML4.
HTML 5 Tutorial for Web Developers: The Video Element The HTML 5 specification is from being an official specification. That said, the W3C has just released an overview of the vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, and we'll bring you the details of the <video> element in this article for web developers.
HTML5 Development Class: Media Events There has been much discussion surrounding the Media capabilities in HTML5: How will it impact Flash? Will we still need different media players like QuickTime and Windows Media Player? Why is HTML5 attempting to standardize media on the web? This article will give you the foundation for making informed opinions on HTML5 and its media capabilities.
HTML Forms: From Basics to Style: The Magical Input Element In the last article in our HTML Forms series, I talked about the basics of HTML forms. This article will discuss the magical input element. Why is it magical? Because this one element can transform into many different input fields!
HTML Forms: From Basics to Style--Getting Started Forms are a staple of web sites--almost every web site has one or more forms. This tutorial for web developers will show you how to create forms, make them look nice and make them accessible to your website's visitors.
Basic HTML Class: Working with Images on your Website You have learned your basic HTML tags, and know about Cascading Style Sheets, but what about images? If you're a web developer, you need to know how to work with images, and this tutorial will teach you the basics!
HTML 5 Features: What Web Developers Can Use NOW There are several articles that list some important upcoming features of HTML5, which can work on certain browsers. This tutorial for the web developer will show you how you can use certain features of HTML 5 NOW!
HTML5 Development Class: Mouse Events HTML5 is changing and expanding the landscape of web development. There are a multitude of new attributes and events that are being introduced with HTML5. In this installment we’ll take a look at the new and old events surrounding the mouse including movement, position and clicking as well as the new drag and drop events.
Web Developer Class: Learn the Basic HTML Tags! This HTML tutorial for beginning web developers walks you through the most often used HTML tags, shows you how they are used, and tells you which tags have gone the way of the dinosaur.
HTML Class: Creating Links to Other Pages Just how do you create a link to another website? Read this tutorial for beginning web developers, written in an easy-to-understand format so you will be creating links in no time at all!
What's New with HTML 5: Global Attributes In the new world of HTML 5 some things will remain the same, some will go away and many will be added. In this article we will take a look specifically at what's new with the global (sometimes called standard) attributes.
HTML Class: Elements of HTML5 Since 2004, the future of web development known as HTML 5 has been envisioned, discussed and re-envisioned over and over again. Here we will take a look at some of the current highlights and help you envision how they may one day affect your web development.
Using the DOCTYPE Tag Having trouble with your Web pages? Can't get them to display correctly in your browser? It might be that your page is a little "quirky." Even if you address all errors in a web page, one problem that many developers overlook is a statement or, if used, failure to use the right one.
Basic HTML: Images If you're just getting started, this tutorial on web-based images will get you up to speed in no time flat!
Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness The first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness guarantees a single unique tree structure for the document that can be operated on by the DOM, thus making it the basis of reliable, cross-browser JavaScript.
A Web Development Primer In this article, Ahmad Permessur examines a wide variety of Web technologies, beginning with HTML, it's limitations and how to go beyond it. Other topics covered are client- and server-side technologies, networks, JavaScript, DHTML, CGI. and more.
Following the XHTML Path You can think of XHTML as the transition from XML (how the data is to be defined) to HTML (how the data will be displayed). Guest author David Jenkins provides a quick preview and introduction to XHTML basics and its advantages.
Behind the Scenes with XHTML In a previous article, we quickly touched on the requirements for proper XHTML coding, especially in relation to HTML 4.01. In this article, we'll take a closer look at what some of those requirements are in relation to the head portion of the Web page.
Why Switch to XHTML? So you've heard of XHTML, but don't know what it is or why you should use it? This article will tell you where the XHTML spec came from, and will show you the benefits of using it. Read about the future of HTML in this article by Lee Underwood.
Basic HTML: Introduction This is Primer Number One in a series of seven that will calmly introduce you to the very basics of HyperText Mark-up Language.
Basic HTML: Manipulating Text This recently revised tutorial by Joe Burns will teach you the ins and outs of manipulating text via HTML.
Basic HTML: Graduation You've come far grasshopper--you can walk on the HTML page without leaving any traces of code--you are ready to graduate!!
