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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML and CSS

In the early days of the web, when people first started properly to embrace the technology , to publish homepages, and to develop online corporate presences for their companies, they all realized fairly quickly that the medium was quite limiting. Necessity is the mother of invention, though. People began to coax out of their web pages tricks and displays that were never intended by the technologies they used, and the browsers helped them along the way by adding features that offered even more opportunities for this kind of behavior. More »

Refactoring HTML

In just over a decade the Web has gone from a technology with promise to major part of the world’s infrastructure. It’s been a fascinating time, and many useful resources have been built in the process. But, as with any technology, we’ve learned as we go how best to use it and the technology itself has matured to help us use it better.

However complex a web application, it finally hits the glass in the form of HTML—the universal web page description language. HTML is a computer language, albeit a very limited and specialized one. As such, if you want a system that you can evolve easily over time, you need to pay attention to writing HTML that is clear and understandable. But just like any computer language, or indeed any writing at all, it’s hard to get it right first time. Clear code comes from writing and rewriting with a determination to create something that is easy to follow. More »

The Ultimate HTML Reference

Confused about when to use HTML and when to use XHTML? Want to know what the syntax differences are between the two? Do doctypes and DTDs leave you all discombobulated? Or perhaps you’d simply like to understand the basic structure of a web page?
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Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you’re an expert? Then it’s about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those Web pages you’ve always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your Web pages over time, and so your Web pages work in all the browsers and mobile devices out there. Oh, and if you’ve never heard of CSS, that’s okay - we won’t tell anyone you’re still partying like it’s 1999 - but if you’re going to create Web pages in the 21st century then you’ll want to know and understand CSS.

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The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design

Designing for the Web is a wonderful thing. The ability to publish something and have itappear immediately and globally is an empowering feeling. I’ll never forget the first rush I feltwhen, as a print designer, I could simply “upload” some files and have them be immediatelyvisible, rather than waiting in trepidation for the boxes to return from the printer. Back thenthe Web was simpler, there were fewer materials and tools, and “styling” was something youhacked together using bizarre hacks and workarounds to achieve even the simplest of tasks. More »