HTML Tutorials and How-Tos

This is Primer #1 in a series of seven that will calmly introduce you to the very basics of HyperText Mark-up Language. Take the Primers one at a time over seven days. By the end of the week, you'll easily know enough to create your own HTML home page.

Save a lot of work with CSS! In our CSS tutorial you will learn how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.

This page will teach you how to: - start with a title - add headings and paragraphs - add emphasis to your text - add images - add links to other pages - use various kinds of lists

Having mastered the basics, it is time to move on to more advanced features. The following will teach you how to: - force line breaks - introduce non-breaking spaces - use entities for special characters - link into the middle of pages - use preformatted text - flow text around images - define clickable regions within images - create tables - use roll-overs and other tricks - enable users to listen to sound files

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a basic language for developing web-pages.[1] It was created to be an easy and flexible coding language. Most every page on the Internet was developed with some form of this coding (ColdFusion, XML, XSLT). With the basic introduction of this article you can build on your knowledge with any other wiki on this site. Please also search for articles outside of this site to keep up-to-date.

Web pages are text files, written with a text editor such as SimpleText (Mac), Notepad (Windows) or vi (Unix). The formatting of the page is described with HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) tags. A web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) uses the tags to format the text on the page for display.

To use HTML forms, you need to know how to write a FORM element, containing suitable fields. That's covered well in the tutorials mentioned below. But additionally, you need a form handler, which is some software which processes the form data in some way, e.g. by sending it by E-mail to you or by storing it to a file which you can access.

In this hands-on course, James Williamson demonstrates the concepts that form the foundation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), including styling text, adding margins and padding, and controlling how images display. The course also explores the tools needed to work with CSS, the differences between embedded and external styles, how to use selectors to target elements, and what to do when styles conflict.

Web Design Fundamentals is a survey of Web design and development techniques and technologies, fundamental concepts, terms, and best practices involved in professional web design. Instructor James Williamson examines popular web development tools, server-side software solutions, content management solutions, and cloud-based software, providing a high-level overview of the world of Web publishing.

In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Bill Weinman helps designers and coders understand XHTML and HTML. In the process, Bill covers document structure, block and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and tables and frames. He even provides a good introduction to CSS. Bill offers step-by-step guidance for building a complete working web site. Exercise files accompany the course.