#27724
ABBR and ACRONYM are for User Agents, Not for End Users
The WCAG (1.0) guideline 4, checkpoint 4.2, about ABBR and ACRONYM, has for a long time been too unclear to implement. The drafts for XHTML 2.0 and WCAG 2.0 seem to have solved most problems.
Tverskov, Jesper. Smack the Mouse (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#22869
Answers to questions like: where do Web pages come from? What are all those brackets in the text, anyway? How much HTML do I have to learn? How can I get started quickly? What kinds of HTML authoring tools are available to me?
Quesenbery, Whitney. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#30133
A Beginner's Guide to HTML and Web Design 
The best place to learn about HTML is on the Web itself. A few of the best resources for exploring HTML design are listed here.
Quesenbery, Whitney. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#26317
Cleaning Your Web Pages with HTML Tidy
A detailed article on using the HTML Tidy utility to clear up problems in an HTML file.
Nesbitt, Scott. InformIT (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Software
#25400
Developing Your Site for Performance, Part I: 20 Tips for Client-Side Code Optimization
This three-part article outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to Web site acceleration according to the two simple laws of Web performance: send as little data as possible; send it as infrequently as possible.
Powell, Thomas A. and Joe Lima. uiGarden (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#24639
Follow this advice for getting rid of the clutter and strange characters in your translated HTML files.
Johnston, Becky. Intercom (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#30660
While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards.
de Jonge, Adriaan. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
#30476
Firefox 2.0.0.10 broke its implementation of the HTML5 canvas element and guess what, the world noticed. Actual websites started breaking because they relied on the canvas functionality to work. The point is that we expect implementations of HTML5 to happen way before the fifteen year mark. In fact, the fifteen year mark includes having all features at least implemented in two different (shipping) products in the same way with the additional requirement that they have a decent amount of market penetration. This means that when the specification finally makes it to W3C Recommendation it has already proven itself.
van Kesteren, Anne. annevankesteren.nl (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
#24413
HTML Conversion Tools: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Internet has taken the world by storm. It is now one of the most widely used sources of information available. Every day high-technology companies are finding new ways to use the Internet for advancement in their fields. Though getting a perfect conversion without added steps is the dream for all writers, this is not possible. HTML Conversion tools such as HTML Transit 2.0, Web Publisher 1.1, and FrontPage can help decrease the time needed to make great looking paper documents into great looking web pages. The tool a company chooses should be based on its needs, budget, and the time allowed for tweaking.
Laurent, J. Suzanna and Candie McKee. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Software
#20166
HTML is perhaps the most discussed topic in technical communications since the invention of the word processor. Interest in the Internet and the World Wide Web has exploded beyond anyone’s expectations (and perhaps their imagination as well). Microsoft has announced that they are moving away from Rich Text Format (Rw) as the source format for their Windowsbased online help systems, and Netscape is in the process of developing a cross-platform online help API that is also based on HTML. The question seems no longer to be whether or not to make the move to HTML, but when to make the move.
Radecki, Steven Lewis. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#22250
Review: Mastering HTML and XHTML 
In this book, the Rays have put together most (if not everything) that you need to know to create HTML/XHTML documents. Although not groundbreaking, the information is presented in a straightforward style and arranged in an easily accessible manner. Basically, it's a 'one-stop' reference for prospective coders.
Staples, Jeff. Technical Communication Online (2004). Articles>Reviews>Web Design>HTML
#29985
There is a seldom-used tag called 'acronym'. It was originally mark up, well, acronyms. There is a very similar tag, also seldom-used, called 'abbr', which is intended to mark up abbreviations. Both of these tags were introduced in HTML 4.0. On the face of it, apart from marking up the text, these inline tags do little else.
HyperWrite (2002). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#30676
HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.
Harold, Elliotte Rusty. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
#30449
HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers.
Hunt, Lachlan. List Apart, A (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
#21548
Since finding the right keywords is the most important step in any SEO endeavor, it is imperative that you find the ones your target audience is using.
Leonard-Wilkinson, Theresa A. W-edge Design (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Marketing
#15216
Trends in HTML-Based Help Design
Discusses some of the new and upcoming design trends in HTML-based systems. These designs are not the kinds of systems that most people will create on arrival to HTML-based help, but are experimental designs people create as they segue from Windows-based help.
Lockett-Zubak, Cheryl. Intercom (2000). Articles>Web Design>HTML
#26898
Web Writing: Coding an HTML Page
HTML coding is fairly simple. It consists of cues called tags that tell a computer to put words and images on the page, with a starting tag and a stopping tag required for each insertion.
#26965
这个分为三部分的文章概述了一个直观的、省时省力的方法来提升访问网站的速度，这是基于网站性能有关的两个简单法则。
Powell, Thomas A. and Joe Lima. uiGarden (2004). (Chinese) Articles>Web Design>HTML
#32437
In this article you will learn the basics of HTML—what it is, what it does, its history in brief, and what the structure of an HTML document looks like.
Francis, Mark Norman. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>HTML>XHTML
#32459
POSH, in case you haven’t heard of it already, is short for “Plain Old Semantic HTML”, and is obviously much quicker and easier to say than “valid, semantic, accessible, well-structured HTML”. Unfortunately POSH - semantic markup - is also something most people building websites or creating content for the Web have yet to discover.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2008). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#32464
This article deals with a part of the HTML document that does not get the attention it deserves: the markup that goes inside the head element. By the end of this tutorial you’ll have learnt about the different parts of this section and what they all do, including the doctype, title element, keywords and description (which are handled by meta elements).
Heilmann, Christian. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Metadata
#32465
Choosing the Right Doctype for Your HTML Documents
In this article I will look at the doctype in a lot more detail, showing what it does and how it helps you validate your HTML, how to choose a doctype for your document, and the XML declaration, which you’ll rarely need, but will sometimes come across.
Johansson, Roger. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Metadata
#32466
Marking Up Textual Content in HTML
In this article I will take you through the basics of using HTML to describe the meaning of the content within the body of your document.We will look at general structural elements such as headings and paragraphs and embedding quotes and code. After that we will look at inline content, such as short quotes and emphasis, and finish with a quick examination of old-fashioned presentational content.
Francis, Mark Norman. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>HTML
#32469
Can the alt Attribute Be Omitted Without Hurting Accessibility?
In the current editor’s draft of the HTML 5 specification, the alt attribute for images is no longer required. I am not convinced that this is a good idea.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>HTML5
#32501
It has become evident to me that some of my previous comments about HTML 5 and what is going on in the HTML Working Group are the result of misunderstanding and overreacting on my part. I no longer think things are quite as bad.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
