#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
#26648
There is no question that the vast majority of tables on the Web are layout tables, used to structure the visual appearance of the page. Often the structure of tables is remarkably complex, with tables nested in tables as much as seven deep.
Thatcher, Jim. JimThatcher.com (2005). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>HTML
#27862
HTML is made up of a great many elements, a lot of which are overlooked, forgotten or just unknown to many web designers. Although with a basic knowledge of HTML you can develop a website, to take advantage of many of the advanced features, and to make pages fully compatible, it is useful to learn these less popular tags.
Gowans, David. Free Webmaster Help (2001). Design>Web Design>HTML
#13369
Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
So you have an XML document. You’ve also been a good little web developer and used style sheets to control what your document looks like. You’ve even gone the extra mile and created several alternative style sheets to show how hardcore you are. Great. But now you need a cross–browser way to dynamically switch between the style sheets.
Sowden, Paul. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Web Design>HTML
#28446
This tutorial describes some of the main attributes that HTML tags can feature.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>HTML
#13267
Web documents are nothing more than Source. For all of the inspiration, thought, and sweat that might go into a page, it is merely a mess of characters that happens to contain a lot of brackets. After five and a half years of actively building pages, it's occurring to me that a lot of developers haven't figured this out. What I see is not what they get.
Henick, Ben. List Apart, A (2001). Design>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
#28453
HTML elements can be displayed either in block or inline style. The difference between these is one of the most basic things you need to know in order to use CSS effectively.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>HTML>CSS
#21536
Character Entities in HTML and XHTML
This area includes a variety of references and tools such as: reference charts; important articles; and helpful tools.
#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
#31952
Good evening — in this article I will aim to demystify the world of mobile web development, or in other words, developing web sites so that they will provide an acceptable user experience on mobile devices. I’ll run through how “the mobile web” differs from the normal web, the basics of techniques you can employ.
Mills, Chris. Vitamin (2008). Academic>Web Design>Wireless Web>HTML
#18234
This document attempts to address stylistic points of HTML composition, both at the document and the web level. This is not a beginner's guide; check the 'For More Information' section for pointers to more basic works, as well as for more advanced references and tutorials. It is designed for the HTML author who has learned the basics, and is ready to start thinking about the more advanced aspects of Web document design.
#12949
In December 1999, I asked: 'Is there any tool that currently exists to convert a bunch of html pages to pdf?' Thanks to all for the replies I received. There are two main solutions. (1) Print directly from the browser, and choose either Distiller or PDFWriter as the printer to turn the file into a pdf. For those of you who warned me that I might have to edit out the footer and header (typically the address of the page, the time etc), these can be edited out, in IE 5 at least, by selecting Page Setup from the File menu, and editing the Headers and Footers section. (2) Use Acrobat's web capture feature (accessed for example, by selecting Open Web Page from the File menu). There is one major caution with this approach: it does not open local web pages using the formats 'file:///' or 'c:\' It turns out that the syntax is the all important thing; I've used '|' (pipe) where ':' (colon) would normally be used after the C drive reference.
McCarthy, Christopher. TECHWR-L. Design>Web Design>HTML>Adobe Acrobat
#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
#20514
Differences Between XHTML and HTML 
XHTML is the next generation of HTML, but it will of course take some time before browsers and other software products are ready for it. In the meantime there are some important things you can do to prepare yourself for it. As you will learn from this tutorial, XHTML is not very different from HTML 4.01, so bringing your code up to 4.01 standards is a very good start. Our complete HTML 4.01 reference can help you with that. In addition, you should start NOW to write your HTML code in lowercase letters, and NEVER make the bad habit of skipping end tags like the
.#23952
Plusieurs éléments 'méta', c'est-à-dire ne faisant pas directement partie du corps de votre texte, ont néanmoins une importance tout à fait particulière dans le référencement de votre site. Ces éléments sont, en effet, pris en compte en priorité par les moteurs de recherche, lesquels sont responsables d'une bonne partie de votre fréquentation.
#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
#27511
Wondering how to turn your HTML markup into XHTML? Here are a few quick tips to teach you the very basics, a sample XHTML document, and resources for more information.
Kaiser, Shirley E. Website Tips (2001). Design>Web Design>HTML>XHTML
#26030
Hexadecimal Color Codes in HTML That Look or Sound Dirty, But Are in Fact Merely Colorful
It's just like how you can make your calculator spell BOOBS, although people inexperienced with HTML probably won't appreciate it.
Genusa, Angela. McSweeney's Internet Tendency (2004). Humor>Web Design>HTML>Color
#18233
How Do They Do That With HTML?
I started this site in 1995 while I was learning how to make web sites. I figured the best way to learn about it was to write a tutorial for others. The site has been very successful over the years, so in late 2000, I rewrote the entire site from scratch, updating all of the information and beginning to add all sorts of new tips and tricks.
#25566
This site explains how to make basic web pages with plain old Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML.
Krause, Steven D. Eastern Michigan University (2001). Design>Web Design>Standards>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
#30470
One of the great things about the current HTML 5 draft is that they give plenty of examples of how to specify alternate text for images, although a few of them are misguided. Alternate text should be concise, and a longer description provided with a longdesc attribute if necessary.
Lemon, Gez. Juicy Studio (2007). Design>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
