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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
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Character Entities in HTML and XHTML
This area includes a variety of references and tools such as: reference charts; important articles; and helpful tools.
#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
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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
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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
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HTML's Time is Over. Let's Move On
As users and builders demand more and more richness from the Web, we need to re-evaluate the technology that 99% of it is built on. It seems no matter how sophisticated our back ends get, the front ends remain stagnant. What other options are there? What are the requirements that we as user experience designers face that newer technologies miss the boat on?
Heller, David. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML
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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
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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). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
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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
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HTML (the hypertext markup language used for the worldwide web) may be easier than you think! Experienced users guide you through the basics to more advanced topics, describe paper-to-web conversions, and provide hints for effective use of this medium. We’ll focus on real applications and on putting information on the web. Topics such as online providers and setting up a web server will not be covered.
Tatge, Pamela K., Kathlyn Auten and Ann Balaban. STC Proceedings (1996). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML
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As web sites become more and more like traditional applications, the call-response-reload model used in HTTP transactions becomes increasingly cumbersome. Instead of delivering a single dynamic page, the DHTML or JavaScript developer must create a series of separate pages. The flow of the application is interrupted by page reloads whenever the client communicates with the server. Remote scripting provides a solution to this problem, easing development of complex JavaScript applications, and providing a better experience for the end user.
Apple Inc. (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML
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Required Elements, and Required Tags
The difference between required elements and required tags has received a fair amount of attention recently, but the difference between the two is rarely (if ever) explained in detail.
Lemon, Gez. Juicy Studio (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#28422
If you're serious about reaching your full potential as a web page designer / producer, I believe you need to learn to code your sites by hand.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2005). Design>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#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
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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
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Tommy Olsson comments on the possibility of backwards compatibility and standardised error handling being bad for overall code quality.
Olsson, Tommy. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
#32503
Help Keep Accessibility and Semantics in HTML
If you think accessibility and semantics are important and should be improved in the next version of HTML, you need to act.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#32507
Guidelines for Creating Better Markup
I’ve mentioned several times here that I feel writing markup (or any other code, for that matter) is a craft. I take pride in writing as lean and clean code as possible. From the looks of things there aren’t a whole lot of other Web professionals that feel that way, but we do exist.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#32647
Free Your Embedded Data With SearchMonkey
Arguing for web standards and semantically clean and rich websites is an uphill battle. For years we had to deal with browsers that needed us to mess around with HTML just to display a document in several columns and the visual outcome was much more important than the structure.
Heilmann, Christian. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
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Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies in the most popular web browsers.
Deveria (2009). Reference>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
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html5doctor is a collaboration between, Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp and Tom Leadbetter. The site came about following a HTML5 meetup after the Future of Web Design conference in London (2009). We decided that there wasn’t a resource that catered for the people who wished to find out more about implementing HTML5 and how to go about it, so we thought we’d better build one. We will publish articles relating to HTML5 and it’s semantics and how to use them, here and now.
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HTML 5 offers a new element to mark additional information that can enhance an article but isn’t necessarily key to understanding it. However, in the interpretation of 'aside' there lies confusion as to how it can be used, and with that there is demand for the Doctor to step up and clear the air. In this article I will look at what 'aside' was created for, including sample uses and how not to use this useful, misunderstood element.
HTML 5 Doctor (2009). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
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Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!
The blogosphere was jerked into excitement when Google gave a sneak preview of its new service, Google Wave. Only the select few have an account, but there’s an 80-minute video about it on YouTube for the rest of us. The service is an HTML 5 app, and so HTML 5 has gone from being too far away to care about to today’s hot topic.
Lawson, Bruce. SitePoint (2009). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML5
