HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web page design. It is often used in combination with JavaScript and CSS. Current versions of the HTML specification include HTML 5 and XHTML.
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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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Hybrid CSS dropdowns allow access to all pages, keep the user aware of where she is within the site, and are clean and light to boot.
Shepherd, Eric. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 
When you take a document and put it on a computer and make it available for people to look at with their Web browsers, their browsers read the text of the document, but ignore the format. The browsers ignore places where you hit return, put words in boldface and italics, skipped lines, made headings, etc. In order to make headings, italics, etc., you must code your documents with HTML. This file contains codes and examples of HTML that will help you learn the basics you need to start constructing your own Web pages.
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials>HTML
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HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Tutorial 
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for developing documents on the World Wide Web. This tutorial concentrates on HTML 4.01, the latest version of HTML as specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). See the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) tutorial for guidelines on making the pages XHTML compliant. An HTML document consists of elements (sometimes referred to as tags), that are handled by a user agent (such as a browser) to render the document.
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Authoring HTML for international audiences.
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Unlike regular frames, iframes float anywhere on a page just like an image!
Waller, Zach. Webmonkey (1996). Design>Web Design>HTML
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Increasing Form Usability with JavaScript
It's easy to increase the usability of forms using JavaScript - find out how.
McCarthy, Paul. Webcredible (2007). Design>Web Design>DHTML>JavaScript
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Interactive Forms with Javascript / HTML Tutorial
One of the most important aspects of web design is getting information from the viewer to the webmaster. This is where HTML forms are used. If you have been on the internet, you have seen forms before. Google uses them for search queries, Amazon uses them for shipping and credit card information, your bank uses them for you to login. Almost every site on the web has a type of form somewhere. We can't live without forms. How about changing the forms based on input by the viewer? This is where interactive forms using Javascript and HTML can help.
Zimmer, Brian. Zimmertech.com (2001). Design>Web Design>Forms>DHTML
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An Interactive Gallery in HTML+TIME
In this article, I am going to build upon HTML+TIME markup to make my slideshow into an interactive gallery. One of the big selling points behind HTML+TIME is that it offers scripting-like interactivity without having to use scripting. With a few additions to our existing HTML markup, our presentation is ready for user interaction.
Kennedy, Tim. Streaming Media World (2001). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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HTML is the lingua franca of the Net. It's a simple, universal mark-up language that allows Web publishers to create complex pages of text and images that can be viewed by anyone else on the Web, regardless of what kind of computer or browser is being used.
Webmonkey (1999). Design>Web Design>HTML
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The benefits of transforming HTML from a stand-alone language into an XML version of itself aren't immediately apparent until you understand the inherent value of XML. Since the language syntax is so strict in XML, parsers (the software that reads and understands the code you write) are a lot easier to develop. Ultimately, it will allow browsers to become smaller, faster, and more stable. It also means your code will behave in a far more predictable way: Either something will work, or you will get an error. It will be a marked difference from the voodoo we experience across multiple browsers today.
Veen, Jeffrey. Webmonkey (1999). Design>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
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In simple terms, Ajax is an approach to rendering web pages that improves a web site's appeal and usability. It enhances user interaction by targeting updates from the server to specific areas of a web page. It allows information to be changed without long delays or frustrating page refreshes.
Prokata (2006). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>Ajax
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An Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
The intranet and Internet is an ever evolving environment, and Web pages themselves are steadily blooming from static displays of data to interactive applications. 'Dynamic HTML' is an umbrella term encompassing several ways in which Web developers can breathe life into pages which have traditionally been still portraits of information.
Weiss, Aaron. Intranet Journal. Design>Web Design>Standards>DHTML
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HTML was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW, and has been around since the very beginning of the web, and has changed a bit over that time, although it hasn't really gotten any more complicated. HTML is the markup language that's used to write web pages. It simply describes a web page's content and its structure.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>HTML
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Most people have heard of HTML - the language of the web. Far fewer have heard of XHTML. Believe it or not, HTML is dead and XHTML is here to take its place. This article goes through XHTML in technical detail, and points out the key differences between it and traditional HTML.
Duffy, Scott. XGuru (2003). Design>Web Design>XHTML
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On this page I give a short introduction to the accessibility issues surrounding the use of JavaScript. It is by no means a complete tutorial; I just want to offer a few rough guidelines and some bits of information. Nonetheless the information on this page seems to be clearer and more complete than the average 'JavaScript and accessibility' page on the WWW.
Koch, Peter-Paul. XS4ALL. Design>Web Design>Accessibility>DHTML
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JavaScript and Progressive Enhancement
Learn about JavaScript and how it can be used to progressively enhance your site.
McCarthy, Paul. Webcredible (2007). Design>Web Design>DHTML>JavaScript
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The Webmonkey code library is our own collection of code fragments, function packages, and Web editor extensions - a resource containing generalized code, specific workarounds, and good ideas that you can use to enhance your pages in ways you may not know how (or may not want to bother) to program.
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Making an online gallery of pictures should be a quick process. The gap between snapping some pictures and publishing them on the web ought to be a short one. Here’s a quick and easy way of making a one-page gallery that uses JavaScript to load images and their captions on the fly.
Keith, Jeremy. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR), a technique developed to allow designers to use image-based typesetting while meeting accessibility requirements, only serves its intended purpose when screen readers misbehave. By using JavaScript, we have an opportunity none of these solutions give us.
Heilmann, Christian. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Now that you've separated your website’s (XHTML) structure from its (CSS) presentation, wouldn’t it be great to similarly abstract the behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.
Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Jivin' with (Java and) JavaScript
Java™ and JavaScript™ are two of the newest 'kids on the block' when it comes to the latest developments for the computing and Internet world. Already, many are predicting that within a very few years Java will be the programming language of choice. Already, JavaScripts are nearly ubiquitous on the World Wide Web, largely because of their cross-platform nature and ease of use. And already, many technical communicators are beginning to consider what impact these new tools will have on their careers. While relatively few technical communicators will deal directly with JavaScripts and even fewer with Java programming, those involved in Web page development and online (HTML) documentation will find them valuable to learn and use.
Beck, Charles O. STC Proceedings (1998). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Joe Clark's Answers -- in Valid XHTML
An extremely interesting but rather long read -- answers each question thoroughly and, there is plenty of discourse following the piece itself.
Clark, Joe. Slashdot (2002). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>XHTML
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Linking Context-Sensitive HTML Help
The mechanism that Doc-To-Help uses for mapping topics in a context-sensitive HTML Help differs from the mechanism it uses for context-sensitive WinHelp. This article tells you what you need to know to properly link context-sensitive HTML Help to an application.
ComponentOne (1999). Articles>Documentation>Online>HTML
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As a fundamental part of the Web, hypertext linking has been the subject of repeated attempts at standardization beyond the basic format allowed in simple HTML. Such attempts can be characterized as efforts to balance machine processing ability with authoring convenience. The latest specification in this area, XHTML 2.0, just might have gotten it right.
Dubinko, Micah. IBM (2005). Articles>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
