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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Put XHTML 1.0 Strict and Transitional to Work 
As its name suggests, XHTML--which is considered the successor to HTML 4--is a combination of HTML and XML. By combining the power of XML and HTML, XHTML makes Web content more accessible to devices such as phones, handhelds, and televisions. XHTML 1.0 is broken up into what the W3C refers to as three flavors: Strict, Transitional, and Frameset. In this article, I focus on the two most useful, Strict and Transitional.
Morton, Shawn. TechRepublic (2003). Articles>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
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Quick and Dirty Web Applications with Bookmarklets
Web 2.0 is well known for the fact that it's not built on breathtaking new inventions, but rather on renewed emphasis on age-old Web technologies. One of those age-old technologies that is enjoying a revival in Web 2.0 is bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is essentially a Web application shoehorned into a regular browser bookmark. This article includes a fully functioning bookmarklet and installation instructions you can use to highlight text on any Web page and search IBM developerWorks for that text.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>Web Browsers
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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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Readers return to sites that appear fresh and new on each visit. On a news site, magazine, or blog, stories or headlines will be updated frequently. But how can static sites keep that fresh feeling? Dan Benjamin’s free image randomizer may do the trick, and you needn’t be a programmer to install it.
Benjamin, Dan. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>DHTML
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The W3C’s XHTML language is intended to bridge the web’s past (HTML) and future (XML). Shall we cross this bridge, now that we’ve come to it? Or is XHTML more trouble than it’s worth? Peter-Paul Koch puts forth the pros and cons.
Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>XML>XHTML
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Re-Write a Layer's Content with Javascript
One of the most common tasks Web developers face every day is to change the content of a Web page, without additional requests to the Web server. The easiest way to accomplish this assignment is through the use of layers.
Todorov, Peter. SitePoint (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Ajax
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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
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Rescue Terrible HTML with TagSoup
XHTML is a friendly enough format for parsing and screen-scraping, but the Web still has a lot of messy HTML out there. In this tip Uche Ogbuji demonstrates the use of TagSoup to turn just about any HTML into neat XHTML.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2006). Design>Web Design>HTML>XHTML
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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
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Rotate Regular HTML Content Via DHTML
One of the great pitfalls of using client side techniques, such as JavaScript, to display content on demand is the prerequisite that everything be contained in variables. This makes adding and updating the content very cumbersome.
Chiang, George. SitePoint (2004). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>DHTML
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Rough Guide to the Document Object Model (DOM)
In two parts, this series introduces the Document Object Model, explaining its benefits, and exploring its implementation.
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S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
A simple slide show system that uses one (X)HTML file, some CSS, and a bit of JavaScript. You can have your presentation slides and printed handouts generated from the same file.
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At SAP cookbooks are frequently used as a very efficient and highly accepted means to communicate design. This cookbook not only comprises the introduction of SAP's design for screen elements in the web environment but also the documentation of the so called 'business functions'. These functions are used to render the screen elements of business applications in an internet browser. They ensure the highly sophisticated appearance of web applications according to the SAP brand design and protect the developer from being forced to write endless HTML coding.
SAP Design Guild (2003). Resources>Web Design>HTML
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Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch
JavaScript is an amazingly useful language that offers many unique benefits. With a little consideration for how scripted functionality degrades, you can use JavaScript to bring a whole range of functional, design and usability improvements to your web sites.
Edwards, James and Cameron Adams. SitePoint (2006). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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So you've built a beautiful, standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques. You've mastered control of styling every element, but in the back of your mind, a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your SELECTs are. Well, today we're going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs. With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your SELECTs beautiful… and you won't have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
Gustafson, Aaron. Easy! Designs LLC (2005). Design>Web Design>CSS>DHTML
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We're all tired of waiting for Web pages to download, aren't we? To make sure that visitors to your site don't get frustrated, we rounded up some in-house experts to help you make your pages faster 'n greased lightning.
Cook, Jason. Webmonkey (2002). Design>Web Design>HTML
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Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!
Bowman, Douglas. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>CSS>DHTML
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It's actually a little tough to get a handle on DHTML because it's beginning to mean different things to a few different people. The actual term stands for Dynamic Hypertext Mark-Up Language. That's obvious. The essence of the term stands for almost any coding that creates movement or interactivity by employing the standards of the 4.0 level Netscape and MSIE browsers.
Burns, Joe. HTML Goodies (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Some Basic HTML Tags and How To Use Them
The HTML 4.01 markup chart and examples below represent some of the typical markup that I review with clients who wish to change and update text themselves on their Web sites. Learning a few basic markup tags makes this a very simple process.
Kaiser, Shirley E. Website Tips (2001). Design>Web Design>HTML
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The Lesser (or Badged) Standardista will include badges on their site to indicate which level of automated testing their site has passed, whereas the Greater (or Smug) Standardista frowns on the use of badges, and insists on double-checking every checkpoint manually.
Pickard, Jack. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
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Strategies for Using Information Types in HTML Help 
Information types are a new feature of HTML Help, but they are not a new concept to technical communication. Information types are simply categories of information that can be assigned to a discrete piece of information so the information can be displayed or hidden, based on the category selected by the user. The goal of this paper is to get help authors thinking about ways that they can use information types to help their users filter, sort, and understand the structure of the information presented to them through online help.
Houser, Rob. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Documentation>HTML>Help
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Streamlining with Web Standards
Save time, money, blood, sweat, and tears by rebuilding your old-school site with standards-friendly CSS and XHTML.
Penhaligon, Greg. Webmonkey (2003). Design>Web Design>CSS>XHTML
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Striped Tables Using JavaScript
Find our how to use unobtrusive JavaScript to make striped tables with different backgrounds on each row.
McCarthy, Paul. Webcredible (2007). Design>Web Design>DHTML>JavaScript
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Teach your smart little menus to do the DHTML dropdown dance without sacrificing semantics, accessibility, or standards compliance or writing clunky code.
Griffiths, Patrick. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Interaction Design
