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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A form-based interface to generate 80x15-pixel buttons, like those often used to identify RSS feeds.
Luca Zappa (2005). Resources>Web Design>DHTML
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Break the chains of EMBED and live free. Elizabeth Casto explains how to embed movies without using invalid markup.
Castro, Elizabeth. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Multimedia>XHTML
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Cascading Stylesheets and Dynamic HTML 
Have you been frustrated by the limitations of HTML as you have struggled to present information attractively on a Web page? Have you used common work-around methods such as setting up complex tables for text layout and creating special text effects with a graphics package? Cascading Style Sheets offers a way to produce desired layout effects through HTML. If we are programmatically inclined, we can use Dynamic HTML to increase interactivity. We will demonstrate methods for using Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML to design Web pages and point out design limitations we still need to be aware of.
Randolph, Elaine F. and Jeff Randolph. STC Proceedings (1998). Design>Web Design>CSS>DHTML
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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.
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Describes how elements and attributes are rendered in XHTML.
McLaughlin, Douglas J. Intercom (2000). Design>Web Design>XHTML
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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
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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
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Complex Dynamic Lists: Your Order Please
Help your site’s visitors reach their goals quickly with a dynamic menu that takes its cue from the Mac OS X Finder.
Heilmann, Christian. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>User Interface>DHTML
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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.
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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
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Council of Science Editors: Reference Links
Links to thousands of reference sites, most of which relate to science writing.
CSE (2004). Reference>Writing>Scientific Communication>HTML
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Creating Accessible JavaScript
JavaScript is available on the Web to allow programming type processes that are not allowed with static HTML. In most cases, JavaScript does not overtly affect accessibility. Most browsers and screen readers are capable of accessing JavaScript items. You should, however, teach that many people cannot or choose not to allow JavaScript within their Web browsers or assistive technologies. Important content or functionality should not rely on JavaScript alone. JavaScript should usually be used to supplement content.
WebAIM (2003). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>DHTML
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Creating Disappearing Text or Images
In this tutorial, you'll see how to create text that's invisible as the page loads and appears only when a user rolls the mouse over a specific graphic, i.e., text appears on 'mouseover'and disappears when the mouse is no longer over the graphic.
Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive
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Creating Dual-Mode Context-Sensitive Help
Want to provide your users with state-of-the art HTML Help but don't want to force them to install Internet Explorer (which is required to run compiled HTML Help files)? In this article we show you how to create context-sensitive Help that displays a topic from a .CHM file if IE is installed on the user's system, and displays the equivalent topic from a .HLP file if IE isn't installed.
ComponentOne (1999). Articles>Documentation>Online>HTML
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Creating Modular HTML Help Systems
It is possible to create good, efficient, easy-to-maintain HTML Help systems - and it really isn't that difficult. The bad news is that if you're not sure exactly what settings need to be made, you will find creating modular HTML Help systems very frustrating. Read this article and avoid being frustrated.
ComponentOne (1999). Articles>Documentation>Online>HTML
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Creating Sticky Buttons in a Component
A more sophisticated method for denoting an active page or section of a site is to make your buttons 'sticky'–having a button remain 'stuck' in its clicked state even after it's been clicked. Two ways of setting up sticky or locking buttons are shown here.
Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive
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Dynamic HTML (DHTML) provides a new range of ways to animate a page. DHTML can animate both text and images and animations can move throughout the browser window, instead of being anchored in one spot. Unfortunately, DHTML can be tricky because of differences between browsers. This article will cover the basics of cross-browser animation. You’ll learn how to animate text and images. Plus you’ll see how to move HTML elements around the screen. After you’ve finished reading this article, you should be able to add cross-browser compatible DHTML animations to your web pages.
Apple Inc. (2006). Design>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
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Prior to the 4.0 browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator exposed very similar but very limited object models for manipulating the page. The primary difference was the lack of an images collection in Internet Explorer 3.x. With the 4.0 browsers, Netscape's and Microsoft's implementations diverged. Netscape's model evolved to allow a little more control over the page by allowing positioned elements to be manipulated. Microsoft, on the other hand, expanded to provide control to every element on the page. To further confuse matters, both companies called their new implementations Dynamic HTML. We have created DHTMLLib to help you design cross-browser DHTML pages without requiring you to understand the complete details of the different object models.
Isaacs, Scott. InsideHTML.com (2001). Design>Web Design>DHTML
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Cross-Browser Scripting with importNode()
While building a browser slideshow object for a demonstration on dynamically pulling image information from a web server, I ran into difficulty with the DOM-compliant approach I had envisioned. A two-day journey into the world of XML DOM support for web browsers lay between me and a satisfactory solution.
Holdener, Anthony. List Apart, A (2007). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Web Browsers
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Crossing Borders: JavaScript's Language Features
JavaScript is often ridiculed as the black sheep of programming languages. The development tools, a complicated and inconsistent document object model for HTML pages, and inconsistent implementation in browsers contributes to that sentiment. But JavaScript is much more than a toy. In this article, Bruce Tate explores JavaScript's language features.
Tate, Bruce. IBM (2006). Design>Web Design>DHTML>JavaScript
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There are many different button-rollover tutorials available on the web, some JavaScript and some CSS, but none of the ones I have seen yet match that of the Trifecta button. Let's start with what makes the CSS rollover Trifecta button different from the many other rollovers you may have already seen. Alternative sites are locatable with the key phrase: "Trifecta Button" in any search engine.
Angeletti, Mark. Search-This (2004). Design>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
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This worked example creates a compact form with multiple similar records, with the familiar appearance of a datasheet.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Forms
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Debugging JavaScript Using Venkman
Most people who do even a little bit of JavaScript programming, even those who are simply tweaking somebody else’s code, are familiar with the rudimentary JavaScript debugger in the recent versions of Internet Explorer. Click on the yellow warning icon in your browser, and you get a listing of various JavaScript errors in your code. It is simple, and for many people it is enough, but it’s not really the type of fully-fledged debugging environment with features programmers have come to expect in other development languages. If you find yourself doing a lot of JavaScript programming or tweaking and you are concerned with cross-browser support for your scripts, then Venkman is worth checking out.
Schengili-Roberts, Keith. WebRef (2003). Design>Web Design>Programming>DHTML
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Develop Wireless Applications with XHTML Mobile Profile 
The focus of most mobile technology applications developers is to build new wireless technologies that conform to varying bandwidth and memory limitations. With XHTML Mobile Profile, you can build apps that adhere to hardware requirements for users on different devices and render on multiple handheld devices.
Saleeb, Hany. IBM (2006). Articles>Web Design>Wireless Web>XHTML
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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
