The site is a bit intimidating at first so you might want to start with the tutorial. Westciv’s Complete CSS Guide This is a very thorough but very well guide to CSS. One of the virtues of this tutorialis it’s just dealing with text- the stuff you generally need to know right at the start. Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer Wendy Peck’s very straight forward introduction to the basic things to know in terms of actually using CSS with text. ISO Latin-1 Character Entities This table shows the tags, in the form of an ampersand, an abbreviated description of the special character, and a semicolon, that you insert in your text so that browsers display the correct characters.ĬSS This is a simple but good introduction to creating both your first HTML page, and using CSS for the first time. Notice that each tag begins with an ampersand and ends with a semicolon. HTML Entities-Accented and other Special Characters HTML Entites Table This page shows the HTML entities for the most common accented characters in Western European languages, and the special typographic characters that you’re most likely to need. The current standard is HTMLįor the time being, since many people are using older browsers. The World Wide Web Consortium The W3 is the official standards organization. Notice the handy links to other resources on the left margin of the page. Lists of HTML Tags WebMonkey HTML Cheat Sheet I often use this short glossary of tags and what they do as my personal cheat sheet when I’ve forgotten the tag I need. There are links at the bottom of the page to HTML tutorials in Spanish, Japanese, Icelandic, Italian, and Korean. All the files and the instructions, are there. It’s particularly useful for those who like to work off line. Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages This particular tutorial, from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, at Maricopa Community College, is designed to be downloaded and worked on off line. It is still a useful guide of “low end” tags that even older browsers support. For the more adventurous, there is even a short introduction to Java script.Ī Beginner’s Guide to HTML This is a fairly good overview, but it is based on an older HTML, version 2.0, and there are some differences. It includes simple explanations of tables, and yes, even frames. It’s a good “crash course.” HTML Primer This is a seven lesson introduction to HTML, starting from the basics, and introducing the essential tags, placing images, links, colors. The Easiest HTML Guide for Beginners This is a very simple, basic HTML tutorial. As of April 2005, it’s still an advanced beta. Nvu Nvu is a free HTML editor with a GUI it’s an opensource Mozilla project, and it’s available for multiple platforms. It’s a good choice when you’re starting to learn HTML. TextWrangler TextWrangler is a very fine text editor, based on the excellent BBEdit Pro for Mac OS X, but lacking the sophisticated HTML tools and palettes. The Lite version doesn’t include the fancy HTML palette in the full version, so you have to type the tags, but it does have some very fancy search and replace features, and can covert “smart quotes” to typewriter quotes, and vice versa. BBEdit Lite for Macintosh BBEdit Lite is a cousin of the more robust, and powerful text and HTML editor BBEdit. The current cross platform version of Arachnophilia is a Java applet you can still download the older Windows only version here. It’s “Care ware,” which means you have to stop complaining about things for a bit, and maybe even smile. It also has a simple to use but quite effective macro language so you can add HTML tags that it doesn’t already support. It’s got built in support for HTML-you can do an awful lot just by clicking and pointing, and it’s got some very good built in Help. Arachnophilia for Windows and Mac OS X This is really a nifty little piece of software. But the following are free applications that have some extra abilities in that they are designed to work with HTML, to some extent. “SimpleText” or “TextEdit” on the Macintosh and NotePad on Windows will both do quite well. You don’t really have to have a special piece of software to write HTML or to create very complicated pages all you really need is something that you can save a plain text or ASCHII file in (be sure to name the file with “.html” or “.htm”). The other sort of HTML editors are text editors you actually see the tags, and usually even type them. These are often useful later, but you’re learning to click buttons rather than actually learning to create pages with HTML. They fall into two central types WYSIWYG or What You See Is What You Get, with buttons you click to create pages and insert tags. There are many commercial and shareware HTML editors on the market. Probably the best “single site for everything” is this one at W3Schools. There are lots and lots of resources for HTML and CSS on the web.
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