Any tips on learning HTML code?

Question

I want to learn how to write HTML code. I already found some web-sites but any recommendations or tips would help.
Thank you!

Answer 1

One of the best sites:
http://december.com/html/

Handy: if you find something interesting, right click and see how the html and css was put together. Also look for things you do NOT like - techniques and styles to avoid.

Also, get html-kit from
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
It is one of the best tools out there for writing html (and many other things).

I keep the specs for stuff handy. In particular, html 4.01, CSS2, character set info (also php and mysql but you are not there yet).

If you have the dollars, pick up the Eric Meyer books (Eric Myer on CSS, More Eric Meyer on CSS). He is not a "css purist" - no preaching, just practical examples you can walk through with him.

On that, don't bother learning the html formatting stuff, just go straight into CSS. It will keep "brain clutter" down.

Answer 2

When HTML documents are served to the viewer, there are three ways to tell the browser what specific character encoding is used. First, HTTP headers can be sent by the server along with each page. A typical header looks like this:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

For HTML (not usually XHTML), the other method is for the HTML document to include this information at its top, inside the HEAD element.



XHTML documents have a third option: to express the character encoding in the XML preamble, for example



Each of these method advises the receiver that the file being sent uses the character encoding specified. The character encoding is often referred to as the 'character set' and it indeed does limit the characters in the raw source text. However the HTML standard states that the "charset" is to be treated as an encoding of unicode characters and provides a way to specify characters that the "charset" does not cover. The term Code page is also used similarly.

It is a bad idea to send incorrect information about the character encoding in use. For example, a server where multiple users may place files created on different machines cannot promise that all the files it sends will conform (some users may have machines with different character sets). For this reason, many servers simply do not send the information at all, to avoid making any false promises. This however may result in the equally bad situation of the user agent displaying the document wrongly because it does not know which character encoding to use.

The specification in the HTTP headers overrides a specification in a meta element in the document itself, which can be a problem if the headers are incorrect and one does not have the access or the knowledge to change them.

Answer 3

Get HTMLgate from ---
http://freedownloadscenter.com/Web_Authoring/ Automated_Web_Publishing_Tools/HTMLGate_FREE.html
it has two modes for creating a web page
1.code edit
2.fast edit
click on the fast edit tab and create something like
insert a bkground image then click on code edit and u can see the code used.

Answer 4

Get some source code of some sites and have a look on them.

Answer 5

opposite-engineer different web pages by applying applying Adobe Dreamweaver. record>save As gets the website of your decision saved on your hdd. then you open them with Adobe Dreamweaver and notice what codes are chosen once you decide on an merchandise. confirm you're in split view to confirm the codes and the gadgets.

Answer 6

Check out the blog section of Designhill.

Answer 7

I hope that this will help you out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

Answer 8

www.designhill.com/design-blog, lynda.com and tutorialzine.