Chapter 4: Editing HTML

On this page: HTML resources for the new user and for those who just want a quick reference. HTML style guides for creating consistent sites. Free HTML validation services.

Links: Writing HTML Code

• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) introduction to HTML Markup
  A brief description, as well as links to related W3C sites.
• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
  All the basics, from tag definitions to making a simple form.
• Davis Community Network: HTML Example Code
  This example code is laid out in a handy table, so you see the code in one column and its markup effect in the next.
• Netscape Developer's Center: HTML Tag List
  Includes divisions by category as well as a simple alphabetical cheat sheet.
• WebMonkey: HTML
  Both beginning and advanced tutorials and articles about writing good code, with an emphasis on the new.

Links: HTML Style Guides

• Yale C\AIM Style Guide
  Read this while your site is in the planning or redesign stages.
• Art and the Zen of Web Sites
  An epigrammatic and fiercely useful guide to the whys, whats, and whatnots.
• The Webmaster's Reference Library
  Articles on all aspects of maintaining and producing a site.
• AOL Webmaster Style Guide
  Includes a lot of solid information on everything from netiquette to cookies -- and actual HTML guidance.
• Ameritech Web Resource Center
  Includes standards and checklists for making a consistent site that's easy to navigate.
• Composing Good HTML
  Web style, at the page and site level.
• Web Mastery
  An introduction and index to Web style guides. On Hypernews, so it also includes lots of great resources and message boards.