“Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should One of the downsides of all the technical innovations of our day is that the software designers of the world have made it really easy to create wonderfully ugly sites! Somehow, in all the fuss over the Web and the never ending desire for ‘more interactivi

“Magical design schemes with dHTML.” IMG SRC presents six funked-out navigation styles that would be useful if we had STANDARDS! Includes ‘Small Pager Palette,’ ‘onclick PopUp Menu,’ ‘Control Bar Footer Menu,’ ‘Rotation Menu,’ Hierarchical Menu’ and ‘Binder Metaphor.’

“How do you make a web page that looks good no matter how wide the browser window is? Use liquid tables, a technique that lets you ‘pour’ your content into the page so that it flows to the margins, even if the window is resized. Wait a sec, doesn’t the good old HTML tag allow content to flow? Yes, but the problem is, you often need parts of the page to remain fixed, such as a navigation bar down one side. The challenge is to have both a fixed and a flexible portion of the page. This is where liquid tables will help you.”

“XHTML? Find out how the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation, successor to HTML4, can help you prepare your site for the Web of the future with this article by WDVL’s founder, Alan Richmond. Learn what XHTML is all about, why you will want to learn to use it, and where it’s going to take the Web.”

“BBEdit is an excellent text editor for the Macintosh with a large and loyal following of web designers, programmers, and others who use it for their work. This page focuses on tips and tricks for BBEdit users who use BBEdit for HTML or Perl, but also has some tips that will be useful to anyone who uses BBEdit. The advice on this page may contain some information which is only useful in the Pro version, so keep that in mind if you use the Lite version.” Now someone please tell me why my ‘Soft Wrap’ preference never stays set!

“This web page demostrates a technique to quickly explore user interface alternatives using standard HTML authoring tools rather than GUI building tools. The goal of early user interface prototyping is to quickly construct and evaluate key aspects of a new user interface. Early prototypes can be used to help design the content, screen-flow, and presentation of a user interface. Doing early prototyping is a cost-effective way to check the feasibility of a proposed user interface.”

“This document was designed to test how your browser formats various HTML tags. I’ve stopped working on this file for the most part… I haven’t been able to keep up with the changes in HTML. This is primarily a useful tool for seeing how your browser formats basic stuff.”

“Written by Chuck Musciano, author of O’Reilly & Associates’ best-selling book, HTML: The Definitive Guide. The Tag of the Week column takes a look at tags from the latest HTML specification and explains how to use them and their properties better.”

“Traditional HTML — the computer language commonly referred to as the lingua franca of the Web — was officially put out to pasture [recently] with the introduction of its successor: XHTML. XML, also a W3C recommendation, lets anyone define new Web languages and tag digital documents to make it easier for computers to read and manipulate them. Fortunately for Web markup pioneer HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), XHTML is ‘backwards-compatible’ — meaning that Web developers will not have to rewrite their pages in the new markup language. In addition, most browsers currently in use will be able to read XHTML documents — such as the W3C’s home page — without an upgrade.”

A reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0. This is my favorite part, from the Differences with HTML 4 section: “4.1 Documents must be well-formed.” Good luck! Anyway, this is how Jeffrey Zeldman summed it up: “One language (like HTML, but better) that lets you create sites that work on cell phones as well as the desktop. Sites that can include text, database functionality (think: Amazon.com) and even lush media like moving images and music. The next few years should be very interesting.”

This is the law of the land, ladies and gents. Lots of stuff: technical documentation, FAQ, history of HTML, information on public drafts, HTML cleanup tool…

“XHTML is an acronym for ‘eXtensible HyperText Markup Language,’ a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application. XHTML provides the framework for future extensions of HTML and aims to replace HTML in the future.”

Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples.

A list of links to other information sources on XHTML and related subjects.

Interesting commentary on the theory of hypertext. And webloggers take note; “Nobody on the WWWeb should be linking to materials unless they’re familiar enough with them to give some sort of summary/recommendation/ rating. It just passes off the responsibility!” You know what? I disagree with that.