Html guides?

**awisler** · October 21, 2006, 01:53 PM

i was recently trying to learn how to write html for websites and such, is there any free online guide to this? or any book on html code that you would recomend? please dont suggest random html books, make sure its descriptive, basically an html guide for a complete noob. like pretty much 100% inexperienced with html.

**Incinerate_IV** · October 21, 2006, 02:16 PM

Here's a guide by our very own krazykarl,
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=54805

For more info check
http://www.w3schools.com/

**awisler** · October 21, 2006, 02:43 PM

thank you very much. already starting on a site for practice.

**krazykarl** · October 21, 2006, 03:38 PM

HTML is the building block that all other web technologies are founded on. If you plan on going any further with web development it is imperitive that you have HTML down. The guide I wrote up is enough to get you started, but if you are genuinely interested in web development w3schools is a great place to learn, I myself have taken the certification (which is fairly heavy on the CSS questions). Another bonus is that once you have leared proper HTML (structure wise) learing XML will take next to no effort. Also since you are just starting, I would recomend doing everything in XHTML first and not learn HTML 4.0 then try to code everything with XTHML, (once you start with the bad habbits that plain html lets you get away with, its hard to break those habbits)

**fatsheep** · October 21, 2006, 05:15 PM

www.w3schools.com For all your web designing needs.

**awisler** · October 21, 2006, 05:21 PM

krazy karl, i look at the xhtml and i dont see the huge differences besides lower case...isnt it still the exact same commands for things like font color ect

one thing i have no idea of what they do is, doctypes? and those kinda things. what are they?

**krazykarl** · October 21, 2006, 08:05 PM

the big difference (and the hardest habbit to break) is the self closing tags ie HTML <br> for break in XHTML it is <br /> as the break tag has no closing tag. there are a bunch of other ones like <input /> etc....

doctypes tell the browser what kind of document they are rendering, you have to specify them to conform to standards, but past that they dont do much.

**alman9898** · October 22, 2006, 05:27 PM

XHTML also requires quoting values, eg <h1 align="left">, closing tags (some people dont close the <p>), and several rules related to CSS (certain rules about block level and inline elements). conforming to web standards can also provide some cross browser compatibility.