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Supplementary: More about the document <head>
By Christian Heilmann · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6
In this article, Christian Heilmann adds to the knowledge in his original web standards curriculum article about the HTML <head>, looking at some slightly more advanced features such as defining document collections, alternative document versions, Feeds, and adding favicons. Read more…
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21: Lesser-known semantic elements
By Mark Norman Francis · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 61
This article covers the less common semantic elements in HTML, that exist to identify specific common types of content - contact information, citations, abbreviations, superscript and subscript, insertions and deletions, line breaks, and more. Read more…
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20: HTML forms—the basics
By Jenifer Hanen · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 34
HTML forms are vital when you want to gather feedback or other information from your site visitors. This article will take you through the basics of creating HTML forms as gently as possible. Read more…
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19: HTML tables
By Jenifer Hanen · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 7
The HTML
element and its related friends and family allow you to represent tabular data in HTML. In this article, Jen Hanen gives you all you need to know about structuring tables in HTML.
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18: HTML links - let's build a web!
By Christian Heilmann · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 5
Some may argue that links are the most important feature of the Web - they make it a Web after all, linking all the pages together. In this article, Christian Heilmann takes you on a detailed tour of using the element to create accessible, meaningful links. Read more…
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17: Images in HTML
By Christian Heilmann · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11
The Web sure got more interesting when images were introduced! This article shows you how to add images to your pages using the
element, and how to use alt, title and longdesc to provide further background information and make them more accessible. It finishes off with a brief look at adding decorative images to a page using CSS, a topic which will be covered in a lot more detail in the CSS section of the course later on. Read more…
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16: HTML lists
By Ben Buchanan · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 3
In this article, Ben Buchanan gives you the lowdown on the venerable HTML list, covering unordered lists, ordered lists, nested lists, and definition lists. It finished off with a nice complete recipe example. Read more…
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15: Marking up textual content in HTML
By Mark Norman Francis · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 7
One of the most important things you can do in HTML is structure plain, basic paragraphs of text, and this article shows you how. It covers the difference between block and inline elements, and basic HTML constructs like paragraphs, quotes, preformatted text, and emphasis. Read more…