This isn’t just a matter of “do what I say and not what I do”. Any web sites I create now will be written exactly the way that I say that the HTML and CSS should be written. The sites where the code in the pages doesn’t match what the content says you should do [...]

A common question I see asked by web newbies is what screen resolution that they should design their web pages for. You can tell that they are newbies because anyone with any experience of the web knows that screen resolution is irrelevant and that it is the area in the browser that the page displays [...]

Everyone has to start somewhere and the best place to start with creating a web presence is with a blog or similar setup where you just need to plug in your content. To be able to take full advantage of the web though you’ll need to learn the languages that it uses. New to Web [...]

The basic difference between ordered and unordered lists is that ordered lists use a different “bullet” on the front of each entry with values that have some sort of ordering to them (such as A, B, C, D or I, II, III, IV) while unordered lists display the same bullet on the front of each [...]

With any language that develops over time there are both good parts and bad parts. Things originally thought to be a good idea at the start turn out not to be. The difficulty comes in being able to tell the difference, as this book clearly demonstrates. HTML & CSS The Good Parts

Getting forms in your web page to look the way you want has always been one of the most difficult parts of setting up the appearance of your web page. Not any more as this book shows you exactly how to get web browsers to apply the appearance you want to the form fields. Where [...]

Embedding fonts in your web page so your visitors will see the content in the right font whether they have it on their computer already or not has a number of issues including that some browsers don’t support it, some require different file formats than others, some will download the font even if they already [...]

As I reviewed this book I was rather disappointed in how many errors there were with the HTML and JavaScript. It wasn’t until I compared my review of this third edition with what I had written a few years ago about the second edition that I realised just how much the book has actually improved. [...]

I started writing pages about using stylesheets long before separating it out into its own section of my site. One of the first articles on stylesheets that I wrote was one on how you can effectively generate your own tags for whatever you want to include in the HTML by simply assigning a class to [...]

Back in the early days of stylesheets support for the various commands varied somewhat between browsers. Quite a number of browsers also had quirks where they misinterpreted stylesheet commands either ignoring an invalid character and processing a command that ought to be ignored or by not recognising a valid character and so not processing a [...]

One rather annoying aspect of Internet Explorer is the way that it mishandles a number of stylesheet commands. Most of these are corrected by placing a valid doctype statement as the first entry in your page source as IE also misuses that statement to determine whether to use “satandards” mode or “quirks” mode in interpreting [...]

You can’t span rows or columns in a CSS table but where you need to achieve that result in your page layout you can nest one table inside another to achieve the same end result as this fifth tutorial on layout tables demonstrates. Nesting Tables