Beginners
To get the most out of these tutorials, you should follow the links below in order. For even easier navigation, you will find a link to the next page at the end of every article.
- What You See Is not What You Get
- Search Engines and Accessibility
- Use a Decent Editor – Make your code easy to read and edit
- xHTML Basics – A few important rules
- Basic xHTML Tags – Paragraphs, links, images, etc.
- Absolute, Relative, and Root-Relative URLs (URL = address)
- Download the Practice Files
- CSS Primer – Examples of CSS at work
- CSS Basics – How to style xHTML tags using CSS
- Adding Class Names to xHTML Tags – Think “classification”
- Styling Those Classes with CSS – Use a dot
- xHTML <div> tag – Divide your page into sections
- xHTML id attribute – Also includes “jump to” links
- Styling ids with CSS – Use a number sign
- CSS for layout, part 1
- CSS for layout, part 2
- CSS for layout: Clearing floats
- Lists: Creating them in xHTML and styling them with CSS
- More on Styling Lists (also another note on floats)
- Link Hover Effects (aka Rollovers)
- More on floats. Includes moving that sidebar to the left.
- A more coherent design, part 1
- A more coherent design, part 2
- Inside the Head of a Web Page
- xHTML Meta Tags
