Coding - Links

[that was almost a trick to get you to read my introduction, eh?]

Doing a little web mining for you put me again in front of the overwhelming number of resources out there devoted to web design and learning HTML. If you hadn't noticed that a great part of the web just speaks about itself (it is autotelic, if you want the techical word), well there you are.

Not only is there a paralyzing number of web design resources. You'll also find page after page devoted to listing these resources. So, I'm not going to add "my" list to them.

There is no sense in trying to produce a list of "good links" for learning HTML and CSS. There are an infinite number of them.

The best and only link to give is finally the World Wide Web Consortium. They fix the standards. They publish the specifications. They are the ultimate reference. They have any information you may want.

And they are the place I go to when I'm not sure of my HTML anymore.

The other "only place" I go to is the House of Style, for CSS. My review of this site will point you to interesting places inside it.

If you want more (and you may want more, as you're learning!), here are some big sites devoted to web design, in no particular order. In fact, they are bunched up in a sort of useless heap just here. ;
Hunt through them, you will probably find what you need - and much more. Though all you need really, you will find in the two above-mentioned places.

I can't tell you that one of these is better than the other. I haven't read all their tutorials. An HTML tutorial will always manage to introduce you to HTML in a more amusing way than the HTML specification (which isn't very fun, even if you can pretty easily learn how to read it). The only problem is that HTML recommendations change. Almost all these tutorials will have a good chapter on how to use the <font> tag. I recommend you to never use a single <font> tag - and I'm not the only one (see What's wrong with FONT?, FONT FACE considered harmful, Beyond the FONT tag and Goodbye to Font Tags and Ditch the FONT tag already! to get you started, and then search Google to find more...).

I also think that most of these tutorials are frighteningly long. If you don't know any HTML, you don't have to go through a whole tutorial to be able to produce something. HTML is easy. My aim is to get you going with a few principles, a minimal set of tags, and a couple of references that you can dig in for fancy stuff. Then you can fly on your own wings, up to the stars if you wish...

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