Favorite Sites for Learning HTML

There are many guides to HTML on the World Wide Web. To get to a few examples, you can use this path in at the Yahoo site

Click on "HTML" then on "Guides and Tutorials".

My Favorite Book (Sample Online)

Although you might find the Web a ready reference source, a book in hand is often handy. One of my favorites is HTML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro.

Good Beginning Sites

Classic Beginner's Guide

Case Western University

http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html

Structural Design Issues

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

http://www.ratz.com/nondesweb.html

Validation Checker

You can find many validation checkers on the Web. For instance, if you go to this path on Yahoo,

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/

Click on "HTML," then click on "Validation and Checkers".

HTML Editors

BBedit Lite (Commercial and Freeware)

Visual Page (commercial)

PageMill (commercial)

Color

Use Browser-safe 216 color pallette. See http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

Study the Work of Others

Lastly, there is the usual advice of looking at the html code of a number of Web pages to see how they are made, using the "View Document Source" in Netscape, for instance. Try to select simply constructed sites at the beginning.