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Definition
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to createhypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. It is the publishing language of the World Wide Web (WWW). HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. XHTML documents are XML documents and you should start coding in XHTML (this page needs some tutorials on XHTML, but since there are so many indexes, you'll have to wait maybe forever).
This is a simple links pages. See:
Documentation
Manuals & Short References
- HTML 4x
- Bare Bones Guides to HTML (HTML 4)
- HTML Documentation by Ian Graham (U of Toronto). GOOD HTML Manual
- XHTML 1x
- ???
Specifications
- Overviews
- HTML
- XHTML
- XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
- XHTML Basic for mobile devices. (There is also an older XHTML mobile profile defined by OMA or even older WAP/WML)
- DOM
FAQ's
Tutorials
XHTML Tutorials
Interactive XHTML Tutorials
- htmlPlayground. You try, modify code and lookup explanation for each element and attribute.
Interactive HTML Tutorials
HTML 4x Tutorials
(HTML is outdated)
- HTML Code Tutorial
- Dave Ragett's Introduction to HTML
- SELFHTML (German Site in German)
- Conception, suivi et animation d'un site web associatif Guide complet pour le dévelopement d'un site (sur le plan conceptuel!)
Introductions and Tutorials on specialized topics
Style sheets and fonts
- See CSS
Icons/Graphics
- Graphics page at webreference (maps, color, animation, ...)
See also in this wiki
Characters & Entities
See: Character encoding
Note: instead of using old-style entities you should define a character set, a much more simple strategy.
URL encoding
- URL Encoding (or what are those "%20" codes in URLs?') by Brian Wilson
Colors
- Webreference Colorizer, good on-line tool !
- Color at webreference
- The Browser Safe Palette Webgraphics for computers that use only 256 colors (see the interactive Color Palette Map for Netscape). Usually, todays computers handle more colors.
- There exist browser extensions you can use instead.
Frames
(don't use frames, because it destroys the idea of the URL, something you can link to)
HTTP
- HTTP Made Really Easy A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers, good tutorial by James Marshall (1997)
- HTTP header revealed
- Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, a few extensions to HTTP that might become the standard for uploading files (4/2000)
Meta Tags
See also RDF
- Meta Builder and META Tags from vancouver Web Pages
- Why Internet Content Rating and Selection does not work
DHTML
See DHTML (a short tutorial in this wiki)
Mobile Devices
- An Overview of Mobile Versions of XHTML, short useful articel for those who wonder about XHTML Basic, XHTML Mobile Profile, and WML2....
Tools / Software
(only some, some maybe outdated)
Validation and Syntax correction
- W3C Markup Validation Service (online service)
- Alternatively, you can download and install HTMLTidy that will both validate and repair your broken HTMLs
- Weblint code verification
- Check out also various browser extensions, e.g. for Firefox
HTML Editors
- Read WYSIWIYG or the Real Thing? and WYSIWIG Editor Shootout (Webmonkey, 5/99)
- Index at DaveCentral (free and cheap stuff): HTML Editors and Wysiwyg Editors (see also other Webmasters sites !)
- Recommended Wysiwig at Tecfa: NVU Freeware Unix/Mac/PC. (Voir aussi: [http://tecfa.unige.ch/themes/FAQ-FL/nvu_autotutoral/nvu_pageWEB.html Cr�er des pages WEB facilement] (destin� aux �tudiants LME) * GoLive (better for programmers) and Dreamweaver ($400). See also this article on doing XHTML from List Apart
- Recommended general programming editors (including HTML support): Xemacs (Unix, Win, Mac?) or For the Mac see: BBEdit $119) or BBEDit Lite (free)
- Recommended HTML Editors: HTMLKit, many plugins for various languages (freeware, if personal registration) * NoteTab (freeware version) * WebExpert (but the freeware version is no longer available !)
- Recommended XHTML Editors: Less Than Slash (self completing text editor)
Filter software
- Don't use "save as HTML" in Word, use some Rtf2Html:
- Logictran RTF Converter (Html and XML). Probably the best tool, goes back to the well known rtf2html 2.7.5 by Chris Hector and rtftoweb 1.6 by Christian Bolik of which we seem to have a copy (inexpensive payware)
- Xtreme Rtrf2Html (FreeWare)
- French rtf2html (don't know this)
- Jason Stechschulte wrote a php filter, so you can do it on the fly (some)
- HTML Assistant Pro (payware, does other things)
Various articles
- Media Lullabies: The Reinvention of the World Wide Web article by Bill Hilf
Links
- Organizations
- Webstandards.org. Nice organization that watches out for standards.
- Web Master sites
- Webreference.com. Good site for web developers
- Online Mags
Things to move to a french page
- See under HTML Trail of [/guides/tie/tie.html TIE slides] (en français)
- [/guides/htmlman/html-1.html TECFA HTML Manuel], en français [ [/guides/htmlman/html.pdf version PDF] ]
- [http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/xhtml1/ XHTML en fran�ais]
- HTML 4, traduction française
- SelfHtml (la version française)