HTML -- The Basics

HTML References and Online Resources:

Center for Advanced Instructional Media, Yale University. Web Style Guide.

World Wide Web Consortium. The official specifications.  This is W3C's home page for HTML. Here you will find pointers to specifications for HTML, guidelines on how to use HTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C.

HTML 4.01 Specification.  This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the publishing language of the World Wide Web.

• HTML Document Representation, The Document Character Set, Character encodings, Choosing an encoding, Specifying the character encoding, Character references, Numeric character references, Character entity references.
• Index of Elements
• Index of Attributes
• Character entity references in HTML 4.  Character entity references for ISO 8859-1 characters, character entity references for symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters, character entity references for markup-significant and internationalization characters, and their lists of characters.
• Guidelines offered by the World Wide Web Consortium, to guide developers of accessible sites.

HTML Documentation by Ian Graham. A HTML tutorial.

Beginner's Guide to HTML. An excellent tutorial.

Exercises:

Read Creating a Web Page.

Become familiar with the following two references:
HTML 4.01 Specification.  This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the publishing language of the World Wide Web.
The Beginners Guide to HTML. Markup Tags.

Read the Introduction, Graphic Design 100, Balanced pages, Design grids for pages sections of the Web Style Guide Page Design section.