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Web Design Tutorials
The sites listed below cover basic design issues, but don't expect everything. A bit of searching may be required. Our pages offer a quick, bare bones approach. After that, the best place to go is Jo Barta's free downloadable tutorial.
Mantex - HTML tutorials
Simplified design basics for beginners. Covers the most common HTML tags, layout issues, colours, paths and graphics. Produced for Open University students.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/ebooks.htm
Jo Barta's tutorial
This is a very popular free downloadable guide for beginners. It's strong point is that Jo Barta takes everything one step at a time - and shows what the results should look like. It also contains a useful guide to web-safe colours.
http://www.pagetutor.com/download.html
Teach Me HTML
Problem: You want to learn HTML so you
can create web pages. However, you don't know
a thing about HTML or even where to start.
Solution: Start teaching yourself the
easy way with Teach Me HTML. This program shows you each keystroke required,
guiding you through every step of the
coding process.
http://www.webmasterfree.com/teach.html
XML School
This is a very comprehensive site which covers every aspect of HTML and web page design - as well as style sheets, XML, and other refinements. It's also a model of clarity in site design itself.
http://www.w3schools.com/
Yale Web Style Manual
This does not teach the details of coding - but it's a wonderful guide to site structure, navigation, and page design. Use it in conjunction with Joe Barta's tutorial, and you've got everything you need.
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, New Haven: Yale University Press, second edition 2002, pp.164, ISBN 0300088981
This does not teach the details of coding - but it's a wonderful guide to site structure, navigation, and page design. Use it in conjunction with coding advice from another source. Very attractive book, with colour illustrations.
Full review HERE
HTML 4.0 Reference
An authoritative guide to the HTML language by the Web Design Group,
in easily searchable HTML format. You will find full explanations of
elements, tags and attributes, and how they are used in an HTML
4.0 document.
http:/www.htmlhelp.com/distribution/
Web Design Group Web Authoring FAQ
Lots of how-to's and information on overcoming common problems.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/all.html
Scott Brady's 'Unofficial' alt.html FAQ
More answers to problems that are often encountered.
http://www.sbrady.com/hotsource/toc.html
John Gann's Just the FAQs please
Just a few key FAQ's but with more in-depth explanations,
but with a lot of good leads for HTML editors.
http://jkgann.com/demo/faqs.shtml
Introduction to HTML
A tutorial guide written in plain language with clear explanations of the HTML 4.0 specification
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html
Curt Cloninger, Fresh Styles for Web Designers, Indianapolis IN: New Riders, 2001, pp. 211, ISBN 0735710740
Well illustrated guide to new design techniques. Each chapter describes the features of one style. It analyses examples, with screenshots of sites which are often experimental. Then it tells you how to achieve these effects. A very good formula. Stylish - and amusing.
Full review HERE
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi
This is an A to Z reference guide to HTML specification 4.0.
http://vzone.virgin.net/sizzling.jalfrezi/intro.htm
HTML Goodies
This is a collection of tutorials on Web publishing maintained by Joe Burns - including guidance on frames, forms, and tables.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com
Web Techniques
This an online version of the magazine Web Techniques - with a browsable archive of tutorial articles.
http://www.webtechniques.com
World Wide Web Consortium
This is the official body which co-ordinates all the latest developments in HTML and other Web standards. Visit the site for exact descriptions of cascading style sheets (CCSS) XML, and XHTML - but don't expect any user-friendly tips and tricks.
http://www.w3.org
MSDN Online Web Workshop
This is Microsoft's huge collection of tutorial guides for Web developers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/default.asp
BT Toolbox
Interactive tutorial designed for schools at BT's site. It covers spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, and Net searching, as well as web page design. Can be viewed on line, or downloaded.
http://crduk.extra.bt.com/ict/toolbox/index.html
Webmonkey HTML Basics
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/
HTML Goodies
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/
BigNoseBird.com
http://www.bignosebird.com/
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