As web standards advocates, many of us participate in numerous online communities such as mailing lists, forums, newsgroups and even blogs (both our own and comments on others). In these communities, we often encounter beginners who are either just starting out with HTML, or have been doing HTML for a while, but are new to the concept of developing with standards.
Invariably, such beginners face the eternal question of HTML or XHTML; and today, I intend to answer this question (as it applies to beginners) once and for all. For experienced users, the
"So What is a DTD?
The tags in the HTML language must be defined somewhere, right? They are defined in the DTD, which stands for Document Type Definition. In a DTD for HTML, all the HTML tags are defined. Everything is defined in the DTD -- the tags, the attributes, the possible values they can hold. Think of the DTD as the HTML tag dictionary: it lists all the tags, what they mean, and how they relate to each other.
Also, there are different DTDs because there are different versions of HTML:
HTML 4.01 Strict
HTML 4.01 Transitional
XHTML
A common email marketing misconception is email is filtered because it contains words such as "free" in the subject line or body. By itself, that won't get your email filtered. Though certain content combinations may get a message filtered, ISPs may be trapping your legitimate email for infractions you rarely pay attention to.
Take HTML code. Using outdated or incorrect code is a major reason why email to domains such as MSN/Hotmail and AOL are blocked or delivered to bulk or junk mail folders.
You may think you don't have to worry about this.
Attributes are used to amplify tags. What we mean by amplify is that when a web browser interprets a tag, it will also search for set attributes and then display the element (tags+attributes) in its entirety. At some point you may want to give your body element a background color or perhaps change the width of a table. All of these things and more can be achieved using Attributes.
Many HTML tags have a unique set of their own attributes. These will be discussed as each tag is introduced throughout the tutorial. Right now we want to focus on a set of
No, this section is not about the language HTML.
But it contains useful tips for the Code editing tools available in HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio and information about my own HTML Tag Editors and Tag Definitions which can be downloaded, of course.
You'll also find information about the excellent HTML reference by Brian Wilson, Index DOT Html which is integrated with these Tag Editors for tag-specific help information
HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio offer several options for working with HTML and other tag-based code. Apart from directly typing
As web standards advocates, many of us participate in numerous online communities such as mailing lists, forums, newsgroups and even blogs (both our own and comments on others). In these communities, we often encounter beginners who are either just starting out with HTML, or have been doing HTML for a while, but are new to the concept of developing with standards.
Invariably, such beginners face the eternal question of HTML or XHTML; and today, I intend to answer this question (as it applies to beginners) once and for all. For experienced users, the
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