Cascading Style Sheet is a web tool that can be utterly necessary if you want to give a professional, qualitative look to your site. It is recommended by W3C , who manages the standards for the Internet, in order to add style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing, padding, alignment, etc.) to web documents.
The style sheet is more and more used presently due to its usefulness and its advantages that are far from minor: it mainly allows to dissociate the content and the presentation of web pages, which makes them compatible for various browsers, and also
In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
One of Tidy's biggest strengths is its portability. Versions of Tidy are available for over 15 platforms, including Windows, DOS, Mac OS, several flavours of UNIX/Linux, and BeOS. On top of that, Tidy is an Open Source application. If there isn't a version for your favourite operating system and you program in C++, you can download the source code (the building blocks of a program) and start hacking.
Tidy is also integrated with a number of text and HTML editors, including NoteTab Pro and HTML-Kit (for Windows), as well as Bluefish and Quanta (for
An unauthorized companion to the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library
XHTML is the standard markup language for web documents and the successor to HTML 4. A mixture of classic (HTML) and cutting–edge (XML), this hybrid language looks and works much like HTML but is based on XML, the web’s “super” markup language, and brings web pages many of XML’s benefits, as enumerated by the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library.
If you want your site to work well in today’s
Still writing your documents in HTML? If you are, you're not complying with current standards. On January 26, 2000, XHTML 1.0 became a recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML, according to the W3C, is no longer the Web markup standard. Instead, XHTML 1.0 has replaced our old favorite, marking up the dawn of a new and exciting time in communications technology.
So what exactly is XHTML 1.0 and what does it mean to the Web developer? I'll start with the W3C's description: XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.
An unauthorized companion to the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library
XHTML is the standard markup language for web documents and the successor to HTML 4. A mixture of classic (HTML) and cutting–edge (XML), this hybrid language looks and works much like HTML but is based on XML, the web’s “super” markup language, and brings web pages many of XML’s benefits, as enumerated by the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library.
If you want your site to work well in today’s
Still writing your documents in HTML? If you are, you're not complying with current standards. On January 26, 2000, XHTML 1.0 became a recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML, according to the W3C, is no longer the Web markup standard. Instead, XHTML 1.0 has replaced our old favorite, marking up the dawn of a new and exciting time in communications technology.
So what exactly is XHTML 1.0 and what does it mean to the Web developer? I'll start with the W3C's description: XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.
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