Web Coding (HTML, etc.)

These sites will help you learn — or refresh your memory of — the basic building blocks of the Web. For more advanced techniques, see Web Scripting/Programming.

This page:
HTML | Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | Metadata | XML/XHTML

HTML

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet - Helpful list of tags from the latest version of HTML
• Index Dot HTML
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• How Do They Do That with HTML? - Advanced tricks
• HTML Dog - HTML and CSS tutorials
• HTML for Beginners
• HTML Goodies - Step-by-step tutorials for anyone from HTML beginners to those who want to go on to JavaScript, DHTML, CGI, etc.
• HTML Station - Lots of tutorials and quick reference sources (december.com)
• Word HTML Cleaner - Cleans up all the cr*p MS Word injects into your documents when you convert them to HTML

Validation:

See also

• Validation and Other Site Tests
• W3C HTML Validation Service



URL Shorteners:

Have a long URL you want to share? These sites will give you an abbreviated one that works just as well.

• Bit.ly
• Is.gd
• Ow.ly
• TinyURL

Reverse URL Shorteners

Use these if you're not sure you where that shortened URL is really going.

• CheckShortURL
• GetLinkInfo

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• Index Dot CSS
• Stylesheet Tutorial - I learned enough CSS to get started from this tutorial (Steve Mulder, Webmonkey)
• CSS Layout Techniques: For Fun and Profit - "Look, Ma, no tables!"
• CSS Style Sheets & Tips (NYPL Style Guide)
• Quirksmode on CSS - Including browser compatibility (Peter-Paul Koch)
• WebReview.com's Stylesheet Reference Guide
• CSS Properties Quick Reference (Musciano and Kennedy, O'Reilly)
• CSS Zen Garden - Lots of samples to learn from
• Presentations without Powerpoint - How Librarian.net's Jessamyn West does it with CSS

Validation:

• W3C CSS Validation Service
• CSSCheck (HTML Help)

Metadata for Web Sites

• How to Use HTML Meta Tags (Searchenginewatch.com)
• HTML Meta, Rel, Rev Tags
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Meta Matters - Metadata resources from Australia and New Zealand

XML/XHTML

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a code for tagging all kinds of data elements; XHTML is an adaptation of HTML to conform with XML.

XML

See also

• RSS
• Frequenly Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language (XML FAQ)
• Getting Started with XML - A guide for librarians by Eric Lease Morgan
• XML.com - Site for detailed instructions and specifications
• A Technical Introduction to XML - What it is, what it looks like, etc.
• Annotated XML Specification
• XML 101
• XMLMania

XHTML

• Introduction to XHTML, with Examples (WDVL)
• XHTML Guidelines & Benefits (NYPL Style Guide)
• tidy, a program developed at W3C, helps you clean up your HTML code to XHTML standards