For easy to read, short and to the point lessons about HTML, a beginner should head over to HTMLDog.
While offering lessons in HTML at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, the language used is all beginner friendly. The best thing about the short lessons is the exclusion of extraneous discussion that is often found in HTML books that just end up confusing beginners. So while more can be said for each HTML element, HTMLDog offers beginners just the right amount to get the concept.
HTMLDog strongly encourages beginners to hand code web pages (we agree) and to follow XHTML 1.0 strict web standards (it took a while, but we agree to). For a closer look read this blog post about HTMLDog.
One of the more classic and better known site for HTML tutorials (and for basic HTML reference) is W3Schools. Their HTML tutorials cover the following topics:
- Elements
- Tags
- Formatting
- Entities
- Links
- Frames
- Tables
- Lists
- Forms
- Images
- Background
- Colors
- plus much more
Keep in mind the majority of the content is kept at the basic level. It is not necessarily the place to go to learn more advanced techniques.
Why W3Schools is recommended:
- Easy explanations
- Excellent reference guide
- Try-It-Yourself On-Line Examples
- Free!
W3Schools also has tutorials on the following topics:
- XHTML
- CSS
- TCP/IP
- XML
- Javascript
- PHP
- plus others.
For more mini-lessons and resources about HTML visit our blog archives.
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