EBook Description: Welcome to the CSS tutorial. Here you'll learn what CSS is, what it can do, and how to do it in 9 quick and easy lessons. There isn't much to say here, so I'll just let you get started.
What follows is the extremely simple HTML tutorial. If any of this is even slightly ambiguous to you, simply try it. Make a little page offline and look at it and it'll all become clear. This is just the foundation for much more complicated tutorials that will come in the future. So learn this well - it'll get annoying when you have to look up some HTML factoid when you're also having to look up CSS and JavaScript factoids as well.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the lingua franca of the Internet. It is not a language per se, so you don't need any prior programming experience, though common sense is very much a required attribute!
The tutorial starts off with sessions that teach you how to embed sound and video files. It's followed by a thorough discussion on HTML colors and how to use them. We then explore the
tag, which has been a good friend of web designers ever since its inception. Explanation of tags is accompanied with various valuable tips that should assist you in designing better-looking pages.
Html (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a simple language behind every webpage derived from SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), it is used to tell the browser what to display. The browser looks at the source code and displays the content of the page on the screen. There are many different versions of HTML available each supporting new features and it is worth noting that some browsers may not be able to view certain versions correctly. Here are some version examples:
V2.0, Most basic version
V2.1, Supports international format
V2.2, Support Tables
V3.0, Supports Text Formatting
V3.1, Supports Maths
V4.0, Supports Multimedia and scripting
This Crash Course on building websites explains the process nicely and includes screen shots to boot! Plus lots of other stuff you need to know. Check it out. I guarantee you will better understand the process of uploading your edited website files to your host.
This is one of very few CSS2 tutorials on the net. Not only does it have that advantage, but also has the following advantages:
1. It is easy to understand
2. It covers every aspect of the specification, including those that are frequently not touched upon by other tutorials such as cascading, box width calculations, etc.
3. It presents information in an efficient manner - it is short, so you learn faster