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This section is going to be devoted to HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, and CSS. I will be providing tips, handouts, information and articles for these languages. This is not a tutorial section, but I hope to provide enough information and tips to help you understand HTML.
First things are first, before you start building your web site, you must have proper file names and file management. All html document names should be 8 characters or less, without spaces, symbols or punctuation. This also applies to your file names. Use names that make sense. Browsers can start acting quirky if you starting having long names, and may not show your page.
If you have a page that is your table of contents, don't name it table of contents.html, WRONG. Name it contents.html. Contents is the 8 character name, and .html is the extension to identify it as an HTML document. The .html extension will let the browser know it should read your document as a web page.
All your file names and document names should be typed all in lowercase, this will help cut down on typo errors for you and your visitor. When you use all lowercase letters, your URLs are easier to type, thus easier for your viewer to reach your site. You won't have to try to remember if you Capitalized the First letter, or was it just the Second word you Capitalized?
Keeping your file names and .html documents all lowercase, and under 8 characters long, will help you when you start writing your code and linking. In HTML, you have a lot of code to troubleshoot, why add improper file names and document names to the list of things to check?
The other important factor to remember is your files. You should have one main file that is named with your site name. Consider this file your container that holds all of your web site information. It will have a minimum of 2 files in it and an index.htm or index.html document in it.
One file will be named "html" for all of your html documents to go into. The other will be an "imgs" or "images" file, and all of your images for your site will go into it.
The index.htm or index.html, is your "Splash Page." This is the first page your viewer sees when they come to your site. It will have links in it to your html and imgs files.
These books are pretty good reference books to have handy. The Visual QuickStart book is an excellent reference when you need to look-up on how to use HTML tags. It is aimed at users who have some idea of what HTML is.
The Idiot's Guide takes a more visual and humorous approach to learning HTML. It also comes with a cd-rom that has examples of HTML code. It is for people who have no understanding of HTML.
The Hip Pocket Guide is designed to look up tags with their associated attributes and values. Hip Hop is for people who have a basic understanding of HTML.