15 Aug
2004
15 Aug
'04
9:22 a.m.
Last Saturday 14 August 2004 22:59, LinuxMedia was like:
True, anyone can learn to hack up an HTML page in an afternoon. Writing clean,
efficient HTML may, as they say, take a little longer. ;-)
>Everyone
has facilities to read plain text and html.
BTW... if you write the docs, I can do the html. I know people always
say "it's not big deal because html is so basic". But I took a course on
it and there *are* hints that make a page load faster (and other
important things). There are tecniques that most people don't know about
and aren't obvious or "common sense". I created a web page of my
sister's wedding and (one) of the comments I got (a lot) was "the thing
loads so fast". <OT>
I'm not familiar with the O'Reilly book that Dave mentioned, but I was
so impressed with "HTML For The World Wide Web" (Elizabeth Castro) that
I showed it to a couple of the students in the Web Site Management class
and they ditched the book the instructors gave us. It is the best manual
in *any* topic I've ever had. It is truely a "reference manual" in the
actual spirit of the idea of a reference manual. Once you read it, you
can *actually* go to the page on a particual part and never have to
cross reference another page.
BTW... It's a book on HTML 4.0. There's probly many more advanced
meathods of creating a page now. But I prefer HTML 4.0 because it's
basic and all browers understand it. Some browers are old or just
haven't caught up with the newer meathods.
Like M$IE you mean. I thought I was being clever learning XHTML, validated
perfectly, looked peachy in firefox, IE barfed at it. So loose HTML4 it is.
</OT>
cheers
tim hall