I. HTML FOR BEGINNERS - EASY ENTRY FOR EVERYONE

It is easy to learn HTML if you have the right guides and tutorials and reference links. We show you the best links to them:

• A HTML beginners guide
• An eight lesson html tutor for beginners
• HTML Primer. ("..site contains tutorials to help you learn the various aspects of HTML or Hyper text Markup Language..." - Seven lessons)
• A Reference: The HTML Cheatsheet
• and more...

II. HTML TIPS, TUTORIALS AND DESIGN HINTS

There are many tips on how to design html best and how to solve certain problems. We have a large link collection helpful for every web designer:

• Composing good html - A large text file (93k page) with links and many information
• Style guide and etiquette for creating a hypertext database
• A very good and large html FAQ
• Absolute vs. Relative Referencing
• Deleting page margins - a tip how-to-do it
• and more...

III. HTML FRAMES - TIPS & TUTORIALS

Using html frames is a very controversy issue. Most common consensus is to avoid them at all. We give you an overview about the pros and contras and provide various excellent tutorials on how to make them if this is what you want:

• Frames targeting examples. (A must to visit if you like to design with frames)
• A frames tutorial (10 lessons)
• An introduction to frames - very illustrative!
• Frames in html documents (very technical)
• Frames - An introduction by Netscape
• Frames Tutorial for Beginners ("..Frames are a way to divide the browser screen to allow easier navigation under some circumstances...")
• Frame Targeting: A simple but powerful scripting technique for targeting a URL to any frame ("..technique demonstrates how to target a frame through script using Internet Explorer 4.0...")
• Hiding & Showing Frames ("..Just like standard HTML documents in Internet Explorer 4.0, FrameSets also expose an all collection that allows you to manipulate the size and contents of any frame...")
• Frame Master ("..While framesets are a great tool for
  organizing content they can be problematic when it comes to navigation. Since a frameset is just a collection of pages, it is very easy for a user to accidentally view a frame outside of its intended context...")
• Implementing HTML Frames (very technical)
• Aren't frames bad? Many complaints about frames do not apply to INTRAnets today (Detailed)
• Frames FAQ with sample code snippets
• Using inline frames (iframe elements) to embed documents into HTML documents (Detailed)
• and more...

IV. HTML FORMS; VALIDATION TECHNIQUES

Forms are very important to communicate with your visitors and to gather various kind of information from them. Forms are not difficult to master and we show you all what you must to know about them:

• A HTML forms tutorial
• Form tricks with html. Very informative with many samples
• Giving forms to FORMS: A very nice tutor
• A very detailed html tutorial in web page design about forms (large page, 72k)
• Form validation techniques with JavaScript (several tutorial and sample codes)
• HTML 2.0: Forms and Obscurities (Detailed)
• Setting usability requirements for a web site containing a form (Tutorial)
• Should I use a drop-down? Four steps for choosing form
  elements on the Web ("..You are designing a form for the Web and you want to make it easy for your form user to choose answers to your questions. There are five HTML form elements available: drop-down box, radio buttons, check boxes, type-in box and hyperlinks. Which one is the most usable?" - Tutorial)
• Automate Your Form Validation ("..Form validation is a
  checking process that occurs between the time the user clicks the submit button and the actual submission of the form. In this article, you'll see how to intercept the submission and pass the form data through one or more validation tests.." - Nice tutorial)
• Using Javascript to Control Forms ("..This article explains some of the JavaScript techniques that can be used to improve HTML forms.
• Form Validation if using a form button
• Form-Data Handling in Client-Side JavaScript ("..we'll explore a new technique for working with form data through JavaScript that operates entirely on the client..." - Netscape Tutorial)
• A JavaScript on-line validation tool for forms
• and more...

V. E-MAIL TIPS FOR WEB DESIGNER

Web pages need to be connected to html or JavaScript e-mail codes. Here are some tips and tricks:

• The E- mail Link: How to create an e-mail link
• Advanced mailto: techniques
• Parsing forms with PHP and sending e- mail (short tutorial)
• More tricks for the e-mail link
• and more...

Image Maps will be used to connect several links to a single image. Our links below show you how you can create them and what you must keep in mind:

• Large page tutor about image maps (65k)
• NCSA Image map Tutorial
• Client-side Imagemaps
• A tutorial about creating image maps
• and more..

Html has now being extended with the new Xhtml specification. We guide you here with links to the latest developments. Read them and your knowledge will be up-to-date:

• XHTML 1.0: Marking up a new dawn. Getting familiar -- and getting started -- with the new standard (Very detailed tutorial)
• An expert's view on XHTML
• XHTML - The clean code solution ("..XML continues to be a hot topic among web developers. Why? Because it delivers a standardized markup that separates display and layout code from syntax, making the creation, maintenance, and parsing of documents much easier for all involved..." - Tutorial)
• and more..