Hey Dave
Use the Wiki as your tutor, and the list as your professor ("what the
tutor can't handle, you take it to the prof") - AND all the other pages
out there, you can use as your classmates. There are a lot of very neat
solutions, and practically nobody is dumb enough to try and hide the
source code. Look-and-learn is highly available...
You've probably followed the list for a little while, but some things
are often said quite implicitly, here goes my five pence for a beginner
in real web pages:
1) Go for *validating HTML and CSS*, and when in trouble, use the
validator. I'd love to send you to a good tutorial describing how to
make semantic HTML first, and then put things in place with CSS, but I
only know some in Danish (they'll hardly help you). The Yale C/AIM Web
Style Guide <http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/> seems to do the
job of making a good kick-off with explanations :-). The WebDesignGroup
is not the source of the standards, but they have made understandable
guides to them: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/>.
2) *KISS* may be a rock band, but KeepItSimpleStupid it's a _very_
healthy rule of thumb when you're visualising and implementing your pages
3) *Stay focused!* Unless you have lots of time and is really hardcore,
you can easily get lost in all the fancy and wonderful tricks and
details of HTML and CSS. My advice is to be quite choosy until you feel
at home in the HTML 4 and CSS 2.1 recommendation.
4) Do yourself the favor, to design for a correct rendering browser
(Opera, Firefox or the like) first, and modify to looks in MSIE afterwards
5) I'm not going to advocate any design tools, but to me, Firefox or
Mozilla with the web-developer extension is simply a must with the
possibilities of: marking up some page content and view the source of
that only, color markup source, outline boxes with dimensions and view
CSS info below the cursor in pages to name a few.
Do ask here when you have CSS questions, and do find a good list or
board for HTML questions (I'm on a Danish one, Wiki has some:
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic>), but help yourself and
all those helping you, check out
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PostingGuidelines> first in both
cases ;-)
And if you need some cosy "article reading" some day, I highly suggest
AListApart <http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/htmlxhtml/> (here the
code section, which is most relevant according to 3) above ;-) )
Best regards, and happy coding
Jesper Brunholm
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