About URLs

URLs Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is a fancy name for address. It contains information about where a file is and what a browser should do with it. Each file on the Internet has a unique URL. The first part of the URL is called the scheme. It tells the browser how to deal with the file that it is about to open. The most common scheme you will see is HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is used to access Web pages. The second...

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Deciding between HTML, XHTML, and CSS:

Deciding between HTML, XHTML, and CSS: While I don't recommend using proprietary extensionssince they leave out part of your audiencethere are a lot of other options. Here are some guidelines. The bigger the site, the more important it is that you use CSS and XHTML. The former makes it easy to apply, edit, and update formatting across the entire site; the latter gives your page the structure it needs to make sure it lasts into the future. Many companies and government agencies, including the U.S. government, require that your Web...

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CSS and Browser Support

While XHTML and CSS are a powerful combination, there is one small wrench that has continued to plague Web designers: browser support. While it didn't seem to be much of a problem to add extensions willy-nilly, when it comes down to serious, full support of the specifications, no browser has yet been up to the task. However, it's important to note that they've come a long way. Netscape 6, completely reformed from its extension-madness days,...

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The Browser Wars

Now imagine what would happen if each hotel and apartment building on Fifth Avenue staked out a bit of Central Park and put a fence around it, limiting access to its own residents. It's bad enough that those of us on park benches can only glimpse in to "exclusive" areas. But, there's also the problem that folks from one hotel can't get to the piece of park that belongs to the other hotel. Instead of a rich, public resource, teeming with...

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XHTML vs. HTML: What Should You Use?

And now an admission. I liked HTML. I thought it was great that you didn't have to obsess over punctuation. Maybe I'm just lazy, but I honestly believe that the Web's popularity is due in part to the fact that browsers cut us all some slack. It made it easy to write Web pages, and so all of us did. Now, a couple of billion pages later, perhaps it's time to change our ways. Or perhaps not. There are a lot of people out there that will...

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HTML Embedding Multimedia

                    You can add music or video into your web page. The easiest way to add video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML tag called <embed>. This tag causes the browser itself to include controls for the multimedia automatically. You do not need to have any ActiveX, Java VM, VBscript or JavaScript to support this <embed> tag. t's also a good idea to include the <noembed> tag to support browsers...

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HTML metatags.

                       HTML lets you specify metadata - information about a document rather than document content -in a variety of ways. The META element can be used to include name/value pairs describing properties of the HTML document, such as author, Expiry Date, a list of key words, author etc. The <meta> tag is an empty element and so does not have a closing tag, rather, <meta> tags carry information within attributes,...

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