Introduction

This website complies with the specifications and recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium, and thus may display the relevant W3C icons (see bottom of pages). Such compliance offers the best chances for correct rendition by many of today's and future browsers.

One may find on the web many tens or even hundreds of introductions to web design, of the most diverse qualities. All techniques that I used for this website are discussed in the introductions from the W3C below. I also recommend the Tizag site, that offers step-by-step beginners' and advanced tutorials in a systematic didactic fashion. As a website author, you will probably never need more than these bookmarks to W3C and to Tizag.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• W3C home page:  www.w3.org
• HTML home page:  www.w3.org/MarkUp/
• CSS home page:  www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
• W3C overview of tutorials:  www.w3.org/2002/03/tutorials
   
• Every webpage can be checked easily and quickly for correct HTML syntax with the validator:  validator.w3.org
• Every stylesheet can be checked easily and quickly for correct CSS syntax with the validator:  jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• Submit your website and your favourite bookmarks to these validators and don't be upset with the results... ;-)

W3C Tutorials

Introductions to HTML

• Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML ("getting started"):
   www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Overview.html
• Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML ("more advanced features"):
   www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html

Introductions to CSS

• Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS ("adding a touch of style"):
   www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style
• Starting with HTML + CSS:
   www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss.en.html
• CSS Tips & Tricks:
   www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/
• Chapter 2 from "Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web" (Lie & Bos):
   www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/enter/

Introductions to JavaScript

The W3C website doesn't introduce much about javascript. My website also doesn't use much of it... in fact, just for the drop-down menu and navigation buttons. The javascript code has been copied from other websites and adapted; see the "w3c++ » HTML Projects" page.

Note that nearly all websites with javascript use a diverging (obsolete) version instead of the (correct) head code <script type="text/javascript">, and thus do not follow correct W3C syntax.

Tizag Tutorials

Tizag profiles itself as  "Tizag.com - Webmaster Tutorials and Resources - Complete and concise webmaster tutorials to increase your knowledge of HTML and CSS", and indeed offers a very broad set of beginners' and advanced online tutorials.

Tizag explicitly refers to W3C as relevant authority, and their own website complies with correct W3C syntax (which, by the way, unfortunately is not the case for many other "tutorial" websites).