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Web Design References, Style Guides & Other Resources

These Web design resources, including HTML, XHTML, and CSS tutorials, references, and specifications, are provided to help you in creating and enhancing your presence on the Web.

HTML Guides, Tutorials, and Quick References
Specifications and Standards
Web Publishing Style Guides
Web Page Templates
Web Publishing FAQs
Web Publishing Newsgroups and Forums
Omnibus Web Publishing Web Sites

HTML Guides, Tutorials, and References

Getting Started with HTML by Dave Raggett.
More Advanced HTML Features by Dave Raggett.
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML by Kevin Werbach.
Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 by T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly. This is the consumate definition, from the godfathers of HTML, of "basic" HTML (or HTML 2.0).
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi. A to Z reference, plus lists, tables, forms, frames, image maps, style sheets, and more.
Introduction to HTML by Ian Graham. Excellent A to Z reference.
HTML Help Centre by Neil Macmillan & Associates. An excellent collection of resource links for learning HTML and developing web sites.
HTML Code Tutorial. Covers all the basic HTML tags, plus using forms, frames, sounds, tables, applets, scripts, and embedded objects. Also includes a tutorial on creating pop-up windows.
Website Builder Heaven - A Guide to HTML. Covers HTML tags, forms, CGI scripts, frames, Web programming, and Java.
Website & HTML 101. Rundown on basic HTML tags, with links to multiple academic HTML support pages.
A Detailed HTML Overview. Covers basic HTML tags, document preparation, meta-data, formatting, links, images, forms, tables, and other information and resources.
HTML Cheat Sheet (with new HTML5 tags) by Robert Mening. Lists all the mainstream HTML tags as well as the new HTML5 tags.

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HTML Specifications and Standards

HTML 5 Specification by the W3C.
HTML 5.1 Draft by the W3C.
HTML 4.01 Specification by the W3C.
XHTML 1.0 Specification by the W3C.
W3C HTML Recommendations, including the two above, plus XHTML Basic, Modularization of XHTML, and XHTML 1.1.
W3C Activity: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) by W3C. Answers questions about HTML and current direction of the HTML standard.
Changes between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 by W3C.

Historical Specifications

Reading previous specifications for HTML can help you understand how HTML has evolved to become what it is is today.

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification by W3C.
HTML 2.0 Materials by W3C. Includes the HTML 2.0 specification and background materials.
The first version of HTML (from 1992).

Related Specifications

Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 by W3C.
CSS Standards and Drafts by W3C.
Cascading Style Sheets Snapshot 2010 by W3C. Includes CSS 3 additions.
CSS3.info. Closely follows the work on CSS 3 by the CSS Working Group.
Document Object Model by W3C.
MathML 2.0 by the W3C.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) by the W3C.

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Web Publishing Style Guides

An HTML reference can tell you what HTML is and what it's supposed to do, but they can't necessarily tell you how to use it to the best effect.

What is good hypertext writing? by Jutta Degener.
Composing Good HTML by Eric Tilton.
Style Guide for online hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee. Wise words from the inventor of the Web.
The C/AIM Web Style Guide by Patrick J. Lynch. The Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media's HTML style guide.
What Makes a Great Web Site? by WebReference.com.
Tips for Webmasters from W3C Quality Assurance.

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Web Page Templates

Open Source Web Design - Download free Web design templates.
Website Templates - Explore template forums and directory of template resources.
Steve's free web page templates.
Free Website Templates.

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Web Publishing FAQs

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html Web Authoring FAQ.
The New WWW FAQs.
Web Authoring FAQ by the WDG (Web Design Group).

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Web Publishing Newsgroups and Forums

Newgroups (through Google Groups)

Discussion Forums

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Omnibus Web Publishing Web Sites

Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource. Includes how-to's for authoring, design, multimedia, multimedia, e-business, programming, and more.
The HTML Writers Guild List of HTML Resources. This is a page to many more HTML links.
Webdeveloper.com Resources.
Web Tools Review.
The HTML Goodies Domain by Joe Burns. Great collection of tutorials on all manner of things HTML.
PageTutor.com: HTML Tutorials & JavaScript.
Internet Related Technologies (irt.org). Includes articles, tutorials, FAQs, etc., on HTML, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, CGI/Perl, and more.
HTML at About.com. Sections on HTML, Web Hosting, ASP, JavaScript, CGI Scripts, etc.
PC-Wholesale.com's Guide To HTML. Beginning and intermediate resources for learning HTML.