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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 4
Chapters 6 & 7. Page Layout & Hyperlinks Chapter 6 is about styling the layout of your page without css using attributes of for example the <body> tag to set the background colour. All of this is no longer done and this particular example didn’t work in my browser. Some other tags that are no…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 3
Chapter 4 & 5: Creating Images and Using Images Chapter 4 about creating images you can ignore. It still deals with antiquated hardware limitations with respect to connection speed and monitor colour depth. Today, with connections allowing to stream video and online gaming the connection speed is not the same concern it was in 2000.…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 2
Chapter 3: Styling Text Chapter 3 about styling text is really obsolete. You can still use almost all tags mentioned in the chapter but many are no longer part of HTML5 and should be replaced by styling with CSS. From that point of view this chapter is not a good guide. A short list below.
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 1
Chapters 1 & 2. Building Blocks of HTML and Starting Your First Web Page Chapter 1 introduces the general syntax of HTML tags. It covers the concept of beginning and closing tags, tag attributes, the difference between block level and inline level tags, urls, absolute and relative, and how to write special symbols on your…
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Understanding URL Encoding: W3Schools Guide
Every now and then I copy a hyperlink and it gives me back these encoded strings. I then have to go looking for what they mean every time. So I wanted to copy a hyperlink to this table I found on W3Schools but for some weird reason I couldn’t copy the hyperlink (kept linking to…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press)
I read this book in 2003 when the web was still young. I used it to teach myself html (and a little css) so that I could create my own first personal web page. I like to read so it had short summaries of books I had read, plus pictures to share with the family…
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Bootstrap 5 Foundations, Daniel Foreman (ISBN 9798749992465, foremanlearning)
Recently I followed a course on Coursera about Front-End Web Development, html and css from Meta. It was a nice refresher but compared to some other courses on similar topics created by universities the course materials are a bit meager: no slides or reading material you can save and easily read again. You have to…
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Responsive Design
My youngest started first grade this year and needs some tool to help him study so I decided to create a quiz app in a browser for him. So it was time for me to brush up on html, css and JS. I have some basic code in Javascript for randomly picking the questions and…
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