Books on HTML coding

[BillyNoMates]

Can anyone recommend any decent, simple books about HTML programming ?

I am setting up a very simple website, nothing fancy and it's been a long while since I did any coding. I'm using MS Frontpage. Have read the excellent reply to a previous question re. building your own website.

[Kev_UK]

I cant remember the url off the top of my head but look on google.com for lissaexplains.com (or lissaexplainsitall) .. It's html for kids (it says) but i have used it and a lot of others have. I use notepad for writing my html.

[tomd]

If you're using FrontPage, you don't need to write html code, it's a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (wysiwyg) editor. If you are going to write the pure code, I'd do it in Notepad or EditPad Lite (free program, like notepad but has line numbers etc - makes debugging a lot easier) just for the weight of the program. Using the FrontPage wysiwyg editor is good for beginners, but it writes really large filesize web pages, it repeats a lot of stuff unnecessarily.

[stoo_pid]

In my experience if you are going to use FrontPage you will definitely need to know some HTML code.  Very often, what you see isn't what you get!  I learnt most of my HTML from having to constantly tidy up the coding that FP got wrong (particularly with tables & bulleted lists).

If it helps I often use these links:
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/index.html

 

http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Client-Side-Coding/HTML/basics-of-html/page1.html

 

[OBonio]

If you want to give yourself a head start, think XHTML and CSS.  This is what should be the future of web design.  The XHTML being the information layer and the CSS being the presentation layer (how the information looks).  This technique will allow for small changes to be made throughout the site without having to edit every page by just changing the CSS.  Even using HTML with CSS would be a good idea :o)

http://www.htmldog.com/

[BillyNoMates]

Thanks all - some good advice there.