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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/27/07 23:21
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed texas_gardener
<texasgardens@gmail.com> writing in news:1180306134.142327.315750
@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:
> Hi:
>
> I've been told _repeatedly_ that my html skills are "circa 1987" (they
> are; that's when I learned them), and that my pages are "a mess,"
> etc. I'm not at all offended, 'cause I'm sure it's true, at least to
> some degree.
>
> I'm self-taught (as is probably obvious) and want to begin the work of
> upgrading my skills, but have no real clue where to start. Something
> about CSS...or something?
>
> Here is an example of my work:
>
> http://beststudentviolins.com/vita.html
>
> (this is me)
>
> Where do I start? Your help very much appreciated!! I want to plan a
> course of self-instruction.
>
I would say the best place to start is the specs. Obviously, you know
enough to have done, so you know a little. Validate your pages
<http://validator.w3.org>, look at where the errors are, and correct
them. Believe me, that will give you some lessons.
Then you could go to the CSS section and start learning from there.
Stop using presentational markup, use the correct element for the job.
If it's a paragraph, use P, if it's a heading, use one of the heading
elements, if it's list, use list markup. If it's tabular data, _then_
you should use a table.
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
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http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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