Posted by albert on 12/03/07 17:17

>> I'm searching a good tutorial to learn HTML / XHTML.
>> Instead of searching in Google and wasting time reading many, can you
>> please
>> advise me ?
>
> This is quite difficult. There are a great many tutorials around, but
> most aren't very good. The hard part is avoiding the bad ones!
>
> I like books, so I like "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" from
> O'Reilly
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059610197X/codesmiths-20>
> It's the best tutorial I know, and it teaches good "style" as well
> (this is very rare).
>
> I also like Lie & Bos' "Cascading Style Sheets"
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321193121/codesmiths-20>
> This is a good CSS tutorial, accessible to HTML beginners too, and
> remains a useful desktop reference for CSS afterwards.
>
> For web sites, <http://htmldog.com> is the best I've seen, even though
> it's nothing like the detail of the books.
>
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/cover.html> is also essential, as it's the
> "horse's mouth" for the specification. Not easy reading though!
>
> Avoid W3Schools.

Thank you for your answers. I forgot to mention I needed an online resource.
I knew W3Schools already, why do you advise to avoid it ?
HTML dog seems to be what I was searching for.

Al

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