HotSource HTML Help

Ethics and Design

Learn the finer points of web authoring including non browser specific HTML and how to validate your markup.

• Browser Specific Markup
  Learn about the hazards.
• Tips and Tricks
  Find little-known secrets of HTML.
• Validate Your HTML
  Make your pages error free.
• Webmaster Certification
  Should you be certified?
• X-Browserism
  Proprietary tags.

• Best Viewed With Any Browser Campaign
  Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW.
• Breathing Room: Design Notes
  Page about the "purist" and the "designer".
• Creating Low-Impact Documents
  Spoof of Netscape's High Impact Documents.
• Dan Shafer: Consistency is our only hope
  Story on web standards from the editorial director for CNET Builder.com.
• Darin McGrew's Hit Counter Rant
  Misconception of the "hit counter".
• Dehanced for Lynx
  Misunderstood design practices that can break pages in Lynx.
• Frames Suck Most of the Time
  Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 1996.
• HTML Writers Guild - Style
  Style Guides.
• Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk: Why We Must Lay Down the Law to Microsoft and Netscape
  Story demanding the "big two" comply with web standards.
• Top Ten HTML Extensions
  Spoof: Tags that Netscape would have made if they didn't run out of beer.
• "This page optimized for ..." arguing with customers
  Reasons why you should not optimize your site for a particular setup.
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
  Learn what the mistakes are so you won't make them.
• The Uselessness of Auto-Refresh
  Lists sites that use auto refresh for some less-then-useful purposes (go here on a rainy day).
• Use of ALT texts in IMGs
  How to properly use ALT text.
• WAI Accessibility Guidelines: Page Authoring
  W3C Working Draft.
• Web Interoperability Pledge
  Promise to adhere to current HTML standards.
• WSP: Web Standards Project
  Fighting for Standards in our Browsers.
• What's Wrong With FONT?
  Problems with the Netscape FONT element.
• What's wrong with image maps?
  Problems with server-side image maps.
• WYSIWYG: What does it mean on the Web?
  Why WYSIWYG doesn't work on the web.
• NHTML: What doesn't work
  Overview of problematic Netscape proprietary elements.