#xhtml help

[0952rjd693-blog]

(Moving My Finger Across My Lips And Making The Cartoon Sound For Confusion)

XHTML....why? Why are you so difficult to understand? Why can't you just be simplified for web dummies like me. I found some sites that made the understanding of XHTML a little less painful

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/html-xhtml-css-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html.  This is XHTML for Dummies and it breaks down the elements of HTML and XHTML as well as giving other sites which might help simplify the process.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. This site offers tutorials on learning the XHTML system. It should help me if I am able to practice it.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/. This acts as almost a homepage for beginners in web design because it has multiple links on where to go for topics such as CSS Guide and Standards for HTML Authoring

[allisonbest-blog]

Step 1 of XHTML. Begin with a bracket.

Here are some links I found that help establish basic understanding of XHTML and allows you to practice your new coding skills as well!

http://practiceboard.com/ -- type in code and it will display the code beneath as it would be seen on the webpage http://sustainablewebdesign.com/book/ --companion to book How to design and Write Web Pages Today http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/Beginning_HTML_XHTML_Tutorials.htm -- seems to have pretty much ANYTHING about basic coding. At least 100 different tutorials. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_xhtml.asp -- shows different coding techniques and why XHTML is cleaner than HTML. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ -- gives code for different things that some may want on a website such as a calendar, games etc WITH description of what each part of the code means.

http://www.xmlfiles.com/xml/xml_intro.asp -- concise definitions of basic aspects of XML. http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-3.html an explanation of HTML broken down piece by piece, more so than the book does.  (so much so it has the brackets broken down, labeled as "left bracket" -- THAT kind of broken down.) Some key things to remember that I loved: XHTML is a house’s foundation, CSS is its walls and paint, and Javascript are  the appliances in the house.