Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day (5th Edition)

Lesson 16. Writing Good Web Pages: Do's and Don'ts

You won't learn about any HTML tags today, or how to convert files from one strange file format to another. You're mostly done with the HTML part of web page design. Next come the intangibles. These are the things that separate your pages from those of a designer who just knows the tags and flings text and graphics around and calls it a site.

Armed with the information from the previous 15 days, you could put this book down now and go off and merrily create web pages to your heart's content. However, if you stick around, you can create better web pages. Do you need any more incentive to continue reading?

In this Lesson

Today's lesson includes hints for creating well-written and welldesigned web pages, and it highlights do's and don'ts concerning the following:

• How to decide whether to use standard XHTML 1.0 tags, a subset of HTML 4.01 tags that works with older browsers, style sheets, HTML extensions, or a combination of two or more

• How to write your web pages so that they can be easily scanned and read

• Issues concerning the design and layout of your web pages

• When and why you should create links

• How to use images effectively

• Other miscellaneous tidbits and hints