This week I learned more fun html stuff and the some practical things as well.
DOCTYPES
Document Type Declaration (aka DOCTYPE) helps browsers understand what version of HTML the page is using. Wikipedia defines it as:
“…an instruction that associates a particular SGML or XML document (for example, a webpage) with a Document Type Definition (DTD) (for example, the formal definition of a particular version of HTML). In the serialized form of the document, it manifests as a short string of markup that conforms to a particular syntax.”
No robots
I also learned a neat trick to prevent search engines from indexing our pages. All you have to do is add this line of code to your <head> section:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” />
resources
Here are some good resources for learning html and how to build a website:
html
- HTML & CSS Tutorial
- Introduction to HTML
- HTML Code Tutorial
- Structure of an HTML 4 Document
- Recommended list of DTDs
images
- Image file formats and tips for inserting images
- More information on image file formats
- Use Flickr to find images for public use
- Use stock.xchng to find stock images
- Picnik — online image editor
- myImage — another online image editor
fonts & colors