Website design resources for beginner and intermediate users

Web Design Group Web Authoring FAQ: a complete, updated and really helpful web authoring FAQ. This FAQ is the mature result of dozens of expert contributors and years of experience in the area of web authoring. This FAQ page should be your first website to visit whenever you have a web authoring question.

HTML Dog Excellent HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, Articles

Mark Tranchant HTML tutorial I recommend this excellent tutorial

CSS: Getting Started A brand new complete tutorial in 14 parts at Mozilla Developement Center

4 excellent CSS tutorials from Web Design Group

• CSS Quick Tutorial
• CSS structure and rules
• CSS properties
• Linking stylesheets and HTML

CSS Recommendations, best CSS practices and 12 very valuable CSS tips for more advanced users

Creating websites with CSS and (X)HTML: tutorials and lessons from Alsacreations

Daniel Tobias' website design tips 30 excellent articles on webpage authoring with lots of tested and proven webpage design tips

Quality Assurance tips: Quality Tips for Webmasters from the W3C: 17 tips that will indisputably improve your website. Also other available translated versions of these tips:

• Qualitäts-Tipps für Webmaster (auf Deutsch)
• Techniques de qualité à l'usage des webmasters (en Français)
• Quality Tips per Webmasters (en Italiano)
• Dicas de garantia de qualidade para Webmasters (en Português Brasileiro)

Truth & Consequences of web site design by Chris Beal. 14 well written articles on very frequently encountered mistakes on web design and how to correct them. I highly recommend these articles to beginners.

Web standards checklist by Russ Weakley. In 44 items, Russ covers all the issues a web designer required for a web designer to create web standards compliant websites. Just excellent! (for beginners and intermediates)

KazGarden CSS webpage templates is the result of the efforts of several KompoZer users to create accessible, web standards compliant, valid CSS webpage templates.

Simple 2 column CSS layout with tutorial on how to create templates Excellent resource from Roger Johansson! Learn how to make a CSS template (which can better meet your personalized needs) not just using a prefabricated one.

3 columns scalable and fluid webpage layout based on float and absolute positioning by Toby Inkster

3 columns scalable and fluid webpage layout based on absolute positioning. By Holly Bergevin and John Gallant (positioningiseverything.net)

3 columns scalable and fluid webpage layout by Holly Bergevin and John Gallant (positioningiseverything.net)

11 Multi-column CSS templates: scalable and fluid webpage layouts in strict XHTML 1.0 for advanced users. By Miss Monorom

HTML 4.01 Technical specification translations available in several other languages

CSS 2.1 Technical specification translations available in several other languages

markup validator

WDG markup validator with several other HTML validation service (batch mode, direct entry, etc)

CSS validator translations available in 8 other languages

Validateur HTML du W3Québec http://www.w3qc.org/validateur/ en Français!

Multi-validation Site valet http://valet.webthing.com/ for intermediate and advanced users

Validome HTML validator (multi-lingual)
http://www.validome.org/lang/en/ in English
http://www.validome.org/lang/ge/ auf Deutsch!
http://www.validome.org/lang/fr/ en Français!
http://www.validome.org/lang/ru/ на русский!

HTML Validator (based on OpenSP, just like W3C validator) and HTML Tidy for Firefox http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ by Marc Gueury. A true HTML (SGML) validator along with W3C HTML Tidy (linter)! Ideal for offline usage. No upload to do. No extra application to load and run. Just wonderful!
Latest version is 0.7.9.5 and latest (SGML) beta is 0.8.4.6

news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html: A discussion newsgroup where you can submit your questions if/when you do not know how to fix validation errors or if/when you do not understand the validator error messages.