Even with high-quality Web editor applications, it’s good to know how to do markup. While there are plenty of excellent HTML introduction tutorials out there on the Web, most of them teach with deprecated (obsolete) markup. Knowing about deprecated markup is helpful so you can read the source of older Web pages. But why learn to do things the old way and then have to switch to the standard way?
In the first part of this week’s introduction to HTML and XHTML, learn about HTML files, elements and tags, and document structure. If this sounds like gibberish, it won’t for long. If you have colleagues, friends, or family driving you nuts with their basic HTML questions, maybe this series will help. Part II comes next week.
