Last Saturday 14 August 2004 22:59, LinuxMedia was like: > >>Everyone has facilities to read plain text and html. > > BTW... if you write the docs, I can do the html. I know people always > say "it's not big deal because html is so basic". But I took a course on > it and there *are* hints that make a page load faster (and other > important things). There are tecniques that most people don't know about > and aren't obvious or "common sense". I created a web page of my > sister's wedding and (one) of the comments I got (a lot) was "the thing > loads so fast". True, anyone can learn to hack up an HTML page in an afternoon. Writing clean, efficient HTML may, as they say, take a little longer. ;-) > <OT> > I'm not familiar with the O'Reilly book that Dave mentioned, but I was > so impressed with "HTML For The World Wide Web" (Elizabeth Castro) that > I showed it to a couple of the students in the Web Site Management class > and they ditched the book the instructors gave us. It is the best manual > in *any* topic I've ever had. It is truely a "reference manual" in the > actual spirit of the idea of a reference manual. Once you read it, you > can *actually* go to the page on a particual part and never have to > cross reference another page. > > BTW... It's a book on HTML 4.0. There's probly many more advanced > meathods of creating a page now. But I prefer HTML 4.0 because it's > basic and all browers understand it. Some browers are old or just > haven't caught up with the newer meathods. Like M$IE you mean. I thought I was being clever learning XHTML, validated perfectly, looked peachy in firefox, IE barfed at it. So loose HTML4 it is. > </OT> cheers tim hall
