Re: OT: Need HTML Help

David J Dachtera wrote:
JF Mezei wrote:
David J Dachtera wrote:
Looking for someone who would be willing to correspond with me off-line
about building web pages by hand (in a text editor).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/ is the referenbce for real HTML. That site
also has stuff about XHTML.

For style sheets,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

Thanx, JF!

I think I can get what I'm looking for from that first link.

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My first thought was to use a table, but I didn't know how to force the
asymmetry between the two columns: five rows in one column, one row in
the second column.

Let me see what I can figure out...

A better place to learn (x)html and css (and a bunch of other stuff) is <http://www.w3schools.com/> (no affiliation).

Unless you are accomplished at reading w3c specs, you will find learning from w3schools far easier.

As mentioned else-thread, using css instead of tables is the way to go. Tables certainly have their uses, but they should be restricted to table data, not used for general page layout.

Whatever you do, you should ensure that your (x)html and css is valid. It's easy, will ensure your site is visible in all forms of user agents, will go a long way to making your pages accessible to people with disabilities, and will more than likely increase your exposure in google and other search engines.

Automated validators are available at the following links:

html: <http://validator.w3.org/>
css: <http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/>

Jim.
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