Editor's Pick in Design Principles, October 2005
Want to build website content that can be processed by XML-compliant tools? If you answered yes, then it's time to learn the rules governing XHTML.

Learn what CSS hacking is and why not to do it.

Creating Valid HTML Documents Means Cleaner Code and Easier Maintenance. I'll be the first one to let you in on a secret: building Web pages isn't hard. With the software that is available now, you can write your Web page and have it up and viewable in half an hour...

Editor's Pick in HTML and CSS Tutorials, October 2005
Find out why web design guide Jennifer Kyrnin says that while frames are not the ultimate evil that some people profess, she still doesn't use them much on her personal sites.

This is Part 1 in a series of seven that will calmly introduce you to the very basics of Hyper Text Mark-up Language. I suggest you take the Primers one at a time and at your own speed and be the end you'll easily know enough to create your own HTML home page...

HTML works in a very simple, very logical, format. It reads like you do, top to bottom, left to right. That's important to remember. HTML is written with TEXT. What you use to set certain sections apart as bigger text, smaller text, bold text, underlined text, is a series of flags.

Editor's Pick in HTML and CSS Articles, October 2005
Steve Mulder and Michael Brandt claim that when you're creating a web page, size matters. Here they provide measurements of website elements and discuss ways to design for the most popular browsers.

HTML Quick Reference V 1.2 (Including HTML 3.2, IE, and Netscape Extensions.)

This tutorial discusses issues and techniques relating to Web graphics. It includes information about creating animated GIFs, clickable image maps, and efficient Web graphics.

Image size refers both to the height and width of the image in pixels and the file size. Large graphics take a long time to download over the Web and many people will become impatient. Try to keep your graphic files less than 35K in size...