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Introduction

This documentation is primarily an introduction to creating web pages using HTML, but also includes information on related subjects. You can learn HTML from scratch by navigating through the pages in turn using the menu at the bottom of each page, or you can consult the pages individually as an introductory reference to their particular topics. Most pages include links to other sources of related information on the web, and we encourage you to use the power of search engines to find out more for yourself.

While there are lots of programs available which will write HTML from a WYSIWYG interface, none do as good a job as you can by coding the HTML from scratch (and some do a very, very bad job). Learning to write your own HTML also encourages a greater understanding of the World Wide Web and the internet, and ensures that your pages are as standards compliant as possible; and as this documentation will hopefully show, is not difficult to do.

This information was originally compiled by Kaye when she was the webmaster at Edith Cowan University as part of her investigations into the web and to provide a resource for staff and students; since then it has intermittently been revised, reformatted, extended and updated. The last major rewrite was in 2007.

Index

	Starting with HTML		Basic HTML file structure, tags and their attributes
	More HTML tags		More tags, entities and general advice
	Creating web sites		Some non-HTML stuff which is useful to know
	Tables		Laying out web pages
	Images		How to include pictures in your pages
	Graphics		Finding, creating and processing pictures for the web
	The HTML head		The head section in HTML files, doctypes and XHTML
	Using colour		Backgrounds, fonts, colour conversion
	Forms		Using forms: getting information from web page uses
	Frames		How to use frames, if you want to
	Clickable Maps		How to make clickable image maps
	Animation		Animated GIFs and Javascript
	Even more HTML		Stuff not covered elsewhere: more tags, CSS, DHTML
	Web tools		Counters, searching, bulletin boards, site statistics and more
	Javascript		A limited introduction to adding dynamic behaviour to your pages
	CGIs		More dynamic behaviour: writing your own common gateway interfaces
	HTML reference		Look up all the tags and attributes