Admin (No PMs Please!)
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Advanced HTML and CSS (beginners + advanced)This will be started very shortly -- if you are experienced in HTML (or other languages/scripts) but want a little help on anything, then why not expain what you want and the code that you have already tried (if any!) to get it work.
I obviously assume that as this area is stated as "advanced", any posters on here are very familiar with advanced HTML, advanced CSS and CSS-P, JavaScript and to a certain extent Perl/ASP.Net/ASP etc. If you are not familiar with any of these then you MUST say so!
If you ask about anything on here, then you must please advise of any scripts/css code currently in place, so I am fully aware of what would happen if I wrote the code!
This area (until I get it going as a "tutorial") can be used by the likes of "tinman", "Celtic_Steve", "Webbo1981" and anyone else that claims to know about HTML (or variations thereof). Please note that although I do not use it for the Charnwood Sunday League website (YET!), I am strongly in favour of HTML (Strict)!
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Celtic_Steve
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Yeah, I'll help out. 
If you have any questions regarding XHTML1.0 (transitional or strict) or CSS then post them here and I should be able to help you out.
I should also be able to answer any HTML4.01 queries and (coming soon) Javascript.
Anything else I recommend Google!  
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Admin (No PMs Please!)
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I am all in favour of promoting "self-help" by googling it  especially if they require coding help!
As I have (hopefully) allowed people to grasp the method of writing HTML, I can now start posting here for much more in-depth coding!
So where do we start  Well.... from the beginning of course  
I know I know... terrible but we must start there so we don't lose any of the people that looked at the "beginners guide".
Topics that will be covered (amongst many others!) include:
1. Advanced coding (along with more attributes of course) of the basic HTML -- How to get more from the basic code!
2. More HTML tags introduced, including "<span>", more table tags including "<thead>" "<tfoot>" "<tbody"> "<th>" etc... AND of course, the (in my opinion, superb "<div>" tag! -- MUCH better than using tables etc to position things (when used properly with CSS-P of course: which will be introduced later as well!!).
3. Some web-design "Do's and Dont's"
4. Working more with images, links (internal and external) and working with relative and absolute pathways (not make sense to you? - It will do, don't worry!)
5. Whatever else comes into my little brain at the time -- but the above should keep us going for some time! 
And if Celtic_Steve doesn't mind... why not use some of his work/course material as examples on this site (as long they don't infringe any legal aspects of course - don't want to get sued now do we?!?! )
I will even show working examples by providing you with links to proper webpages, that are (well... will be in the near future!) published to the WWW! (No legal worries there as I will have created the pages! ) - Nothing like learning from working examples... that way, if anyone makes a mistake from the examples, likelihood is.... it's my error!
Anyway, enough of the chatting! Let me start thinking of how to actually start this tutorial, ensuring good grounding.
PS: I will be using code that is the "proper" way -- no short cuts on here I'm afraid (unless specifically requested). As Celtic_Steve called it, "good coding" -- or what I call "good practice"... same thing - don't deviate from it please unless you know what you are doing. Thanks
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Celtic_Steve
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| Quote: | | And if Celtic_Steve doesn't mind... why not use some of his work/course material as examples on this site (as long they don't infringe any legal aspects of course |
I don't mind people picking apart my work to use as examples, just bear this in mind:
 In terms of copyright and legal stuff, as long as noone tries to pass my work off as theirs and you don't use any images from the site without permission you'll be fine.
The pages are coded in XHTML1.0 Transitional which is defined in the Document Type Definition (DTD) at the top of each page. If you are reading this and don't know what that means it's unlikely that many of the examples gleaned from the site will be of any use to you as, although XHTML looks like HTML4 (they share 4 letters ), in some respects it is quite a different language and requires quite a different discipline to coding HTML.
In fact, I should write down what a few of those differences are in this topic which may be a good intro.
Steve.
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Admin (No PMs Please!)
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 It may be an idea to have a separate forum for these types of tutorials... We can have a forum for all CSS and CSS-P, one for HTML, one for Java, one for JavaScript, one for Perl/CGI/ASP/ASP.Net etc, one for other types of web coding such as XHTML, DHTML etc etc
I will do this a little later today, so these posts/topics will be moved to a new part of the forum. It should keep the forum tidier ergo easier to follow!
PS: Since when have you been "Steve #1" Celtic_Steve   I dread to ask for fear of a response, but what exactly does that make me
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Celtic_Steve
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Maybe there was a comma missing. It should have read:
Tip from Steve, #1
Preceding my second tip...
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