Posted 04/07/09 at 03:30:00 PM by Florence Ion

Over the first seventeen years of the web’s existence, HTML has undergone beaucoup changes. What was once the predominant language of the web now shares the spotlight with a variety of scripting languages, stylesheets, and other types of markup, ranging from Javascript to Cascading Style Sheets. The flexibility of modern scripting languages, separation of content and style have combined to become more like applications than the static web pages we all remember from the early days of the web.

Back in 1995, when HTML first took off with the general public, there were a number of offenders that made the Internet look aesthetically awful. Designers employed atrocious HTML elements, such as the <blink> and <marquee> tags, which only made a show of serious web coders. It’s doubtful that anyone at that time considered blinking and scrolling text fluid web design. 

In the last few years, CSS has taken off with the rise of Web 2.0 and has certainly transformed web design into a much simpler endeavor—gone are the days of having to repeat the same mundane code or navigating a sea of jumbled up HTML in search of that one inconsistency. Things have gotten better since the Nineties and early-2000s, but some web designers are still foolishly living in the past. We’ve decided to update the criteria of HTML elements that are simply outdated and have been replaced by a batch of shinier, better CSS elements. If 1997 was the last time you’ve had a crash course in web design, than read on to learn a few new things about this versatile web world.

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Posted 12/31/08 at 11:45:21 AM by David Murphy

We're taking a look at Web page creation tools in this week's freeware/open-source roundup.  And let's face it, the task sounds daunting: making a Web page, that is.  Finding the programs is the easy part.  There are a ton of authoring tools out on the Interwebs, but therein lies the problem.  You don't want to have to burrow through 30 different applications to find the one that matches your experience level.  And if you're completely new to HTML/CSS, you're going to want the most bare-bones, easy-to-use application you can find for making your first big online "Hello World!"

We've scoured through a number of programs to find the best applications for helping you make that picture-perfect Web page.  From HTML creation, to file uploading, to validating, our choices represent a batch of must-have programs.  Depending on your experience level, you might not need all five before you have your own variant of Maximumpc.com up and running.  But everyone should be able to find something they need in our treasure trove of Web tools.

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