Tuesday, 12 July 2011

About Web Design / HTML: SECTION Element; Great pages; SMIL

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From Jennifer Kyrnin, your Guide to Web Design / HTML
Learn how to use the SECTION element, create great pages, and write SMIL documents.

Every week in the forum we get several pleas for help. Sometimes I have answers but not always. If you've ever been helped by someone else, why not take a few minutes to pop into the Web Design forum or the HTML / XML forum and "pay it forward."


The SECTION Element Can be Confusing
The new HTML5 SECTION element can be confusing, but it's a useful element for semantically defined web pages. This article explains how to use the SECTION element and how it is different from elements like ARTICLE and DIV.

How To Write a GREAT Web Page
There is more to web design than HTML. Learn some tricks to take your web pages from good to great.

How to Create a Simple SMIL file
Learn how to write a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language file. SMIL is an XML-based format that controls the layout, timing and source elements of audiovisual presentations. SMIL works in conjunction with SVG to create animation.
See More About:  smil  multimedia  xml specifications

Poll: Do any of these HTML techniques annoy you?
None of the things listed in this poll will cause your web pages to break. In fact, only a couple are even mentioned as being a bad idea by the W3C. But all of them can cause some web designers to cringe at the thought. In fact, things like quoting attributes or not writing HTML in lowercase are things that up until a short time ago, I felt were very important, but now I do all the time. While others, like using tables for layout or using images for text instead of plain text, I still feel are bad. What pet peeves do you have about HTML?

 


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