Books and Articles by Sue Jenkins

For each web coding issue identified by a validator, you need to determine what course of action to take. Although some culprits that repeatedly crop up are easy to fix, such as missing alt text and

If you chose to use Dreamweaver to create your website, you have a number of ways to transfer files to your webpage through the Files panel. The smartest way to transfer files is to use the expanded Files panel so that you can view both the local and remote files at the same time, much like a standalone FTP client.

Most web code editors have a command that automatically cleans up the common errors in your code. For instance, the Clean Up Word HTML/XHTML command in Dreamweaver is a must for any webpage that includes content that was copied from Word or any other Microsoft documents. This is important because Microsoft files often embed extra markup when pasted into a web page to make the file’s content retain its formatting.

If you’re a Dreamweaver user, you almost don’t have to think about the document type definition (DTD) when creating a web page because the program automatically inserts the selected DOCTYPE and DTD into the code each time you create a new document through the New Document dialog box. Of course, you have other ways to create a new file in Dreamweaver, and in those cases, the program’s default DTD, as specified in the program’s preferences, will be automatically inserted.

Whether you're looking to design your own website or are a new web designer who plans to make a career of this exciting profession, you might be feeling overwhelmed. This handy guide to HTML/HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gets you started on the right path.

You can use many different FTP applications to transfer your files to your website. Although their interfaces may be somewhat different, most FTP applications allow you to do the same things with your files, such as viewing a listing of files by name, date, and size, creating directories, and allowing you to transfer, copy, rename, and delete files and directories on the remote server.

In 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in order to make all software and hardware web accessible. The W3C is international vendor-neutral group dedicated to bringing standards to the web. The W3C’s mission is “to lead the World Wide web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the web.

First and foremost, designing websites that follow web standards helps ensure that anyone using the web — regardless of their browser, device, or operating system — can view the content on a web page. Additionally, following web standards also makes sites easier to maintain and thus makes them an even more cost-effective method for communicating with site visitors than traditional methods of marketing and communication.

Most of the best code editors these days — whether you’re using a code-only editor or one with a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) view — automatically write web code for that conforms to HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, or HTML5 standards based on the document type definition (DTD) you select when creating your pages.