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About HTML Dog
HTML Dog has been dishing out healthy code treats since 2003, and currently serves up around 1,500,000 page views a month. The idea is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion.
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Web Standards
What makes HTML Dog different to the vast majority of HTML guides and tutorials out there is its focus on best practices. "Web Standards" are at its heart, which, to cut a long story short, is all about using technologies, such as HTML and CSS, in the right way - as defined by their founding fathers and guardian angels - The World Wide Web Consortium (or W3C for short).
This might sound a little bit over zealous, but it isn't about following rules for the sake of it - there are immense tangible practical benefits. I'm talking about cleaner, future-proof code that is accessible to users with disabilities, can be maintained more easily and quickly, and will result in much lighter pages that download that much quicker.
This might also sound a bit daunting to the uninitiated, but it's all quite easy, really. Honestly. Give the tutorials a shot.
The most common way of learning HTML still seems to be to learn it the old, non-standard hack way and then, if so inclined, to learn about web standards at a later date. But there's no reason not to teach standards compliant HTML and CSS from the bottom up without saying there's anything special about it - it's just the way it's done. That's the way HTML Dog has always done it, and it's gone down pretty damned well for the millions who have used it.
Who Wrote This Stuff?
Unless otherwise stated, all of the content you will find on HTML Dog is written m'sef, Patrick Griffiths. I've been doing the professional web developer thing since 1999, and HTML and CSS has pretty much always been my specialty. I have worked for the likes of Vodafone, Wiley, and on various UK Government projects, and have contributed a number of articles and projects to well respected web design resources. I don't usually like to rant about myself, but apparently it's good for credibility. So they say.
HTML Dog is hosted in the UK by Titan Internet.
I've gone through approximately three thousand and eight hosting companies in recent years and found them all to be bafflingly awful for one reason or another. After eons of searching, I finally found a great service in Titan and I have been using them for various projects, including this one, for years.