-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark B Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:41 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Semi-newbie: advice needed
Hiya. I'm an experienced HTML & CSS coder who has dabbled a little with the XHTML/CSS way of doing things, but frankly, am a little lost. All the tutorials I've found on the web assume that you are either experienced and trying to do some advanced stuff, or are completely new and don't know CSS. I'm looking for an online tutorial or book that will help me go from the old ways to the new ways - help wean me off tables! :) Can anyone offer suggestions? I'm sure many others on this list have been down this path. Cheers, Mark ****************************************************** You've had a lot of good suggestions about the mechanics of non-tabular design. You might also want to look at the philosophy of it. There is a "why" to it. Understanding that "why" helps with authoring which in turn addresses accessibility, ease of maintenance, neatness of code, download times ,etc. One place to start is with the w3c discussion of the semantic web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ That will give you the citation/link to the original Berners-Lee etal "Scientific American" article. Additional statements by or about the Berners-Lee concept can be found at: http://www.mindswap.org/Science/ http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html And if you want a simple introduction to RDF and N-Triples have a look at: http://logicerror.com/semanticWeb-webdev.html And for the over-the-top, insulting, aggravating but entertaining rant: http://evpc.biz/personal/soapbox/morons_in_webspace drew ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
