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These tutorials center around making Tables, Frames, Page Layout, Forms, and special tags.
Tables
Lesson 1: Basic Tables
Learn how HTML tables are made. This is where it all begins. Master these table basics first.
Lesson 2: Sizing & Positioning Tables
How to make your tables as wide and as tall as you'd like and how to position them on your page.
Lesson 3: Sizing & Aligning Cells
How to size the individual cells in your table. Also how to align the content inside each cell both vertically and horizontally.
Lesson 4: Borders & Color
How to size and color your borders, and add background colors and images to your tables.
Lesson 5: Internal Spacing
Learn how to add or remove "padding" between your content and the borders of your cells. Also learn how to add or remove the spacing between individual cells in a <table>.
Lesson 6: Making Inset Boxes
How to make little boxes that you can position like images using <table>s.
Lesson 7: Spanning Columns & Rows
How to make cells that stretch across multiple rows and columns.
Lesson 8: Designing Complex Tables
How to lay out tables with all sorts of differently sized and spanned cells. How to draw out an idea and put it in code in a few simple steps.
Lesson 9: Stacking & Nesting Tables
How to stack tables on top of one another and nest tables inside each other for a variety of effects.
Lesson 10: Some Final Table Notes
Why WIDTH is so important and attributes are not generally used in <tr> tags. Also, some more information on relative vs. absolute sizing.
Table Review
What to review in preparation to make the tables in the Table Exam.
Tables Final Exam
The big finale before moving on to tabular formatting.
Optional Lesson: Making Fractional Spans
How can you span a two-celled row over a three-celled row in the same table. You can't use fractions in either COLSPAN or ROWSPAN. This optional tutorial will show you how.
Tabular Formatting
Lesson 11: Simple Tabular Formatting
Learn how to use tables to position the content on your pages. This lesson presents basic two- and three-column page layouts.
Lesson 12: Making Tabular Nav Bars
How to use tables to make crisp, professional looking horizontal and vertical navigation bars.
Lesson 13: Using Columns & Nav Bars Together
How to make a snappy looking "boxed in" page and its variations.
Lesson 14: Making Tabular & Graphical Lines
How to make enhanced horizontal and vertical lines using tables and/or images.
Lesson 15: Making Catalog Pages
How to use tables to make a strong visual link between images and text. Great for making a sales catalog.
Tabular Layout Review
A quick review of tabular layout methods in preparation for the Tabular Layout Final Exam.
Tabular Layout Final Exam
Check your knowledge of tables, tabular layout, and other previously learned HTML/CSS with this test.
Frames
Lesson 16: Simple Framesets
How to make basic frames and load pages in them.
Lesson 17: The <noframes> Tag
How to deal with browsers that don't support frames using the <noframes> tag.
Lesson 18: Linking To Frames
How to get a link in one frame to load a page in another frame.
Lesson 19: Styling Frames
How to add and remove scrollbars and borders, color borders, and prevent frame resizing. How to make a seamless framed page.
Lesson 20: Multiple Frames
Making and sizing multiple rows and columns with frames.
Lesson 21: Nested Framesets
How to use nested framesets to get columns and rows to work together.
Lesson 22: A Quick Lesson On Link Targeting
How to get pages to load outside your frames
Frames Review & Exam
A brief review of frames and some examples to test your skills.
Forms
Lesson 23: Forms Overview
An overview to Forms and Fields.
Lesson 24: Text Boxes
How to recieve text input from viewers using textboxes and larger text areas.
Lesson 25: Radio Buttons & Checkboxes
How to add handy and versatile checkboxes and radio buttons to your forms.
Lesson 26: Select Boxes
How to make drop-down menus and a scrolling list of options using select boxes
Lesson 27: File Selection Boxes
How to add a box and button that lets the viewer select a file on their hard drive. This is generally done prior to a file upload that's managed by backend coding.
Lesson 28: Reset & Submit Buttons
How to create a button that will clear your form and another one that will send the data to a processing program.
Lesson 29: Generic Buttons
How to make a plain button with which you can associate custom functions. Also how to use an image for a submit button.
Lesson 30: Using TABINDEX
How to get the tab key to navigate your form regardless of browser defaults.
Forms Exam
Make the form linked here to test your talent.
Special Tags
Lesson 31: Using <meta> Tags For Search Engines
Using <meta> tags to improve your search engine ranking by giving search engines a description and keyword list pertaining to your site
Lesson 32: Using The <meta> Tag To Automatically Load Pages
Learn how to code <meta> tags that will reload your page, as well as, redirecting to another page.
Lesson 33: Making A Site Icon
How to add a little icon to a viewer's Favorites list when they bookmark your site.
Lesson 34: The <!DOCTYPE> Tag
An explanation of this mysterious tag and why it's not critical in making a well working web page. Not a bad idea, though.
Special Tags Review and Exam
See the collection of special tags learned above in action on a page. Make sample pages employing these tags.
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