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The body is clearly going to take a while, since it contains all of the content on the page. I’ll be breaking it out into chunks. This first post will focus on how I use the body tag itself. I generally use the body tag to hold basic information about the page to use with […]
This won’t be the longest entry in this series, but I did want to take a second to outline the way I organize files. You can come up with your own scheme. There are many. This one works for me, so I use it. The basic idea is to keep everything in a logical, easy […]
Last time out we looked at the Anatomy of a Web Page. Using that, let’s move on and look at the first of the two major sections, the head. For the sake of this blog post, the head includes two pieces of code that are actually before the head. Sue me 🙂 Using the head […]
HTML + CSS + JavaScript = Content + Style + Behavior This the one of the guiding principles of the way I make sites. We want to keep our content/data, in the form of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code, neatly separated from the rules that tell the browser what it’s supposed to look like, in […]
Well, I leaked it earlier this week, so I might as well get started. Welcome to How to Make a Web Site the Modern Way, a blog series outlining, to the best of my ability. how to build an HTML page using today’s best practices. The focus won’t be on specific coding techniques, although there […]