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HTML and CSS sources
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_intro.asp
Introductroduction th HTML5
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ whatwg HTML 5 specification
- this document gets updated frequently
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ W3C's official
XHTM5 specification. - This document gets updated infrequently
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http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/
Looks to be a nice section on using HTML and CSS.
http://www.inloox.com/project-management-glossary/html-software-and-resources/ HTML software and Resources.
General information about HTML with links to other sources. Some links refer to older versions of HTML.
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http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp Tag Reference for HTLM 5.
https://websitesetup.org/html5-cheat-sheet The cheat sheet contains a listing of HTML tags. The sheet can
be downloaded.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS validaters
W3C site to validate HTML pages.
W3C site to validate CCS in web pages.
W3C site to validate links in web pages.
Template page for HTML 5
http://www.brinkje.com/web/html5Template.html
If you are using a standard ASCII text editor, you can avoid typing the standard parts of a web page by copying and pasting this page and then using it to start your own webpage.
You should delete the link to the style page and/or the style tags if you don't use them.
Web site building for kids
http://www.ebizwebpages.com/website-builder-kids.html
References that could help kids build web sites.
http://www.iwdagency.com/blog/web-development-in-the-classroom-web-site-building-for-kids/ Some comments
and additional references.
https://www.smartadvocate.com/News/Blog/software-programming-and-coding-glossary-for-kids
Explains a number of words used while programming.
Tutorials for HTML
http://www.tutorialrepublic.com/html-tutorial/ This seems
a good HTML5 tutorial.
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http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/Tutorial on
using CSS with HTML.
http://www.goer.org/HTML/ Seems to be a pretty
good tutorial for HTML 4.01 but does not use the newer HTML5
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_intro.asp
HTML5 Tutorial by W3schools.
HTML colors
http://www.brinkje.com/web/ColorMixer/ColorMixer.html
Allows user to select the values for Red,
Green, and Blue and see the results. It also shows the HTML named
colors. It has links to color mixers for Java, JavaFX, Processing, and Processing.js.
(The color mixer is written in Processing.js and only requires that JavaScript is enabled.)
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp
HTML 5 colors with links to other color features.
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.as
Allows you to pick a color from a display and shows the various codes for it along with some lighter and darker colors.
CSS
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http://www.brinkje.com/web/css/CommonCSSwithStyle.html
Describes and
illustrates some common CSS properties
http://www.brinkje.com/web/css/CommonCSSwithoutStyle.html
Describes some common CSS properties. This is the same page as above but does not use any CSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/demo_default.htm
Demonstrates how style sheets can be used to change how a page looks without changing HTML
http://www.csszengarden.com/ Uses professionally designed style
sheets to demonstrate how style sheets can be used to change how a page looks without changing HTML
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http://www.w3schools.com/css/ Tutorial on CSS
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/default.asp
CSS reference
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
Suggests "safe" font-family values that work on both Windows and Mac computers.
http://www.hostingreviewbox.com/introduction-to-cascading-style-sheets-css/
Another introduction to CSS.
Forms and Cookies
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/forms/ Short tutorial of forms
http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms05.htm Tutorial on forms
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/forms/article.php/3479121
Another tutorial on forms
Download browsers
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Download the Mozila FireFox browser.
http://www.google.com/chrome Download Google's Chrome browser.
Information about computer related topics
http://www.webopedia.com/
http://www.smartscholar.com/computer-science-guide
Provides links that explain the meaning and parts of "computer science".
http://ithare.com/a-beginners-guide-to-programming-languages/ Short discription of several
computer languages.
Additional links
https://www.marcaria.com/ws/en/articles/learn-about-domains-and-html
Many links relating to domains and HTML. Unfortunately, some of the HTML references use older versions of HTML but most modern browsers still allow
obsolete versions of HTML.
Java Script
https://javascript.info/ Looks like a fairly complete tutorial.
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
w3schools Javascript tutorial.
https://p5js.org/ p5.js is a JavaScript library
for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for
artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else!