[PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

[Richard Owlett]

On 4/14/2016 2:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me
> about formatting.
>
> At this point I'm pretty sure that I should be using HTML 5.0 -- but I'm
> not sure.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good book for web page design that'll bring me up
> to date?  I've got several sites that I take care of that I'd like to
> start updating.
>
> Thanks.
>

I don't have personal knowledge of any books. However two sites 
presenting themselves as "tutorials" are 
http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://htmldog.com/ . Both appear 
technically competent. Their presentational styles are very 
different. A brief discussion on 
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html indicates they appeal to 
different audiences. Having tried both, I prefer the later.

I don't know if Google's complaints are informative. An 
independent error analysis is available at 
http://validator.w3.org/ . If your site explicitly declares HTML 
4.01 or prior the report will be one format. If your site 
declares HTML 5 or the "detect if not declared" function 
determines HTML 5 is intended there is a report format labeled as 
"experimental".