HTML Guidelines

   HTML Guidelines

This page contains HTML Guidelines for accomplishing specific tasks, including validation.

Best Designed Websites
Websites with excellent design or layout.
 * http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archive.html — nice blog layout.

Document Type
In most cases start HTML document with: It's recommended to use: But, I've found it just won't validate with any special characters in it. Need to do more research to figure out exactly which document type to use with each CMS.

Base Href
This tag helps reduce the repetitive use of the site url in an html document. Once you declare a base href all relative links in the document will start with the base url.

Favicon
All Browsers now support display of a Favicon. See Wikipedia: Favicon for guidelines.
 * Favicon Generator — generate your favicon. http://www.favicon.co.uk/favicons/linkfavicon.jpg
 * chami.com — generate your favicon.
 * smashingmagazine.com — 50 Remarkable Favicons.

A great site with links to favicon generators, css generators & validators, ascii generators, color generators, flash generators, form generators, graphics & image generators, htaccess generators, metatag generators, password generators, pdf generators, php & MySQL generators, popup generators, robots.txt generators, rss generators, sitemap generators, text generators, tooltip generators, xml generators and more.
 * smashingmagazine.com — generators links.

Javascript Open Window and Close Window

 * htmlgoodies.com — So You Want To Open A Window with Javascript...

Robots.txt
The  determines how your site will be indexed by search engines.
 * mcanerin.com — Robot Control Code Generation Tool

Validation
Always check your code is standards compliant:
 * validator.w3.org — XHTML validator.
 * jigsaw.w3.org — w3 CSS validator.