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HTML5 is the replacement for HTML4, which the large majority of websites are currently using. HTML5 has added new tags and features which will help our websites become more interactive, more user friendly and consistant across more devices in a world where people are accessing the internet on a variety of devices.

Today we bring you some of the top HTML5 introductory videos to help sharpen your HTML5 skills. (continue reading…)

Today we bring you a video tutorial on coding a website using only HTML and Notepad. (continue reading…)

by Mike McKeown

Web designers have been hearing about HTML5 for a little while now. But what is different? Audio and video support, structural elements and dropped tags (to name a few) brings HTML into the 21st Century… finally.

Here are some (but not all) examples of what is new in HTML5:

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By Mike McKeown

Anyone making even the slightest attempt to follow the world of web design has seen the debate over table versus tableless design. It seems the large majority of web designers are in favor of tableless design using XHTML and CSS, although some coders still prefer tabled design.

There are several advantages to using tableless design:

• W3C Standards favor the use of tableless design, and they set the standards for the entire web design and development community.

• Almost all web browsers today support CSS based designs, so compatibility is no longer an issue.If the coding is properly done, modifications to the design become easier.
• It is easier to make websites accessible to those with handicaps or text-based browsers using tableless design.
• Less code is used on the webpage, which search engines like. Search engines prefer a high content to code ratio, meaning the more text there is relative to the amount of code, the better.
• Better search engine ranking.

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