The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), who decide all the standards for the Internet have given us a new standard. eXtensible HypeText Markup Language better known as XHTML is possibly the best thing that ever happened to the Internet as a whole. The most significant thing XHTML brings is simplicity in the way its coded. XHTML is a step on from HTML, used as the language of choice for web developers almost since the birth of the internet, by tidying up the mess of hacked and abused tags and abolishing most of them making it easier than ever for beginners to learn to build web pages. That's why this site is here, to teach beginners the straight forward logical way to build web pages but also to serve as a refresher for old hands at the web with long established bad habits.
The tutorial is very much bare bones stuff but I've added a bit of trickery on the end for the old school web coders just to show why its worth doing things the semantic way. Click the three links on the style switcher bar at the top of the page and this page will not reload it will simply change style sheets.One document many styles. In each of the three cases I have tried to pick extremes of look rather than worry about whether they look itself is appealing or not. Tutorial tones is the colour scheme used in the tutoral paper that follows. There is very little difference between this site and the site described in the tutorial, the fact that the style sheet can be applied to it as one of these three proves that point.
I'd better start with a little bit about me. I've been building websites since 1993, my first websites were published B.C. (Before Compuserve, the originators of modern home Internet services) while I was at university learning to be the architect I still haven't unleashed on the world. Probably not unlike most people at the time I started learning how web pages were made by looking at the code (View Source) behind each page and experimenting with different things that I found to see how they worked. These days every book shop in town has shelves of books on how to build web sites although that in itself is a mixed blessing. The books, although easy to get hold of rather overcomplicate the whole process of making a web page and put a lot of people off. The Internet is for everybody and everybody should at least be able to make a straightforward web page.
Technohippy is a nickname I've picked up along my journey through the growth of the modern Internet era due to my long-haired, beardy aesthetics and disturbing obsessive affinity with computers.This paper focusses on the Semantic Web Project and discusses how the ultimate aim of the project is to make the information stored on the Internet equally readable to humans, search engines, print machines, braille readers, text to voice translators and anything else in the future that may come along before teaching the methods in a simple step by step cookbook manner. The aim of this paper is to show everyone from beginners to experienced web professionals, the reasons for and the methods of creating webpages readable by anything. The holistic ethic of "Try to teach everyone how to make everything on the Internet readable by everything" struck me as being perfect content for www.technohippy.co.uk where it was first published.
The tutorial that follows represents me giving somethng back to the Internet in return for the career the Internet has given me.
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