On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 22:23, Robert Teasdale wrote: >> Is anyone aware of free online HTML tutorials that teach semantic >> HTML from a beginner's level? For someone who doesn't know the first >> thing about HTML. > You may want to try > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/basics.html Well, its good evidence that a Ph.D. doesn't mean you are an expert on everything. Taking a glance at it, it spends a lot of time talking about "commands" and telling you that they give you "The altered text" in various presentational forms - no talk about what the element actually _means_ (so as a guide to semantic HTML it is utterly worthless (as a guide to presentational HTML its worse as it suggests using semantic elements for presentational purposes)). Joe Burns' material is packed full of errors - I still haven't found a worse HTML tutorial. > or > > http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/index.shtml Appears to be better, but still has a lot of focus on presentation rather then semantics. http://w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ is possibly the best I've seen, but still rather less then ideal. The HTML 4.01 Specification is surprisingly readable, so I would suggest starting with the http://w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ then moving on to http://w3.org/TR/html4/ -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>