Using the W3C Markup Validation Service
The World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”) provides an online HTML validation service at the following address: https://validator.w3.org/. This free service…
The basics of website design
Aside from learning HTML, CSS and a host of other web-based languages and technologies, a basic understanding of how the…
Nesting tags correctly in HTML
The modern browser is very forgiving of HTML errors, but only up to a point. You must code your HTML…
HTML “drop cap” using CSS
The drop cap effect can be used to great effect to create a more traditional, book-like effect on a web…
Expressing colors in CSS
This article is part of a series of posts aiming at helping students transition from HTML to HTML and CSS.
Organising website assets
In the DBE CAPS CAT curriculum, we use one folder, or directory, to organise all of our website files. This…
Copying to the clipboard using JavaScript
I found this YouTube video demonstrating how to copy text to the clipboard using JavaScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vBx7F0lns. This tutorial covers the…
Coding HTML with Notepad++
Whilst Notepad++ is not a full WYSIWYG like Adobe Dreamweaver it does offer a fair amount of help to the…
Website contact form
A standard addition to any website is some ability to contact the website owners. Whilst many have opted for implementing…