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What This Tutorial is Not This tutorial is not an exhaustive study of XHTML. It also doesn’t address other programming languages commonly used with XHTML, or explain how to edit images for the web. This tutorial will simply provide you with the basic foundation for web development by teaching you the most common uses for XHTML. When you finish this tutorial, you will have the knowledge you need to study other aspects of website programming and understand them in context. Please take note that this tutorial will not cover CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS is used in conjunction with XHTML. It is the most effective and powerful language for editing the colors, fonts, and even some layout aspects of a website. We will cover some basic methods for handling style in this tutorial, but these methods will not have the power and capabilities of CSS. If you plan to continue studying web development after this tutorial, CSS should be your next topic… Why Learn XHTML? XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a clean, powerful, and reliable language used for programming websites. It’s actually a hybrid of HTML and XML (see descriptions below), designed to work with both older and newer ways of viewing the Internet. XHTML can be used to build reliable websites with links, text, and images in the format you desire. Once you know XHTML, you will understand how and why most websites looks the way they do, and you’ll be able to customize your own website. Best of all, XHTML is easy to learn . If you can spend just an afternoon with this tutorial, you’ll have a basic website built by dinnertime. What is HTML? Why Not Learn That? HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is widely known as the language for displaying content in websites. Unfortunately, it has its drawbacks. The language does not have strict rules for how to program a website, making it easy to build webpages with sloppy code. While this is fine for most web browsers, it causes problems with cell phones, PDAs, XML readers, and other new technology that can access the Internet. XHTML is almost identical to HTML, except that it follows stricter rules. Many HTML programmers are now learning XHTML so that their websites can be stable in the new generations of technology

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