Using HTML Symbol Entities

glenpridgen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:30:34 +0000

HTML Symbol Entities is one of those things I found by accident. When I use an editor in “design view” to type an HTML page and then view my work in “code view”; I see that my spaces are turned into ‘ ’ among other strings of confusing code. This tutorial from Web Designer Wall will help make sense of it all.

The Advantages of Using Entities Rather Than Images
Apostrophe & Quotation Marks
Arrows (Very Helpful)
Link Separators
Trademark, Copyright, Degree, and Currency
Symbols For Web Design
Miscellaneous Symbols
Rendering Issues
Reference Lilnks

Read full tutorial here:

Useful Reference Links:

For a full list of entity reference, check Bigbaer.com – Character Entity Reference.
W3Schools.com – Symbols Entities
Webstandards.org – Symbol Entities

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates

glenpridgen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:02:55 +0000

I just finished going through a fantastic CSS tutorial by Web Designer Wall. As someone who loves to use and abuse

tags I found these examples helpful and will incorporate them into my projects.

Remove The Unnecessary
Tags
Use Semantic Markups. (i.
for headings,
for paragraph text, and
- Minimize The Use of
  Tags to make debugging and editing easier
- Format (Indent) Your Code
- Comment The Closing

Glen Pridgen » Tutorial

Using HTML Symbol Entities

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates

for headings,
for paragraph text, and
for list items).
Minimize The Use of
Tags to make debugging and editing easier

Format (Indent) Your Code

Comment The Closing

Glen Pridgen » Tutorial

Using HTML Symbol Entities

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates

for headings, for paragraph text, and for list items). Minimize The Use of Tags to make debugging and editing easier Format (Indent) Your Code Comment The Closing

for headings,
for paragraph text, and
for list items).
Minimize The Use of
Tags to make debugging and editing easier

Format (Indent) Your Code

Comment The Closing