This document answers questions asked frequently by web authors. While its focus is on HTML-related questions, this FAQ also answers some questions related to CSS, HTTP, JavaScript, server configuration, etc.
This document is maintained by Darin McGrew <darin@htmlhelp.com> of the Web Design Group, and is posted regularly to the newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. It was last updated on April 26, 2007.
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If you would like to contribute to this FAQ, please send mail to <darin@htmlhelp.com>. All contributors will be listed in the credits.
Please do not ask me questions via email. Please post questions to an appropriate public forum, where they will be read (and possibly answered/discussed) by many people with more expertise than me. Think carefully before posting; you'll get more useful answers if you post clear, complete questions.
If you think something already in the FAQ needs clarifying, or if you would like to offer a concise, well-written answer to a frequently asked question that is not yet in the FAQ, then feel free to send me email.
All information contained in this FAQ was originally compiled by members of the Web Design Group, principally Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet, John Pozadzides, and Darin McGrew. The Dutch translation of this FAQ was prepared by Rijk van Geijtenbeek. The French translation of this FAQ was prepared by Cédrik Rousseau.
Additional input has been provided by Boris Ammerlaan, Martin Atkins, Lori Atwater, Alex Bell, Robert Breeser, Stan Brown, Roger Carbol, Alex Chapman, Jim Dabell, Warden Dave, Curtis Dyer, Jan Roland Eriksson, Jon Erlandson, Mark Evans, Peter Evans, Joe Faulds, Vladimir P. Filipovic, Alan Flavell, Peter Flynn, Phillip Freck, Rijk van Geijtenbeek, Lucie Gelinas, Bjoern Hoehrmann, Tina Marie Holmboe, Cliff Howard, Bruce Huntington, Thomas Jespersen, Peter Jones, Nick Kew, Jukka Korpela, Simon Lee, Jim Ley, Nick Lilavois, Kelly Martin, Neal McBurnett, Glen McDonald, Dan McGarry, Brendan Murray, Ken O'Brien, Stephen Poley, Timothy Prodin, Steve Pugh, Liam Quinn, Colin Reynolds, Kai Schätzl, Randal L. Schwartz, Doug Sheppard, Sue Sims, Henri Sivonen, Toby Speight, Warren Steel, John Stockton, Ian Storms, Gérard Talbot, Peter Thomson, Daniel Tobias, Frederiek van Beckum, Diane Wilson, and no doubt others I've forgotten to credit.
Thanks everyone! Your comments, criticisms, and suggestions have considerably improved this FAQ.
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