Introduction

AxSWeb host a number of basic tutorials on Web authoring and related topics. This page presents these tutorials along with a selection of personal favourites from external sources.

Scotty's XHTML Tutorial

A basic tutorial covering XHTML page creation using a text editor. Not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of XHTML, it focusses on the main structural elements, so that CSS can be used to create a design around the content.

Scotty's CSS Tutorial

A simple tutorial covering the basics of Cascading Style Sheets. It demonstrates the use of CSS to re-create design elements on top of the structured XHTML content. Emphasis is placed on using a text editor to work with the CSS.

Scotty's Web Images Tutorial

Builds on the cursory treatment of images in the previous two tutorials and gives background information about image formats and best advice for creating and using images within web pages.

Scotty's Embedded Media Tutorial

In an attempt to finally eject the non-standard <embed> element from XHTML coded web pages, this tutorial looks at techniques for using the <object> element for embedding advanced content. A sequence of graded examples are presented showing how different media types can be incorporated with the minimum complexity. However, some media types pose more of a challenge and a strategy for choosing the best technique is presented.

Scotty's Expression® Web Tutorial

Armed with knowledge of website fundamentals, you are ready to control the complex user interface of a profession development tool. This tutorial show how to take control of your Microsoft® Expression® Web and enforce the creation of high quality, standards compliant and accessible websites.

Scotty's ASP.NET C# Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates all the features of ASP.NET v2.0 for building a database driven, secure website based on a templated design. The tutorial use C# as the base development language.

Scotty's Web Services Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to find and use an external web-service and incorporate it into an active page within a website. It focuses on the use of ASP.NET with C# for the creation of the active interface.