How does one learn how to code? It can be complicated, but Codeacademy lifts the veil on the mystery behind this important modern craft and skill. On the site, visitors can go ahead and get started by typing in their username. After this, visitors can click on the Learn area to find out more about programming for JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and jQuery. An area at the bottom of the main page links to...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the HyperText Markup Language 4.0 specification as "a W3C recommendation. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to web interoperability, and has been reviewed by all W3C members, who are in favor of supporting its adoption by the industry." Also included is more information about the features of the...

HTML_CodeSniffer is a coding standards checker for websites. Users can run HTML_CodeSniffer inside their browser by adding a bookmarklet to their bookmarks bar. The sample public version will check a site for conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0. Users simply visit a site and click their CodeSniffer bookmark to generate an interactive report of any issues...

For those who find HTML to be excessively verbose, brittle to construct, and difficult to read, Markdown can provide a simpler alternative. In essence, it is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web content writers that is modeled on well-written email so it is both easy to read and easy to write. Users considering a switch to Markdown (plugins exist to use Markdown for a variety of content...

If you're looking for a way to convert pdf files to html, this helpful application can do just that. Visitors just need to click the browse button here to locate the pdf that they wish to transfer. After doing this, they will supply their own email, and seconds later, they will have the converted file. This version is compatible with all operating systems.

Are you a pollster? Would you like to be one? PollCode makes all of this quite simple. With this handy application, visitors can type in a poll question and up to 30 possible answers. Visitors can customize the poll with their own colors, font, and settings. After visitors have completed their poll, they can use the HTML code provided here to share their poll with others via social media networks...

Pup is a command-line utility fox extracting, filtering, and printing parts of HTML documents. It was inspired by the popular jq utility that can perform similar tasks for JSON documents, which was previously covered in the April 27, 2018, Scout Report. Users select parts of pages using CSS selector syntax. Pup includes support for complex syntax like attribute selectors, pseudo classes, and...

On January 26, 2000, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the XHTML 1.0 specification as a W3C Recommendation. According to W3C, XHTML 1.0 "is the first step toward a modular and extensible Web based on XML," as it works in both current HTML browsers and XML-enabled tools. At the W3C site, users can read the full text of the specification or download it in several formats.