Lynda.com has just announced a new course, XHTML and HTML Essential Training.

In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Bill Weinman helps designers and coders understand XHTML and HTML. In the process, Bill covers document structure, block and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and tables and frames. He even provides a good introduction to CSS. Bill offers step-by-step guidance for building a complete working web site.

More information: http://www.lynda.com/...

Thanks for the info. Dennis. You're writing xhtml when you make a Dreamweaver file as it defaults to "xhtml 1.0 transitional." Did you find this course shed more light on coding than what you've picked up in other sources? Is this a good one to recommend for beginners learning the basics of code?

Steve

Correct, Dreamweaver writes both XHTML or HTML (you can select the type as flavor - transitional, strict, etc.).

I think this is a good resource for those who don't learn well from reading a book; they require someone teaching them; this comes virtually as close as it can get.

I think this is a great course, as well, due to the updated topic matter, the differences between HTML & XHTML, and semantic coding, which you tend to get only by hand coding.

To reintegrate, Dreamweaver is a great tool for getting content on a page. However, I strongly feel it is as important to understand what is happening under the hood.