The W3school webpage is a site I always go to when I need a quick reference when it comes to mark-up or some other web development or web design issue, so this time I again went to this site first. I looked at some of the less familiar tags that I do not believe I have ever not used, like fieldset, but most of them were related to forms and I hardly ever deal with them. The page on HTML Events was interesting, but those are mostly tied to JavaScript and my knowledge thereof is, unfortunately, negligible.
However, what really piqued my interest was a table of HTTP messages. I have long wondered about them. True, I have not seen that many: maybe three or four in real life, but it was interesting how they are grouped - there are five groups 1xx: Information; 2xx: Successful; 3xx: Redirection; 4xx: Client Error; 5xx: Server Error. The MARC-like affinity is very appealing. I recall I have seen only error 403 - Forbidden access and 404 - Not found, which is not surprising as those are client errors. Other errors can be hidden or replaced by another customized page like 503 - Service Unavailable, so that user would read a meaningful message redirecting her to alternative resources.
I used to use Dreamweaver (but it was owned by Macromedia back then) and Notetab (a nifty shareware with a cute icon of Swiss coat of arms). Ironically, shortly after I bought my own copy of Dreamweaver I became aware of oXygen - a relatively inexpensive XML editor that also supports HTML and I have not touched Dreamweaver since.
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