Forms are often the most tricky aspect of web development for beginners to get their head around, largely because it means stepping out of the comfort zone of one-way information – no longer are you simply presenting information at the person viewing your site, now you are asking for input, for feedback that you have to process in some way.

Multimedia elements bring HTML and XHTML documents alive, providing a dimension of valuable information often unavailable in other media, such as print. The code to embed audio and/or video is a bit more to digest. When you see a video playing right on a web page, chances are it’s a QuickTime movie that has been placed on the page with an object tag along with an embed tag. Read on.