This page was last updated on 11/08/98.

Internet Fundamentals

• A Beginner's Guide to URLs - Fundamental information about the structure and form of Uniform Resource Locators
• Experts' Exchange - A (currently) free service that puts novice users in touch with an array of experts in computer and Internet technology
• Finding a WWW Host - Tips for finding a place to post your pages once they're finished
• How to Publish on the Web - A complete guide to web publishing with threads designed for specific audiences
• The Internet Help Desk - A free service that provides information and advice for Internet users of all levels
• Life on the Internet - Articles, guides, and discussion forums for understanding the Internet
• Publishing on the Web - Designed to be a comprehensive resource for information about World Wide Web publishing
• URIs, URLs, URNs, and URCs - A guide to the various locator codes in present use
• US Copyright Office - Important references and information for keeping you pages legal, including a records search
• WWW & Internet Manuals - Pointers to all kinds of information about the WWW, from "how to" pages for novices to HTML manuals to running your own server

HTML

Guides, Tutorials, Tips, and Advice

• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML - A guide to "virtually every" HTML tag, including extensions, available in several languages
• A Basic HTML Style Guide - A guide for maintaining conformity in both internal (HTML) and external (display) document styles
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA) - A primer designed to teach the basics of authoring HTML documents
• Carlos' FORMS Tutorial - A brief, simple, and thoroughly dumbed-down guide to the HTML side of forms
• Elements of HTML Style - Tips and advice for creating legible code within HTML documents
• How do they do that with HTML? - A guide to flashy and amazing HTML tricks, from the simple to the truly bizarre
• HTML Authors' Board - Style guides, resource links, plus a board where you can post your HTML authoring questions
• HTML Demonstration - An interactive tutorial designed to teach the basics of HTML coding schemes
• HTML: The Complete Guide - Several articles on various aspects of HTML writing
• HTML Writers Guild - Information and resources from an organization of professional web page designers
• HTML 2.0 Example - A side-by-side display of text with HTML 2.0 tags and its on-screen appearance
• HTML 3.0 and Netscape 3.0 - Guidelines for the use of HTML 3.0 tags and Netscape 3.0 tags, offering alternative solutions to non-standard code
• HTML 3.0 for Netscape - A complete guide to the latest version of HTML, plus Netscape extensions
• Introduction to Frames - A concise tutorial on using the

HTML Authoring Software

• Doctor HTML - An on-line utility that performs a series of tests on HTML documents
• Hot Dog Web Editor - A powerful HTML composer available for IBM, Mac, and UNIX boxes
• HTML Grinder - Not an editor, but a collection of tools for making changes in large groups of HTML documents - a must for Web Masters
• HTML Markdown - A Macintosh utility that deletes HTML tags from downloaded documents
• HTML Markup - A "drag and drop" Macintosh utility for translating common text documents into HTML
• Live Markup - Beta-test a graphical WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows 95
• Mac's Big List of HTML Editors - An extensive list of HTML editing tools - freeware, shareware, and commercial packages
• Quark to HTML - Converts Quark Xpress documents into HTML 2.0 documents (Macintosh or UNIX only)
• SHE - The Simple HTML Editor - A hypercard stack for composing HTML documents
• Web Door - A WYSIWYG composition tool for the Macintosh
• Weblint - Examines documents and returns a list of potential errors in content and code

References

• Background Colors - A large collection of swatches with their hexcode equivalents for coloring backgrounds and text
• Color Center - A Java Applet that allows you to test colors, textures, and HTML fragments on-the-fly
• Definitive HTML Book List - Designed to be a comprehensive bibliography to resources on HTML and related topics
• HTML and ASCII - A table for translating ASCII characters into HTML codes
• HTML Assistance - Resource links and a quick reference for HTML authoring
• ISO Latin 1 Character Entities - A table of characters and their respective HTML codes
• Thalia's Guide: The Color Page - A complete guide to using colored backgrounds and text in HTML documents, complete with a hex database and conversion tool

Graphics

Information, Tips, and Advice

• Dip Pixelware - Textures - How-to advice for creating seamless background patterns

Imagemaps

• NCSA Imagemap Tutorial - An extensive tutorial on creating and using imagemaps
• Web Hotspots - A windows application for creating, editing, and testing imagemaps

Free Image Files

• The Clip Art Connection - A rich resource for public domain art (various file formats, may need convestion to GIF or JPEG)
• Dip Pixelware - Textures - Constantly refreshed selection of textures, plus how-to advice for creating your own
• Multimedia and Clip Art - A collection of clip art, icons, graphics, images, sounds, and even video/animation clips
• Zeus's Textures - Several colorful and striking background patterns

Scripts

• Access Counts - A tutorial with tips and advice for including counters in HTML documents
• Canned CGI - A handful of pre-written scripts (in Perl) and instructions for further research
• CGI Form Handling in Perl - A resource for information on CGI programming the Perl
• CGI Scripts - A repository of scripts for Windows NT and 95
• The Common Gateway Interface - An introduction and primer to the functioning of CGI scripts
• A Guide to HTML and CGI Scripts - A simple introduction to HTML tags and CGI scripts
• HTML-Based Interfaces - A guide to writing scripts in C, C++, PERL, and PASCAL
• An Introduction to CGI - Information for preparing CGI scripts
• Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms - An introduction, theoretical overview, and tutorial on creating forms and scripts
• Java Directory - Gamelan - Complete resources for programming in Java, including Java Scripts
• Matt's Script Archive - Offers a wide array of ready-to-use CGI scripts (written in Perl) free for you to use in your own site

Multimedia

• Alchemy Mindworks - Commercial software publisher whose "GIF Construction Set" provides a tool for creating simple, unified animations
• Java Language Tutorial - An on-line guide to writing programs in the Java language
• Java: Programming for the Internet - A complete resource for learning to program animations using the Java language
• RealAudio - Information about real-time audio on the Internet, plus playing and encoding software
• Shockwave Developer's Guide - Complete information for creating movies, animations, and interactive multimedia displays

WebMastry

• Building Internet Servers - Complete information for setting up Internet servers on a variety of platforms
• Internet Servers for Mac OS - Software and information for using a Macintosh workstation as an Internet server
• Spinning the Web - A simple guide for setting up an Internet server
• Two Servers, One Interface - A brief how-to for running multiple domains from a single machine
• Web Developer's Virtual Library - A massive collection of references for Web development
• Webmaster's Notebook - Information and tools for maintaining a Web site, plus tech notes on new technologies
• Webmasters Reference Library - Over 700 annotated links and additional articles for building, operating, and maintaining a Web site
• The World Wide Web Consortium - Offers "the universe of network-accessible information," which includes about everything you need to know for everything you want to do
• WWW and HTML JumpStation - The SingNet WWW Team presents a list of resources for developing Web pages, setting up servers, and more

JavaScript

What's the difference between Java and JavaScript? JavaScript has been called "Java for the Rest of Us", an easier, simpler language to use. Some of the more specific differences between Java and JavaScript are that JavaScript has an easier syntax and built-in functionality. JavaScript is embedded into the HTML page, but Java applets are accessed from an HTML Page.

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