Creating Web Sites
HTML Reference | HTML & Web Tools | HTMLStandards | PageDesign
Frames | Colors | Gifs | Icons | Images | Backgrounds | Imagemaps
Forms | Perl | CGI Programing | JAVA & JAVASCRIPT
HTML REFERENCE
- WEB-AID: Ultimate source! HTML reference, color tables, backgrounds, buttons, bars, links to web-authoring sites, web-sites for submitting your URL, etc.
- HOW THEY DO THAT? :How do they do that with HTML?: Tip/tricks/etc. on neat things done on the web. From simple to complex.
- TUTORIAL: Nice introduction to HTML. Very easy. Also a companion tutorial for Intermediate level users.
- WEB DESIGNER:The Web Designer: Everything from links to creating your first homepage to Java and VRML. Very comprehensive.
- HTML COMPENDIUM: List of known tags, descriptions, etc.
- STYLE SHEETS:Cascading Style Sheets, level 1: Use to set style of HTML document, eg.colors of text, font-sizes, etc. Not a Netscapism. But will be implemented by MSIE.
- IHTML Ref: Internationalization / Localization
- HTML: Internationalization / Localization / UNICODE
- HTML how to
- Introduction to HTML - Table of Contents
- HTML Reference Manual
- HTML WRITERS GUILD
- www.webmonkey.com
HTML & WEB TOOLS
- Links to Several Useful Tools
- WebreferenceA useful page for searching web process tools.
- A Beginner's Guide to Web Page
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- HOW-TO for Velcro's Home Page
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library
- Tim's Web SSI HTML page
- Image Systems Company: HTML Clipart
- Browsers, Viewers and HTML Preparation Software for PCs
- Weblint Home Page
- HTML Easy! Pro
- WEB Wizard for Windows
- Kenn Nesbitt's WebEdit HTML Editor for Windows
- Web Developer's Virtual Library: HTML_Editors
- SoftQuad: HoTMetaL PRO Features Information
- HTML CHECKER:Weblint : Forms-based interface for checking HTML code.
- Doctor HTML: On-line HTML syntax checker
HTML STANDARDS
- COPYRIGHT: Copyright Considerations for Your Web Page
- HTML 3.0 draft. HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0
- WWW CONSORTIUM: The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project Official source for HTML, WWW, etc. Best starting place. Includes link to STYLE SHEETS, and guides/instructions for creating web pages.
Guides
- The NCSA HTTPd Home Page
- GUIDE : Virtual Library/CyberWeb: HTML Great meta-source for HTML. Links to other sourcers.
- GUIDE: An Information Provider's Guide To HTML Torkington, NZ guide..
- GUIDE: Style Guide for Online Hypertext CERN 'official' guide. By Tim Berniers-Lee.
- GUIDE TO SOURCES: OneWorld/SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation - Page 1
- GUIDE TO SOURCES: Web Communications - Publishing on the Web Sites re. information for publishing on WWW. Lots of good tips. Comprehensive.
- HTML PRIMER: HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials Style guide/protocol/servers. Up to date re.html3, 4, etc.
PAGE DESIGN & STYLE
- SUN STYLE GUIDE:Guide to Web Style: Welcome :Powerful example of use of tables!
- WWW RULES/STANDARDS:ANU - Inf.Quality, Guidelines & Standards Home Page: ONE STOP SHOPPING: Quality-control:Comprehensive source re. quality-related rules/standards/management re. WWW and the Internet in general. Includes rules for electronic references, WWW page design, Mark-up language, WWW Information facilities design, etc.
- TIPS FOR ADVANCED WWW DESIGNERSS: Net Tips for Writers and Designers: VERY IMPORTANT SITE. Fonts, graphics, etc.
- STANDARDIZATION RE. WEB PAGES: STANFORD ;Stanford WWW Pages - some standardization: List of guidelines to achieve a modicum of standardization for web page at Stanford.
- MANUAL FOR WWW PAGE DESIGN: YALE:Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual: Design manual for Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
- WWW:Making a WWW Flop: What NOT to do when making a web-site
- WEB DESIGN: Great source for info re. computer graphics, graphic design, marketing, etc.
- Alan Richmond's Seminars
- CEAS Web Guidelines : The New CEAS Policy on Web Sites
FRAMES
- EXAMPLE PAGE: NETSCAPE 2.0: USEMAP: Anatomy of an Eye Client-base imagemap.
- FRAMES:NETSCAPE 2.0: Frames Frames and multiple-open URLs.
- TUTORIAL: Netscape Frames
- Hagan's World of HTML: Frames
GRAPHICS: COLORS
- COLOR CALCULATOR:Color Swatches Simply click on color chart and get the Netscape-compatible color code. It's as simple as that.
- COLOR CUBE:Netscape's Color Cube revealed Explanation of the color cube, and why Netscape limited to 216 colors. Tutorial. Cube to be used for background/text colors that will be true in Netscape.
- COMPLEAT HTML GUIDE:Interactive Graphics Generation Page Really fantastic. Wonderful leads to PERL, HTML, graphics, forms, etc. Seems to include only the easiest and the best.
GIFS
- GIFS/JPEGS:How To Create High-Impact Documents
- GIFS/TRANSPARENT:Transparent Background Images
- GIF INDEX:Index of /gif_images/
Animated GIFs
GRAPHICS: ICONS
- WWW IMAGES:Images (from AIcons) BEST SOURCE for standard icons/buttons re. WWW! BUT INACCESSIBLE FOR DOWNLOAD VIA NETSCAPE!
- ICONS/BUTTONS/buttons:Rutgers University Network Services WWW Icons and Logos Searched and selected.
- ICONS:The World Wide Web Power Index - Icons Explored: Icons at Rice/Syed's/
- LAL Gifs for Buttons Searched and selected.
- IMAGES, ICONS AND FLAGS
- NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows Home Page
- Directory of /pub/pc/win3/icons Huge directory. Ftp only.
- Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar
GRAPHICS: IMAGES
- WWW GRAPHICS:Graphics formats for WWW WWW Consortium's pages on graphics. Best source. Everything you want to know. More technical than Zhang's contribution.
- MULTIMEDIA BEGINNERS GUIDE:http://ac.dal.ca/~dong/contents.htm Great beginners guide. Elementary questions answered re. downloading, etc. Difference between Shareware/Freeware/etc. Includes sound/video as well as graphics.
- GRAPHICS VIEWERS/UTILITIES:Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info
- THUMBNAILS:HTML Writers Guild article: "Creating Teeny Photo Icons" Great article on how to produce thumbnails, ie. small icons from large pictures, while maintaining a reasonable quality.
- GRAPHICS GENERATOR:Interactive Graphics Generation Page Create/alter graphics online!!!! Wonderful source for ALL re. HTML!
- ANTI-ALIASING:Anti-Aliasing for W3 Detailed instructions. Uses CorelDraw and Windows. Excellent description with graphics.
- GRAPHICS:FAQ list
- IMAGE FILE FORMATS:CICA Graphics List Image File Formats
- WWW PICTURES:A Quick Tour of World Wide Web Pictures
- GRAPHIC SYMBOLS:Graphical Symbols Compliant to IEC Standard 417
- WWW Image Examples Includes: buttons, lines, balls, bitmaps, symbols, squares, etc.
- MOVIE/SOUND VIEWERS:Windows Helper Applications
- MPEG(movies), WHAM (audio), NCSA (telnet). Where to ftp from. Also tutorial re. setting up Netscape files for sound.
- ADOBE ACROBAT:Acrobat and the Web Where to get Acrobat Reader.
- FAQ: MULTIMEDIA:alt.binaries FAQ re. binaries. Pictures (eg. code, decode, jpegs, compression, .gif conversion, etc. etc.) Also infor re. multimedia and sounds. Extensive source.
- 3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS:3D Web Home page. Meta-index.
IMAGEMAPS
- MAPEDIT Source of Mapedit. current version 2.1. Does client-side imagemaps as well as server-side imagemaps.
- IMAGEMAP TUTORIAL:NCSA Imagemap Tutorial BEST TUTORIAL IF NCSA HTTPD. Makes it look like a piece of cake.Must download/install imagemap.c on httpd.
- MAPMAKER:MapMaker A WYSIWYG editor for imagemaps for Windows. (X Windows?)
- Imagemap Help Page -- Instruction
FORMS
- FORMS TUTORIAL:Carlos' FORMS Tutorial 1 This is a FANTASTIC source. Step x Step tutorial re. forms. All online and intelligible.
- FORMS:Mosaic for X version 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support Forms overview. and test site.
- CGI Form Handling in Perl
PERL
- PERL METASOURCE:Web Developer's Virtual Library: CGI Starting place for PERL. Esp. forms.
- PERL:HOW-TO:UF/NA Perl Archive Online textbook with examples for writing PERL script.
- PERL:Mosaic for X version 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support CGI form-handling in PERL. Several documents (samples) re. PERL for forms.
JAVA & JAVASCRIPT
- Intel's free JAVA applets. Dazzle your peers with special effects on your homepage. You need to register, but the applets are free.
- Java/HotJava DI-UFPE Home Page
- Java Information
- Frequently Asked Questions about Java
- Java/HotJava Mail Archives
- Interface Technologies On-line Training Center
- CyberWeb SoftWare
