WWW Authoring Information

Contents

• General HTML & WWW Guides
• Advanced HTML: Beyond HTML 2.0
• HTML Authoring Tools
• Info on Frequently Asked Questions
• Guides to Authoring Quality Pages
• Developing Multimedia, Images & Sounds
• Clickable Images
• HTML Forms
• CGI Scripts
• Perl
• Java
• JavaScript
• VRML
• SGML
• Miscellaneous
• Other WWW Authoring Indices
• USENET Newsgroups

General HTML & WWW Guides

• Introduction to HTML
  A good introduction to HTML authoring.
• Intermediate HTML
  A sequel with more advanced lessons.
• Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 (RFC 1866)
  The HTML standard.
• HTML Quick Reference
  A good cheat sheet.
• World Wide Web FAQ
  Check here for questions on all things Web.
• A Guide to URLs
  A comprehensive guide to Web locators.

Advanced HTML: Beyond HTML 2.0

Many of these features are not supported by all browsers.

• HTML 3.2 Features at a Glance
  The new HTML specification.
• Wilbur - HTML 3.2 [More information on this emerging standard.]
• HTML: Working and Background Materials
  An overview of the HTML group's activities.
• Netscape Extensions to HTML 2.0
  The first set of Netscape-isms.
• Netscape Extensions to HTML 3.0
  More Netscape-isms.
• Netscape Frames
  Netscape's FRAME design.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Support
  Microsoft's HTML extensions.
• The HTML3 Table Model (W3C Working Draft)
  The table definition from the W3C.
• Netscape's implementation of tables
  How Netscape does tables.
• HTML Reference
  A list of known elements, standard and non-.
• HTML Style Sheets
  Someday mainstream browsers may support these.

HTML Authoring Tools

• HTML Validation Services
  Tools to check pages on your server for errors.
• Using nsgmls to Validate HTML
  How to use an SGML validator on your HTML.
• HTML DTD Reference
  Browser through the SGML definition of HTML elements.
• HTML Converters
  How to convert various documents to HTML.
• HTML Editors
  Products that ease the creation of HTML.

Info on Frequently Asked Questions

• Server-side includes with the NCSA server
• Authentication and restricting access with the NCSA server
• HTML Access Counter [Requires CGI and server-side includes.]
• CronCount Access Counter [Doesn't require CGI or server-side includes.]
• Letting Users Search Your Web Pages

Guides to Authoring Quality Pages

• Guide to Web Style
• Web Authoring Style Guide
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
• WWW Style Manual
• User Interface Design for Sun's WWW Site
• The Bandwidth Conservation Society [Speeding up Web page delivery.]
• Web Development [A guide to design principles.]
• Creating a Successful Web Page

Developing Multimedia, Images & Sounds

• Graphics Viewers, Editors, Utilities, and Info
• The Clip Art Connection
• GIF Animation of the WWW
• Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resources
• Preparing Graphics for the Web
• Netscape Colors Page
• Audio File Formats Guide
• Sites with Audio Clips
• RealAudio
• MPEG Video Resources
• ActiveX Controls
• Index to Multimedia Information Services

Clickable Images

• Imagemap Help Page
• Client-Side Imagemap Draft Spec
• Software to create imagemaps
  • Macintosh: WebMap for the Macintosh
  • Windows & UNIX: MapEdit

HTML Forms

• Web Communications Forms Tutorial
• Carlos's FORMS Tutorial
• NCSA Forms Guide
• Creating a Mailto Form [If you don't have CGI capabilities.]
• Form-based File Upload in HTML (RFC 1867)Upload files within a Web browser.

CGI Scripts

• HTML-based Interfaces
• Yahoo's list of CGI scripts
• How to Do Forms
• Matt's Script Archive
• NCSA's CGI Overview
• CGI Security [Issues every CGI programmer should know.]
• LWGate WWW Page [CGI script for mailing lists.]
• Plug and Play Forms
• Form-based File Upload in HTML (RFC 1867)Upload files within a Web browser.

Perl

• The Perl Home Page
• The Perl FAQ
• The Perl Manual
• The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Perl 5 Info
• perlWWW

Java

• Java FAQ and Tutorial
• The Java Language Tutorial
• Java Developer's Corner
• Gamelan: The Directory and Registry of Java Resources
• Digital Expresso
• Java Applets on the Netscape Navigator 2.0
• Java API Documentation

JavaScript

• JavaScript Intro
• JavaScript Authoring Guide
• JavaScript FAQ
• JavaScript Index
• JavaScript: Simple Little Things to Add to Your Pages

VRML

• VRML Tutorial
• VRML 1.0 Specification
• The VRML Forum
• The VRML Repository
• VRML FAQ
• VRML Browsers

SGML

• What is SGML and Why Should I Use It?
• A Gentle Introduction to SGML
• The Wider World of SGML on the Web
• SoftQuad's Panorama Free SGML Browser
• SP SGML Parser
• SGML Web Page
• SGML and the Web

Miscellaneous

• The World Wide Web Consortium
• The WWW Security FAQ
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Specification (RFC 1738)
• Relative Uniform Resource Locators (RFC 1808)
• Internet Request for Comments (RFC) page
• ISO8859-1/HTML Stuff [HTML character representations.]
• Adobe Acrobat
• W3C Security Resources
• Web Servers

Other WWW Authoring Indices

• Yahoo WWW Index
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library on WWW Development
• Search Yahoo's WWW Index:

USENET Newsgroups

• Newsgroups related to authoring documents on the WWW:
  • comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
  • comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
  • comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
  • comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
• Newsgroups related to use of WWW browsers:
  • comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac
  • comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows
  • comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
  • comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
• Newsgroups related to WWW servers:
  • comp.infosystems.www.servers.mac
  • comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
  • comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
  • comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
• comp.infosystems.www.advocacy
• comp.infosystems.www.announce
• comp.infosystems.www.misc
• alt.hypertext
• comp.lang.perl.announce
• comp.lang.perl.misc
• comp.lang.java
• comp.lang.javascript
• comp.text.sgml