Liston's HTML References

• Hypertext Style Guides
  • Guides
  • HTML: The Basics
  • HTML: Beyond the Basics
  • Advanced HTML: Databases, CGI, Imagemaps
• HTML Editors
• HTML: Graphics, Icons, Backgrounds and Such
  • Icons, Gifs, Jpegs
  • Backgrounds, Background Colors
• HTML Validity Checkers

Hypertext Style Guides

Some Items are Guides, Some are Links to Lists of Guides

• HTML Reference Library - Windows 3.1 and 95 Help File with the most up-to-date information on HTML tags by Stephen Le Hunt.
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML Programing - designed to easily teach HTML Home/Web Page design to people of at all levels; has step by step proceedures on publishing your Home/Web Page after it is completed.
• Create Your Own Home Page by Tonya and Adam Engst.
• Composing Good HTML by James Tillman : Has good sections on errors.
• Elements of HTML Style : Short and Sweet!
• How do they do that with HTML? - This page explains all of the "tips and tricks" of HTML as well as Netscape's HTML extensions.
• HTML Manual of Style : From Larry Aronson, Ziff-Davis press, April 1995
• Hypertext Places : From McMaster University; a delightful site, one of the best. You could spend a year just reading all of the links!
• Macmillan's HTML Workshop - Dedicated to passing on info about the HTML standard. Links are organized according to users' skill levels. An HTML-oriented hypermail forum and Macmillan's free HTML guide.
• STEIS Style Guide for Web Authors : From the Space Telescope Science Institute
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Style Sheet from Cornell University : One page. Follow the links to Yale and OneWorld ("Helpful Documents for HTML Style")
• Wade's HTML Tutorial - Info and examples of page setup, text, images, links, imagemaps, mailto, and Netscape extensions.
• WEB-Doctor!, The - Learn to make a homepage with links, pictures, backgrounds.
• What Every Information Provider Should Know : From the University of Pennsylvania.
• WWW Homepage Resources : Some very good pointers. Be sure to read this one.

HTML: The Basics

• SureSite HTML tools A nice listing of on-line tools for authoring.
• Case Western Reserve University's Introduction to HTML including self-test quizzes at the end of many chapters. This is a fantastic course on line!!
• Crash Course on Writing Documents for the Web : This is great.
• HTML Quick Reference Guide : A good reference to have handy while writing HTML.
• HTML 2.0 Specification : This is the document which defines HTML, so you can't get much closer to the source. You could learn HTML from this document.
• HTML Elements : A fairly good summary. Too terse to be a first exposure, though.
• The Library of Congress' Refernces to HTML : Loaded with links to the specifications for version 2.0 and 3.0.
• WebCommunication's HTML Guide (course) on line!
• The World Wide Web Unleashed: Basic HTML : An excerpt from a book on the Web.

HTML: Beyond the Basics

• HTML Course is an on-line "course" in Web Developer E-zine. This is a good article. Take a look at the great table-based calendar!! I don't know how long it will be out there to access, as it is a periodical.
• HTML Design Guide : A More Advanced "Quick Reference" Guide. This may be the best single quick-reference that there is!
• HTML Guide By Duke Hilard of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. One of the most comprehensive sites.
• THE Master Page on HTML : From the folks who designed it. With links to many good sites.
• Netscape's 1.1's Extensions to HTML : You may want to take a look at this to see what is non-standard.
• Netscape's Guide to Creating Net Sites : Links to HTML information. Points to some of the other sites listed here.
• Style Guide for online hypertext : Don't let the name fool you -- this is an HTML reference, not a style guide in the usual sense. This is from the folks who brought you the Web itself, so it's authoritative.

Advanced HTML: Databases, CGI, Imagemaps

• Creating a Home Page : Enough of these boring, technical sites! This site is specifically for their own (Unix) users, but you can learn things at all levels from them, they've got great links and their users have wonderful, grahical home pages!
• A CGI Programmer's Reference : Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
• The Common Gateway Interface : A CGI reference at NCSA.
• ImageMap Help Page : This one is small, but the links are very useful.
• ImageMap Tutorial at University of Baltimore : Specifically for Unix or Windows. Teaches you how to use MapEdit in Windows. This is very basic and simple.
• An Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms : From the University of Kansas.
• NCSA Tutorials :Great info on virtual hosting & security
• WebEdge : This site is designed specifically for the Mac WebStar (or Mac HTTP) server administrator, but has neat stuff for any Home Page author. Includes CGI code samples.
• Yahoos's Pointers : Includes pointers to sites and software tools.

HTML Editors

Lists of Editors

• HyperNews' List : A list of editors on various platforms with comments on the features of each editor and hot-links to sources.
• Stroud's Consumate Winsock Apps List : A list of editors (and other applications) for Windows with excellent reviews of each.
• The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software : FTP site for tons of software including HTML Editors

HTML: Graphics, Icons, Backgrounds and Such

Icons, Gifs, Jpegs

• Gif Wizard : Optimize the size of your gif images for faster loading and smaller size.
• Anthony's Images: Balls, buttons, diamonds, fancy lines.
• Department of Ocean Engineering, Denmark : Bullets, Buttons, Icons and Lines.
• Four 11 Graphics: Balls, Buttons, Lines, Checkmarks; all in bright primary colors. The balls have transparent backgrounds.
• Geoff's Graphics: Fast link from FSU with Icons and Bars, a little bit of everything.
• SaberSpace: Lines and bars.
• Traff’s Graphics Page: Really neat ball icons, not transparent, though.
• Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resources: The tools that you need to work with graphics.

Backgrounds, Background Colors

• Backgrounds and Colour Notes: An explanation of background color codes and a color chart.
• Clevel Computers': A very good, very large collection. Many are photos carefully adjusted for "tiling".
• KPT Backgrounds Archive
• Pattern Land!: Links to many good graphic sites.
• Paul's Backgrounds: Nice embossed Backgrounds.
• Russ's Backgrounds and Digits: One of the best!

HTML Validity Checkers

• HTML Validation Service : Enter the URL of each of your pages and have them checked. Choose "Mozilla" as the level to check against, if you are writing for Netscape.
• Yahoo's List of Validation Checkers.
• URL Notification Service : Enter the URL of each of the pages that you point to and this service notifies you if one of these links change. There is another utility that will check an entire page at one time, but it needs to be run locally on a Unix server.