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Web Authoring

This page deals with the content of Web documents. For CGI etc see Web Programming.

General Guides

WebReference.com. An annotated catalogue of Web authoring resources. Mecklermedia.

Yahoo!: Internet: Site Development. When you need to know more.
Web Design Considerations. A few screenfulls of advice from the School of Arts on content, organization and visual feel. Bill Hart, University of Tasmania.
Jon Udell on Web Design. Lessons learnt in designing the Byte Magazine Web site.
Art and Zen of Web Sites. Excellent advice on Web publishing. Tony Karp, TLC Systems.
Creating Killer Sites. The form side of the form versus content debate. Advanced design advice and commentary from David Siegel. The tables tutorial is a Godsend.
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide. Applying the lessons of twelve years of multimedia software design, graphic interface design, and book design to the new medium of Web pages and site design. Academically orientated and a little long-winded for most readers. Patrick Lynch, Yale University, and Sarah Horton, Dartmouth College.
10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained. Informed explanation and advice about what copyright allows on the Web by the originator of rec.humor.funny. Brad Templeton.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The international industry consortium which makes recommendations on HTML and WWW standards. Directed by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW. The W3C documents define how HTML should behave in compliant browsers, but do not give introductory tutorials.
- HTML 4.0 Elements. Alphabetical index with brief descriptions of the language elements in HTML 4.0.
- Cascading Style Sheets.
NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML.
HTML Overview by Russ Jones. Excerpted from the book Managing Internet Information Services by Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus & Adrian Nye. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
HTML Quick Reference. Includes most of the useful tabs. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Composing Good HTML, by James Tilton, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Macromedia. Produce Dreamweaver software for html editing and web site management.
Microsoft Frontpage. Personal web site manager and web page editor. Many features to maintain a moderately sized site.

FastPDF. Online conversion of Word documents to PDF. Good service and not expensive but requires credit card.
GoBCL. Free online conversion of Word documents to PDF. BCL Technologies.
ps2pdf.com. Free online conversion of Postscript documents to PDF. Recommended.

Icon Bazaar. The most comprehensive and useful icon site I have visited, but now a subscription site. By Randy Ralph.
QBullets. A collection of 22 icons that attach to hypertext links to indicate their function. Matterform Media.
ColorBrewer. Online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. Cindy Brewer.