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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.

How to Start/Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide. Christopher Heng.
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.

HTML for Beginners by Scott Chow.
HTML Beginner's Tutorial by Robert Mening.
HTML for beginners by WhoIsHostingThis.com.
Composing Good HTML by Eric Tilton.
HTML Overview by Tutorials Point.
A Detailed HTML Overview. A list of links by IT Hare.
HTML Cheat Sheet by Robert Mening. Includes HTML5.
HTML5 cheat sheet by makeawebsitehub.com.
HTML Cheatsheet by digital.com.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). An international community developing web standards. The W3C technical reports define how HTML should behave but do not give introductory tutorials.

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.