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Appendix D WWW Bibliography

by John Jung

Because the World Wide Web came from the Internet, many people have had a chance to look at, and comment on it. There are a lot of documents about HTML, the Web, and Web authoring, and much of it is available on the Web itself. This is just a partial listing of some of the more useful sources. Because the Internet and the World Wide Web are evolving entities, they will probably move sometime in the future. You'll generally be informed of any such moves by the Web site itself. But if you have problems finding one of these documents, feel free to use one of the Web's many search engines.

The quality of these documents varies greatly with each author's flavor and research. Be sure to take a look at who wrote each document to determine how much weight you should give it. Some of these documents are just one person's opinion or perception about a particular topic. Also, many of these pages have hypertext links to related documents.

RFC 1866-Hypertext Markup Language 2.0

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1866.html

This is the official specification for HTML 2.

Netscape's Extensions to HTML 2

http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html

A list of Netscape extensions to the HTML 2 specifications, by Netscape.

Netscape's Extensions to HTML 3

http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions_3.html

A list of Netscape extensions to the HTML 3 specifications, by Netscape.

HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0

http://webreference.com/html3andns/

This is a page that shows the HTML 3 and Netscape extensions that are in common use. It also provides ways to get around Netscape's extensions with HTML 3 tags.

Microsoft Internet Explorer Extensions

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/IE20HTML.htm

This is a list of all of Microsoft's proposed extensions to HTML. It has links relating to its extensions.

ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) Table

http://www.uni-passau.de/~ramsch/iso8859-1.html

This is the official list of special characters and the HTML codes that represent them.

FAQ: The Ten Commandments of HTML

http://www.visdesigns.com/design/commandments.html

This is a good list of ten things you should do or watch out for when creating your home page.

A CGI Programmer's Reference

http://www.best.com/~hedlund/cgi-faq/

This is a good reference for up and coming CGI programmers.

FAQ-World Wide Web

http://www.boutell.com/faq/

A good overview of the Web with a special section on Web authoring.

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

One of the many introductory guides to HTML for new Web authors. It comes from the creators of Mosaic.

HTML Bad Style Page

http://www.earth.com/bad-style/

Here are some things you shouldn't do in a Web page.

Composing Good HTML

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh/

This home page shows ways to make your home page look good with any browser.

Crash Course in HTML

http://www.nashville.net/~templedf/crash/CrashCourse.html

For the absolute HTML beginner, this is a good place to start.

Style Guide for Online Hypertext

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html

An on-line guide for how to create Web pages that deliver your message effectively.

How Do They Do That with HTML?

http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/index.html

This is a page that shows you some of the neat tips and tricks you can do with HTML.

HTML Authors Toolkit

http://www.obscure.org/~jaws/htmltoolkit.html

This page has a collection of programs that HTML authors should have.

Macmillan's HTML Workshop

http://www.mcp.com/general/workshop/

This is a great online guide for HTML authors of all skill levels.

Index: HTML Tags

http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html

This provides a fairly comprehensive list of HTML tags.

BackGround of the Day

http://web-star.com/botd/botd.html

A Web site that provides a different background image every day.

Background Colors

http://www.infi.net/wwwimages/colorindex.html

A page that has a collection of color names, and corresponding values. You can plug in the values for any color you might want to use, into the appropriate field.