Web Publishing Related Links

Want to know more about the Web and Web Surfing? See Intro to Web Surfing and Searching. It has links to introductory and survey sites on Web and Web surfing topics, including a number of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

• General
  • Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, this starts from the beginning and goes pretty much to the end, written for beginners.
• About HTML
  • NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
  • ACCC seminar materials:
    • Introduction to HTML
    • HTML Intermediate
  • HTML from the W3C, including HTML 3.2 and the newer HTML 4.0
    • official HTML 3.2 site
    • official HTML 4 site
• About URLs
• The basics: NCSA Beginner's Guide to URLs
• More details: LivingInternet.com's Addresses
• Other references: internet.com's Webopedia URL
• Personal computer Web editors; ACCC seminar materials
• Web Authoring with Netscape Composer
• Several seminars on Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Web Authoring Claris HomePage
  
  
• Special characters (including foreign language characters) in Web pages
  • Microsoft's ISO Latin-1 Character Set table
  • Using special characters in HTML: Latin-1 Character Set for HTML
  • Alan Wood's Unicode Resources Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML

• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Accessibility Guidelines
  • CAST's Bobby -- a Web tool that analyzes Web page accessibility is based on W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Useit - Jakob Nielson's site on usability.
• materials for the ACCC seminar Web Page & Graphic Design

• programming tools for Web pages: cgi scripts, perl, java, javascript, ActiveX, VRML
  • ACCC ITL's programming tools and languages for Web page
  • CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts and perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language):
    • CGI and Perlwrap at UIC
    • NCSA's CGI
    • The CGI Book
    • Perl language WWW home page
    • perl man page
• Java, Javascript, and ActiveX
  • materials for ACCC seminarintroduction to JavaScript
  • DevX.com Java
  • Java WWW home page (from Sun)
• X3D/VMRL (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
  • Web | 3D Consortium

• About.com's HTML guide: http://html.about.com/ About.com's HTML guide, Jennifer Kyrnin, provides basic information about all aspects of HTML and Web publishing and keeps up on new developments.
• And a whole bunch more ACCC Web publishing seminars; see the ACCC Seminars Web site for a complete list.
• Yahoo's HTML guides, tutorials, and reference material

• John December's Internet Overview. He's been working on his Internet tools pages since 1992, and it shows.
• About.com's Internet/Online directory, which includes links to lots of useful info, including Internet for Beginners. The Internet/Online index is on the left, the fourth box down.
• Tony Sanders' Web Information Guide. It has links to information for Net Surfers, Web Authors, Webmasters, and Web developers, and, just in case something's missing, links to other Web guides.