More about HTML

There are numerous basic tutorials for HTML as well as style manuals, graphic and icon archives, guides for advanced techniques, and HTML editors. Three comprehensive lists of resources dealing with publishing on the Web are Building Quality WWW Resources, Quality, Guidelines & Standards, WebMaster Magazine's Internet Resources and Webmaster's Reference Library.

Basic tutorials & guides

• HTML Goodies
  "This site, provided by Joe Burns, contains a veritable gold mine of HTML-related tutorials for both beginning and advanced web developers. The site is highlighted by HTML tutorials, which include basics, Java, Javascript, CGI, tables, forms, frames, and image maps, among many others. For the beginner, there is a seven step HTML tutorial. The site also contains over 450 submitted Javascripts, and a library of free images."

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  The original HTML guide created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  Listing of tags included in the HTML 3.2 specifications.

• Intermediate Hypertext Markup Language Features Class outline from Rick Ell's C & C class on intermediate HTML. Covers the basics of creating tables, using backgrounds and changing fonts.

• Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating WWW Pages
  An extensive tutorial covering basic instruction to frames, forms and java, created by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction at the Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona.

• Introduction to HTML
  Tutorial providing basic instruction in HTML created by Eric A. Meyer at Case Western Reserve University.

• HTML Tutors and Beginner's Guides
  Extensive listing of tutorials and guides on HTML plus icon and image archives.

• Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
  his document is not an in-depth HTML guide, but is instead a general introduction to Web resource creation.

Style Manuals

• Web Style Manual
  The style manual of the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media. One of the most thorough, includes a bibliography.

• Guide to Web Style
  Sun Microsystems guide to web publishing.

• Composing Good HTML
  Style considerations written by Eric Tilton and revised from those published in Web Weaving.

• Style Guide for Authors of Web Pages
  Guide used by the University of Maryland at College Park Libraries.

• Making a WWW Flop
  Australian National University's tongue-in-cheek guide to the worst practices.

Graphic & icon archives

• Graphics for the WWW
  Collection of information and software dealing with using graphics on the Web.

• Icons
  Yahoo's extensive collection of icon sites.

• Clip Art
  Yahoo's collection of clip art sites.

HTML editors

• HTML Editor Reviews

• AOLpress

• Hot Dog

• HTML Assistant Pro

• Internet Assistant for Word

• Yahoo's list of editors for MS Windows

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