NCSA
(at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
The Sandia
National Laboratories' own HTML Reference Manual which details all current HTML markup tags and
their usage.
HTML
Editors:
Most Internet
related programmes i.e. FTP programmes and HTML editors are reviewed and available from
FTP
Programmes:
Paint Shop Pro - shareware, is
wonderful for creating/editing gifs and jpgs, for making gif backgrounds transparent and
for screen capture.
Microsoft
offer a wonderful free programme called Gif
Animator - (1.2MB) for combining gifs into one animated gif.
Learn how to create
gif animations.
Two letter country codes that are used at the end of email
addresses
The codes for unusual and accented characters
The The Web Developer's Virtual Library (WDVL) is a comprehensive
illustrated encyclopedia of web technology for webmasters, designers and developers. The
WDVL is a well-organised goldmine of tutorials, demos,and links to great resources.
For
comprehensive information about WWW, start with http://www.w3.org.
A Word Wide
Web Frequently Asked Questions file is available at http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/wwwfaq.txt,
while updates are posted to news.answers, comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.infosystems.wais
and alt.hypertext.
A valuable
collection of FAQs from the HTML Writers Guild can be found at http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/index.html
The Virtual
Library of WWW Development http://www.stars.com/Vlib/
is a must for Web page developers. Topics span Authoring, Annotation, CGI, Database,
Forms, HTML, HTML Editors, Imagemaps, Images and Icons, Java, MIME, Perl, SGML and CyberVR
to Mail, News, Protocols, Security, and much more.
A collection
pointers to tools, technical documentation, and standards, both current and under
development, for World Wide Web and the Internet in general, is at http://www.mcs.com/~lunde/web/aboutwww.html
Make gifs as
small as possible by using Raspberry Hill's Gif Wizard.
Just submit the url of the gif here:
Run your web
pages through Bobby http://www.cast.org/bobby/, a
free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible to people with
disabilities. It also finds HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying
correctly on different web browsers.
Need more
pictures, icons or animated gifs? Try http://www.iconbazaar.com
Also, make
sure you visit the Best Viewed with any Browser Campaign at http://server.berkeley.edu/~cdaveb/anybrowser.html.
Please forward any link suggestions to Wickham Weblinks. We also need links for useful software for other platforms.
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