Appendix A

HTML Learning Resources on the Internet

General HTML Information

The 24-Hour HTML Café (The online companion to this book)

http://www.mcp.com/sams/books/235-8/

Microsoft Internet

http://www.microsoft.com/internet

Netscape Communications

http://home.netscape.com

The Developer's JumpStation

http://oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html

The HTML Writer's Guild

http://www.hwg.org/

The Web Developer's Virtual Library

http://WWW.Stars.com/

Netscape's HTML Assistance Pages

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

The World Wide Web FAQ

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

Tim Berners-Lee's Style Guide

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

Web Pages that Suck

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

The HTML Guru

http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/index.html

Carlos' Forms Tutorial

http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~carlosp/cs317/cft.html

Recommended Software

Paint Shop Pro (A highly recommended Windows graphics editor)

http://www.jasc.com

GIFTool (UNIX)

http://www.homepages.com/tools/

Perl Library to Manage CGI and Forms

http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/cgi-lib/

Mapedit (A tool for Windows and X11 for creating image map map files)

http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/

HotSpots (A Windows image map tool)

http://www.cris.com/~automata/index.html

Software Archives

Shareware.com (Best source for almost any type of free or inexpensive software for all types of computers)

http://www.shareware.com

The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software

http://www.tucows.com/

Dave Central Software Archive

http://www.davecentral.com/

Cool Helpers Page

http://www.teleport.com/~alano/coolhelp.html

WinSite Windows Software Archive

http://www.winsite.com/

Graphics

Graphics Wonderland

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1272/index.html

Kira's Icon Library

http://fohnix.metronet.com/~kira/icongifs/

Anthony's Icon Library

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/index.html

Barry's Clip Art Server

http://www.barrysclipart.com

256 Color Square

http://www59.metronet.com/colors/

Color Triplet Chart

http://www.phoenix.net/~jacobson/rgb.html

Imaging Machine

http://www.vrl.com/Imaging/

Frequently Asked Questions About JPEG

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg-faq/faq.html

Frequently Asked Questions from comp.graphics

http://www.primenet.com/~grieggs/cg_faq.html

Dick Oliver's Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter

http://netletter.com/

Multimedia and Virtual Reality

RealAudio

http://www.realaudio.com

Streamworks

http://www.xingtech.com

QuickTime

http://quicktime.apple.com

VDOLive

http://www.vdolive.com

Macromedia's Shockwave

http://www.macromedia.com/

NCompass Plug-in for Netscape Navigator

http://www.ncompasslabs.com/

Multimedia Authoring Languages

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/lang.html

The VRML Repository

http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/

JavaSoft

http://www.javasoft.com/

Gamelan (Java resource registry)

http://www.gamelan.com/

TechWeb's ActiveXpress

http://www.techweb.com/activexpress/

Standards and Specifications

The Home of the WWW Consortium

http://www.w3.org/

Secure HTTP Information

http://www.eit.com/projects/s-http/

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Information

http://www.netscape.com/info/security-doc.html

Current List of Official MIME Types

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types

HTML Validators

HTML Validation Service

http://www.webtechs.com/html-val-svc/

Htmlchek

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/htmlchek.html

Lvrfy (Link checker)

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~crow/lvrfy.html

Weblint

http://www.unipress.com/cgi-bin/WWWeblint

Directories with HTML Information

Yahoo! World Wide Web

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/World_Wide_Web/

HotWired's WebMonkey

http://www.webmonkey.com/

Cool Site of the Day

http://cool.infi.net/

HTML and WWW Tools Index

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Tools/

Internet Resources Meta-Index

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html

Web Service Providers List

http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/leasing.html

Lycos Web Publishing Index

http://a2z.lycos.com/Internet/Web_Publishing_and_HTML/

InfoSeek HTML Index

http://www.infoseek.com/Internet/HTML

TechWeb's HTML Authoring Tools

http://www.techweb.com/tools/html/