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Web Authoring Resources

David W. Baker's WWW Authoring Information

This site has a nice collection of links to other HTML resources on the Net.

WWW Design Guidelines
Tonya Browning has developed this page which has some excellent information about design principles on the Web.

The Cern Guide for Online Hypertext
This site offers an easy-to-use collection of advice on a number of Web style conventions.

Ian S. Grahm's Introduction to HTML
You will find here a well-presented collection of the basic HTML commands.

The Beginner's Guide to HTML,
from NCSA (one of the major intellectual centers of Web development.) This is a great place to start if you've never done Web page development.

Netscape's Communicator Site
This site provides links to information about layers, JavaScript, and other features supported by Netscape's more advanced browsers.

Netscape's Frame Authoring Guide
This site provides basic information about how to construct frame-based projects.

Netscape's JavaScript Authoring Guide
A helpful starting point for those who want to learn JavaScript.

Netscape's Table Authoring Guide
All the basic information about how to use tables in your pages is given here.

Matt's CGI Archive
This archive offers collection of several useful CGI scripts.

Patrick J. Lynch's Web Style Manual,
from Yale. This is not an introduction to HTML; rather, it's a discussion on how to create elegant and efficient HTML. It's organized by concept, rather than by specific elements of HTML code.

Sun Microsystem's Web Style Guide
This is a flexible and rhetorically sophisticated guide to Web style.

Douglas R. Jacobson's RGB Color Chart
A very useful utility for choosing font and background colors that will be consistent across machines and browsers.

TextureLand
A collection of background images that can be used on your Web site with simple acknowledgement of the source.