HTML--Starting points
- This area is aimed at beginners, but all these documents
are gateways to all levels of information. There are relatively
few unique resources, and these all will get you to roughly
the same places; so you will probably just want to find one
that works best for you.
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- From the folks at NCSA
- HTML Tutorial
- From Clarkson Technical Communications
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Introduction to HTML
- From Chuck Musciano, of Harris Corporation's Corporate Information Management Group
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The Web Developer's Library
- Extensive topical list of information for web developers, including demonstrations, tutorials, jobs, and a help desk.
HTML--Style Guides
- These are more advanced documents, designed to help you
once you know what you are doing, so you can do it well.
As a markup language, HTML does not give the author
the kind of control over the appearance of the document that
most publishers/providers of information are used to.
Further, as a new medium for providing information, there
are emerging norms for the look and feel of "well-executed"
HTML documents.
- How to create high-impact documents
- From the folks at Netscape Communications
- Bad Style Page
- From earth.com, learn what
not to do - NCSA's list of Guides to Writing Documents
- A good list that gets you to a wide variety of documents on how-to write good HTML
HTML--Reference Guides
- Most of these pages are general gateways to information. One of them may be better for you than the page you are now reading.
- The HTML Quick Reference Guide
- From the University of Kansas
- HTML Design Notebook
- From Dan Connolly, one of the originator HTML
- HTML, the complete guide
- From a person at Emory University
- Web Commnications Comprehensive Guide to Publishing on the Web
- From Web Communications
- NCSA's list of Guides to Writing Documents
- A good list that gets you to a wide variety of documents on how-to write good HTML
- Computers:World Wide Web:HTML
- From Yahoo@akebono.stanford.edu
- Running a World Wide Web Service
- Developed by Support Inititiative For Multimedia Applications
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WWW and HTML Tools
- Developed by the W3 Consortium
HTML--Technical Information and Documentation
- These are the more technical and official documents. Definitions of obscure terms and emering of extant standards can be found through these pages.
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A
description of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language
A Beginner's Guide to URLs
- From NCSA
Server Management
- World Wide Web
Guidelines
- This site houses a list of URLs for codes of practices and guidelines for establishment and continuing operation of Web sites. Most of the guidelines featured at this site are designed for UK higher education academic sites, but the information is still applicable to a general audience. The list is collated by Jane Kirk of Nottingham-Trent University.
PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language)
"Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. Perl provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming in the C language or one of the shells. Even though Perl is not yet a standard part of UNIX, it is likely to be available wherever you choose to work." (From Learning Perl from O'Reily & Associates)- Perl
Archive
- The North American Perl archive at the University of Florida. One-stop shopping at its finest
- Perl5 Information
- Up-to-the-minute information about the latest version of Perl, Perl5, from the source at Metronet. This site includes a hypertext version of the new Perl5 manual
- The Perl Manual
- From Carnegie Mellon
- Perl reference materials
- This is a guide to online and print materials to help you learn Perl. The online ones are accessible directly through this nice page from Northwestern University
The PERL packrats guide to PERL archives
- From Metronet
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts
"The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is an interface for running external programs, or gateways, under an information server. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers." (From NCSA's Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface)- A CGI
Programmer's reference
- CGI Documentation
- The standard from NCSA, includes the CGI primer
- Computers:World Wide Web:CGI-Common Gateway Interface
- From Yahoo@akebono.stanford.edu. Contains example scripts and archives, plus a few reference sites.
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