General Topics
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Internet Newsgroups
Interesting Tangents
Magazines
Specifically Graphics
Style Guides
and General Web Publishing Information
Tools
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General Internet Topics
- WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation, a useful and thorough collection of links about all sorts of topics of interest to Web-page authors.
- Intellectual Value, a reprint of a fascinating article by Esther Dyson.
- Calendar of Technology Events
- BYTE Network Project,
list of articles about the Internet, the Web, and related topics
- Doing
Business on the Internet, compiled by librarians at the U.S. Library
of Congress
- BUBL Information Service, WWW and Networking Guides, Papers, Projects, and Tools.
- National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) Homepage
- What actually
is the Internet?, an episodic introduction to the Internet for businesses
(by BBN Planet).
- Ask Dr. Internet Index, an online newsletter in question and answer
format. Basic and advanced questions for anyone publishing on the Web.
- Internet Resources,
a monthly electronic newsletter from the Heriot-Watt University
- Developing a Quality Presence on
the Internet, an online seminar
- HowBusiness Does Business on the Internet
- The
Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette
- Internet Guidelines
and Culture
- STIMULUS
Internet 101: Lessons
- Learning Web, University
of Texas. Includes segments on learning to use the Web, learning to publish
on the Web, and learning to administer a Web server.
- WWW Information, provided
by the University of Florida.
- Measuring the Growth
of the Web
- Big
Dummy's Guide to the Internet
- The Webmaster's Guild
- The Complete
Intranet Resource
- Muffy's Bookmarks. See the section on "The Web" later in the page for Web-resource links.
- Microsoft's
Internet Tutorial
- WWW
Resources
HyperText Markup Language
(HTML) Information
Internet Newsgroups
Interesting Tangents
- Internet Resources for Writers
- Online Resources for Writers
- Internet Publicity Resources. Great site! with excellent information on promotion.
- Web-Cite. Excellent resource for scholars. To quote from the home page, "Our knowledge-base currently contains links to 2227 articles, book reviews, conference papers and hypertexts."
- "Sample Contracts"
for freelance Web Page Designers, WEBsurf, Issue 5
- Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet
- The Copyright Website
- Index of Resources
for History. WOW! Also includes links to various journals and associations.
- The Reporter's
Guide to Internet Mailing Lists
- Learning
Styles, AskERIC InfoGuide
- List
of USENET FAQs
- FAQ
for alt.usage.english, a huge and not-so-pretty text-only page containing
fascinating information about English
- The LIST: Internet
Service Providers
- Perl
Tutorial
- The Internet Book Shop, alarge internet-based bookshop in the UK
- Effective
Use of the Web for Education: Design Principles and Pedagogy
- Awesome
Lists, an index of over 50 Web sites that the index's Webmaster qualifies as "Truly Awesome" or just "Awesome."
- Ergonomics
and Human Computer Interaction, back issues of the System Concepts,
Ltd., online newsletter
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Really. All of it! Online!
- The SGML Web
Page, Robin Cover's famous Web site
- The Volition Home Page, source
for free stuff, lots and lots of links, and a generally exhaustive site
- The Elements
of Style, the book online
- World Wide Web Consortium Homepage
- English
Electronic Library. Great compendium of resources for scholars, graduate
students, and professional writers.
Magazines
These are free, non-subscription magazines on the Web. There are many
magazines that you can pay to subscribe to for Web-based reading, but I
do not list them here.
- Web Developer's Journal
- Netscape World, readers' choice of must-read articles from recent issues.
- CMP Technology Network, a link page to magazines about various facets of computing.
- Interactive Week
- Internet World
- WebMaster
- Netsurfer Digest
- EC&I, an information
source for multimedia, DTP, internet, graphic arts, and imaging
- New
Media
- Web Developer
- Communication Arts
- Publish
- Web Week
- Wired Magazine
- Interactions
Online, new visions of human-computer interaction (an ACM publication)
- From Now On, an
educational technology journal
- Ziff Davis,
various computer magazines published by Ziff Davis
- Byte
Specifically Graphics
Style Guides
and General Web Publishing Information
Tools for the Internet and Books and References, provided by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication
- Style Guides, an annotated listing of style guides for Web-page authors with useful "see also" links.
- HTML-HELP. This page is not an example of good web page design, but it is a useful page. Probably hundreds of links to all sorts of useful information about design, tools, guides to writing HTML, graphics, CGI stuff, SGML, script archives, and all sorts of other miscellany.
- The ULTIMATE Desktop Publishing Resource. You don't know the half of it! It's exhaustive. It has so much interesting and useful stuff and covers such a broad range of topics that you'll spend hours there. Links to tools, graphics, design, forums, and on and on...
- Producing the User-Centric Web Site, an article by Richard Hall of Netscape Communications Corporation
- useit.com: Usable Information Technology, Jakob Nielsen's Web Site. It's packed with his columns, various articles, and all sorts of other usability-related information. Since Jakob has been focusing on Web design and Web technology lately, you'll find several articles and columns on these topics.
- In-House Style Guides, a list of links to many excellent in-house style guides for Web publishing. Includes the style guides of several universities.
- ORA Web Design: Design Sites, a useful--albeit short--hotlist to sites about Web design.
- Web Publishing Paradigms, by Tim Guay. A fabulous and intellectually stimulating Web site that explores the Web publishing paradigm. This is a must-read for anyone who migrates from print to Web publishing, and a highly recommended read for anyone doing online documentation and Web publishing.
- Web Developer's FAQ for Beginning Web Designers
- webreference.com, an excellent
repository of articles and reference material
- Designing Web Sites for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
- Top
Ten Mistakes in Web Design
- Ask the
Master Chefs, a chapter from The Web Page Design Cookbook
- Yale WWW
Style Manual
- Guides
to Writing Style for HTML Documents
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library,
A Webmaster's Encyclopedia of Web Development and Software Technology
- Web Publishing
Resources
- Web Page Design: The Visual Interface,
a presentation on Web page design given by the MAYA Design Group at the
1996 STC Annual Conference. Nicely done and helpful.
- Multimedia
Design for the WWW
- Technical
Notes and Examples for tables, forms, imagemaps, frames, and security
issues.
- Top Ten Cover Page, includes links to Jeffrey Glover's other "top ten" lists related to Web publishing
- The Web Masters Page
- Net Tips for Writers and Designers
- Web Publishing, various links for learning more about Web publishing.
- Electric Pages,
the Graphics Research Laboratory's online journal of publishing evolution.
- Applying Object Oriented Concepts to Web Publishing,
a presentation given by Nancy Hoft of WORLD READY at the 1996 STC Annual
Conference
- How do I put the World into my World Wide Web
Pages?, a presentation given by Nancy Hoft of WORLD READY at the 1996
STC Annual Conference
- Migrating to Web Publishing, a presentation
given by Nancy Hoft of WORLD READY to the Boston STC Chapter, 1996
- Web Communications - Publishing
on the Web
- Webmaster's Web Writing
Resources
- Web Design Tips
- 12 Web
Page Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make
- Guide to Web
Publishing
- Homepage of the
Bandwidth Conservation Society
- The Desktop
Publishing Internet Jumplist
- Web
Page Design Basics
- WebMaster's Notebook
- Creating Killer Websites Online - Core Pages
- Garenth's
Style Guide
- Ergolyphics,
an online newsletter of William Horton Consulting
- Web Site Design and
Management
- The Unofficial Netscape
FAQ
- Master125:
How to Promote Your Web Pages for Maximum Response
Tools
Spyglass HTML Validator, free!
SunSITE, Download Central.
- HTML Converters and Templates
- Miscellaneous Filters and conversion tools
- HTML Converters
- Galt Shareware Zone, a thorough site with all kinds of tools. It's fun to poke around!
- Matt's Script Archive, great scripts, lots of documentation and examples. Guestbook, search engine, message forum...
- HTML Editor
Reviews
- NSCA
List of Tools for WWW Providers
- Netscape's List of Inline Plug-ins
- Consumate Winsock Applications
- Mag's
Big List of HTML Editors
- The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
- World
Wide Web Resources
- HTML
Converters
- NetMind Free Services, a cool service that lets users who visit your Web site know when you've updated certain Web pages
- Lynx-me,
a script that lets you see what your Web page looks like to Lynx (text-only)
users.
- Texas Tuff's Search Engine Links and Other Resources
- TransWeb, a Web, form-based service that remotely transforms a .GIF file into a transparent .GIF file.
- The Internet Link Exchange
- Quark to HTML conversion information
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