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

• HTML Quick Reference
• Learning HTML 3.2 By Example, a great tutorial by Jukka Korpela.
• HTML Tags Sorted by Netscape Navigator Release, good reference and easy to use.
• Introducing HTML 3.2
• HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
• The HTML Reference Library, A WinHelp application created by Stephen Le Hunte. Excellent daily reference and up-to-date.
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• An Introduction to HTML
• Macmillan's HTML Workshop
• The ABC's of HTML
• HTML Writers Guild: HTML Resources
• World Wide Web FAQ
• Introduction to HTML and URLs
• Crash course on writing documents for the Web
• HTML Style Guide and Test Suite
• Newbie Help Links
• Navigating the Internet: Index
• HTML Reference Manual, Sandia National Laboratories
• Otmar's List ofHTML Tags
• ISO8859-1, a table of valid character entities and character codes
• WebTechs Validation Service
• A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator
• HTML Extensions: Microsoft's Internet Explorer
• HTML Extensions: Netscape's Navigator
• World Wide Web Mailing Lists of the W3C Organization

Internet Newsgroups

• comp.infosystems.www.advocacy
• comp.infosystems.www.announce
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
• comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
• comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
• comp.internet.net-happenings
• comp.internet.library
• comp.text.sgml
• comp.text.pdf
• comp.text.desktop
• comp.human-factors

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

• ImageORama, lots of graphics for Web pages. Well organized and free!
• Copyright Free Graphics. Some aren't so good, but some aren't so bad, either.
• Preparing Graphics for the Web
• Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Photoshop
• Color Design: Avoid Dithering Colors in Netscape
• The Design & Publishing Center
• GIF Animation on the Web
• Netscape's Color Cube revealed, an excellent article by Tom Venetianer.
• Lynda's Homegurrlpage; Lynda's the author of Designing Web Graphics
• JASC Web Developers Forum, from the makers of Paint Shop Pro tips and tricks about graphics for the WWW

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