Building and Maintaining Websites

HTML

From the W3 Consortium, chosen keepers of the flame. Not the best for beginners.

HTML info from the originators of Mosaic.

From the author of The HTML Sourcebook (Wiley, 1995). Solid Presentation.

Resources to support the book of the same name.

Netscape extensions to HTML

More Netscape extensions to HTML

Tim Berners-Lee's Style Guide for Online Hypertext: Recommendations from the man.
High-Impact Documents: About designing web pages with nonstandard HTML for the Netscape Navigator browser.
Why Not Code for Netscape?: Reasons why you might want to stick with standard HTML.
Sun's Guide to Web Style: Sun conducted a website useablity study among their own employees. These are the recommendations of the people responsible for the current (1996 02) design of the Sun website.
HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0: How to tame the wild mozilla: A very useful article on how to use HTML 3.0 properly, avoiding constructions that will work badly if viewed by browsers other than Netscape's. Provides example HTML that works for HTML-3.0 browsers and Netscape's, too. At the least this article discusses specific issues best known about before taking the easy way out and aping someone else's page. Now if only the W3C could get portions of the defunct HTML 3.0 draft ratified ...
Macintosh WWW Resources: Primarily of interest for Macintosh Websites.

Web Developer's Virtual Library: The best overall resource site for Web Developers.
Tools for Web Weavers: Resource Guide from NASA's Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Group.
Rutgers WWW-Security Index page: These people at Rutgers want you to know that they are doing their best to provide comprehensive links to information on web security, but it's a volatile field.
A Standard for Robot Exclusion: You need to know about this if you have pages that are unsafe for robots. More information about web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI): Documentation from NCSA.
A CGI tutorial by the Web Developer's Virtual Library: Practical information and hints.
Matt's Script Archive: Several useful and well-tested cgi scripts.
Mosaic for X 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support: Information about form support in the Mosaic Browser.

Web Developer's Virtual Library Images and Icons Section: The best starting point for finding background images, buttons, icons and more: links to dozens of providers of web graphics, many available for free or for credit given.
Russ's Backgrounds: A varied collection.
Texture Land!: Collections of Normal, Weird, and Odd textures.
CyberPress Web Graphics FUN HOUSE: Many original backgrounds, textures, and icons, plus a mirror for Texture Land.
High-Impact Documents: Designing web pages meant for the extended graphics capabilities of Netscape Navigator.

Spectrum: the Journal of the Web Developer's Virtual Library: Quality Periodical from the WDVL.
Articles collected at the Webmaster Refernce Library: Not really a newsletter per se, but they have links to many interesting articles.
Off The Net: Pithy and selective listing of the useful and cool for webmasters. Published on the Netscape Home Pages by Chris Tacy of IDG Publications.
Web Week Wednesday: Web highlights from the Meckler weekly Web Newspaper
Web Developer Thursday: Web highlights from Meckler's Web Developer magazine.
The Web Developer's Journal: Astonishing. A web magazine about the web. Seriously, useful yet sassy. Strong Product focus. A portion of NCT Web Magazine

HTML & CGI Unleashed Book Information: SAMS, October, 1995. Support material for the book here.
The HTML Sourcebook: Wiley, 1995. (Second Edition, March 1996, ISBN 0-471-11849-4) Mucho support material here.
Build a Web Site - The Programmer's Guide to Creating, Building and Maintaining a Web Presence: Presents advanced server topics. Prima On line Books, ISBN 0-7615-0064-2.
How to set up & maintain a Web Site: Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63389-2.
Teach Yourself Web Publishing in a Week: Sams Publishing, ISBN 0-672-30667-0.
Canadian Internet Handbook (www.handbook.com): Some serious self-promotion. Also Updates to information in the books.
Extensions to "How to Grow Your Business on the Internet"

Web Developer's Virtual Library: So much More than just another hotlist. Fully indexed, annotated listings for thousands of pages hand-selected for quality and relevance to working web developers.
Webmaster's Reference Library: Another well-organized resource guide useful for webmasters.
WWW and HTML Developer's Jumpstation: Well-maintained catalogue of resources.
Ian Graham's Bibliography and Resource List: One of the best categorized lists of WWW resources.
Subjective Electronic Information Repository: Long and Diverse Hotlist on all aspects of Network Communication: the Web and Beyond
The WWW FAQ: from boutell.com. Lots of pointers, some advice. Mirrors are recommended.

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