Building and Maintaining Websites

HTML, Website Design, Website Management and Maintenance, Common Gateway Interface, Security, Graphics, Newsletters, Useful Books, and other Resource Guides.


HTML

Official HTML Spec and Drafts
From the W3 Consortium, chosen keepers of the flame. Not the best for beginners.
NCSA HTML Primer
HTML info from the originators of Mosaic.
Introduction to HTML
From the author of The HTML Sourcebook (Wiley, 1995). Solid Presentation.
HTML & CGI Unleashed
Resources to support the book of the same name.
Extensions to HTML 2.0
Netscape extensions to HTML
Extensions to HTML 3.0
More Netscape extensions to HTML

Website Design

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.

Website Management and Maintenance

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

Gommon Gateway Interface (CGI)

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 Security

Rutgers WWW-Security Index page
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The WWW security FAQ
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Graphics for the Web

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.

Useful Newsletters and Magazines for Web Developers

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

Useful Books

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"

Resource Guides

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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