Web Publishing Tools

• The Bare Bones Guides to HTML (Kevin Werbach)
  The definitive reference on current versions of HTML. Provides a very handy quick cheat-sheet for HTML tags.

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML (from NCSA)
  A good guide for beginners, along with reference sources for advanced webmonkeys.

• Essential Links
  A vast collection of links to online resources for "HTML references, tutorials, validators, validations, editors, WYSIWYG, tips and tricks."

• HTML Writers Guild - WWW Development Resources

• WebMonkey: A How-To Guide for Web Developers (from HotWired)
  A commercial electronic magazine with searchable archives, comprising a very useful collection of tips, tutorials, product reviews, glossaries, design examples, etc.

• WebMonkey Web-Authoring Tutorials (part of WebMonkey)

• HTML Tag Reference
  HTML tags with explanations, examples, compatibility, etc. An indispensible quick reference tool.

• Coding/HTML (A major reference site from ZDnet)

• HTML & Web Design Links (Michael Adams, CUNY)

• A Gentle Introduction to SGML (Sperberg-McQueen and Burnard)

other useful links

Web 66 (K-12 Web Project)

Web Style Sheets

The HTML Reference Library

A collection of online and downloadable files and resources (such as Windows HLP files) to assist you in creating web pages.

Composing Good HTML

Northwestern University Guide to HTML Authoring & Web Resources

Index Dot HTML (Advanced HTML reference site)

The Compendium of HTML Elements (an advanced HTML reference site)

What Makes Websites Credible? Results of a large-scale study

Two4U's Guide for WWW-providers

Excellent structured collection of links for "raw materials" useful to web designers. Colors, graphics, icons, html reference works, etc.

The 7 Keys to Effective Web Sites (Sachs and Stair)

Doctor HTML

Good site analysis tool for testing your website and diagnosing problems.

Web Design Group's HTML resources

Web Style Guide (Yale Univ. Center for Advanced Instructional Media)

Tag of the Week (Chuck Musciano)

Cumulation of the weekly Tag of the Week columns of html tips and tutorials by Chuck Musciano in WebReview)

Usit.com ("Usable Information Technology")

Research, tips, tools, conferences, and discussions on what makes websites more usable.

Top Ten Ways to Spice Up Your Home Page (Christopher Tse)

David Siegel's Killer Web Sites and related material

• Killer Sites
• David Siegel
• The HighFive Archive

Really Bad Web Pages! ("How NOT to design a home page")

E-Publishing of Scholarly Works: Select Bibliography

Web Developers' Library (O'Reilly and Assoc.)

HTML Documentation (Univ. of Toronto)

How to set up Netscape in Kiosk Mode

Colors, Graphics, Icons

The Iconolog (catalog of icons and graphics)

The 256 colors of Netscape

Netscape Color Palette for Windows

Netscape Color Tables

Hexadecimal Color Codes

Two4U's Color Guide (with samples)

InfiNet Color Index

ColorMaker

RGB to Hex Converter

Backgrounds and textures: web graphics

Web Page COLOR Builder

Free Button Generator

VRL Imaging Machine

GifWizard (user-friendly image compression for busy web-masters) (graphics file size reduction utility for efficient website creation)

Library-related Clip-Art for Icons, etc.

Eric's Animated GIFs homepage

MapEdit (Image map editing software)

Moving Icon

Forms and Scripts for Web Pages

Creating forms for the Web (Northwestern University Library)

Matt's Script Archive

CGI & Perl Tutorial ("Entry level intro to CGI scripting")

CGI Intro (North Carolina State Univ.)

NCSA Tables Tutorial

TableMaker utility

The Table Sampler (Netscape)

The Tables Tutorial

FrameShop utility

WWW-Talk & WWW-HTML Mail Archives

Hagan's HTML Help Library

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians

Web Developer's Virtual Library

Web Publishers Virtual Library

Evaluating the Quality of Internet Resources

Library Web Manager's Reference Center

Dictionary of ASCII Character Codes

Font Images for Web Documents

Font Rant (Warren Steel)

Special Characters & Symbols for html (Two4U)

Mind-it (website change-tracker)

Submit-It (URL listing & promotion service)

Copyright Information

U.S. Copyright Office
Information Policy: Copyright & Intellectual Property (IFLA)
Copyright Tutorial (North Carolina State Univ. Library)
Copyright Management Center (Indiana University)
Resources on Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford)
Digital Copyright (class readings and links, from UC San Diego)
"The Mystery Behind the ©" (by Christopher Skvarka)
"10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained" (by Brad Templeton)
Linking Rights (by Brad Templeton)
Copyright FAQ [ftp site] (Terry Carroll)
Copyright Issues - Cyndi's List (link collection on copyright issues)