Ingredients:
· Existing online information
· New information written for
a new medium
· A plan for how this information
should appear
· The tools to make this plan
a reality
This is your main course - the pièce de résistance. Everything else was just a prelude to this moment. This is where you take existing information, any new information, and knead it and cook it just long enough to serve an Internet meal entrée that will be both lasting and satisfying.
| Location | Description |
| http://www.w3.org/hypertext/History.html | Bullet list of hypertext developments. |
| http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/ | "As We May Think," an aticle by Vannevar Bush, in which the hypertext concept was first suggested. |
| http://www.picosof.com/850 | Home page of Xanadu, the company resulting from Ted Nelson's ideas. |
| Location | Description |
| http://www.yahoo.com/
Computers_and_Internet/ Software/Data_Formats/HTML/ | Extensive index of HTML-related information. |
| http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/
Computers/World_Wide_Web/HTML/ | Alternative site to the above. |
| http://www.gov.nb.ca/hotlist/htmldocs.htm | Well-organized site with various levels of information content. |
| http://www.w3.org/hypertext/
WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html | The place that maintains information on the HTML standard, including past history and current developments. |
| Location | Description |
| http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/
mas/courses/html/html.html | A nicely laid out guide to writing HTML. |
| http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/
Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html | The de facto standard primer on HTML. |
| http://www.nashville.net/~carl/
htmlguide/index.html | Great page on the lesser known features of HTML. |
| Location | Description |
| http://www.mcp.com/
403822712823191/general /workshop/books.html | HTML-related books from Macmillan. |
| http://www.diskovery.com/
Diskovery/EPG/Indices/Books/ ByPublisher/ | List of publishers of HTML-related books. |
| http://www.davison.net/books/
www.top.html | A comprehensive list from a distributor. |
| Source - Internet | Description |
| http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html | The current character set and its interpretation derived from a number of sources. |
| http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/
MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_9.html#SEC9.7 | Alternative source of the above. |
| Location | Description |
| http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/
transparent_images.html | Step by step guide, including sources of image editing tools. |
| http://www.magi.com/~kk/tbi2.html | Another step by step guide, but using Lview Pro on the PC. |
| http://www.icce.rug.nl/misc/examples.html | Examples of opaque versus transparent backgrounds. |
| Hex Value | Color |
| #000000 | White |
| #FFFFFF | Black |
| #FF0000 | Red |
| #00FF00 | Green |
| #FFFF00 | Yellow |
| #FF00FF | Magenta |
| #00FFFF | Cyan |
| #00000FF | Blue |
| Location | Description |
| http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/bgs.html | Thumbnail sketches of a variety of backgrounds and how to make transparent backgrounds. |
| http://cameo.softwarelabs.com/gini/index.htm | A large collection of images, including a large number of backgrounds. |
| <BODY> Attribute | Description |
| TEXT | Basic text |
| VLINK | Visited link |
| ALINK | Active link |
| LINK | All other links |
| Location | Description |
| http://cameo.softwarelabs.com/gini/index.htm | Over 1500 buttons, bars, and other common icons. |
| http://cameo.softwarelabs.com/
hotlist/hotlist.htm | Pointers to a very large collection of images. |
| http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/
multimedia/images/gif/ | A comprehensive album of images with a searchable catalog. |
| http://home.netscape.com/
assist/net_sites/starter/samples/index.html | Images from Netscape. |
| http://www.stars.com/Vlib/Providers/
Images_and_Icons.html | A variety of images and icons. |
| Location | Description |
| http://www.w3.org/hypertext/
WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html | The style guide from CERN. |
| http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/
gdr11/style-guide.html | Useful extensions to the CERN Guide. |
| http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/
StyleManual_Top.HTML | Another useful style guide that considers performance issues. |
| Location | Description |
| http://home.netscape.com/assist/
net_sites/starter/samples/templates/index.html | Netscape's contribution - 15 or so useful starting points. |
| http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/
Faculty_Resources_and_Support/template | Templates for course material. |
| Location | Description |
| http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/
Tools/Overview.html | Extensive list from the WWW Consortium. |
| http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/
World_Wide_Web/HTML_Editors | Yahoo List. |
| http://sdg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mag/
work/HTMLEditors/unixlist.html | UNIX-specific list. |
| Location | Description |
| http://www.webcom.com/html/publicize.html | A comprehensive discussion of the various options for getting your pages known. |
| http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/gdr11/
old-publish.html | As above. |