
	Appendix

Appendix (Further Reading)

5. Appendix (Further Reading, Resources and Links)

5.0 Introduction Resources
5.1 Modularity Resources
5.2 Document Spec Resources
5.3 Code Resources
5.4 Design Resources

5.0 Introduction Resources

History of HTML: ZDnet's devheads plunge into an in depth history lesson about HTML and it's evolution. With links!
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/resources/tag_library/history/html.html

A Brief History of HTML: From the famous online seminar "Weaving the World Wide Web - Publishing on the World Wide Web" - College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia http://www.fcs.uga.edu/cs/web_seminar/publishing/history.html

A Gentle Introduction to SGML: SGML in all it's full glory. Chapter 2 of Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html

5.1 Modularity Resources

SSI : Bignosebird.com: Everything you ever wanted or needed to know about server side includes. All of the directives are covered, including the Apache eXtended set. All environment variables and date format codes are listed. From a site that is 100% SSI!

W3 Group's Style Sheets Activity Statement: The role of W3C in this area is the development of specifications for style sheet languages for the Web.
http://www.w3.org/Style/Activity

W3 Group's CSS Resources: Lots of useful links from the W3. Some of which are here already. When you get tired of surfing these links (which i doubt you will, you should check out the W3's regular list of CSS Books, Online Resources, Browsers, Authoring Software and other miscellaneous linkage.

<FONT FACE> considered harmful: An article on the misuse of a tag and how CSS can change all that. From the Internet Society 's Babel project at isoc.org. Background : This early, influential article describing the destructing nature of a sloppy coding tendency: <font face> from the world's multilingual, international Internet Society (www.isoc.org) was an catalyst that allowed Cascading Style sheet code standards to evolve into what they embody today.
What's Wrong with Font:
"The font tag is a hindrance to communication over the World Wide Web because it makes too many assumptions about the user's system, browser, and configuration. Cascading Style Sheets, on the other hand, negotiate between author and viewer to create a carefully-designed appearance that is accessible to all. People create web documents for many reasons. If you have something to say, information to provide, a message to preach, feelings to express, a product to sell, then it's in your interest to make your work accessible. Smart web authors, who want to get their message across, stay far away from the FONT element." From Whats Wrong with Font?, Written October 1996
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html"

Index DOT CSS: Very complete online CSS reference. Includes lists of properties, browser support charts, a FAQ, and more.

RichInStyle.com: CSS resource featuring a CSS2 tutorial, spiced with the author's comments, and (soon) also a "CSS masterclass."

Western Civilisation: CSS tutorial (covering CSS2) and the same site also contains a gallery, a CSS "cookbook," charts, etc.

Molly.com: Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor, and designer. Great articles on web design and usability. She has written 11 books about Web design and Internet Technologies...
Seven Deadly Markup Sins. HTML or XHTML? If you're in Web design and development, you're using something to mark up your pages. And, if you've been in the industry awhile, no doubt you've learned some standards-based techniques.

WebMonkey : CSS: HotWired's WebMonkey has published a series of article on style sheets.

The Web Design Group : CSS Guide: The Web Design Group has authored a comprehensive guide to CSS. Find out how style sheets can be abused

HTML Writer's Guild : CSS FAQ: HTML Writer's Guild has published a CSS FAQ and a handy CSS Browser Support Reference Table.

Quick Reference to CSS1: Steven Pemberton has compiled a Quick Reference to CSS1.
Joachim Schwarte has done a similar table of CSS1 properties.

Short Guide to CSS: Urban Fredriksson has written a Short Guide to CSS

Easy CSS tutorials (formerly @ webreview.com): Eric Meyer has published a CSS Resource list. Do this: don't buy the book and try to make sense of the exercises in the downloads! A challenge! Also, check out the companion website.
After I originally wrote this guide, webreview transfered over to Dr. Dobbs Tech journal.

MaKo 4 CSS: CSShark answers Frequently Asked Questions: A very nice collection of links and articles covering basic CSS topics, like dealing with NN4.x, as well as more advanced material on topics like positioning.
http://www.mako4css.com

Dmoz.org : CSS links: DMOZ (the Open Directory Project) maintains CSS links.

CSS Pointers Group: The CSS Pointers Group has collected an impressive list of CSS resources.

CSS Style Guide from Webreview: Summary of which CSS features are implemented on which browsers.
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/guides/style/style.html

5.2 Document Spec Resources

W3C : Document Type Definition: Document Type Definition [definition of the structure of an SGML application]
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/sgml/dtd.html>

W3C : HTML 3.2: HTML 3.2 Reference Specification, [Wilbur], W3C Recommendation, 14-Jan-1997

Blooberry.com : INDEX dot HTML: Support Key: If you are unsure whether or not this or that specific tag will work with X browser use this excellent reference table from Blooberry.com

WebDawg : Tag Reference: Useful list of HTML tags and their current support in browsers

Composing Good HTML: James "Eric" Tilton designed this guide for the HTML author who has learned the basics, and is ready to start thinking about the more advanced aspects of Web document design. Last modified: Jul 13, 1998.(still many valid points!)

HTML help.org: The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide.

W3C.org : HTML 4.01: HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C Recommendation, 24 December 1999

WDVL: Frames: Article about Multi-view presentation of documents from the Web Developer's Virtual Library <http://wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Frames/>

W3C.org : XHTML 1.0: XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0, W3C Recommendation, 26 January 2000

Site Valet: "Web Tools for Quality, Accessibility, Standards Compliance.": Site Valet is simple, easy to use, FREE tool that checks your pages for validity, accessibility and broken links. THIS IS TRULY AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL! BOOKMARK IT NOW.
http://valet.htmlhelp.com/

WebsiteTips :XHTML: New resource with valuable info, W3C recomendations and groovy updated XHTML linkage! Many reference points and jumpstarts into learning more about XHTML.
Peter Wiggins discusses the pros of XHTML in "The Clean Code Solution" at O'Reilly's in his March, 2000' article entitled: XHTML: The Clean Code Solution

W3Schools.com : XHTML: To learn more about XHTML try taking a quick and painless tour of XHTML School. If you know HTML and feel pretty comfortable writing HTML you should be able start spewing out XHTML pages in a matter of minutes! <http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_html.asp>

XML.com : Resources: An extensive collection of eXtensible Markup Language resources.

5.3 Code Resources

NCSA Beginners Guide to HTML: A Beginner's Guide to HTML -- Use the NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web.

Author's note: this link is now pointing to archive.org's archived page of this excellent gem of Web Coding History! still a valuable resource for the new HTML coder! -- old url: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html

Sizzling HTML by Jalfrezzi: A comprehensive guide to writing web sites. Their "unique system of examples makes Jalfrezi both the perfect learning tool and superlative web authoring reference."

Barebones Guide to HTML: To this day Kevin Werbach's "Barebones Guide to HTML remains the essential quick-reference tool for HTML developers. Download the text-only version right now and keep it somewhere on your hard disk for quick reference ;)

INDEX dot HTML: A fully functional online HTML reference manual. Years from know you will still remember "index DOT html". Check out "index DOT css". It is also another useful guide from the same source.

WDVL.com: Web Developers Virtual Library: HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother ?
"Most pages on the web don't comply with the W3C's HTML specifications. In some cases this is because their authors wanted to take advantage of proprietary extensions; but in many other cases, the pages could easily have been made more conformant without any problem."

kosmoi.com: Introduction to xHTML [encyclopedia]: " Introduction to XHTML: eXamples". This is a very useful and informative article by WDVL's founder, A.Richmond. Learn what XHTML is all about using examples of old HTML code! Also check out Kosmoi.com for a great resource on Science, Math and Technology.
This site is unique in that if you check the source code, the pages themselves are valid, functional XHTML code! Nice work.

HTML Help by The Web Design Group: The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide.

Webreference: XHTML 1.0 (Where XHTML and HTML meet): XHTML Primer from the always informative people at webreference.com. "[XHTML] represents the next step in the evolution of the Internet. It lets you enter the XML world, creating content that is both backward and future compatible. "

HTML Tidy: Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for cleaning up / reformatting any HTML code.
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

META Tags : WDVL.com: Quick Meta tag intro from the Web Developer's Virtual Library

Javascript Tutorial: compatible with many browsers: This JavaScript tutorial has been written with the new NetScape 6 browser in mind. All the code examples are compatible with NetScape 6, NetScape 4 and Internet Explorer. Many are compatible with the Opera browser. From the kind people at the-cool-place.co.uk

SmartMenu's: cross-browser compatible DHTML / javascript menu: Free for non-comercial use, this script is compatible with IE4+, NS4+, Opera5+, Konqueror2+, Safari. The new version takes advantage of the standards implemented in all modern browsers and focuses on improvements available mostly (however not only) in all browsers except legacy ones like IE 4.x, Netscape 4.x, Opera 5/6 and Konqueror 2.x. The Current version is 5.5.4

5.4 Design Resources

Wilsonweb.com : Web Marketing Today: Dr. Ralph F. Wilson guides you through "Website Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make". This is an excellent checklist of what a company or a client should keep in mind when working on a website. A good marketing perspective on website design issues.

W3C: Style Guide for Online Hypertext: This guide is designed to help you create a WWW hypertext database that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader. It has been prepared in the light of comments by readers, and many demands by providers of online documentation.

Spiderpro : Styleguides: Exactly one hundred do's and don'ts about making webpages, divided in 9 categories. Content, Navigation, Design, Bandwidth, Presenting Text, Images and Colors, Compatibility.

Web Style Guide-2nd Edition: "The guidance we offer in Web Style Guide has always been grounded on the functional aspects of design. In this second edition we extend our focus on functionality with additional sections on Web site accessibility, Cascading Style Sheets, and flexible page design. We include additional sections on information architecture, site maintenance, and multimedia design. And we have added illustrations and updated our Web site examples to reflect current best practices."

Anybrowser.org: Useful tips and links that can help to make your site accessible by all browsers, and better in general. An excellent look at web design from an accessibility point of view.

directory.Google.com : WWW Authoring Links: <http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/WWW/Authoring/>

directory.Google.com : Web Usablility Links: <http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/WWW/Web_Usability/>

Useit.com : Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 19, 2000

Usable Web: A well organized collection of links about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.

EchoEcho.Com : WebMaster Resources & Tutorials: Complete Webdesign Documentation. Featuring: "HTML tutorial - javascript tutorial - flash tutorial - online resources - free programs, cgi, tools, graphics, applets - complete documentation of HTML and javascript"

Kaliber{1000}: The Designer's Lunchbox is a global design forum for people who actually have something to say, and know how to do it. Updated weekly with a new issue by a new designer. Almost like an application k10k.net is a fully modular node of the net.
<http://www.k10k.net/>