HTML Tools and Documentation

Contents
General Reference and Tools	Backgrounds	Icons
Character sets and colors	Clip-Art	Forms
Imagemaps	Literature	Tables
CGI-BIN Scripts	Syntax checkers	Putting it all together

General Development Tools and Introductory Information

Reference Desk

WWW Developer's Virtual Library
HTML Resources (Library of Congress)
HTML: Quick Reference Guide (U. Kansas)
HTML: Quick Reference Card (NCSA)
HTML Command Reference (Kansas State U.)
HTML Overview (Russ Jones, O'Reilly & Associates) Includes "info on autoflowing and autowrapping, HTML tag syntax, document construction guidelines, hyperlinks, linking to points within a document, URLs, lists, graphics, and sample HTML documents."
HTML: The Complete Guide (Emory University)
HTML Documentation (University of Toronto)
WWW Developers' Library
Cool Tricks (MCOM) includes a list of html development sites.
HTML Authoring Overview
HTML Writers Guild maintains an HTML documentation archive.
HTML 3.0 Specification

Primers

Beginner's Guide to HTML
HTML Primer
Guides for Beginning HTML users
Beginner's Guide to URL's
Crash course on writing documents for the Web (Eamonn Sullivan, PC Week Labs)
WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation (Maintained by SingNet and hosted by OneWorld Information Services) has sections on writing HTML documents, html editors, html converters, and art gallaries.

Style Guides

HTML Style Manual (Yale)
HTML Style Guide
more on style
CyberWeb's Top Tips for Web Authoring
Composing Good HTML (James "Eric" Tilton, Willamette University)
Elements of HTML Style (J.K. Cohen, University of California, Irvine)
Maintaining HTML

Misc Tools

HTML Editors
HTML converters
WWW Viewer Test Page tests the capabilities of your browser.
MacHTTP Home page
SubmitIt! "makes it easy to submit your URLs to a variety of WWW catalogs."

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Backgrounds

You can add a background to your pages by adding the following html code:

    <body background="background_name.gif">

You can obtain backgrounds for your pages from the first two links below. The first site includes instructions for capturing the images.

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CGI-BIN Scripts

Virtual Library: CGI (CyberWeb)
CGI Overview (NCSA)
CGI tutorial
CGI tutorial ( Nik Silver)
CGI Overview
CGI resources (Yahoo)
CGI Programmer's Reference
CGI: Input, Environment Variables
NCSA Mosaic Common Client Interface
Dynamic Documents
Exploration of dynamic documents
PERL
PERL scripts (Yahoo)
PERL Reference Materials
perlWWW is an attempt to index Perl programs, and libraries, related to the World Wide Web.
HTML Access Counter
HTML and CGI News Home Page
CGI Test Cases
Shareware CGI's includes a Guestbook and counter.
Simple CGI E-mail handler

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Character sets and colors

The following sites will provide you with access to a larger character set (Archæology, for example). You can also define the text, link, and vlink color text within the body command. See color sets below and the following example:

<body background="background_name.gif text="#000000" link="#DC1500" vlink="#0000FF">

2.17 Character Entity Sets
ISO Latin 1 Character Entities and HTML Escape Sequence Table
Character Entity Set(s)
Color sets and their hex equivilents
Color specifier for Netscape 1.1N to view and create color backgrounds. For orange, try <body bgcolor="FFA500"> or "FF8C00"
Color Editor (useful for testing selected background colors)

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Clip-Art

The Clip Art Connection
Pardon my Icons
Sandra's Clip-Art Collection
Clip-Art Collection (Texas Agricultural Extension Service) specializes in images of animals.
Clip Art and Images for Biology Education
Stock Photo Agency
OTIS Art Archive
Access Art is the largest virtual art gallary on the net.
Animated GIFs

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Forms

Forms tutorial
Carlos' Forms tutorial "A step-by-step tutorial on the creation and proper use of fill-in-forms. Short quiz at the end!"
WWW fill-out forms includes The WebCom Forms Processor for creating a custom form.
Forms in PERL
CGI Form Handling in Perl
HTML Forms Testing
Forms design issues

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Syntax Checkers (Validation and Testing)

Why validate your html?... to ensure document portability.
htmlchek version 4.1 Syntactically checks HTML 2.0 or 3.0 files for a number of possible errors; can do local link cross-reference checking, and generate a rudimentary reference-dependency map.
Weblint v1.005 also checks HTML code.
HTML Validation Page
HTML Validation Service (Georgia Institute of Technology)
HTML Validation Service (HAL Software Systems)
Weblint is a perl script created by Neil Bowers that checks HTML code.
WWW Link checker
Link Verifier

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Icons

Icon Library (HTML Writers Guild)
Icons (Yahoo)
Some cool icons
Icons (Rutgers)
DCS Icon Browser
Icons (NCSA)
Moby's Icon Archive
CSIL W3 server icons includes clip art.
Syed Towheed's collection of icons and gizmos.
Other Icon Libraries
Buttons, cubes, and bars

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Imagemaps

Images

The Imaging Machine provides a variety of free imaging services, including conversion to transparent and interlaced gifs.
Making Transparent Images
Image Processing Service
WWW Graphics Page
Gifsize V0.5 "is a perl routine which will read in an HTML file and insert HEIGHT=### WIDTH=### directives into the inlined images used in the file. Why would you want to do this? Simply put, adding WIDTH and HEIGHT tags to your IMG SRC="" elements tells the browser how to layout the entire page before it receives any data on the included images. In theory, it allows *all* of the text in a page to be displayed before *any* of the requests for the images have been answered by the server."
Interactive Graphics Renderer "The IGR offers the following innovations:
- Millions of unique objects are possible. What you will see is limited only by the time you have to play with it!
- Simple interface for hastle-free downloading of desired objects.
- All graphics have been made transparent for that professional look.
- Control over color map size to conserve bandwidth.
- Use of the graphics is free for personal use on home pages.
- Best of all, you don't need to know how to use a raytracer to use it!"

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Literature

CD-ROM: Perl - March 95 - language for system administrators, programmers Publisher: Walnut, US version 9503 for DOS and Unix Book: Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (Till) Publisher: Sams, ISBN : 0.672-30586.0 , version: US version for Unix Learning Perl (Schwartz) Publisher: O'Reilly, ISBN : 1.56592-042.2, version: US version Programming Perl Publisher: O'Reilly (no ISBN) Managing Internet Information Services - a chapter on CGI Publisher: O'Reilly (no ISBN) Teach Yourself Internet Publishing with HTML in a Week (or something like that) Publisher: (Don't know) Teach Yourself HTML Web Publishing in a Week From Sams Publishing. By Laura Lemay. Also oriented toward those who plan to publish materials on the web. ISBN: 0-672-30667-0. 400 pages. Includes information on setting up servers and handling forms results as well as HTML writing and editing. Call 1-800-428-5331 for ordering information.

The HTML Manual of Style From Ziff-Davis Press. By Larry Aronson. Chapters: introduction to the WWW, the HTML language, writing HTML documents, and HTML examples. 120 pages.

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