Additional References

Case Study on Web Site Design: Sun Microsystems

Jakob Nielsen, Interface Design for Sun's WWW Site.

CERN's Style Guide

CERN's style guide for online hypertext

Composing Good HTML

Composing Good HTML

GIF Animations -- The GIF89a specification includes a way to "play" a sequence of images, which results in an animation. The following URL contains examples, explains the spec, and explains how you can creates such images.

Royal E. Frazier, GIF Animation on the WWW

Good Articles on Web Page Design Issues

Jakob Nielsen, SunSoft Distinguished Engineer, The Alertbox: Current Issues in user Interface Design, http://www.sun.com/columns/alertbox.html. Look in particular at the May 1996 issue: Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design.

How to Write HTML

How to Write HTML Files

HTML - Introduction

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

HTML - Another Introduction

Introduction to HTML

HTML - Quick Reference

http://www.cc.ukans.edu/info/HTML_quick.html

HTML - Detailed Reference (covers many popular browsers)

The nicest, most detailed reference manual I've seens is from Sandia National Laboratories: HTML Reference Manual. It covers differences in HTML in various popular Web browsers (Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.)

HTML Home Page on the WWW

The HTML Home Page, including links to all official HTML specifications

HTML 3.2

HTML 3.2. An attempt to reconcile the failed HTML 3.0 draft and Netscape's extension.

NOTscape

J. Reiss, NOTscape. Argues against using Netscape's HTML extensions.

SGML - The Parent of HTML

A description of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language

Softcover HTML Book for Beginners

Dawn Groves, The Web Page Workbook, Franklin, Beedle, and Associates, 1996, ISBN 1-887902-05-8.

Softcover HTML Book for Experts

Laura Lemay, Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week, Sams Net, 2nd ed., 1996, ISBN 1-57521-064-9, $29.99. A comprehensive reference manual for HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, the Netscape extensions, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions.

Special Symbols

List of codes to insert special symbols into an HTML document pages

Web Page Design for Designers

Joe Gillespie, Web Page Design for Designers, Pixel Productions. Intended for "people who are involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium."

Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual

Patrick J. Lynch, Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual, Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media

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