Lindorfer's List of HTML Resources
Welcome to my notebook
Jessie Barber's Contribution
Recently, a programmer named Jessie Barber sent me a link to a really helpful Resource Guide for Web Developers by David Dungan. I thought it was so useful that I added it here. Many thanks to Jessie!
This page started out as a list of reference notes I gathered long ago to learn how to produce interactive web pages to carry out a task I foolishly volunteered for at work. (NEVER volunteer!) All the formal training classes available to me were either too expensive, too far away, or didn't include what I needed to learn. Conversation with my coworkers just elicited blank stares or snide remarks about how Macintosh users didn't belong in the same group with gnarly-knuckled PC (Piece of C---) users.. . .
Well, this list got longer and longer, and since it consisted mostly of stuff on Internet sites it had a lot of URL's in it, I said what the hell and made it into an HTML document so my browser could read it and take me to where the information was that I made the notes from in the first place.
It kind of evolved into what you see before you. I wanted to be able to reach it from any of my various workstations, so I put it on my leased server space from Datasync, Inc I believe that making it available for public use falls under the "Fair Use" provision of applicable U.S. Copyright laws. All of it is somewhere else on the Internet already.
Copyright to this material, and, in most cases, to it's organization, remains with the authors at the URLs indicated, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Having said that, I need to tell you that many (perhaps most) of these links are outdated. I don't have the faintest plan to update this list, because I'm retired nowadays, so if you get a "404 message" or something else unexpected, you may have to learn to live with it. The only reason this list is still here is because I transferred it to my lindorfer.us server when I transferred other stuff. Some of this stuff may still be useful to somebody.
Many thanks to those of you who have provided these references. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and so I would like to personally thank the people listed below, most of whom have changed their websites, closed down entirely, or died!
Gilbert F. Hyatt II,
John Doe(?),
Douglas Cootey,
Scott Milewski,
Andrew C. Bulhak,
Jorn Barger,
Harlan Wallach,
Carlos A. Pero,
Solotech Software,
Rich Graves,
Martin Ramsch,
Kevin Hughes,
Celine Chamberlin,
Linette Vik,
Dianne Gorman,
Inge Knudsen,
Mrs. Scott Knaster,
Joe English,
Jon Wiederspan,
Laura Lemay,
Robert Siemborski,
Matt Kruse,
Adam Bernstein,
Brian Wilson,
David Warren Steel,
Karawynn,
Claudia Waither,
Carl Tashian,
Marcus E. Hennecke,
Eric Tilton,
Anthony Turner,
Jay Boersma,
The Unknown Sheriff,
Jay Barker,
Robyn McCollum,
Otmar Lendl,
The Missing Link Creature,
Robin,
Gerald Oskoboiny,
C. J. Silverio,
The University of Kansas,
Chris Bray ,
Daniel Dreilinger,
Kurt Donath,
Catherine Crow's Husband,
Larry Lin,
Christian Sandvig,
Neil Bowers,
Wolf-Rudiger Krenglowski,
Joe Sharit,
Jeffrey M. Glover,
Urb LeJeune,
Andrew Anderson,
Bro. Charlie,
Joanne,
Jack,
Reggie,
The guys at Datasync,
Matt Wright,
Gareth Rees,
Janet Gould,
David R. Nadeau,
Mariva H. Aviram,
Jon Leland,
Chuck Musciano,
Jim Lowe,
Rick Cook,
Cari D. Burstein
Dmitry Kirsanov
...and the staff and faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Thanks also to all of you who provided the information in this page but whose names I didn't get. I tried to find out whose work I was referencing, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time on it because that wasn't what I was looking for and I get paid by the hour. (I think there is a lesson to be learned here about putting one's name on one's net pages to make it easy to know whom one is plagiarizing. On the other hand, everyone has a right to keep his name off his work if he (or she) so chooses.)
Please realize that this page is essentially my personal electronic notebook, and was primarily intended for my personal use and maybe that of my students when I made it, back when there were only a few thousand pages on the Internet. It is not to be considered a publication of my employer. If you can use it, feel free, but I never intended it as a professionally published document. Some of these links were outdated, missing, wrong, etc. even when I included them. I take no credit or blame for this; I just copied the URLs from somewhere. I spell checked some of it, but my spell checker suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and can't cope with HTML documents. It also doesn't recognize Lindorfer-o's, which are incorrect or inappropriate words correctly spelled. The reason this page doesn't follow most of the directions on it is due primarily to the fact that I was just learning when I gathered the material - DUH!
Anyway, if you find any of this useful, please think nice thoughts about the authors, and maybe drop them a "thank you" e-mail. There is a lot of hard work represented here, very little of it mine, and quite a bit of genius, none of it mine.
On a personal note, I think this free exchange of information is what the writers of the First Amendment to the Constitution had in mind. However, if anyone holding copyright to this material objects to its inclusion on this site, please e-mail me and I will be happy to remove it.
Thanks, and have a great day.
. . . John H. Lindorfer
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Some interesting topics, keywords and such. . .
Java Additional Information about writing CGI scripts in Perl
NCSA Any other Macintosh-specific tips or keyboard shortcuts?
SGML Are certificates required and where do you get one?
Balls Applications (Options/Preferences panel) Backgrounds
Cells External Images, Sounds, and Animations Cell margins
Fonts Cells that span several rows or columns Orphan page
Icons Accessing servers for news and e-mail GIF animation
Colors A Web developer's guide to JavaBeans Float an object
Frames Calculating the number of columns Background color
Telnet Web Statistics Reporting Service How to Make Cookies
Applets Calculating the width of columns Headers and footers
Borders Including HTML in another HTML Extended Quotations
WebLint UNIX-specific tips or tricks? Colored backgrounds
HTML 3.0 Web Multimedia and Animation Including an applet
HTML 3.2 How to Use Non-Standard HTML Incremental display
HTML 4.0 Float text around an object Background Graphics
htmlchek Building and using counters Boolean attributes
Security Initialization Functions Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Equations How to read the HTML DTD Bidirectional algorithm
Footnotes Environment variables Balanced pages and menus
Scripting Graphic file formats JavaScript Example Colors
Categorizing cells Color display primer Addressing Schemes
A brief history of HTML Automatic music Gifconverter 2.3.7
GifBuilder Autolayout Algorithm Image Maps JPEG graphics
Graphic elements Link Rules Link types Escape Sequences
Interlaced GIFs Main Page Auto Load images Getting Events
Floating objects Web Graphics
NOTE: An asterisk (*) indicates that the associated URL has appeared previously in this list; a pound (#) indicates the target of a referencing link.
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- What is JavaScript?
- JavaScript in Navigator
- abs,
acos,
action,
alert,
alinkColor,
Anchorobject,
anchors
- Applet,
applets,
Area,
Array,
anchormethod,
asin,
atan
- appName,
atan2,
appCodeName,
appVersion,
back,
bgColor
- big,
blink,
blur,
argumentsarray,
bold,
Boolean,
border
- Button,
caller,
argumentsproperty,
ceil,
charAt,
Checkbox
- checked,
click,
clearTimeout,
closed,
complete,
confirm
- cookie,
constructor,
close (document object),
cos,
current
- Date,
document,
description,
close (window object)
- domain,
E,
encoding,
escape,
eval,
default Checked,
exp
- fgColor,
filename,
fixed,
FileUpload,
default Selected,
floor
- focus,
fontcolor,
fontsize,
Formobject,
default Status
- forms,
forward,
Frame,
frames,
formproperty
- default Value,
Function,
getDate,
getDay,
getHours
- getMinutes,
elements array,
getMonth,
go,
getYear
- getTime,
getSeconds,
elements property,
hash,
height
- Hidden,
hostname,
historyarray,
embeds array,
host
- href,
hspace,
Image,
historyobject,
enabled Plugin
- images,
index,
indexOf,
isNaN,
italics,
getTimezoneOffset
- join,
length,
location,
LN10,
link method,
javaEnabled
- links,
LN2,
log,
LOG2E,
linkColor,
lastIndexOf,
LOG10E
- lowsrc,
Math,
max,
MAX_ VALUE,
lastModified,
method
- MimeType,
name,
min,
mimeTypes,
Link object,
NaN
- next,
onBlur,
onChange,
navigator,
NEGATIVE_ INFINITY
- Number,
onAbort,
onClick,
onError,
MIN_ VALUE
- open (document object),
onFocus,
onLoad,
onUnload
- onSelect,
onMouseOut,
open (window object),
onReset
- opener,
Option,
onSubmit,
onMouseOver
- POSITIVE_ INFINITY,
options,
parent,
parse,
parseInt
- parseFloat,
setTimeout,
Password,
pathname,
PI,
Plugin
- Resetobject,
Submitobject,
plugins,
port,
pow,
previous
- resetmethod,
submitmethod,
prompt,
protocol,
prototype
- Radio,
Selectobject,
taintEnabled,
random,
referrer
- refresh,
reload,
selectmethod,
text property,
replace
- reverse,
round,
scroll,
selectedIndex,
toGMTString,
search
- selected,
self,
setDate,
setHours,
toLocaleString,
setYear
- sin,
setTime,
setMonth,
setMinutes,
toLowerCase,
small
- sort,
split,
status,
setSeconds,
toUpperCase,
sqrt,
SQRT1_2
- SQRT2,
src,
strike,
vlinkColor,
String,
sub,
substring
- suffixes,
Textobject,
window object,
sup,
taint,
tan,
target
- Textarea,
window property,
title,
top,
toString,
type
- unescape,
valueOf,
untaint,
URL,
userAgent,
UTC,
value
- vspace,
width,
write,
writeln
- JavaScript on the Server
- JavaScript, the Core Language
- JavaScript and Java
- Embedding JavaScript in HTML
- Defining and Calling Functions
- Using the Write Method
- Validating Form Input
- Debugging JavaScript
- Chapter 2 Handling Events JavaScript applications in the Navigator are largely event-driven. Events are actions that occur usually as a result of something the user does. For example, clicking a button is an event, as is changing a text field or moving the mouse over a link. For your script to react to an event, you define event handlers, such as onChange and onClick.
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- Chapter 4 Using Windows and Frames JavaScript lets you create and manipulate windows and frames for presenting HTML content. The window object is the top-level object in the JavaScript client hierarchy; Frame objects are similar to window objects, but correspond to "sub-windows" created with the FRAME tag in a FRAMESET document.
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- Chapter 6 Advanced Topics This chapter describes some special concepts and applications that extend the power and flexibility of Navigator JavaScript.
- Chapter 7 JavaScript Security This chapter describes the security models of the JavaScript language for Navigator 2.0 and later releases. This model was extended significantly between the Navigator 3.0 and Navigator 4.0 releases.
- Part 2 The Core JavaScript Language
- Chapter 8 Values, Variables, and Literals This chapter discusses values that JavaScript recognizes and describes the fundamental building blocks of JavaScript expressions: variables and literals.
- Chapter 9 Expressions and Operators This chapter describes JavaScript expressions and operators, including assignment, comparison, arithmetic, bitwise, logical, string, and special operators. It also describes regular expressions.
- Chapter 10 Object Model This chapter describes how to use objects, properties, functions, and methods, and how to create your own objects.
- Chapter 11 Predefined Core Objects and Functions Several objects are predefined in core JavaScript and can be used in either client-side or server-side scripts. These objects are in addition to objects defined for server-side JavaScript and Navigator objects introduced in Chapter 3, "Using Navigator Objects." A handful of predefined functions can also be used in both client and server scripts.
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- Part 3 Appendixes
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- Appendix E JavaScript Mail Filters in Navigator 4.0 This appendix tells you how you can use JavaScript to filter your incoming mail and news when you use Netscape Messenger.
- Index
- # Javascript Reference This book is a reference manual for the JavaScript language,
including objects in the core language and both client-side and server-side extensions.
- What's in this Reference This reference is organized around the functionality of the JavaScript language. Sometimes you already know the name of an object or method, but don't know precisely where to look for it. This chapter contains tables of links to aid in this situation.Getting Started This book is a reference manual for the JavaScript language, including objects in the core language and both client-side and server-side extensions. JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications.
- Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter briefly introduces JavaScript, Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications.
- Chapter 2 Operators JavaScript has assignment, comparison, arithmetic, bitwise, logical, string, and special operators. This chapter describes the operators and contains information about operator precedence.
- Chapter 3 Statements This chapter describes all JavaScript statements. JavaScript statements consist of keywords used with the appropriate syntax. A single statement may span multiple lines. Multiple statements may occur on a single line if each statement is separated by a semicolon.
- Chapter 4 Core This chapter includes the JavaScript core objects Array, Boolean, Date, Function, Math, Number, Object, and String. These objects are used in both client-side and server-side JavaScript.
- Chapter 5 Document This chapter deals with the document and its associated objects, document, Layer, Link, Anchor, Area, Image, and Applet.
- Chapter 6 Window This chapter deals with the Window object and the client-side objects associated with it: Frame, Location, and History.
- Chapter 7 Form This chapter deals with the use of forms, which appear within a document to obtain input from the user.
- Chapter 8 Browser This chapter deals with the browser and elements associated with it.
- Chapter 9 Events and Event Handlers This chapter contains the event object and the event handlers that are used with client-side objects in JavaScript to evoke particular actions. In addition, it contains general information about using events and event handlers.
- Chapter 10 LiveWire Database Service This chapter contains the server-side objects associated with LiveWire: database, DbPool, Connection, Cursor, Stproc, Resultset and blob.
- Chapter 11 Session Management Service This chapter contains those server-side objects associated with managing a session, including request, client, project, server, and Lock.
- Chapter 12 Utilities This chapter contains the server-side objects File and SendMail.
- Chapter 13 Global Functions This chapter contains all JavaScript functions not associated with any object.
- Chapter 14 Java packages for LiveConnect
- Index Including:
- How the specification is organized
- Document conventions
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to HTML 4.0
- On SGML and HTML
- Conformance: requirements
and recommendations
- HTML Document Representation - Character sets, character encodings, and entities
- Basic HTML data types - Character data, colors, lengths, URLs, content types, etc.
- The global structure of an HTML document - The HEAD and BODY of a document
- Frames - Multi-view presentation of documents
- Forms - User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
- Scripts - Animated Documents and Smart Forms
- SGML reference information for HTML - Formal definition of HTML and validation
- SGML Declaration of HTML 4.0
- Document Type Definition
- Transitional Document Type Definition
- Frameset Document Type Definition
- Character entity references in HTML 4.0
- Changes between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0
- Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes
- References
- Index of Elements
- Index of Attributes
- Human-readable
- HTML 2.0 has been approved by the IESG.
- HTML 3.0 is no longer being maintained. The following links may be used to retrieve the expired HTML 3.0 proposal.
- href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML version
- Plain text version (372K)
- # HTML 3.2 is an updated proposal for HTML.
- Machine-readable (DTDs) A Document Type Definition (DTD) is a formal way of specifying the valid tags, attributes, entities, and relationships for a markup language in SGML syntax. Below are links to all of the current DTDs for HTML. The "strict" versions of DTDs can be used to create documents which avoid the elements of a previous version of HTML that have since been deprecated.
- Related Standards and Drafts
- Other Good Indexes Other good lists of HTML resources.
- # Webmaster Reference Library (TM) An index of web related resources,
- OneWorld/SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation Links to information on the various components of HTML, servers, DNS and more.
- System P Table of Contents A list of links covering WWW information and other categories.
- HTML: Hypertext Mark-up Language A list of categorized resources at the Library of Congress. Includes general resources, HTML, URLs, server software for various operating systems, JAVA, ActiveX, and web statistics tools.<
- WWW Authoring Information
- Framed format Links to HTML 2.0, 3.2, style guides, editors, forms, CGI, JAVA, PERL, and more.
- HTML Developer's Info Kira's Toolbox: Includes a password and imagemap tutorial, CGI and HTML resources, servers, other references and more.
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library This link is the front door of another well categorized index of resources covering all that is the web.
- Technical Web links Links to sites covering HTML, browsers, servrs and scripts.
- HTML-Bibliography What is HTML? This site offers insight through a list of offline books and online articles, and well as the RFCs that define the standard.
- Hints for Web Authors An excellent essay on some of the fundamental principles of effective HTML design. This is highly recommended reading for HTML authors of all levels of expertise -- it covers important concepts that must be understood before one ca n progress as an HTML author.
- Systems Magic HTML Style Guide Another excellent discussion of many of the important considerations involved in creating effective Web pages.
- Guide to Web Style Sun Microsystems' comprehensive style guide, with emphasis on human factors and organization issues.
- 10 Ways to Improve your Home Page
- What Makes a Great Web Site? A few good pointers on how to improve your web site and make it look and work good in almost all browsers. See Also: HTML 3.2 and Netscape 4.0 How to tame the wild Mozilla
- * href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh">Composing Good HTML Eric Tilton's excellent style guide -- one of the best on the Web. See Also: Postscript Version (31K)
- Style Guide for Online Hypertext Tim Berners-Lee's ideas on effective hypertext design. This document is a couple years old and has not been updated to discuss any recent developments in HTML.
- HTML Bad Style Page A good list of things not to do with HTML. It comes complete with examples.
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide A very well done manual, except that it requires JavaScript. This 2nd edition has been revised and updated to hopefully correct some of the flawed HTML advice. See Also: Adobe Acrobat Version
- Art and the Zen of Web Sites A collection of quite a few useful tips and pointers on how to create a well made web site.
- Organic Online's Thoughts on Extending HTML An excellent essay on the importance of standards for the continuing advancement of the Internet.
- Net Tips for Writers and Designers David Siegel's ideas on how to improve your web site and make your HTML pages look great.
- Frequently Asked Questions A FAQ collection developed by members of the HTML Writers Guild.
- Basic HTML
- Graphics and Imagemaps
- Graphics FAQ All sorts of information on format, construction, and use of graphics.
- Graphic File Formats FAQ From the FAQ intro: This FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list contains information on graphics file formats, including, raster, vector, metafile, Page Description Language, 3D object, animation, and multimedia formats.
- Designing Web Graphics 2, and other up-to-date color and graphics information books from Lynda Weinman.
- Graphics and Imagemaps Links to several tutorials and information articles.
- * Webmaster Reference Library (TM)
- Advanced HTML
- CGI, Scripts, Perl, Cookies
- Introduction
- Interface Design
- Site Design
- Page Design
- Web Graphics
- Web Multimedia and Animation
- Papers
- Appendices
- Downloading Options
- Why Validate? Why validate your pages when they look just fine in your browser?
- Web Techs Why Validate Your HTML
- Web Developer's Virtual Library Some reasoning for validation, and links to both online and offline tools to aid in matching your pages to a specific Document Type Definition (DTD).
- Online Tools
- Doctor HTML Single page or site analysis based on form input URL. This online tool offers suggestions for errors detected in a given document or site, with alltests as default, or optional user selected tests.
- NetMechanic An interactive HTML validator which allows validation based on various standards and which will work in the foreground (wait for browser displayed results) or mail you the results of an entire site validation. This tool will also
- # WebTechs HTML Validation Service An interactive HTML validator, provided by the nice folks at WebTechs. This link provides a form where you can enter URLs of documents you want checked, and another one in which you can type HTML to see if it is valid. There are mirrors of this service in Austria, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
- Weblint Home Page Neil Bowers' excellent syntax and style checker for HTML documents: a Perl script which you can download and install on your system . Weblint looks for some common HTML problems, specifically targeted to finding things which are known to confound existing Web browsers. See the list of WWW Weblint gateways.
- Online Weblint Service Clay Webster provides this Web interface to Weblint, which allows you to remove syntax errors by specifying URLs or HTML code.
- HTML Check Toolkit This link allows you to configure and download a package containing the parser behind the WebTechs Validation Service to be installed on your system, allowing you to check your documents without having to use the online Web version.
- Bobby An online validator for pages targeted at a selected browser, which will return errors based on the support of that browser for the tags used. This toll will also offer suggestions for items which may give users with disabilities difficulty.
- htmlchek: a HTML syntax and cross-reference checker Henry Churchyard's awk or perl scripts, which check syntax, do local cross-reference checking, translate dangerous 8-bit characters to their HTML entities, generate tables of contents, and more.
- Offline Tools
- Spyglass HTML Validator A FREE standalone (offline) validator for Windows95 users.
- CSE 3310 HTML Validator This is a shareware (150 document trial) offline html validator for 32 bit (win95 and NT) based machines with drag & drop support and integration with some html editors.
- LinkBot A shareware (30 day trial) 32 bit (win95 & NT) suite of site management utilities. Among other capabilities, this tool verifies links and syntax of references.
- HTML PowerAnalyzer A shareware (30 day evaluation) Windows program (3.1- NT) which will validate syntax and links.
- Validation Related: Link Verifiers
- LinkScan A shareware (14 day trial) server based PERL script (Unix and NT) which will verify internal and external links and generate site maps. Requires shell access to your server, PERL 5 or higher, and the ability to run CGI scripts.
- missinglink A shareware PERL script for the UNIX platform that verifies the correctness of internel, external hyperlinks. Requires a PERL interpreter.
- NSGMLS: a UNIX program to check your code. This is the back-end to KGV; not a simple program, but very useful.
- The Bobby Validator for checking the accessibility of your web pages.
- * A Suite of Validators - take your pick.
- Document Type Descriptions A reference listing the different DTDs, which are supported by which validators, and links to specific DTDs.
- Making Your Pages Look Good in Many Browsers
- Accessiblity
- Miscellaneous FAQ
- Internet Glossary Abstract: There are many networking glossaries in existence. This glossary concentrates on terms which are specific to the Internet. Naturally, there are entries for some basic terms and acronyms because other entries refer to them. Acknowledgements: This document is the work of the User Glossary Working Group of the User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- Business Resources Financial, marketing aspects of running an HTML shop.
- Design Resources Graphics and site design issues
- Graphics Libraries - links to public domain graphics libraries all over the Web.
- Ender's Realm Graphics An extremely sizable collections of buttons, icons, bars, banners and collections of coordinating graphics. Also features an option to view text on a chosen background before downloading.
- Laurie McCanna's Free Art Site Ms. McCanna give graphic design tips and donates many colorful patterns and icons to the internet community.
- Microsoft's Site Builder Network Design Free collections of abstract or photo-quality graphics --including many large banners and directional icons-- in many different topics.
- Karawynn Long's Web Art Individual collections of coordinating graphics. Each collection includes a background, one or more icons, and other related items.
- The Icon Factory Free small icons and custom graphics.
- Site Design
- WWW Home Page Creation Center of The Internet's World Wide Web sites: documentation, suggestions, tools, and more for creating a Home Page.
- HTML Tools Specifically for Netscape
- Creating Net Sites from Netscape Corporation, including Authoring HTML
- Authoring Documents
- Netscape Starter Site Netscape's information center for anyone interested in creating a Web page.
- * Beginner's Guide to HTML Probably the best place to start. With a useful glossary and loads of examples, this is a helpful first primer.
- An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners Learn what you need to know about HTML through interactive exercises right in your own browser window.
- * Composing Good HTML A style guide that gives you the good, the bad, and the ugly. Learn the code, then how to use it properly.
- Extensions to HTML 2.0 Netscape Navigator supports many extensions to HTML, including background patterns, tables, and dynamic document updating.
- Extensions to HTML 3.0 Netscape Navigator supports the latest extensions to HTML 3.0, including subscript and superscript, big and small print specifications, and new paragraph attributes.
- Frames, an Introduction Learn how to incorporate frames into your HTML documents.
- Guides to writing HTML Documents A good list of HTML resources around the Web. Examples, style guides, Netiquette, and more.
- Adding Functionality
- Off the Net Published (almost) monthly by Chris Tacy, cofounder of Fire Engine Red, this newsletter cuts through the nonsense and gives Web developers the news and community leads they really need. Exclusively on the Netscape home pages.
- High Impact Documents Some tips and tricks to spice up your pages: interlaced images, image height and width, JPEG and GIF basics, and autoscaling.
- World Wide Web Directory Brought to you by Yahoo, this directory puts a wide range of information sources at your fingertips.
- WWW Development Another directory tree that will keep Web developers in the know about everything related to Net publishing - and we mean everything. Includes information on mailing lists and newsgroups
- Developer Tools
- Netscape Composer Builds on the features of Netscape Navigator, adding an easy-to-use editor that lets you publish live, online web pages.
- Netscape JavaScript An open, cross-platform object scripting language for enterprise networks and the Internet.
- The University of Washington Web Developer's Page A superb resource on Net site development for even the most advanced HTML jockey.
- W3Kit 2.1 An object-oriented tool kit for building interactive World Wide Web applications.
- WebLink A Unix Perl script à la the C bug-checker "lint." Nice little tool for organic fuzzy-logic processors who sometimes miss the odd offanchor.
- Gifconverter 2.3.7 For Macintosh A nifty shareware GIF interlacer by Kevin A. Mitchell that allows users to load and view images progressively. Save a GIF as interlaced by using the Interlaced checkbox in the File Settings dialog box under the Special menu.
- GifBuilder is a powerful yet simple to use software for Macintosh to build animations for the Web.
- MapEdit 1.1.2 A shareware WYSIWYG editor for image maps by Thomas Boutell that lets you easily create image maps by drawing rectangles, circles, polygons, etc., directly on top of your image. It then generates an image-map file. Versions available for X11 and Windows. Copyright © 1995 by Thomas Boutell.
- WebMap for Macintosh A similar shareware WYSIWYG image-map maker and editor by Rowland Smith.
- Use JPEGs & GIFs intelligently
- # HTML Reference Manual from Michael J. Hannah of Sandia National Laboratories
- Yahoo resource list on Netscape extensions
| Demos, Test Pages Testing browser support of various HTML features. |
- BrowserCaps Visitors to the BrowserCaps site have the option of running their browser through a series of tests designed to identify how the browser handles bits of HTML. Results are available to any visitor to the site.
- Browser Test Pages Sample pages to identify if your browser supports some of the material used with the computational chemistry industry.
- C|Net's Browser Torture Test Tests of funkier HTML conformance (e.g. footnotes, math, background colours)
- Digital's Form Testing Page Tests of FORMs handling compliance, with matrix of results.
- BrowserWatch The Browser News for the latest stories & rumors about browsers and developers
- The Browser Tuneup This browser tuneup is for figuring out the particular quirks and oddities of browsers and may be useful for developers and consultants. All material is based on the September 22, 1995 HTML 2.0 specification.
- Open Market Browser Tests Tests of HTTP-related issues such as redirection, authentication, page and link caching.
- Selected HTML 3.0 Examples A set of HTML 3.0 examples to check your browser against.
- A List of HTML Tags This list is intended to help edititing HTML documents. It is not a comprehensive list, but should suffice for basic HTML layout.
- Testing some tables Problem areas with some browsers not rendering tables correctly.
- Test HTML Document The purpose of this document is to get an idea of how certain HTML looks on all browsers by viewing this document with the browsers in question, and to determine if new HTML tags, such as footnotes, text attributes, etc. are implimented in those browsers. This page also uses a Cascading Style Sheet (very ugly in Communicator 4.03 anyway), most likely to show how different browsers will react.
- What's New!!
- Build-It Boulevard - (HTML Editors, html tutorials and beginner tips)
- HTML Tutorials
- HTML Editors (Mac)
- Search Tools - (Search Engines, information and site design tips for search engines)
- Search Engine Info
- # Internet Search Tool Details - Detailed descriptions of 6 major player search tools, including update frequency.
- # Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers- Explains, how to design your pages, keeping the search engines in mind, and why it is necessary to do so
- Search Source - Central repository of search engines, directories, what's new lists, metasearches, as well as links to e-mail directories, gopher sites, software archives, and newsgroup searches.
- The Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories
- Search Engine Tutorial - Explains, how to design your pages, keeping the search engines in mind, and why it is necessary to do so.
- Comparing Seach Engines - Various articles on search engines. Comparaison, performance study, size information.
- Searching the WWW - Here's the 411 on using the search engines.
- Net Search -Scroll to the bottom of Netscapes Net Search page and you'll find a basic description of every major engine, as well as entries for several directories and paid services.
- Web Search Tool Features -These tables show some of the features and techniques for the most common Web search services to show how to use them and to help decide which may be the most appropriate. Each service also provides more detailed instructions.
- Search Engines
- Ultra InfoSeek - A new free Internet search service from Infoseek, the next generation in search technology, giving you levels of speed, accuracy, currency and comprehensiveness. You've got to give it a spin to believe it!!
- Infoseek E-Mail Search - Send your mail where it's supposed to go using this easy to e-mail address lookup. Try looking up yourself!
- Alta Vista - Yahoo! is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. Yahoo! lists sites and categorizes them into appropriate subject categories.
- Yahoo! - Yahoo! is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. Yahoo! lists sites and categorizes them into appropriate subject categories.
- Yahooligans! - The Web Guide for Kids.
- Lycos - The largest catalog of URLs, a directory of the most popular sites, critical reviews of the Web's top sites, real-time news links and on-target editorial content from some of the Web's most experienced, perceptive personalities.
- WebCrawler - America-Online's lightning fast Web Search.
- InfoSeek - Infoseek Guide is your roadmap to the Internet! Search and browse Web pages, Usenet newsgroups, FTP and Gopher sites, and more!
- OpenText
- Search the Searches!
- Metacrawler - Robyn's favorite one. Enter keywords once, it searches multiple databases and returns the result in one easy to read list which tells you also where it was found!.
- Search.com - Over 250 ways to seach the net.
- Metasearch - Enter your search terms and choose advanced features like boolean operators just once then search multiple engines without ever re-typing.
- All-in-One Search Page
- Savvy Search
- WebTaxi
- The Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories - If you really want to understand how search engines really matter and how they work, read this!
- * Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers
- * Internet Search Tool Details
- Build Tools - (Those extra tools you need to create the non-plain page!)
- Web Browsers
- Web Browser Tips
- Graphics Viewers/Editors/Organizers
- Paint Shop Pro - A great and easy to use graphics design tool
- JASC Media Center - JASC Media Center allows you to organize your multimedia and graphics by creating albums of thumbnails. Arrange image thumbnails in the album using drag and drop, locate them using numerous sort options. Catalog your mutimedia and graphics files. A must have!
- Map This! - A freeware Windows program designed to create, edit, and maintain World Wide Web clickable image maps. A must have!
- LView Pro
- The Color Table Way of Grooviness - Allows you to see how different colors look on different backgrounds.
- Color Center - ColorCenter is a JavaScript application that let's you quickly and easily try out text and background color. You've got to see this!
- GIF Construction Set - Animate your GIFS!! A powerful collection of tools to work with multiple-block GIF files.
- GIF Animation Tools, Techniques, Examples and Resources
- Web Support Tools - Helper Apps - Plug-Ins
- Plug-In Plaza - Here is where you find the links to all of the plug-in's available on the net.
- # ActiveX Plug-IN -If you're using Netscape Navigator, you need to download this one to use this new IE 3 technology.
- * RealAudio - RealAudio allows users to listen to good quality audio while your browser is downloading it (read as: streaming)
- ShockWave Director - Shockwave/Director allows you to view inline Director Multimedia files.
- ViewMovie - ViewMovie allows users to view inline QuickTime Movies.
- VRealm - VRealm allows users to view inline 3D VRML files.
- Live3D (VRML) - Experience distributed, interactive 3-D spaces rich with text, images, animation, sound, music, and video. (VRML + Moving Worlds)
- Envoy - The Envoy plug-in allows you to view standalone Envoy documents and Envoy documents embedded in HTML pages.
- Cresendo - This plugin will allow you to add (MIDI) music to your Web pages or listen to music while surfing the Web.
- Instructional Applications of Netscape 2.0 - Discussions on Frames, Java applets, plugins, and Netscape's E-mail and Newsgroups feature.
- * Frequently Asked Questions About HTML Coding for Internet Explorer 3.0
- * ActiveX Plug-IN -If you're using Netscape Navigator, you need to download this one to use this new IE 3 technology.
- Publicize it - (Get your page out there!)
- TurboPromote - Promote your web site with hundreds of search engines,newsgroups, mailing lists, reciprocal links and banner advertisments.
- Building Rules & Tips - HTML Syntax, Extra Stuff, Intermediate to Advanced topics
- Page Art
- Bunch 'o Stuff
- Net-User's Web Art Library - Backgrounds, Dots/Arrows, Icons, Lines and Animated Gifs
- A+ Art - Free Clipart, Icons, Backgrounds, and Buttons
- Free Art for HTML
- The Icon and Image Bazaar - Huge collection of all sorts of graphics for HTML use! A must visit for web page designers.
- Bill's Web Design Gallery - A creative selection of buttons, bars, and more! Terry Goulds Home Page Graphics - Constructed to assist new net users in constructing their own Home Page
- Art Galleries, Icons & Graphics
- The Great Page of Art!
- Free Buttons, Bars, Backgrounds, Bullets and Bingbats - Here you'll find a list of links to many of the other HTML graphics sites on the Web.
- Gifs
- Icons
- Bullets
- Textures & Backgrounds
- Sounds & Music
- Clip Art
- Animated GIFs
- Wow!
- Outta Sites
- Best of The Web
- Add A Counter
- Have Fun
- Computer Corps
- News and Info
- News
- The Internet
- Personal Computers
- Windows Publications
- Online Services
- Robyn's Favorites
- Software and Stuff
- Windows 95
- Get Help With Windows 95 - Exchange
- Dales Windows 95 Page - Themes for Windows '95 Microsoft Plus!
- * The Windows 95 Headquarters (Explorer)
- Rexxx's Windows '95 Hints and Tips
- The Windows Source - Your source for great programs and information for Windows '95
- Brians Windows95 Links- Mostly a page of links made up of buttons with the logos of different sites
- Windows95 Annoyances- This page contains a list of annoying "features" of Windows95, and workarounds for most of them
- Windows 95 -- Tips and Tweaks - Lots of good tips on tuning and tweaking your Win95 system including Desktop Customization, Power User Tips, Internet Access Setup, Interface Enhancments, Increasing Performance, Key Technical Information and More
- The One-Stop Windows 95 Site - The starting point for Windows 95 references on the World Wide Web
- AdminWin95 - A Network Administrators Windows 95 Page (for you Mike I.)
- Win95 Networking FAQ '96 - This FAQ concerns problems you might encounter with Win95's networking features after you have set everything up according to the directions, such as they are.
- WindoZ 95 Dummy Help Page - Help from a Windows 95 Dummy!
- Windows 95 Start - Windows 95 software repository, publications, other site links, and programming
- Very Interesting!
- E-Mail
- Finding Information on The Web
- Search Engines
- How Search Engines Work
- Other Mailing Lists
- Information on HTML Tags and How to Use them:
- Individual HTML Tags
- Definitions of Terms
- Graphics and Sound
- Advanced Features: Forms and CGI
- Tutorials
- Freeware CGI Scripts
- Advanced Features: Imagemaps
- Advanced Features; Tables and Frames
- Advanced Features: Cookies and Shopping Carts
- Advanced Features: Javascript
- Advanced Features Java
- Advanced Features ActiveX
- ActiveX Tutorials
- http://www.microsoft.com/activex">Microsoft's ActiveX Homepage with links to tutorials and gallery
- Lots of ActiveX News and Links
- Advanced Features Style Sheets (CSS1)
- The Official Specification
- Microsoft's Implementation
- Advanced Features: Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Advanced Features: Accessing Databases
- Advanced Features: Passwords and Security
- Browser-Specific Information
- Servers (includes information on setting up a host site and on finding Web space)
- Setting Up Your Own Server
- Finding a Home for Your Pages on Someone Else's Server
- Shareware
- Web Marketing and Demographics
- CyberAtlas Great quick reference site, lots of different kinds of demographics including by region.Updated frequently
- Project 2000 A rigorous academic and statistical review of many of the demographics and "commercialization of the Web" studies This explains why different surveys have different results. Highly recommended by many HWG members.
- GVU Surveys One of the largest, and best-run, user surveys on the Web. Includes European users. Always interesting.
- Yahoo WWW Demographics Category
- Wilson's Webmarked A meta-list with 100's of links on WWW marketing
- Hardware Questions PC Magazine has an excellent database search for all Ziff Davis magazines, including MacUser, Computer Shopper, Yahoo Internet World, and more--you can find product reviews and lots of hardware information by starting here.
| Miscellaneous Resources |
- The WDVL: Authoring JavaScript A very good online tutorial and some links to other resouces.
- The JavaScript Planet This site has good examples of how to use JavaScript to perform unique functions.
- JavaScript by EarthWeb's Developer.Com Contains links to wide variety of tools, documentation, products, and resources.
- Timothy's JavaScript Examples A huge collection of useful JavaScript examples.
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to JavaScript This is the Internet site for Que's book. The site contains an introduction, example scripts, techiques, tips and tricks, an incomplete reference guide, and links to other resources.
- JS Resources a 2 z A good site based on the book "PracticalJavaScript Programming" with several articles, tutorials, and examples.
- JavaScript World A great site for JavaScript examples and tutorials.
- Voodoo's Intro to JavaScript A good JavaScript tutorial and introduction to the JavaScript language.
- JavaScriptSourcebook There are some good free examples and tutorials here.
- * JavaScript 411 An older site. Has some decent tutorials and examples for beginners.
- WebAudio is an area which encompasses all forms of audio transmission over the Internet. This would include RealAudio, WAV, MIDI, and any other form of transmitting audio signals through the Web.
- Audio Guide for Web Developers An overview of music file formats.
- Streaming Audio
- MIDI
- Sampled Formats- WAV, SND, AU etc.
- CoolEdit Record, playback, import and export many file types including WAV and RA (RealAudio).
- Quack (Windows 95 Only) . Software simulation of a modular analog synthesizer outputs WAV files
- Shockwave is a method of delivering interactivity in the form of games, menus, movies and other items. Content can contain audio, animation, and react to user input.
- Streaming Video - audio/video content that starts to play without downloading. Though there are problems with video quality and reliability, streaming technology is the only practical solution to delivering video clips on a web page.
- Progressive Networks Home Page RealVideo is the latest addition to the growing crowd of streaming video vendors
- Vivo Software Home Page VivoActive is a SERVERLESS streaming video product, with user reports of excellent video quality
- VDOnet Home Page VDOLive uses a unique scalable technology which allows the VDOLive SERVER to measure the bandwidth available to the user at any given point and optimizes the picture quality to the specific bandwidth available.
- Xing Technology Corporation Xing StreamWorks is used for viewing real-time audio and video delivered from StreamWorks SERVERS
- MBone or IP Multicast Home Page The MBONE is an outgrowth of the first two IETF "audiocast" experiments.
- A
- Applications
- Auto Load images
- B
- C
- # Cache
- Certificates
- Client pull
- Colors
- Content area
- D
- Directories
- Directory
- Directory commands
- Disk cache (See: Cache)
- Document information
- E
- Edit menu
- E-mail
- # Encoding
- Encryption (See: Security)
- Error messages
- External images
- F
- File menu
- Find commands
- Firewalls
- Fixed font
- Fonts
- Forms
- Forward command
- Frequently Asked Questions
- FTP
- G
- Galleria
- GIF
- Gopher
- Go menu
- H
- I
- Images
- INI file
- Inline images
- Internet
- J
- K
- L
- Link styles
- Links
- Load Images
- Location
- M
- N
- Netscape Communications Corporation
- Netscape
- Network
- News (See: Newsgroups)
- News RC file
- # Newsgroups
- NNTP
- O
- Open file
- Open location
- Options menu
- Options/Preferences panel
- P
- Page
- Pop-up menu
- Ports
- PPP
- Preferences command
- Print commands
- Progress bar
- Proportional font
- Protocols
- Proxies
- Public key (See: Keys)
- Q
- R
- Refresh
- Release notes
- Reload
- S
- Save commands
- Search engines
- Secure Sockets Layer (See: SSL)
- # Security
- Send Mail/Post News
- Server (See also: Security)
- Server list
- Server push
- Show commands
- Signature file
- SLIP
- SMTP
- SNEWS
- SOCKS
- Sounds (See: Helper applications)
- Source
- # SSL
- Status indicator
- Status message
- Stop Loading command
- Styles
- T
- TCP/IP
- Telnet
- Toolbar buttons
- Types file (See: MIME)
- U
- Uniform Resource Locator
- UNIX
- URL
- Usenet
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
| NetscapeWorld back issues: Columns |
- JavaScript
- Best Practices by Rick Cook
- Java Bytecode by Jim Lowe
- HTML Q&A by Chuck Musciano
- Webcast strategies and Multimedia strategies by Jon Leland
- Webmaster Q&A by Mariva H. Aviram
- VRML Technique by David R. Nadeau
- Website Techniques by Janet Gould
| Java and Javascript |
- The Common Gateway Interface
- Creating CGI Applications using AppleScript
- Required Software
- Handy-Dandy Instructions
- Notes about the Lessons
- Actual Tutorial Files
- The Basics - This lesson shows how to make a CGI that returns an HTML page with all of the information that was passed to it. No processing is done on the data.
- Self-Quitting - This lesson shows how to make a CGI quit after a specified period without receiving an Apple event
- Error Handling - This lesson demonstrates a CGI that will return an informative page describing any errors that are encountered during execution.
- Parsing the Form Data - This lesson covers parsing the information passed from a form into variables for processing. It also covers how to use an OSAX to speed up processing of data, in this case using the Tokenize OSAX.
- Decoding the Form Data - This lesson covers decoding the special character encodings used by client applications to send data to WebSTAR. Uses the Decode URL and DePlus OSAXes.
- Using Forms
- What is a Form? - Explanations and Working Examples
- Before you begin...
- How Forms Work - Really Basic Stuff
- How to write a page with FORM elements
- Processing the Form Information
- Actual Tutorial Files
- Basic Form Processing - How to extract and identify the data from each item in your form to produce readable output
- Email Example - How to allow people to send you e-mail by filling out the form. Includes examples for using Eudora or the TCP/IP Scripting Additions.
- Using Imagemaps
- Miscellaneous Graphics assembled as Graphic Images
- Backgrounds,
- Imagemaps, or clickable images, allow a single graphic to link to more than page depending on where it is clicked. (Datasync's server has imagemap support built in. You do not need to use the imagemap or htimage CGIs.)
- Map This! is a popular shareware tool for creating imagemaps. Use the NCSA format for your MAP files.
- Counters and other CGI Tools
- Matt Wright's Goodies
- Matt's Perl CGI Scripts
- Matt's C++ CGI Programs
- Other People's Perl CGI Scripts, By Spider
- htmlscript Template Applications
- Getting Help
- Other Areas of Matt's Script Archive
- View examples of MSA scripts in action
- Pieces of code and add-ons for MSA scripts
- Register a script, send a comment, or find out what's coming
- Other methods of obtaining help and notification of new scripts
- ClickGo Ver. 1.1.1 By Luke and Mark Pfeifer - Easy click, pick, and go pull down menus like those on the Datasync Main page. See the ClickGo Homepage for more information
- CERN Goodies
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Miscellaneous Stuff |