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HTML and WWW Resources

General HTML Information
HTML Tutorials
HTML Style and Design Guides
Graphics Resources
Webifying Existing Documents
HTML Editors and Other Goodies
Beyond the Basics:
Server Information
General WWW Information
Printed Resources

General HTML Information

Barebones Guide to HTML: This Guide lists virtually every official HTML 2.0 tag, plus the Netscape extensions and several HTML 3.0 tags, in a concise, organized format.
A Beginner's Guide to HTML: This is a primer for producing documents in HTML, the hypertext markup language used on the World Wide Web. This guide is intended to be an introduction to using HTML and creating files for the Web. Links are provided to additional information.
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html: Usenet newsgroup for HTML issues and questions.
WWW Help Page: This page provides links to some excellent resources available on the Web. An EMail address is included to request further assistance.
Creating Net Sites: This site provides information on Authoring Documents, Adding Functionality, and Tools for Developers.
Macintosh-Based WWW Starter Kit: Features information on MacHTTP and other tools needed to develop HTML documents. A comprehensive set of tools all at one site.

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HTML Tutorials

Writing HTML: A Tutorial: A guide to writing HTML that includes a tutorial for creating WWW pages using volcanoes as the subject matter for the example.
Introduction to HTML: An Introduction to HTML with interactive quizzes from Case Western Reserve University. Provides a well-done class on HTML and an example of how to take an Internet-related class and put it (and the related course materials) up onto the WWW.
Intermediate HTML: This is a sequel to the Introduction to HTML tutorial above and covers forms, among other things.

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HTML Style and Design Guides

Web Style Manual: This site is a Web Style Manual by Patrick Lynch. Instructions are provided for printing the manual.
Style Guide for Online Hypertext: A comprehensive guide. The section on structure discusses how you organize your material into documents. Another section discusses how to organize your material within a document.
Web Wonk: If you're into making your HTML pages look great, everything here is for you.
Resources for Designing your own Web Pages: Comprehensive list of helpful links.
Creating High Impact Documents: This site concentrates on features of Netscape Navigator that allow authors to improve documents containing inlined images.

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Graphics Resources

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images: Usenet newsgroup for WWW images issues and questions.
Webaholics Color Table: A table containing samples of 50 commonly-used colors with their hex triplet equivalents so you can create colorful web pages.
ColorMaker: ColorMaker makes it easy to create colorful web pages without having to bother with confusing hexadecimal numbers.
NASA Resource Center: Provides information that is platform specific to assist the user in developing images that have a certain bit set on one of their colormap entries, so that a Web browser's background will show through wherever that color appears in the image. Allows the image to appear to "float" on the page.
L-View from MMEDIA Research in Florida: LView Pro is a graphics editor and viewer for MS-Windows platforms.
Syed's Bullets, Buttons and Other Gizmos: Bullets and buttons for use in your HTML documents.
Icons and Images for Use in HTML Documents: Large collection of bullets and buttons for use in your HTML documents.
Interactive Graphics Generator: Make your own bullets and bars!

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Webifying Existing Documents

Word Processing Filters: Large collection of utilities for converting word processing and presentation files into HTML. Also includes information on converting HTML back to word processing files.

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HTML Editors

The Web Designer: One stop shopping for home page creation. You really have to mine this site to see it all. It includes information on HTML editors as well as the basics and frills for developing pages.
HTML editing and authoring tools: A long list of some purpose-made html editors and authoring tools.

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Netscape 2.0

Netscape 2.0 Tutorial: This is a nice site, both for design and content. Best viewed using Netscape 2.0 because it uses the frames feature. A very nice orientation to the advanced "super browser" features of Netscape 2.0.
Netscape Navigator Components: Welcome to the Netscape Navigator Components page, where you'll learn about standard Netscape components as well as the latest, greatest plug-ins and helper applications that make Netscape Navigator even more powerful, useful, and fun. It's easy -- just browse the categories below and select the components you'd like to download.

BrowserWatch

The latest in browser developments.

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Frames

Netscape Frames: Netscape frames make it possible for documents to divide the browser window into one or more independently scrollable frames of arbitrary layout, and then to assign separate document URLs to each of them. Additionally, hyperlinks in framed documents can update and control not just the contents of their own frames, but also the contents of other frames and windows as well, making it possible for web programmers to build extremely pleasing, sophisticated WWW pages with easy-to-navigate user interfaces.
FrameShop: FrameShop makes it easy to create and experiment with frames. You can create up to 3 main frames and up to 3 sub frames for each main frame for a total of 9 frames!
Help! I've been Framed!: Probably the simplest Netscape 2.0-ism to deal with is the nifty new frameset tag. It allows you to divide the Netscape window into a number of mini-'windows', each of which you can then control individually.

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Tables

HTML Table Generator: This simple form helps generate an HTML template table you can add to your Web documents.

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JavaScript

What is JavaScript?: JavaScript is a compact, object-based scripting language for developing client and server Internet applications.
JavaScript Authoring Guide: Netscape Navigator 2.0 interprets JavaScript statements embedded directly in an HTML page, and LiveWire enables you to create server-based applications similar to common gateway interface (CGI) programs.
JavaScript Resources: List of sites featuring JavaScript resources and examples.
Java Script Information Pages: Welcome to my Java Script information pages. I set up these pages to show you some of the things one can do using Java Script - and HOW to do it. I hope you'll enjoy your visit.
JavaScript Navigation Control (slow link): Example using JavaScript to navigate in Netscape frames, plus other good examples. Note: Mac users will need Netscape Navigator 2.0b4 to view this.
JavaScript Index: List of sites featuring JavaScript resources and examples.

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Java and Java Applets

What is Java?: Java is actually a programming language, much like C++, which was developed by SUN.
Sun's Java Site: Java is a simple, robust, object-oriented, platform-independent multi-threaded, dynamic general-purpose programming environment. It's best for creating applets and applications for the Internet, intranets and any other complex, distributed network. If you're not a programmer, you can enjoy the executable content potential of applets by using a Java-enabled browser, such as our HotJava or some versions of Netscape Communication's Navigator.
Tutorials

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Client-side Image Maps

Client-Side Image Mapping Tutorial

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Web Conferencing

What is Web Conferencing or an Electronic Conference?

A Web Conference is a gathering of people meeting for a purpose.

At least one of the participants is designated as the organizer--or moderator--of the conference. Organizers are responsible for the management and overall success of a conference in much the same way as leaders of face-to-face meetings (classroom discussions).

The online discussions in a conference are called "items." After you read an item you are prompted for a "response"--which is appended to that item.

In some conferencing software the system keeps track of which discussion items and responses each particpant has seen and participants are automatically informed when new items or responses have been added to the conference. It can feel like you are interacting in ongoing conversations with other participants--even though you are not physically in the same place, nor are all participants "online" at the same time.

WebForum

While Afzal Ballim was considering the difficulties of maintaining mailing lists, as well as the increasing problems of using/reading Usenet news, he wondered if the web could be used to provide an alternative. He did a first version of WebForum, and then found out about WIT and HyperNews. Neither quite gave him what he wanted - access control, no server-side included, so he started work on adapting them. This application was the result.

MOO and Web Conference Analysis

This site outlines options for the proposed Tele-Ed and CNet online Conferencing services, and platforms and services for offering online educational interactivity. Follow the links to read more on the Conference services listed at the site. Where possible, links to the Web Home Page of the service are provided.

First Class

FirstClass is a software interface designed to allow you to communicate with other users (classmates, TA's, profs) electronically.

Internet Relay Chat

IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people convene on "channels" (a virtual place, usually with a topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately. IRC is constantly evolving, so the way things to work one week may not be the way they work the next.

WWW INFOBASE: WEB Conference Tools

This site provides links to about 50 conferencing tools. This will be a place for you to explore examples during the workshop or later as you are developing your site's capabilities.

Intercontinental Conferencing Services

This is an example of a commercial web conferencing site where you will find people from all walks of life, all spots on the earth, and at all times of the day. The discussion topics range from Web Chit-chat, thru online classes, on-the-spot technical forums, impromptu discussions of world issues, and business conferences for people throughout the globe. There are several levels of access (some free). The cost of a private conference is reasonable.

WebCaucus

Described on the homepage as follows:

Caucus 3.0 is the Premier conferencing software for the Web. Its feature set and user interface draw on 10 years of experience in computer conferencing on private networks.
Caucus is complete, and it works. It is intuitive and involving. It takes maximum advantage of the multi-media nature of the Web to enhance conferencing beyond simple text exchanges. And Caucus allows for complete customization -- of visual appearance, functionality, scale, and interface.

Papers on Web/Computer Conferencing

A paper on computer conferencing.: This is a link to "An Application of Computer Conferencing in Dental Education" by W. Paul Lang, DDS, MPH at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor, MI. It describes how a computer conference was used as an instructional tool in a dental school course on health education.
Computer Conferencing as a Cooperative Learning Environment: This article (1995) was written by W. R. Klemm, Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He provides two answers to why you might want to use computer conferencing as an environment for cooperative/collaborative learning.
Training and Instruction Using Conference Software: This paper provides a description of a variety of uses for conferencing software in instruction and training.
Conferencing on the Web: Communication and Collaboration at Every Desktop--A White Paper

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WEST Software

West Software: Plug'n'Play Courseware
Of particular interest to courseware developers, version 1.1 includes the ability to take any course created using WEST and have it packaged up into one distributable file - including all locally referenced media files such as graphics, RealAudio and Shockwave files. This single file can then be distributed over the Web, on CD-ROM or floppy disk and installed on another WEST server automatically. There are no licencing fees for distributing courses in this manner.

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Animation

GIF Animation on the WWW: Everything you need to create GIF89a animations is here. If you need inspiration, a Gallery of animations from across the world are displayed. If you are a programmer, the technical aspects are fully explained. The Toolbox is filled with software for Windows, DOS, Macintosh and UNIX. A step by step tutorial will walk you through the process and around the potholes. Another page has all the HTML code and Web page tricks. Lastly, is the Critter Report where all the bugs and peculiarities are listed and explained.
Shockwave Center: Lots of information about the Macromedia Director plug-in for Netscape.

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PERL and CGI

Free PERL/CGI Scripts: A listing and short description of the many CGI Perl scripts provided for free to the web community. You can follow any of the script links receive more information about it.
Server PushPull and CGI Animation: The CGI Animation tips outlined in this article are based on features intriduced by Netscape in April 1995. Since then some new methods of animation on the web have been introduced that offer more flexibility and control than a CGI server push stream of files.

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Server Information

CERN HTTP Server: W3C httpd is a generic public domain full-featured hypertext server which can be used as a regular HTTP server.
NCSA HTTPd: Hoohoo is a server run by the NCSA HTTPd Development Team to test and demonstrate the latest versions of NCSA HTTPd, and to provide documentation for it.
Unix Helps: Quick guide to basic Unix commands you may need to use.

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General WWW Information

The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project: General information about the Web.

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Printed Resources

Holden, Greg: Publishing on the World Wide Web (1995) Hayden Books Indianapolis, IN. See information for this book online.
Lemay, Laura: Teach Your self Web Publishing with HTML in a Week (1995) SAMS Publishing Indianapolis, IN. Find more information on this book at its web site .

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