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Authoring Info
Advanced
Adding Media to Mosaic Documents (how to put still images, moving images, and audio onto a Web page) (Lisa R. Wood, U. Michigan)
Advanced HTML, Tables and Forms 
The Art of HTML (extensive metapage of information and resources for Web authoring) (Krish Menon)
Authoring Style 
Comprehensive List of Web Sites (by country) 
Creating Clickable Maps (U Texas, Austin)
Creating Forms (U Texas, Austin)
John December, "Web Development" (hypertext essay on the methodology of web-site development)
DEMO: 3D User-Controlled Interface , Paul D. Bourke
The Fifteen Web Info Usenet Groups (comp.infosystems.www.*)
Homepage 
Concordance Search Engine (Search comp.infosystems.www.* Usenet Archives) (Critical Mass Communications)
Html 2.0
Hierarchy of Content Models in the HTML 3.0 DTD (Dianne Gorman)
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 Characters in Ampersand Entities (Henry Churchyard, U. Texas Austin)
The Official HTML Specification 
Searching the HTML 2.0 Specification 
Html 3.0
Hierarchy of Content Models in the HTML 2.0 DTD (Dianne Gorman)
HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0 
IETF - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Working Group 
Information about HTML 3.0 
A Quick Preview of HTML 3.0 
The HTML Authoring Mailing List 
HTML Writers Guild Homepage 
Intro to HyperText Transfer Protocol 
Intro to the Common Gateway Interface CGI) 
Intro to Web Searchable Databases 
Making an MPEG Movie (U Texas, Austin)
Netscape Html
Authoring with Netscape 1.1+ Enhancements (metapage of guides and examples) (Harold Carey, Jr., International Business Information Center)
The Background Sampler (Netscape)
Creating High-Impact Documents (Netscape)
Document Specific Background and Foreground Control (Netscape)
The <IMG ALIGN> Extension (helpful demonstrations of the Netscape inline image alignment tags; answers such questions familiar to all Netscape authors as "what exactly is the difference between 'absbottom' and 'baseline'?") (Nogradi Balint)
Server Pushes (extensive page of links to server-push animation pages; includes info on implementation of server push for Netscape 1.1+) (Matt Sheppard)
Tables in Netscape 1.1 (Netscape)
Overview of HTTP (WWW Consortium)
Philosophy and the World Wide Web (advice on setting up a home page, a server, etc.)
Technical Reports from the UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) 
UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) Guide to On-Line Academic Publishing on WWW 
W3 Consortium History of WWW 
Webcraft (theory and practice of Web page design) (Alan Eyzaguirre)
Web Developer's Virtual Library 
WebNotes Internet Conferencing and Forums Service (read and post without charge to a Web server organized by discussion forums)
WEBsurf (zine with resources and technical tips for people "obsessed" with the Web) (
The Web Word (journal)
Yale C/AIM Web Style Manual 
For Beginners
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML (Kevin Werbach)
Beginner's Guide to URLs 
A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)
COURSE: Introduction to HTML , Kevin Lowey, U. of Saskatchewan
Crash Course on Writing Documents for the Web (Eamonn Sullivan)
Honolulu Community College Introduction to WWW (excellent intro)
How To Publish On The Internet (excerpts and updates to print book by Andrew Fry and David Paul)
How to Write HTML files 
HTML Quick Reference (SoftQuad)
HTML Tutorial (Wm. Dennis Horn)
Introduction to HTML (Eric A. Meyer, Case Western Reserve U)
Learning HTML (metapage of resources for learning to author Web pages) (Daniel LaLiberte)
Macmillan's HTML Workshop 
Mostly Complete HTML dictionary 
NCSA Home Page 
Web Mastery (rich metapage of links to info and essays on web authoring) (UIUC)
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Form Authoring (Cgi & Perl Scripts, Etc.)
Carlos' FORMS Tutorial 1 (Carlos A. Pero)
CGI Archive (info.cern.ch) 
C Library for CGI (routines for writing CGI programs in C) (Eugene Kim)
Creating Forms (U Texas, Austin)
Index of Perl/HTML Archives (Meng Weng Wong, U Penn
Perl Scripts Archive 
perlWWW (Earl Hood) (index of Web-related Perl programs)
W3.COM, Inc. (betaware Web authoring programs: WebScan, WebSpin, WebForm)
Web Developer's Virtual Library: CGI 
WebForm (generates responses to forms without any required programming knowledge) (W3.Com)
WebLog (allows users to leave their name, e-mail address, and time of visit)
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General Web Authoring Tools
The Art of HTML (extensive metapage of information and resources for Web authoring) (Krish Menon)
Earl Hood's (OAC) Home Page (excellent collection of HTML, SGML, Unix, and other tools)
Falken's Maze (links to Web authoring, browsing, and server tools)
Home Page Construction Set (well-organized page of tips and resources for web page authors) (Eric Sasaki)
HomePage Publisher (create your own home page and put it on the Web; uses forms to create page)
HyperNews (metapage of HTML-related info and resources) (Daniel LaLiberte)
Internet Tools Summary (John December)
Jon's WWW Development Page (Jon Wiederspan)
Stanford Yahoo: Web Authoring/Browsing Tools Page 
Web Masters' Page (excellent page of info, resources, and stats relevant to web authoring) (Bob Allison)
WebPAL - Web Publishing Assistance Links (extensive metapage of web-authoring and page-management tools) (Mike Usrey)
Webtools Resources (Clickable Software)
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Graphics Tools & Resources
3DSite (3D graphics, information, and resources)
Adding Media to Mosaic Documents (how to put still images, moving images, and audio onto a Web page) (Lisa R. Wood, U. Michigan)
Color Browser for Windows (faciliates choosing background colors for web pages) (Maximized Software)
The Color Specifier For Netscape 1.1 
FIGLET Service (creates ASCII-Art renderings of your text for text-based Web pages)
GifBuilder ("scriptable utility to create animated GIF files on the Macintosh"; animation is contained in a single GIF file) (Yves Piguet)
HYPE Web Authoring Tools for Netscape 1.1-Enhanced Pages (color specifier, background selector, backgrounds)
Image Sources (Downloadable Graphics For Your Web Page):
The Art Machine (Web and computer graphics, backgrounds, etc.)
ASCII in Abundance (ASCII-art archives and figlet servers)
The Background Sampler (background images for Netscape 1.1)
Barry's Clip Art Server (good collection; includes animated Gifs) (Barry Pase)
Dr. Stork Backgrounds (Dr. Stork Software)
Icon Browser (collection of icons for pages)
Icons for Use in WWW HTML Documents 
Image Systems Company (images, textures, clip art)
Julianne's Background Textures 
The KPT Backgrounds Archive 
Lauri McCanna's Free Art Site (graphics and graphics information)
Paul's Background Textures 
Realm Graphics (well-crafted icons, bullets, spheres, symbols, backgrounds, lines, etc.) (Ender's Realm)
Russ's Backgrounds (background image archive; includes extensive links to other background sites) (Russ Walsh)
Stuart Moulthrop's Background Sampler 
Web Stuff (backgrounds archive) (Jeff Oien)
Yahoo Image Surfer Category List 
Imaging Machine
Homepage (edit your images online, then download the finished image) (Visioneering). Selected Editing Functions:
Animate GIFs ("creates a single animated gif file from a series of TIFF, GIF, PNM, HDF, PS, and MIFF files")
Combine Images (allows you to combine two images)
Convert Images Page (takes your image and converts it to another image file type: GIF, JPEG, or TIFF)
Filters (simulates "the ability to pipe an image from one filter to another. Each successive run of the cgi script will generate a new image based on the previously processed image")
Identify Your Image ("displays the stats on your image ie file type, image size, and color table")
Transparent GIFs (takes your GIF and converts it to a transparent GIF)
The <IMG ALIGN> Extension (helpful demonstrations of the Netscape inline image alignment tags; answers such questions familiar to all Netscape authors as "what exactly is the difference between 'absbottom' and 'baseline'?") (Nogradi Balint)
Invented Worlds Color Background Browser (interactive color background selector for Netscape 1.1+ pages)
Lonster's RGB to HEX translator (Lon Koenig)
Mapedit 1.1.2 (ftp directory for WYSIWYG imagemap editor for Windows and X11)
Map THIS! (freeware image-map editor for Windows; requires Win32s or 32-bit Windows) (Todd C. Wilson)
Mock's Place ("I'll be hanging some work here, writing an article or two and generally communing on all things web/mac/photoshop/3D/art/graphic) (Steve Mockensturm)
Paper Mill (Windows utility "for creating seamless textures for use in web pages, as desktop wallpapers," etc.) (The Art Machine)
PBDS Color Lab (form that allows user to create color schemes for Web pages) (Stuart Moulthrop, Nancy Kaplan/U. Baltimore)
Poynton's Colour FAQ (technical primer in color theory and practice) (Charles A. Poynton)
RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart (helps determine color codes to use with the new Netscape 1.1 color-setting tags) (Doug Jacobson)
transgif (tool to change GIF's into transparent Gif's)
Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resources (Adam Bernstein)
VideoCraft GIF Animator ("Makes incredible GIF animations from still images or AVI files. Creates animated special effects such as morphing, warping, stylizing, and distortions"; for Windows 3.x, 95, NT) (andatech.com)
WebScript ("WebScript images are dynamically generated images containing text in various fonts, sizes, styles, and effects"; useful for dynamic data-elements such as counters and forms on web pages)
WWW Viewer Test Page (Scott Nelson) (use this interactive page to test how your browser views various file formats, ranging from plain text to audio, video, etc.; trying a file format leads to a subpage with links to the viewer or helper programs your browser is missing
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Html Editors
General
Gabriel's HTML Editor List 
Hypertext Authoring Environments: A Critical Review (from EJournal) (text file)
KP's Collection of HTML Editors (links to downloadable HTML editors for various platforms)
Linux/UNIX/X Windows Editors (N. Laviolette)
Mac Editors (N. Laviolette)
Web Design: HTML Editors 
Windows HTML Editing Tools (NCSA)
Editors
Arachnid 
BBEdit (for Mac) (Bare Bones Software, Inc.)
BIPED (Bi-protocol Page Editor) (unique HTML editor: a Perl-script CGI package that puts both the source code and rendered-view of a HTML page on a single screen; requires that the user have Netscape 1.1+) (Doug Dunlop)
HotMetal (SoftQuad, Inc.)
HTML.edit for Mac 
HTML Hyper Edit 
Liquid Fx (HTML editor for Windows 95 with features including image map hotspots, frames designer, forms designer, Java animator and scroller, previewer)
Live Markup WYSIWYG HTML Publisher and Editor for Windows 
NetObjects Fusion (high-end Website builder for Windows 95 and Mac that creates and maintains whole suites of pages at a time; includes WYSIWYG HTML tools and wizards/templates for generating many types of sites complete with custom-labeled buttons and icons; downl
Simple HTML Editor 
SpHyDir (for OS/2 Warp) (PC Lube and Tune)
W3.COM, Inc. (betaware Web authoring programs: WebScan, WebSpin, WebForm)
WebAuthor from Quarterdeck (for Word 6.0)
Webber (for Windows) (Cerebral Systems Development Corp.)
WebDoor (Web authoring tools for Mac)
Web Ed for Windows (Kevin Read)
WEB Wizard for Windows (software that "interviews" the uninitiated but aspiring Web author to create basic HTML pages) (David Geller)
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Html Filters (Word Processor To Html Converters, Html Rule-Checkers, Etc.)
General
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Filters (info.cern.ch) 
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Special Editors or Converters/Filters (N. Laviolette)
Template Editors (N. Laviolette)
Filters
htmlchek (tool for checking HTML syntax)
HTMLCon 1.7: "htmcon.zip" (binary) (converts HTML files to ASCII by intelligently stripping tags
Hypermail (UNIX e-mail to HTML filter)
Microsoft Internet Assistant (HTML module add-on for Microsoft Word)
Webber/DataPort (for Windows) (software to generate HTML from databases) (Cerebral Systems Development Corp.)
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Java
Gamelan: A Directory and Registry of Java Resources (EarthWeb)
JARS: Java Applet Rating Service (Web Creations, Inc.)
Java Applet Programming Contest - Results (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
The Java Boutique (demos of Java applets) (Jason Gurney)
Java Online Bibliography (info on HotJava) (John December)
Presenting Java: Demos (John December)
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Page Announcement Sites & Info (How To Publicize Your Pages)
ENTITY: Global Site Submission (iStudio)
FAQ: How To Announce Your New Web Site ("html version of the FAQ posted regularly to the newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.announce"; excellent how-to resource with many links)
The PostMaster ("announce your URL everywhere!") (NetCreations)
Starting Point 
SubmitAll (one-stop submission of URLs to search-engines and announcement sites on the Web) (Home Team)
WebPromote - Internet Marketing, Promotion, & Announcement Services (services include announcing a site for a fee) (Superhighway Consulting, Inc.)
WEBula (Web page announcement service) (Dave Maher)
What's New Too! 
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Page Management Tools
General
Daniel's Web (scripts for managing HTML pages, tracking hits, etc.)
Earl Hood's (OAC) Home Page (excellent collection of HTML, SGML, Unix, and other tools)
Wishing WebSex Plug-In Clusters (commercial package of web site monitoring, statistics, and other utility plug-ins)
Agents, Offline Browsers, Page Monitors
Folio Web Retriever (downloads web sites into a local "infobase" offering additional advantages, including compression, a search engine, ability to highlight text, add links, user notes; for Windows) (Folio Corp.)
The URL-Minder (robot that e-mails you when a page you want to track has changed)
WebCompass 2.0 (Internet search agent for Windows; downloadable beta) (Quarterdeck)
WebPager 1.0 (free monitoring service for mission-critical web pages: give this Web site your URLs and it will send a message to your pager if your URLs ever get knocked offline) (Televisions Inc.)
Web Reception Monitoring Service ("This network of monitoring stations will routinely scan a list of registered URL's, access each one, and record the elapsed time to receive each page . . . resulting statistics are mailed each week to the appropriate Webmaster.") (Timeda
Automatic Page & Link Generators
ForeFront: GrabNet (unique software that grabs pictures and text from the Web to create "visual URLs" in which the URL is associated with selected graphics and text; for Windows and Mac; downloadable 10-day free trial demo) (ForeFront)
HTMLRef: "htmlref.zip" (binary) (runs in DOS environment to scan any .html or .htm file, gather URL's, and output the URL's to a browser-readable HTML file) (download this link)
htmltoc (Earl Hood) (Perl program for creating a table of contents using the H1-H6 tages in a set of HTML pages; creates links from the table of contents to the appropriate sections of the original pages)
Hypermail (Kevin Hughes) (C-language program to convert UNIX e-mail messages into cross-referenced HTML pages)
makehomeidx (indexes home pages on a Unix system; also allows users to mount personal home pages without calling upon the sysadmin)
MHonArc (Earl Hood) (Perl program to convert e-mail messages into HTML pages; also builds an index of the messages)
WebWhacker (for Windows or Mac) ("tool designed to reduce the user's dependency on an Internet connection. WebWhacker downloads, or "Whacks", single Web pages, groups of pages, or entire Web sites, including text (HTML) and images, and stores them on the local deskt
Counters
EasyCounter (shell scripts that put a counter on your web page without cgi-bin access by reading the access log and rewriting the page on your server; requires that you have permission to read the access_log on your web server) (Sandra Steingart)
HTML Access Counter 4.0 (non-graphical counter for Web pages that will count hits from browsers that do not "get" inline graphics and are thus invisible to most graphical counters; requires permission to install on cgi-bin directory on your server) (George Burgya
Statbot , Dave Tubbs (hit counter)
Html Validators
Weblint Home Page (info and links for Neil Bowers's Weblint HTML validation perl-script program)
Link Checkers
Anchor Checker (Unix) (program for verifying that links on a page are alive) (George Xie)
Linkbot (site management and link verification software for Windows 3.1.x, 95, NT) (Tetranet Software)
LINKCHECKER: CyberSpyder (Thomas. A. Aman)
MOMspider (spider to check for dead links over whole Web tree)
Surflogic LLC, Home of Surfbot 
Verify Web Links (link-verifier bot; currently verifies only http: links but development plans include ftp: and gopher: links) (Webtest Tool Suite)
WebWatch (local-machine-based spider that checks links and generates a report page in HTML)
Webxref (Perl program that checks a set of local pages for bad links and missing files) (Rick Jansen)
Other
CGI Spell (online spell-checker for Web documents; feed it your URL and it will spell check English-language pages; future support for Croatian and German) (Vjekoslav Nesek)
ForeFront: GrabNet (unique software that grabs pictures and text from the Web to create "visual URLs" in which the URL is associated with selected graphics and text; for Windows and Mac; downloadable 10-day free trial demo) (ForeFront)
HistoryTree ("Netscape add-in that records your web explorations in a tree, not just a list. This lets you visualize what you've seen and instantly jump back to other trains of thought") (SmartBrowser)
Hyper-G ("large-scale, distributed, hypermedia information system that runs over the internet. It interoperates with other network tools like gopher, WWW, WAIS and telnet logins"; "provides real hypermedia, supporting tools for structuring, m
Lynx-Me (graphical Web page developers can feed their URL to this site to be shown what their page looks like in Lynx)
NetCal! ("the Internet and Web's interactive calendar") (iTRIBE)
Pobox.com (pay-service offering lifetime e-mail address and permanent URL through URL redirection; small annual fee)
The Webhound WWW Interface ("personalized WWW agent that periodically (or on demand) recommends new WWW documents to you based on what WWW documents you have expressed a liking for in the past") (MIT Media Laboratory)
WebWhacker (for Windows or Mac) ("tool designed to reduce the user's dependency on an Internet connection. WebWhacker downloads, or "Whacks", single Web pages, groups of pages, or entire Web sites, including text (HTML) and images, and stores them on the local deskt
Search Engine Programs
Excite for Web Servers 1.0 (downloadable web search engine) (Architext Software)
Glimpse (indexing and query engine for Web pages; this is the engine behind Harvest text-search packages)
GlimpseHTTP (search engine program for text databases on the Web) (Columbia U.)
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Vrml (Virtual Reality Markup Language) Resources & Examples
IMF's VRML Hotlist 
Lightscape Technologies Home Page 
UCLA VRML Studies 
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Forum 
Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) Forum 
Virtual Vegas VRML Page 
VRML from HELL (Kevin Hughes)
VRML Library - QVLIB 
VRML Visions 


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