Resource Index

HTML and Web Pages	Page Checking and Validation
Design and Graphics	Cascading Style Sheets
Javascript and DHTML	Images, Animation, and Multimedia
Server-side Include (SSI)	CGI Programming in Perl
HTTP documentation	Web Development Tools

HTML and Web Pages

• HTML 4.0 Reference at the Web Design Group.
• The developing XML, Extensible Markup Language---draft specification
• HTML Homepage at W3C
• Additional resources from Chapter 2
• Additional resources from Chapter 3

Page Checking and Validation

• Free from W3C HTML Tidy
• WDG HTML Validator
• List of free HTML checkers
• Free on-web site checking servic - link verification, spell check, and HTML syntax analysis, all in one nice little hyperlinked analysis.
• Linklint A free hyperlink checker.
• NetMechanic - a free online service. Our robot will search your website and find broken links, spot bad HTML tags, and rate your server's response time.
• Free HTML and Link Validation Service
• CSS validation and HTML 4.0 validation from the Web Design Group.
• What Server Software is running at the site and other information?

Design and Graphics

• Good Web Development Practices
• Sun Micro System's Writing for the Web
• The Yale Web Style Guide
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide

Cascading Style Sheets

• Style Sheet Reference from Web Design Group.
• Style Sheet Examples offered by htmlgoodies.com
• W3C CSS main page
• Browser Support of Style Sheets
• Additional resources from Chapter 6

Javascript and DHTML

• Javascript examples, tutorials, and references
• JavaScript Language Standardized, the ECMAScript Standard
• Look at Netscape JavaScript Documentation Page for the most current JavaScript (version 1.5 as of 2001) documentation.
• Additional resources from Chapter 9
• Additional resources from Chapter 11

Images, Animation, and Multimedia

• Common Graphical File Formats.
• LWZ and GIF Explained, Lempel-Ziv Welch compression algorithm, and the implementation that GIF uses.
• GIF License Questionnaire From Unisys
• GIF Controversy
• CompuServe/Unisys Patent on GIF
• PNG, homepage for Portable Network Graphics, a GIF replacement: basics, features, sample images, technical documentation, tools, and resources for PNG.
• GIF Clean remove comments etc. from GIF files to make them smaller.
• Web Graphics and Clip Art Collections
• Shockwave raster graphics animation.
• Flash vector graphics animation.
• Flash Resources
• Guide for Web Color
• Additional resources from Chapter 12

Server-side Include (SSI)

• Apache SSI
• Server-side Include Tutorial from, Questar Microsystems Inc.

CGI Programming in Perl

• Wondering what the Web server to CGI program interface is really all about? Wanting to know the meanings of the various environment variables supplied by the Web server to a CGI program? Look at the CGI 1.1 Specification from NCSA.
• A Perl Tutorial
• Perl Script Collections
• Perl is freely available for downloading from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Perl5 Library for CGI programming CGI.pm
• Perl Modules
• Additional resources from Chapter 13

HTTP documentation

• HTTP1.0 (RFC1945)
• HTTP1.1 (RFC2068)
• Cookie: HTTP State Management Mechanism (RFC 2019) (February 1997)
• Additional resources from Chapter 1

Web Development Tools

• Download nslookup for Windows (freeware)
• Download whois for Windows (freeware)
• Download CSS editor for Windows or Mac (demo)
• Web Tools from W3C
• Microsoft Frontpage --- a commericial page/site creation and management tool.
• Cold Fusion --- a way to integrate web pages to databases on NT/Windows servers. Cold Fusion suports a markup language to access ODBC databases.
• Additional resources from Chapter 10