| <HTML> | Encloses your entire HTML document, and identifies it as such. |
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| <TITLE> | The title of the page, displayed by most browsers in their title bar. The only tag absolutely required to be in a Web page. |
| <HEAD> | Defines the header portion of the HTML document, as opposed to the BODY of the document. Generally contains only the TITLE tag. |
| <BODY> | Defines the body of the HTML document, as opposed to the HEAD of the document. |
| <H1> | Encloses text which becomes a HEADER of level '1'. Six levels of header are allowed (e.g. H6 is the smallest, H1 the largest). |
| <P> | Paragraph break. Originally signalled the end of a paragraph, but HTML 3.0 made it a 'container' (with matching </P> tag) so now it signals the beginning of a paragraph. |
| <BR> | Line break. Forces the browser to end the 'current' line — useful for preventing short lines (e.g. a postal address) from being merged into one line. |
| <B> | Physical character formatting, renders enclosed text BOLD if the browser is capable of it. |
| <I> | Physical character formatting, renders enclosed text in ITALICS if the browser is capable of it. |
| <HR> | Inserts a 'horizontal rule'... which looks like the above separator line... |
| <IMG> | Includes a bit-mapped image (generally a JPEG or GIF image) which is a link to another file or URL. |
| <A> | Creates an 'anchor' link, which is one of the fundamental concepts of HTML documents. The word 'bogus' is a link (albeit a meaningless one). |
| <CENTER> | A popular Netscape enhancement to allow text and image centering. This violates the idea of an HTML document trying to specify its presentation -- but what else is new? Better is to use <DIV ALIGN=center> ... </DIV>. |
| <BLOCKQUOTE> | Used for including 'quoted' material, most browsers indent both left and right margins about 1/2 an inch. Useful also for forcing indentation (content vs: presentation again). HTML 3.0 renamed this as <BQ> to make it quicker to type. |
| <!-- comments --> | The official way to insert non-displayed comments. Also useful for 'commenting' out sections of HTML code you don't want to be interpreted. |
| There is a way to specify special characters (like the © symbol) too... | |
| Introduction to HTML and URLs | This is an excellent resource, recently updated (15-Mar-96), and organized in a book style (table of contents as links). |
| HyperText Markup Language Specification 3.0 | A description of the semi-official HTML 3.0 standard. |
| A Beginner's Guide to HTML | A nice tutorial, all in one big page, with local links. |
| The Bare Bones Guide to HTML | An index of HTML tags, organized in a number of formats (ASCII, HTML, PostScript, etc.) and useful as a quick reference. It's worth making a printed copy of this one. |
| Composing Good HTML (Version 2.0) | A 90k HTML document, very well done. The author has written a book on the same subject. Some good advice. |
| Web66: Eight Minute HTML Primer | A very minimal HTML tutorial, IMHO only suitable for the attention challanged Net surfer... |
| Netscape Enhancement Index | A spiffy Web page, with lots of attractive visuals. Points to (among other things) a list of Netscape's HTML enhancements. |
| Extensions to HTML | Netscape's own version of the above page... |
| Templates for Homepages. | A clever Web page which allows you to create a simplistic Home Page of your own in one of several styles. Works best if you already have some text written, and maybe a photo or two digitized and loaded on your Web server somewhere... |
| Make Your Own Home Page | Another Web site which assists you to create your own Web page. I found it slow to connect to, and didn't navigate far enough to see if it was better than the above link... |
| Gareth's style guide | One man's opinion as to what consititues good HTML coding style. There is some good information here. |
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Tim Berners-Lee's Style Guide | From the guy who 'invented' the World Wide Web... |
| HTML Bad Style Page | Good advice about what to avoid in coding HTML. |
| WWW Consortium | And then there's always the World Wide Web Consortium, the folks whose job the Web is... |
| Access Counter | A cool site offering (free) a package which implements page hit counters in a variety of sizes and styles, all without requiring server-side includes. |
| The Common Gateway Interface | NCSA's pages for learning about cgi-bin stuff (needed for doing FORMS and some other advanced Web page features. |
| Clickable Image Maps | How to do image maps (those spiffy images with multiple links depending upon where you click). |
| IMAGING MACHINE | A very useful site offering Web-base image manipulation -- takes your image (on your Web server) and performs various transformations, including format changes, interleaving, transparent colors, etc. |
| Colors & Hex Numbers | A reference relating 140 hex color values (e.g. "#C0C0C0") to the actual color they produce on your monitor. |
| The Web Masters' Page | One of my favorite pages, containing lots of links to resources and pages related to authoring Web pages and related activities. |
| User Guidelines and Netiquette | Very topical information about how to be a Good Net Citizen™. |
| World Wide Web Tools | PC Week's version of a collection of links useful to Web page authors, site administrators, and plain ol' surfers... |
| Web Developer's Virtual Library | Another resource for doing HTML authoring, cgi-bin programming, 3D graphics, notes on style, a library of icons, etc. |
| WebEdit | A WYSIWYG HTML editor. |
| Weblint | A free HTML checker, much like the following item. |
| WebTechs Validation Service | A free HTML checker, just point it at your page, tell it what kind of conformance to check for, and see the results. Excellent for debugging and desk-checking. |
| WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation | Yet Another WWW page with links useful to HTML authors, Web site administrators, and general W3 references. |
| A Beginner's Guide to URLs | The full story on Uniform Resource Locators. |
| The HTML Writers Guild Website | One of the World's leading organizations for HTML design originators. Easy to join (I'm a member). They have some nice resources here, plus a mailing list (which I dropped off of last year due to the heavy traffic). |
| World Wide Web FAQ | An excellent "Frequently Asked Questions" list for the WWW, and a good jumping-off point for learning about the Web, HTML, Web tools, etc. |
| Browser Watch | Where to go to find the browser you want (there are more than 60 listed!). |
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