Web Publishing

NCSA's "Beginners Guide to HTML"

Probably the most frequently referenced HTML primer in the world. The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications has created a very straightforward introduction to the elements and grammar of the hypertext markup language.

Graham's "Introduction to HTML and URLs"

Dense, authoritative, comprehensive. Located at the University of Toronto, this collection of documents is an electronic summary of Ian Graham's highly regarded HTML Sourcebook. Not for beginners.

Tilton's "Composing Good HTML"

Originally developed as informal guidelines for good practice, this document has benefitted from extensive feedback from net users. Highly readable. Plenty of common sense. Requires a general understanding of HTML.

Lynch's "Web Style Manual"

Developed at the Yale Centre for Advanced Instructional Media, this document is a graduate level guide to web page design. Formal and analytical style. An excellent reference.

Jacobson's Hex Color Chart

The use of background colour in documents and tables is becoming increasingly common. While the tag construction for colour is quite straightforward, one has to supply specific colour values. The Hex Color Chart site provides a basic set of colours with their hexadecimal values.

Allison's "Web Masters Guide"

This is an eclectic and idiosyncratic resource page, covering every conceivable aspect of web page construction. Hard to discern the order in which resources and references are organized, but hard to ignore the enthusiasm of the author.