Web Authoring Resources

Web Authoring Resources CREATING A WEB SITE can be a little overwhelming at first, but there's lots of help available. You'll find plenty of great Web-based tutorials and references on HTML, style guides for Web pages, and ready-to-go graphic elements on the Web. One terrific listing of resources is available at the Web Weavers Page at Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA. This page lists just a few of the many other Web sites that offer a huge variety of tools and information. Helpful resources for Web site design and development are springing up every day--certainly, faster than I can keep up with them. Internet.com maintains an extensive list of resources. Learning Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
	Beginners Guide to HTML, University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign
	Dave's Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
	Form Tutor, Joe Barta, Professional Web Design
	HTML Quick Reference, The University of Kansas
	An HTML Reference Guide, Northern Illinois University English Department
	Introduction to HTML by Ian Graham at the University of Toronto
	Table Sampler, Netscape
Style and Netiquette John Updike declared that most of the Information Superhighway is road kill. Don't get caught in the headlights! Make a splash in cyberspace, not a splatter, by following the basic guidelines of style and netiquette. Here are a few resources to guide you on the road to designing good Web pages:
	Composing Good HTML by James "Eric" Tilton
	Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate
	Seven C's of WebService Design, University of Georgia, by Albert DeSimone, Jr., Dr. Walter B. McRae, and The Georgia Web Group
	Sucky to Savvy by Jeffrey M. Glover
	Top Ten Ways To Tell If You Have A Sucky Home Page by Jeffrey M. Glover
	Web Pages that Suck, Vincent Flanders
	Wired Style, a dynamic, ongoing discussion of Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age

Graphics You don't have to be an artist to put together an effective Web page. The number of graphic and audio elements that are available on the Web can boggle the mind. The following sites will get you started on finding amazing assortments of bars, buttons, icons, textures, and background colors. This list represents some archives and libraries that I've found particularly helpful. Backgrounds
	Free-Backbrounds.com
	Pattern Land
Bars, Buttons, & Graphics
	The Graphics Station
	Iconz's
	Images_and_Icons, Web Developer's Virtual Library
	Yahoo Listings of Free Graphics
Adobe Photoshop
	Complete List of Photoshop Tips, Laurie McCanna
	Hands-On Training by Doc Ozone
	Photoshop, Training at York University, Canada
	Webmonkey Photoshop Crash Course by Jim Frew
Help with Color
	Mediarama's WWW Color Page Builder converts RGB color codes to hexadecimal tags.
	Javascript Color Picker by Scott Yanoff is designed to select and code colors from the 216-color palette that most browsers support.
Java Resources Java technology by Sun Microsystems has become a popular way to add interactivity and interest to a Web site. The following brief list can help get you started in using Java.
	The Sun Microsystem Java Technology Home Page
	The Java Boutique
	Gamelan
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash and Shockwave add interest and interactivity to Web sites. The Flash and Shockwave players are available on the Macromedia Web site as free downloads. Macromedia also makes a 30-day trial version of Flash available on its site. Other resources for authoring Flash animations and interactive pages include the following:
	The Macromedia Flash Support Center
	Flashkit
	Macromedia Flash Basics at Webreference.com

Web Authoring Resources

Learning Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Style and Netiquette

Graphics

Backgrounds

Bars, Buttons, & Graphics

Adobe Photoshop

Help with Color

Java Resources

Macromedia Flash