Other HTML Resources

HTML guides and references

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
  A readable introduction to the hypertext markup language (HTML) from the folks at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  http://werbach.com/barebones/
  A list of every tag in the official HTML 3.2 specification, plus the Netscape extensions, in a concise, organized format

Web page design

• Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual
  http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/StyleManual_Top.HTML
  Design principles for creating Web pages from the Center for Advanced Instructional Media at Yale

• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html
  This guide, by Tim Berners-Lee, will help you create a hypertext document that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader.

• Creative World Wide Web Design
  http://ziris.syr.edu/CollDesign/designWWW.html
  Presentation at RIT by Bonnie Mitchell on the design of WWW Pages

Backgrounds and colors

• The ColorCenter
  http://www.hidaho.com/colorcenter/cc.html
  A highly interactive background color picker written in JavaScript

• Hex Colors
  http://www.webheads.com/hex/hexwt.html
  Displays all 256 colors and their corresponding hex codes

• Background Colors
  http://colors.infi.net/colorindex.html
  Displays any of 100 select colors, complete with descriptive names and hex codes

• Document-specific Background and Foreground Control
  http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html
  A brief introduction to background images and color, text colors, and the color of links; a complete HTML document is included as an example; also included (on a separate page) are a number of background images available for download

Images and icons

• The Icon and Image Bazaar
  http://www.iconbazaar.com/
  A flashy Web page with many icons and images available for download

• LAL Images
  http://lal.cs.byu.edu/images/
  Numerous images available for download from the Laboratory for Applied Logic at Brigham Young University

• LAL Images for Buttons
  http://lal.cs.byu.edu/buttons/
  Many smaller images suitable for making buttons

• Multimedia and ClipArt
  http://www.itec.sfsu.edu/multimedia/Multimedia.html
  Clip art, icons, graphics, sound, video, and more

General references

• The World Wide Web Consortium
  (http://www.w3.org/)
  The definitive source of information about the WWW

• WWW Resources at SU (SyraCWIS)
  (http://www.syr.edu/WWW-Syr/AboutSyraCWIS/)
  Guidelines, policies, instruction, tools and resources

• Internet Resources
  (http://web.syr.edu/~trscavo/internet.html)
  Directories, search engines, and other internet resources

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