HTML For Beginners:

 

Writing HTML by Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction

This is a great tutorial for anyone who wants to create web pages. By the time you have reached the end of this tutorial you will be able to construct a series of linked web pages for any subject that includes formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other web pages on the Internet.

HTML Beginner's Guide by The National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The guide is used by many to start to understand the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. It is an introduction and does not pretend to offer instructions on every aspect of HTML.

Introduction to HTML by Ian Graham

This document collection explains how to use the different HTML document description elements, or tags and how to use these elements to write good, well designed HTML documents. This page describes the overall content and organization of the collection, related resources that may be of interest, and the meanings of the navigational "button" used in navigation from page to page.

Crash Course on Writing Documents for the Web by Eamonn Sullivan

This was written to help people in PC Week Labs to write documents for their web server. This document is not the most technically thorough HTML description you can get. It is designed for someone who wants to put a page on the web but could care less about most of the technical details and doesn't want to read a book.

A Beginner's Web Glossary

 

HTML For Advanced Users:

The Bandwidth Conservation Society

 For an interesting look at some strategies to reduce the size of your graphic files.

Netamorphix

A good resource for tips on HTML, JAVA, CGI, VRML, and more.

The Web Developer's Virtual Library

A Webmaster's Internet Encyclopedia. There is a lot of helpful information on various Internet topics here.

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification by Dave Ragget

This publication defines HTML version 3.2. This is an on-line resource to help you keep up with the latest HTML features such as tables, applets, text flow around, and more.

 

Style Guides

Web Style Manual, Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media by Patrick J. Lynch

One of the most-highly-regarded WWW style guides on the Web. Very lengthy and complete. If you only want to look at one style guide, choose this one.

Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berner-Lee

Developed by the CERN researcher most responsible for the creation of the Web. Covers basic style issues, but also addresses issues such as structuring a large work.

World Wide Web Consortium

The W3C is an industry consortium which seeks to promote standards for the evolution of the Web and interoperability between WWW products by producing specifications and reference software. Although W3C is funded by industrial members, it is vendor-neutral, and its products are freely available to all.

Yahoo's Index of Page Design and Layout Resources

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