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The Web may be an electronic medium, but the printed word still has its advantages. There are many books about building Web pages, and some of them are even good books. Here are my two favorite titles:
Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week by
Laura Lemay.
$29.99. Sams.net,
800-428-5331.
If you buy only one book about HTML, this should be it.
More Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week
by Laura Lemay.
$29.99. Sams.net,
800-428-5331.
If you buy only two books about HTML, this should be the second.
HTML Reference Library, http://hjs.geol.uib.no/news/htmlib/htmlib.htm. This site has an excellent description of HTML features in a Windows Help format. It also includes utilities to help you specify colors and a summary of which browsers support what features.
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, http://werbach.com/barebones. You'll find all the HTML tags and options, with information on which browsers support them, in this very condensed summary. Think of it as a quick reference card in convenient electronic form.
HTML Tags, http://www.microsoft.com/ie. Microsoft's version of a quick reference guide to HTML, this site identifies whether features are specific to HTML 2.0, Netscape or Internet Explorer.
Sun Microsystem's Guide to Web Style, http://www.sun.com/styleguide/. You'll find more good suggestions here about how to design and write your pages.
Robert Hess' Internet Explorer Guide, http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/author/. Although the focus here is mostly on Internet Explorer features, the discussion of the trade-offs in HTML coding applies to other Web browsers as well.
Kevin Werbach's WWW Help Page, http://werbach.com/web/wwwhelp.html. Here are dozens of links to useful sites for various Web-page writing topics.
Check out this month's Recommended List for a summary of the best HTML editing tools.
Microsoft Internet Assistant for Word, http://www.microsoft.com/msword/it_wd.htm. Use all the power of Word for your HTML creation with Internet Assistant (IA). That's especially helpful for spell-checking and tedious tasks like creating tables. It's also convenient because you can automate your editing duties with Word macros. Be aware, however, that IA sometimes inserts Internet Explorer-isms into your files that Netscape Navigator doesn't support, and it will also sometimes misinterpret the code in an existing HTML file.
Paint Shop Pro, http://www.jasc.com/psp.html. Paint Shop Pro is a competent shareware graphics editor with plenty of features to create, convert and tweak graphics for your Web page. If you need more power than this, you should probably graduate to Adobe Photoshop.
Microsoft Internet Resource Center, http://www.microsoft.com/internet. Download viewers and conversion assistants for Microsoft Office applications, as well as the Internet Explorer browser, from here.
Windows95.com Web Authoring Tools, http://www.windows95.com/apps/html.html. This site has a massive selection of shareware editors and utilities for creating Web pages, along with lots of shareware in other categories.
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