Links about the WWW

Links about the WWW

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): WWW news, specs and reference software. Archives on all subjects with relevance to Web site design and maintenance, and useful links.

ACM Special Interest Group Hypertext (SIGLINK) focuses on research issues and sponsors a number of academic conferences.

ACM Special Interest Group Information Retrieval (SIGIR) does too.

ACM Special Interest Group Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) does as well.

Digital Libraries and Information Access

potential

Vannevar Bush's 1945 As We May Think had the basic idea. (Also available from The Atlantic .)
What is a digital library? (at CMU Universal Library)
NSF Digital Libraries Initiative
- University of Michigan, The University of Michigan Digital Libraries Research Project
- University of Illinois, Building the Interspace: Digital Library Infrastructure for a University Engineering Community
- University of California, Berekley The Environmental Electronic Library: A Prototype of a Scalable, Intelligent, Distributed Electronic Library
- Carnegie Mellon University Informedia: Integrated Speech, Image and Language Understanding for Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries
- Stanford University The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project"
- University of California, Santa Barbara The Alexandria Project: Towards a Distributed Digital Library with Comprehensive Services for Images and Spatially Referenced Information"
More digital library sites
CMU's Universal Library
Pantheon
Electronic Library
NASA DigLib Major Projects
USDAC
DLI-Wide Bibliography
Overview of DLI
Cyberstacks Prototype
Electronic Library Search Page
IBM Digital Library
JSTOR Project
Digital Libraries at Xerox
Hunt Institute at CMU
Links to Online Books
Fernbank Museum
National Academy Press
Other resources
Harvest
First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries
D-Lib Magazine
W3's World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue - a listing of virtual libraries

Creating Sites

Web Site Design

Design skills ~~can~~ must be learned.

Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee. An original.
Web Style Manual from Yale's Center for Advanced Instructional Media with sample templates, tutorials on web site style, and links to other resources.
Web Page Design is concerned with translating traditional design theories into Web design, as well as how to work with Web graphics.
HTML and WWW Style Guides links to sites concerned with style issues
HTML Manual of Style: Chapter 3, Writing HTML Documents by Larry Aronson. Detailed examples of good design.
In "Highfive" David Siegel reviews and critiques some of the best web sites.
Creating Killer Websites, by David Siegel gives design tips and tricks needed for a refined site.
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com site (Usable Information Technology) has a human computer interaction perspective. Alertbox is Nielsen's column on Web usability; Top Ten Mistakes of Web design is one of his better known articles.
ACM SIGCHI's WebHCI: A guide to HCI issues of the Web
webpagesthatsuck.com - the url says it all: "learn good design by looking at bad design"

Web Site Development

In part from the the web's original and continuing public funding and its spirit of openess a wealth of good resources for web development are freely available on the web. The sections below list a sample.

[Basics] [Details] [Graphics] [Java] [CGI] [VRML] [Promotion]

HTML Basics and Quick Reference
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML from NCSA. An overview of the fundamentals of HTML.
- Creating HTML -- A Simple Guide, by Jason Bourneman.
- Macmillan's HTML Workshop, a comprehensive guide aimed at all levels.
- Thalia's guide for WWW-providers getting started links to other sites.
- WWW Fequently Asked Questions, concise, easy to understand definitions of HTML terms of all sorts.
- Introduction to HTML and URL's, by Ian Graham, author of The HTML Sourcebook, basic to advanced.
HTML Details
- Bare Bones Guide to HTML, by Kevin Werbach, lists every tag in the official HTML 3.2 specification, plus the Netscape extensions.
- Overview of HTML 3.0 from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Examples of special features of HTML 3.0.
- Netscape's An Introduction to Frames, frame syntax and implementation.
- Netscape's <FRAMES>., introduction, tutorial, and links.
- The Table Element, introduction, instructions, and examples.
Graphics
- Imagemap Help Page, all aspects of creating image maps, FAQ's, and image mapping tools.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Graphics, from various USENET newsgroups.
- Animated GIFs on the World Wide Web, graphics tutorial, HTML assist page, interlaced gif89a format, troubleshooting help.
- The Bandwidth Conservation Society, comprehensive guide to reducing the file size of gifs and jpegs while maintaining image quality.
- GFF Home Page, graphics information, graphic file formats, FAQs, software tools and links to graphics archives and manufacturers' sites.
Java
- General
  - JAVAWORLD, a monthly digital magazine.
  - JavaSoft from Sun Microsystems, news on Java developments.
  - The Java Boutique over 100 applets.
  - Java Applets, Netscape's introduction and demo links.
  - Gamelan: Earthweb's Java Directory, "Official Directory for Java" exhaustive list of features, applets, and resources.
- Java Programming
  - Visual J++, at Microsoft.
  - Cafe and lins at Symantec.
  - Sun's Java Developer's Corner : Sun's development tools and resources.
  - The Java Developer: A FAQ on Java Programming from Digital Focus.
- JavaScript
  - The JavaScript Authoring Guide: Netscape's overview and a dictionary of language concepts for programmers' reference.
  - Introduction to JavaScript, extensive tutorial.
  - The JavaScript Index, links, sample of applets and their source code, tutorials and other educational resources.
CGI
- CGI Library, examples of CGI scripts with explanations and usage instructions, and links.
- Overview: The Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a reference to CGI scripts and their implementation.
- Matt's Script Archive - A selection of scripts (PERL and CGI) and links to locations with other scripts.
VRML
- Richard Tilmann's VRML Library, tools, documentation, and techniques.
- VRML Review, reviews, software, and news.
- VRMLsite, with tutorials, introductory articles.
Website promotion
- Announcement Services, Yahoo.
- Autosubmit.com automatic promotion service.
- Directory Listing Service
- Postmaster
- Netscream.com

Links to Lists of Links

Jakob Nielson's Recommended hotlist of links about Web design and user interfaces.
The Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Library is an index of information on human-computer interaction on the Web, part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
The Web Developer's Virtual Library, an extensive resource for information on anything Web.
Comprehensive list of WWW Authoring Information, by David W. Baker, links to everything: style guides, Perl, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SGML, VRML, Multimedia, Newsgroups, and more.
The WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation information and links on everything to set up a site and get it running: HTML, Server and Browser software, and more.
The HTML Writers Guild, an organization of HTML design originators, beginners to industry professionals.
Online Reference and Reading Sites, World Ready's Listing of Websites relating to the Web.
Web Reference, links tailored towards both web users and builders.

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