General HTML ResourcesCye H. Waldman's Definitive HTML Booklist is a current listing of most known HTML and web related published books. The HTML 3.2 Spec from the W3C is the current recommended spec for HTML. Relative to HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2 adds widely deployed features such as tables, applets, text flow around images, superscripts and subscripts. W3C plans to continue working with vendors on extensions for multimedia objects, scripting, style sheets, layout, forms and math. Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide aims advice on creating well designed web pages for all types of browsers. Composing Good HTML addresses stylistic points of HTML composition, both at the document and the web level. The guide is slightly out of date, but still a good reference. The NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML is an introduction for novices on how to understand HTML. The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, by Kevin Werbach, lists every tag in the official HTML 3.2 specification, plus the Netscape extensions, in a concise, organized format. There are several style guides that focus more on how to write pages that look good and work on different browsers. Netscape: Creating Net Sites is a starting point that includes HTML references, an introduction to frames, and several guides to writing good HTML. The Netscape Frames Tutorial, by Charlton Douglas Rose, is a series of discussions that demonstrate how to use Netscape Communications' frames. For further reference, try looking at Yahoo's HTML Guides and Tutorials. Web Review is an online magazine dedicated to the creative and technical people who are intent on mastering the web. It's aimed at business and professional users, people who design and develop web sites. HTML ConvertersMacflow and Winflow convert hierarchical flowcharts into a series of HTML and GIF files, and then these files can be uploaded to the web site. RoboHELP Office helps you produce custom documentation and then convert that documentation into Windows On-line Help automatically. RoboHELP's new visual tool palette provides a way to relate standard and advanced help features such as jumps, topics, popups, macros, secondary windows, and imagemaps. HTML Transit converts dozens or hundreds of word-processing documents into web pages in a single batch. All the graphics, tables and OLE objects in your source documents are automatically converted at the same time, and it creates a linked table of contents and keyword index. HTML Transit converts Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro, Interleaf, FrameMaker, Microsoft Write, RTF, and ASCII text. WebWorks Publisher is a FrameMaker conversion tool available for Windows, Mac, Solaris, SunOS, HP/UX, IRIX, and AIX. WebWorks Publisher supports translation to HTML, GIF, JPEG, tables, graphics, equations, and the HTML3.2 standard. Webgen takes output generated from practically any database and converts it into HTML files, either on-the-fly or in batches. Webgen can also create RTF versions of your data, suitable for importing into word-processors or page-layout programs. Webgen uses templates to control the look of pages and will work with any database package that can produce comma-separated output, from a simple flatfile database to a complex relational one. It also allows the user to create multiple versions of your documents - full-graphics, text-only, frames/no-frames, RTF, etc. Webgen is available WinNT, Win95, and several types of UNIX. See Yahoo's HTML Converters page for more choices on various platforms. |
HTML EditorsAtrax is a WYSIWYG publishing environment for creating web pages, point, click, drag and drop to construct your pages. Objects will resize and plug into your page. Atrax is only available for WinNT, Win95, or Win3.1. CMed is an HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, Netscape Extensions and Microsoft Extensions editor for Intel-based Win95 and WinNT. CMed includes support for toolbars for all HTML elements, insertion of Latin Symbols, installation via Installshield/UnInstallshield, optional remembering of HTML 2/HTML 3.2 dialog box mode, frames, client-side imagemaps, and Java applets. HoTMetaL, by SoftQuad, is a web editor for the Mac, Win, and UNIX platforms. Its features include a three level authoring environment: a WYSIWYG graphical environment for beginners, an HTML-Tag view for more advanced users or direct editing of HTML source code. HoTMetaL comes with a personal web server, document management and versioning software, database-enabling software, a Java editor, a VRML creator and an animated GIF tool. It also allows the user to automatically import and convert more file formats directly into HTML, including Word 97, Word Perfect, Excel and others. Users can also cut and paste Excel spreadsheets directly into HTML tables. FlexSite displays the page in a window below its HTML code, showing changes to the page as you make them. The PRO version supports HTML 3.2, forms, frames, and image maps as well as HTML generation. It is only available for Windows. Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor with built-in templates available for Windows, Mac, and UNIX platforms. One can edit and view changes in any browser without leaving the FrontPage software. FrontPage also allows for connection to ODBC-compliant databases so you can create Web pages from database queries. It also supports ActiveX control and Java applets as well as VBScript and JavaScript authoring. SiteStation is a web content management tool that enables a non-technical user to make use of all the flexibility and innovation provided by web technology. SiteStation enables you to control the Web Site as an object-structured system with pages that are stored in an SQL database. One SiteStation installation can manage multiple sites. In each page, the user may easily create, copy, move and manipulate object. It will not allow links within the site to be "broken", and any changes or deletions to a linked object will automatically cascade throughout the site (with appropriate warnings). Web Director has a simple point-and-click interface and can validate existing pages. Web Director has a built-in spell checker, creation guide for tables, forms, images, lists, and maps, and lets the browser take care of dictating which HTML tags are allowed. See Yahoo's HTML Editors page for more choices on various platforms. Registering One's PageMeta Medic is a combination webspider and syntax checker. One feeds the application the URL to check, and it comes back with a report about how one utilized Meta Tag space and content. The commercial version of this product, Set Sim Pro, does Meta Tag checking as well as Title Tag checking, multi-title spam detection, autogeneration of keywords with pages missing them, and simulated search engine output for most popular web search engines. Add Me submits one's site to about 35 popular search engines for free and only requests a link back in return. They also sponsor Register It, a commercial service that does an automated registration with over 100 search engines and updates for a year. Submit-It announces one's web site to about 20 web servers for free and also offers a commercial package that allows one to submit to over 100 different search engines. They also offer a software program that will do multiple registrations for one as opposed to going through their site all of the time. |