Websmithing



		GENERAL I NFORMATION W3 CONSORTIUM:About the World Wide Web - This resource provides a brief but informative overview of what the Web is all about, and a little bit of it's history. NED BADE:Tools for Web Weavers - A great listing of links to other how to sites on the World Wide Web. Great links! INTERNET DIRECT CANADA INC:The Official Do-It-Yourself Web! "How The Heck Do I Do That?" Help Pages - This is a self help guide that I wrote for the DIY WebServer here at Internet Direct.
I have put together this resources in the hope that they will help make the web a better place. A lot of people don't take the time to understand HTML basics, which is why a lot of web pages look just plain terrible. Before you investigate these pages, you might want to check out Why The Web Sucks.



	WEB AUTHORING/STYLE GUIDES TIM BERNERS-LEE:Style Guide For Online Hypertext - This style guide will prove useful for "newbies" looking to publish information on the World Wide Web. There are also some great little reminders that are a great value to those that are more seasoned. Some of the information can, at times, be a little too specifically geared towards system administrator type WebMaster's, but this is one of the goals of the document. YALE CENTER FOR ADVANCED STRUCTURAL MEDIA:Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual - A wonderfully concise and comprehensive style manual. BOB ALLISON:Tip's For WebSpinners - An excellent resource. Definitely the first place to look when you have a question. Either this site will answer it, or point you in the proper direction. NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.:Creating NetSites - An informative overview of Netscape design possibilities. Several experimental tags are explored in detail. Beware, the BLINK tag is dissected in gory detail. Not for the squeamish. Note that some of the style-extensions described will not work with all browsers, but can, if used properly, produce some very eye-catching effects. USING GRAPHICS NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.:The Background Sampler - A small collection of backgrounds for use within your pages. RANDY D. RALPH:Icons for Use in WWW HTML Documents - A decent collection of transparent images to use within your web pages. CHRISTIAN MOGENSEN:Graphic Element Samples - Pay absolutely no attention to the advice given at this site. ie "Don't copy the graphics to your HTML directory, just use the URL of each image..." etc. If you do this, and the site goes down or becomes bogged, your pages will suffer. Copy the images accordingly to your /gifs directory. Besides the bad advice, this site has some really decent images and graphics. CHRIS PEARCE:Texture Land! - A great collection of background images. KAI'S POWER TOOLS:KPT Background Archive - Some more great backgrounds. NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.:Document Specific Background and Foreground Control - Complete information on how to make use of the new background and foreground color control tags that are available with Netscape 1.1 and higher. LEMA@INFINI.NET:Background Colors A great reference for determining the hexadecimal value of a color for use in the body tag. BOB ALLISON:(Spider's Web) Imagebases - A great list of links to sites with image archives on them. If anyone can find the site that has the scanned pepperoni pizza on it, be sure to let me know. I can't find it for the life of me, but I know it's in Bob's Imagebase list.