Web Author Resources

Do you have a favorite source for Web author information that's not listed here? Let me know!

Books

The printed word still has its advantages, and there are some very good books out there about the Web. Here are my favorites:

Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week, by Laura Lemay; Sams Publishing, ISBN 0-672-30667-0. If you buy only one book about HTML, this is the one.
MORE Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week, by Laura Lemay; Sams Publishing, ISBN 1-57521-005-3. If you buy only two books about HTML, this would be the second.

HTML References

HTML Reference Library
A great summary of HTML features in a help file format.
Bare Bones Guide to HTML
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 electronic form.
Sun Microsystem's Guide to Web Style
You'll find more good suggestions here about how to design and write your pages.
Kevin Werbach's WWW Help Page
Here are dozens of links to useful sites for various Web-page writing topics.

Software

Windows Recommended Products
Check our our most recent list of recommended products for Web development. A fairly recent version of the list is available on this CD-ROM.
MS Internet Assistants
Microsoft Assistants for converstion of Word, Excel and Powerpoint are available on this CD-ROM. For example, Internet Assistant (IA) lets you use Word for your HTML creation. That's especially helpful for spell checking and creating tables. Be aware that IA sometimes inserts MS Internet Explorer-isms into your files that Netscape doesn't like, and it will often screw up the code in an existing HTML file.
Paint Shop Pro
This 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
Download viewers and conversion assistants for Microsoft Office applications, as well as the Internet Explorer browser, from here.
HTML Color Reference
Available on this CD-ROM as \HTML\PUBLISH\HCR32.EXE. Reqiures VBRUN40032.DLL, available in the root directory of this CD-ROM; please read VB40032.TXT. This program only runs under Windows 95, not Windows 3.1.
A handy tool to have around. You slide a few controls around to get the exact color you want, and it gives you the hex color codes you need to use in your HTML.
Windows95.com Web Authoring Tools
This site has a great selection of shareware for creating Web pages, and good shareware in other areas as well.

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