Infopeople: How to Create Web Pages: A Webliography

A brief listing of sites to help you learn: HyperText Markup Language(HTML), how to design web pages, how to work with graphics, where to get HTML editors and how to validate your HTML pages.

Learn HTML

  • Introduction to HTML: A Web Tutorial - infopeople.org/resources/webhtml/ - developed by the Infopeople Project.
  • HTML Do's and Don'ts - infopeople.org/resources/htmltips.html - Advice on the best ways to learn HTML and what to do and not do when designing a website. From an Infopeople Workshop on designing web pages for your library. Updated.

General Reference and Basic HTML Code Sites

  • BlackStump Web Development Page - www.blackstump.com.au/webdev.htm - Comprehensive list of links covering the following topics: Active Server, ActiveX, Advertising, Animated Images, Certificates, CGI-Bin, Click/Image Maps, Clip Art, Colors, Counters, Databases, Design, DOM, Dynamic HTML, E-Commerce, Fonts, Forms, Frames, FrontPage, HTML, Icons/Imaging, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Style Sheets, Transparent Images, Validate Web Page, WAP, Web Page Developing, XHTML, and XML.
  • Barebones Guide to HTML - werbach.com/barebones/ - Listing of all of the HTML tags, including Netscape's extensions to HTML, with links to other questions.
  • Introduction to HTML and URLs - www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html - This HTML document by Ian Graham explains how to use the different HTML document description elements, or tags and how to use these elements to write good, well-designed HTML documents.
  • HTML Help by the Web Design Group (WDG) - www.htmlhelp.com/ - Great all-around information to help you design a website. Includes a Reference section on HTML, a glossary, advice on design elements such as graphics and colors, and links to tutorials, style guides, and validators. "The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide."
  • HTML/XML Quick References - html.about.com/msubquick.htm - This page from About.com links you to several good HTML/XML help/tutorial sites.

Design and Style of HTML Pages

  • Composing Good HTML - www.ology.org/tilt/cgh/ - Guide to writing HTML that will display well on any type of browser. Discusses common errors and good practices.
  • QuickTips from WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/ - Introduces key concepts of accessible web design. "Please note that these are not complete guidelines, but only a memory prompt for concepts from the W3C Recommendation web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 which include information critical to understanding and implementing the Quick Tips."
  • Writing for the Web: a Primer for Librarians - bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html - "This paper discusses basic concepts and terminology which are associated with writing documents for the web. It is not an in-depth HTML guide, but a general introduction on how web documents are created."

Add Graphic Elements to your Document

  • Clip Art Collections Index - webclipart.about.com/library/weekly/blclpmen.htm - A huge collection of web clip art from About.com, indexed alphabetically in broad topics.
  • Images from Infopeople's Introduction to HTML Workshop - infopeople.org/training/past/1999/IntroHTML/images.html - Small gallery of images that you can use in your web pages.
  • Library Media and PR Toolbox - www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/toolbox.html - Excellent collection of free, original library graphics as well as links to other sources.
  • Hexidecimal to Decimal Conversion Chart - www.jalfrezi.com/hex2dec.htm - Table of the RGB Decimal and web Hexidecimal numbers. Links also to a page that converts the RGB color numbers generated by graphics programs to the hexadecimal codes required by HTML.
  • Mapedit - www.boutell.com/mapedit/ - Excellent program for making image maps. Free to non-profits and educational institutions, all others $25.
  • Graphics (webmonkey) - www.webmonkey.com/design/graphics/ - Learn how to scan images, edit images, create image maps, optimize graphics for the web, what file formats work on the web, and more.

HTML Editors, Code, Link, and Spelling Checkers

  • Stroud's HTML Editors Reviews - cws.internet.com/32html.html - Several HTML writing software programs that can be downloaded using FTP. Also includes ratings and pricing information.
  • W3C HTML Validator - validator.w3.org/ - from W3C, the organization responsible for HTML. Excellent.
  • WDG HTML Validator - www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ - Another good validator. Also allows you to check your files still on your computer.
  • Bobby - bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp - "Bobby tests web pages using the guidelines established by the World Wide web Consortium's web Access Initiative as well as Section 508 guidelines from the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) of the U.S. Federal Government."
  • Spelling Checker - www.siteowner.com/sitecheck.cfm - Enter a URL and this program will retrieve the document and spell check it. Any HTML markup is automatically ignored. An easy way to check documents for mistakes without having to deal with the problems of a traditional spell checker flagging markup code. Your pages do need to be on the web.
  • LinkScan - www.elsop.com/quick/ - Tool for running a real-time link validation and HTML syntax check on a single document just by entering the URL of the page you wish to check.
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