Technology: Web Tools

Webmonkey: Build the Web Webmonkey is HotWired's popular how-to guide for Web junkies, providing timely, accessible tutorials on cutting-edge tools and techniques. During the past year, Webmonkey has built a reputation as one of the premier online sources for Web tutorials, tips, and tricks. Webmonkey is written by and for developers, both novice and pro, and provides in-depth insight into how to make things for the Web, from writing Java applets to scanning images into a homepage. Search Webmonkey using HotBot: CNET: Get Animated Seven easy steps to dancing, hip-hopping, color cycling, fading, wiping, and classic cel-animated GIFs. GIF Animation on the WWW Royal Frazier maintains this tutorial, spec listings, and library of animation software (like this one for the PC and this for the Mac), and animations. Hex Colors This is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) list of 216 hexadecimal numbers displayed in their appropriate colors, which Netscape's Navigator displays identically on both the PC and Mac. Imagemap Help Page IHiP is a good place to learn about image maps, client and server side. It also provides links to a few software sites, like that for Mapedit. Search this site's domain using HotBot: The Bare Bones Guide to HTML Kevin Werbach's no-frills guide to HTML. Search this site's domain using HotBot: HTML Character Set List This page is a list that has grown out of an ISO Latin-1 character set overview related to the Hyper-G Text Format (HTF). Or for those who speak English, you'll find this page useful if you're looking to create peculiar characters in HTML. HTML Reference Manual A nice reference guide to HTML, located at Sandia National Laboratories. HTML v2.0 RFC RFC 1866, the official specification of HTML Version 2.0. Library of Congress - HTML The LOC has a good index of HTML resources - specs and standards, tutorials, style guides, authoring tools, and advanced features. NCSA - A Beginner's Guide to HTML This is the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' extremely popular guide to HTML. The NCSA is where the first Web browser (Mosaic) was developed by now Netscape exec Marc Andreessen. Netscape's Creating Net Sites Index of a small amount of guide-development tools. Also links to information about what HTML extensions Netscape's Navigator supports. W3C's HTML A definitive source for HTML news, learning, usage, groups, specifications, future drafts, and related resources. The World Wide Web Consortium is where the Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee and pals. Search this site's domain using HotBot: W3C Web Style Sheets This is a great resource for the phenomenon of cascading stylesheets. For a few good primers, check out Webmonkey for Jeff Veen's The Web ... with Style, and Patrick Corcoran's Leading and Margins and Fonts! Oh, Boy!. Search this site's domain using HotBot: The Web Developer's Virtual Library "Over 500 pages and thousands of links about HTML, CGI, Java, VRML, browsers, plug-ins, graphics, HTTP servers, JavaScript, Perl, ActiveX, Shockwave...." Search this site's domain using HotBot: The World Wide Web Consortium HTML specs and nearly everything else you want to know about the world of Web publishing. Search this site's domain using HotBot: All About Java A starter from Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft for the burgeoning Internet programming language. Netscape JavaScript This is the homepage for Netscape's scripting language, JavaScript. Includes developer tools, resources, and an authoring guide.

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