How to prepare Web-based documents
Style Sheets and Design Tips
There are now many sites on the Internet with on-line instructions on
web page composition and design. Here is a list that will help you get started.
Some of the sites will lead you to more advance tools for developing more
sophisticated presentation.
- Web
Page Tutorial, from Canada's Schoolnet, is an excellent starting point
for learning the basics of HTML documents.
- Yale C/AIM
WWW Style Manual provides in-depth overview of the key elements of
web documents.
- The Browser
Torture Chamber will put your browser to the test. Complete with observations,
it's a useful guide to know what does and does not work on what browsers.
- An HTML Style
Sheet from the Learning Technologies Center At Cornell University is
a style guide and HTML introduction all in one.
- Composing
Good HTML is a guide to writing HTML documents that look good for all
clients, and that conform to HTML specifications.
- The World Wide Web Consortiums Style
Guide for online hypertext talks about structure, format and readability.
- HTML
Style Tips is a short guide to creating hyperlinks.
- Web Communications Comprehensive
Guide to Publishing on the Web is a complete guide to HTML and style.
- An index to Jim Hurley's
Articles on Webspace Design, where you can learn from his experiences.
- The Bad Style Page tells
you what NOT to do in your Web pages.
- This tutorial on Writing
HTML is very thoroulgh.
- Accessible Web Page Design
links to the Adaptive Computer Technology Centre which provides information,
tips and techniques on how to make your World-Wide Web publishing as accessible
as possible to the widest range of people, including persons with sensory,
mobility and learning disabilities, as well as the vast number of people
who don't have multimedia computers, or who use text-browsers, or slow
modems.
- Becoming a World-Wide
Web server expert.
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