Nathan Torkington wrote,"I always advocate placing meaningful text inside the<A>...</A> tags,so that what the eye picks up as highlighted text provides an instantclue to the destination."
- An example of a reference that provides more information is Pointers for writing HTML and an example that provides less information is click here for Pointers for writing HTML.
- Tim Berners-Lee in his Style Guide For Online Hypertext recommended signing and providing the status for documents.
- Gareth Rees' HTML Style Guide
- "Intended to supplement the CERN Style Guide" written by Tim Berners-Lee. There is also an article about Publishing on the World Wide Web that explains how to publicize WWW information.
- Some preparatory notes about writing HTML documents
- You could use an initial HTML form for starting documents.
- To keep a copy of the start up form, use the load to disk option.
- Another helpful resource is the HTML Handi-Guide in PostScript by Peter Deuel from Clarkson University.
- The guide is in the one triple-folded page style that the A&M Computing Information Services provides. Postscript can be printed by library staff in the room beside the LRD. Postscript files can be copied directly to the printer from the DOS command line by typing, for example
C:\> copy /b tri-fold.ps prn
The guide is especially useful for adding codes to documents if you already know HTML.
- The classic introduction to HTML is A Beginner's Guide to HTML.
- Guides to Writing HTML Documents
- Here's an interesting way to present related information:Navigating the Workflow Module.
- Learning HTML
- Includes a reference for style guides.
- Webcraft, by Alan Eyzaguirre
- State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications
- Planet Earth Home Page - Mosaic Information
- Includes sections for Getting Started, URL, HTML, Image maps, Forms, Databases, and Searching, and Servers.
- Hypermedia Research Laboratory at Texas A&M.
- There's a 103 page Working Bibliography of Hypertext in compressed PostScript andASCII as well. Selecting the PostScript option will transfer acompressed PostScript file to your machine. On a DOS system the file can be uncompressed using the program gzip and the command line
C:\gzip -ad filename.z
The file needs to have a z as the last letter after the dot. A filename like hypertxt.psz would be OK. Gzip is an uncompress program from the GNU project and is available free online.
Netscape can display the ASCII file.
- Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
- Presently "co-located" with the Hypermedia Research Laboratory.
- Proceedings of the first annual conference on the theory and practice of digital libraries
- Papers presented at the College Station, Texas conference in 1994.
- Web Links from Communications of the ACM, April 1995
- Here are some references to information about Digital Libraries.
- Local list of HTML resources
- Live Markup
- Shareware WYSIWYG Windows HTML Editor. Available May 2, 1995.There is a free 30-day evaluation. Due to licensing requirements and legal obligations, a supervisor's approval may be needed before loading a program on a University PC. Also, this note does not take the place of the documentation included with the program!
The author has announced a revised copy of the program since May 2nd and given a schedule for additional features.
- Theoretical Information about Hypertext
- A Brief Bibliography of Hypertext
- List of publications that talk about using hypertext information to communicate information.
- Twenty principles for WWW design based on educational theory.
- The best information that I've found about how to design hypertext systems is Empirically-Based Guidelines for the Design of Interactive Multimedia, Educational Technology Research and Development, Volume 41, Number 3, 1993, p63-85, Innwoo Park and Michael J. Hannafin. The call number for the journal at Evans Library is P/87/A82. Included is a list of 20 Principles andImplications for the Design of Interactive Multimedia. The twenty principles for WWW design are based on the content of the article.
- The Perl Programming Language
- HTML Access Counter
- The application that provides the count has to be available on the server computer.
- WWW Conference Workshop: Navigation Issues/User Needs
- WWW and HTML Developer's Jump Station
- Ian Graham's HTML Document Collection
- Check HTML through URL
- Interface Design for Sun's WWW Site
- Includes pictures of nine phases of the Sun WWW home page as well as a description of usability testing and icon changes. Information about theInternal Sun WWW pages is also available.
Pointers for writing HTML