Jim's HTML and Browser Goodies

Jim's HTML and Browser Goodies

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML: Many people use theNCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. It is an introduction and does not pretend to offer instructions on every aspect of HTML. Links to additional Web-based resources about HTML and other related aspects of preparing files are provided at the end of the guide.
Learning HTML: This page is dedicated to helping people learn HTML and write their own homepages for the world wide web. Through it you can access most of the tools and tricks you need to get going.
WebReference: WebReference.com, one of the Web sites created by Athenia Associates and now owned by internet.com LLC (formerly owned by Mecklermedia Corporation), is about the Web and webmastery. From browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design, we'll keep you in touch and informed.
So, you want to make a Web Page! (by Joe Barta): Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to give you a few simple lessons on how to make a Web Page. I must warn you though, this is for "all wet behinda ears" Newbies. If you're at all experienced at this sort of thing, you'll probably find this tutorial a bit of a yawner.
Form Tutor (by Joe Barta): Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to show you how to add interactivity to your web documents by way of the <FORM> tag. With the form tag you can add to your web pages a guestbook, order forms, surveys, get feedback or whatever.
Table Tutor (by Joe Barta): Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to give you a few simple lessons on how to make tables for your web documents. You might be thinking that a table is simply one of these but if you've ever seen some of them fancy-like web pages you might be interested to find out that they make good use of the <TABLE> tags!
Frames Tutor (by Joe Barta): Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to give you a few simple lessons on how to make frames for your web documents. The intelligent use of frames can give your pages a cleaner look and make them easier to navigate. Note the operative word is intelligent. Nuff said?
Web Authoring: Tables, Imagemaps and Frames: A handout from a University of Kansas Workshop.
Netscape Navigator Handbook: A guide to using Netscape Navigator; a full WWW browser.
WWW Viewer Test Page: Visit this site to test your browser's viewers. If a viewer is missing, or incorrectly installed, you may be able to download it here.
HTML Goodies: HTML and Java Tutorials/Primers, some free Images, other goodies and information.
ISO Latin 1 Character HTML Entity Names: A list of the HTML entity names of all the ISO Latin-1 Characters. The term ISO Latin-1 refers to the characters defined by the ISO Standard ISO8859-1 Latin-1 characters codes. RFC 1866 recommends referencing special characters with a character entity name rather than the ISO Latin-1 code entity name (see next entry).
Latin 1 and Unicode characters in HTML ampersand entities: Latin 1 characters, the correct way to display certain characters, displaying Non-Western European languages.
Free Bullets, Bars, Buttons, Backgrounds, Dingbats: Free images that you can download and use on your Web pages.
DeWitt Industries: Some free stuff such as the Icon Factory, the Button Factory, backgrounds, images, etc. Some things, such as the Render Factory, are NOT free. The Icon and button factories are interactive and let you create (and download) customized, labeled icons and buttons.
RGB Color Chart: These color charts contain an approximation (the numbers are exact; the colors as close as technology can get them) of a color palette that will not dither when viewed on the web.
Netscape (6x6x6) Color Palette Nap: A clockable map of the 6X6X6 color palette used by Netscape and other browsers. To find the code for a color, move the mouse pointer until it is over the color you want.
BrowserWatch: A leading site for information about browsers, plug-ins and ActiveX controls.
Netscape [Plug-ins]: Plug-ins are software programs that extend the capabilities of Netscape Navigator in a specific way - giving you, for example, the ability to play audio samples or view video movies from within Navigator.
Text: Headers, Fonts and RGB Colors: Some of Jim's basic examples of header and font sizes. Also, some simple examples to help determine how your particular browser/computer combination deals with variations in RGB text colors.
Tables: Borders, Cellpadding and Cellspacing: Some of Jim's basic examples of tables showing variations in borders, cell padding and cell spacing. This page requires a browser that is capable of dealing with colored tables (such as Netscape 3.0 or Explorer 2.01).
Text Flow around Images: Some examples showing how text flow aorund images is affected by image alignment.
Internet Pocket Toolbox: Selected Tools for Searchers in a Hurry.
WWW Search Engines: An alternate list of search engines.

Last updated by:
hill@oit.umass.edu
November 7, 2001