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• HTML Resources
  • Mail Lists (Listservs) and Usenet Newsgroups
  • Books
  • Conferences and Events
  • Other Resources
• Web Graphic Design Resources
  • Web Sites
  • Listservs and Newsgroups
  • Books
• Conferences, Courses, and Events
  • Other Resources
• Web Multimedia Resources
  • Listservs and Newsgroups
  • Conferences and Events
  • Books
  • Other Resources
• Web Programming
  • Web Sites
  • Listservs and Usenet Newsgroups
  • Conferences, Learning Resources, Organizations
  • Books

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Resource Reference

The following list includes a variety of resources online and offline that would be of interest to Web designers.

HTML Resources

• The HTML Reference Manual (from Sandia National Laboratories)
  http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html
  
• HTML Writers Guild
  http://www.hwg.org/
  
• InfoBON's HTML Guide by Dr. Clue
  http://www.cnw.com/~drclue/Formula_One.cgi/HTML/HTML.html
  
• Web Development CyberBase—HTML
  
  

 http://www.hamline.edu/personal/matjohns/webdev/html/

• NCSA—A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  
  

 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

• The Web Developer's Virtual Library
  
  

 http://WWW.Stars.com/

• World Wide Web Consortium's HyperText Markup Language HTML Working and Background Materials
  
  

 http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html

• World Wide Web FAQ
  
  

 http://www.boutell.com/faq/

• Yale/CAIM WWW Style Manual
  
  

 http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/StyleManual_Top.HTML

Mail Lists (Listservs) and Usenet Newsgroups

• ADV-HTML
  
  
• To subscribe to ADV-HTML, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu:
  
  

subscribe ADV-HTML Your Name

• alt.html
  
  
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
  
  
• HTML-L
  
  
• To subscribe to HTML-L, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to listserv@vm.ege.edu.tr:
  
  

subscribe HTML-L Your Name

• HTML Writers Guild: Mailing Lists
  
  

 http://www.hwg.org/lists/index.html

• hwg-news (Mandatory for all hwg members)
  
  
• hwg-main; "Discussion of all aspects of creating Web services"
  
  
• hwg-main-digest; "As above, but in digest version"
  
  
• hwg-basics; "Basic HTML, including inline images"
  
  
• hwg-business; "Marketing, contracts, ethics, sales, etc."
  
  
• hwg-ops; "Guild-related business"
  
  
• Netscape
  
  
• To subscribe to Netscape, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie:
  
  

subscribe NETSCAPE Your Name

• Web-Consultants
  
  
• You can find out how to subscribe to the Web-Consultants list and the Web-Consultants Jobline list at http://just4u.com/webconsultants/mlists.htm.
  
  
• www-html
  
  
• To subscribe to www-html, send the request, subscribe, in the body of an e-mail message to www-html-request@w3.org.
  
  

Books

• The HTML Sourcebook: a Complete Guide to HTML 3.0
  
  

Ian S. Graham

2nd Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 1996

ISBN: 0471142425

 http://www.utirc.utoronto.ca/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html

• Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week
  
  

Laura Lemay

2nd Edition

Sams.net, 1995

ISBN: 1575210649

• Complete Teach Yourself HTML Kit
  
  

Laura Lemay

Published by Sams.net, 1995

ISBN: 1575210630

 http://www.lne.com/web/.

• HTML and CGI Unleashed
  
  

John December, Mark Ginsburg

Book & CD-ROM Edition

Sams, 1995

ISBN: 0672307456

• Web Publishing Unleashed
  
  

William Robert Stanek

Book & CD-ROM Edition

Sams, 1996

ISBN: 1575210517

• The Webmaster's Guide to HTML: for Advanced Web Developers (J. Ranade Workstation Series)
  
  

Nathan J. Muller , Linda L. Tyke (Illustrator)

Book & Disk Edition

McGraw Hill, 1995

ISBN: 0079122736

• Web Programming Secrets with HTML, CGI, and PERL
  
  

Ed Tittel, Mark Gaither, Sebastian Hassinger, Mike Erwin

Book & Disk Edition

IDG Books Worldwide, 1996

ISBN: 156884848X

Conferences and Events

• An in-depth view of forms, tables, and CGI
  
  

 http://WWW.Stars.com/Seminars/

• General Events Information
  
  

 http://conferences.calendar.com

• Mecklermedia / Internet World Events
  
  
• A complete list of the events sponsored by Mecklermedia (Internet World) is available at http://events.iworld.com.
  
  
• Contact: Ann Zmitrovich ( annz@mecklermedia.com)
  
  
• Phone: 203-341-2967
  
  
• Softbank Expo's Upcoming Event Calendar and Product Fact Sheet
  
  

 http://www.sbexpos.com/sbexpos/public_relations/product_fact_sheet.html

• Also, check http://www.interop.com.
  
  
• Using HTML to Design and Structure Information
  
  

 http://www.sol-sems.com/creatwww.html

Other Resources

• WebTechs Validation Service
  
  

 http://www.webtechs.com/html-val-svc/

• Yahoo
  
  

 http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Data_Formats/HTML

Web Graphic Design Resources

The following resources can help provide more information on how to approach graphics for the Web.

Web Sites

• The 3-D Cafe[as]
  
  

 http://www.baraboo.com/3dcafe/

• Creating Graphics for the Web
  
  

 http://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/

• Graphics Formats for the WWW
  
  

 http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Graphics/

• Adobe
  
  

 http://www.adobe.com

• Corel/WordPerfect
  
  

 http://www.corel.ca

• David Siegel's Net Tips for Writers and Designers
  
  

 http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/tips_home.html

• Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe Photoshop
  
  

 http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/

• Paintshop Pro
  
  

 http://www.jasc.com/index.html

• Royal Frazier
  
  

 http://members.aol.com/royalef/index.html

• Web Developers Virtual Library
  
  

 http://www.stars.com/Graphics/

• Web Graphics FAQ
  
  

 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/fileformats-faq/faq.html

Listservs and Newsgroups

• alt.corel.graphics
  
• comp.graphics.misc
  
• comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
  
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
  
• Corel
  
  

 http://www.corelnet.com/corelnet/newtalk/newtalk.htm

• DIRECT-L
  
  
• Macromedia Director support list to provide a forum for discussions of the software program.
  
  
• To subscribe to DIRECT-L, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to LISTSERV@uafsysb.uark.edu:
  
  

subscribe DIRECT-L Your Name

• Graphics
  
  
• The Graphics mailing list discusses the history, theory, practice, and techniques of graphic design. To subscribe to the Graphics mailing list, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu:
  
  

subscribe graphics Your Name

• Lynda's Homegurrl Web Design List
  
  
• To subscribe to Lynda's Homegurrl Web Design List, follow the instructions available at http://www.lynda.com/webdesign.html.
  
  
• Photoshop
  
  
• To subscribe, send the following command in the body of an e-mail message to listproc2@bgu.edu:
  
  

subscribe PHOTSHOP Your Name

Books

• Creating Great Web Graphics
  
  

Laurie McCanna

Holt Publishing

ISBN 1-55828-479-6

 http://www.mccannas.com/book/overview.htm

• Designing Large-Scale Web Sites: a Visual Design Methodology
  
  

Darrell Sano

John Wiley & Sons, 1996

ISBN: 047114276X

This book is described in more detail at

 http://www.connect.hawaii.com/hc/webmasters/books/sano1.html

and

 http://www.dru.nl/bedrijven/broese/specials/eoug96/int7.htm.

• Designer's Guide to the Internet
  
  

Rick Albertson, Jeffrey Fine

Hayden Books, 1995

ISBN: 1568302290

 http://www.davison.net/books/desc/macmillan/internet.des.guide.html.

• Designing Web Graphics
  
  

Lynda Weinman

New Riders Publishing

ISBN:1-56205-532-1

• Photoshop for Windows 95 Bible
  
  

Deke McClelland

IDG Books Worldwide, 1996

ISBN: 156884882X

Conferences, Courses, and Events

• Adobe Internet Conference Overview
  
  

 http://www.adobe.com/events/aic/main.html

• Designing Effective User Interfaces
  
  

 http://cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/smartin/int_design.html

• The MasterClass Series: Training in HCI (Human-Computer Interface)
  
  

 http://www.system-concepts.com/masterclass/

Visit the following Web sites for up-to-date information on these courses:

• Photoshop Unleashed
  
  

 http://microweb.com/idig/psun/PSUN.html

• Siggraph Online
  
  

 http://www.siggraph.org/

Siggraph Online is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics. The calendar of Siggraph events is at http://www.siggraph.org/calendar/calendar.html.

Other Resources

• Computer User Groups on the World Wide Web
  
  

 http://annarbor.apcug.org/others/index.htm

Web Multimedia Resources

Web Sites

• The Apple Quick Time VR Download Site
  
  

 http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/

• Internet Safari
  
  

 http://www.bloomfield.k12.mi.us/CompCntr/safari/Inet.html

• Jack Decker's Personal Audio-Video Home Page
  
  

 http://www.novagate.com/~jack/audiovid.html

• Macromedia Shockwave
  
  

 http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/index.html

• The MICE Multimedia Index
  
  

 http://boom.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/

• Microsoft Internet Explorer
  
  

 http://www.microsoft.com/ie/default.htm

• Netscape Navigator Plug-Ins
  
  

 http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/plugins/index.html

• QTVR: a Practical Guide
  
  

 http://www.sils.umich.edu/~mbonn/guide.html

• University of Geneva Multimedia Sources
  
  

 http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/




 http://fourier.dur.ac.uk:8000/mm.html

• Voice on the Net home page
  
  

 http://www.von.com/

Listservs and Newsgroups

• Image-L
  
  
• Send e-mail to listserv@vm3090.ege.edu.tr with
  
  

SUB IMAGE-L Your Name

• in the body of the message and a blank subject line.
  
  
• Multimedia Discussion List
  
  
• Send e-mail to majordomo@cleo.murdoch.edu.au with
  
  

subscribe multimedia

• in the body of the message and a blank header.
  
  
• news:clari.tw.new_media
  
  
• This is a newsfeed dealing with multimedia and other new technologies.
  
  
• news:comp.multimedia
  
  
• This is a general multimedia newsgroup.
  
  
• news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics
  
  
• This is a technical MS-Windows graphics programming list.
  
  
• Voice on the Net (VON) Mailing List
  
  
• This is a mailing list dedicated to broader discussion of all of the various audio/video products and technologies. To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@pulver.com. Leave the subject blank and in the body write the following:
  
  

subscribe von-digest

• Web Multimedia Fusion
  
  

 http://www.emf.net/~mal/vcd-dev.html

Conferences and Events

• Antares Virtual Reality
  
  

 http://www.avrs.com/antares/edu.html

• Educational software and classes are offered through Antares Virtual Reality Systems.
  
  
• Asymetrix Seminars
  
  

 http://www.asymetrix.com/events.html

• Seminars are available from Asymetrix, a proprietary multimedia tool vendor.
  
  
• CSU Master of Arts in Multimedia
  
  

 http://monet.mcs.csuhayward.edu/mmm/

• Pick up an outline for the Master of Arts in Multimedia Program at California State University at Hayward.
  
  
• Imagination Online Creating 3D Images Seminar
  
  

 http://www.ination.com/p0000037.htm

• 3-D imaging techniques are the focus of this tutorial. This company also has seminars on creating a Web site. The base address provides information on these services.
  
  
• Texas A&M
  
  

 http://mccnet.tamu.edu/Internet_Seminars.html

• Descriptions appear for free seminars at Texas A&M on the second Tuesday of every month.
  
  
• University of California at Berkeley
  
  

 http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/courseware/

• Descriptions are offered for courseware at UC Berkeley. Many lectures are broadcast on the Internet backbone.
  
  
• Virginia Commonwealth University: Multimedia Seminars
  
  

 http://www.vcu.edu/mdcweb/new/seminars/seminars.html

• Find multimedia seminars at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  
  

Books

• Designing Multimedia: a Visual Guide to Multimedia and Online Graphic Design
  
  

Lisa Lopuck

Peachpit Press, 1996

ISBN 0-201-88398-8

• Multimedia: Making It Work, Second Edition
  
  

Tay Vaughan

Osborne, 1994

with CD-ROM

ISBN 0-07-882035-9

• Multimedia Power Tools, Second Edition
  
  

Peter Jerram and Michael Gosney

Random House, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 0-679-76346-5

• Multimedia Systems Design
  
  

Prabhat K. Andleigh and Kiran Thakrar,

Prentice Hall, 1996

ISBN 0-13-089095-2

• Shockwave for Director User's Guide
  
  

Sasha Magee and Noel Rabinowitz

New Riders Publishing, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 1-566205-595-X

Other Resources

The following is an e-mail–based multimedia course:

 MULTIMED-Request@URIACC.URI.EDU

Web Programming

Web Designers can help increase Web-related programming skills by researching the following references.

Web Sites

• Aereal Serch
  
  

 http://www.virtpark.com/theme/cgi-bin/serch.html

• Earthweb's Gamelan Java Directory
  
  

 http://www.gamelan.com

• The Java Message Exchange
  
  

 http://porthos.phoenixat.com/~warreng/WWWBoard/wwwboard.html

• The JavaScript Index
  
  

 http://www.c2.org/~andreww/javascript/

• The Microsoft Internet Developer's site
  
  

 http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/welcome.htm

• Netscape's JavaScript Authoring Guide
  
  

 http://www.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/Gold/handbook/javascript/index.html

• Netscape JavaScript Link List
  
  

 http://www.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/script/index.html

• Netscape's JavaScript Tutorial
  
  

 
http://www.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/script/script_info/tutorial/main.htm

• PERL Manual and Searchable Index
  
  

 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/htbin/perl-man

• Virtual Cities Repository
  
  

 http://www.vir.com/~farid/ctrepos.htm

• VR for the People
  
  

 http://gnn.com/gnn/wr/sept29/features/vrml/index.html

• VRML Futures Forum
  
  

 http://vag.vrml.org/

• The VRML Repository
  
  

 http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/

• VRML Resources
  
  

 http://vrml.wired.com/

• VRML Resources from Silicon Graphics
  
  

 http://webspace.sgi.com/

• The World Wide Web Consortium
  
  

 http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/

Listservs and Usenet Newsgroups

• CGI List
  
  
• This is a Common Gateway Interface discussion.
  
  
• Send e-mail to listserv@vm.ege.edu.tr with
  
  

SUB CGI-L Your Name

• in the body of the message and a blank subject line.
  
  
• JavaScript Talk
  
  

 http://www.farhorizons.com/jstalk/jstalk.html

• JavaScript Mailing List
  
  
• Send e-mail to javascript-request@netural.com with SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message and a blank subject line.
  
  
• news:comp.lang.java
  
  
• This is a Java newsgroup.
  
  
• news:comp.lang.javascript
  
  
• This is a JavaScript newsgroup.
  
  
• news:comp.lang.perl
  
  
• Check this for Perl information and discussion.
  
  
• news:comp.lang.basic.visual
  
  
• This offers MS Visual Basic general news.
  
  
• OpenDoc Standards and Java Discussion
  
  

 http://www.cuesys.com/lists/jod/

• STRONG-JAVA Mailing List
  
  

 http://www.entmp.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/STRONG-JAVA/

• This offers subscription information about the STRONG-JAVA mailing list. Beginners are strongly discouraged.
  
  
• VRML Standards
  
  
• To join the VRML standards discussion, please subscribe to the www-vrml mailing list. Send e-mail to majordomo@wired.com with the subject line blank and the following in the message body:
  
  

subscribe www-vrml your e-mail address

Conferences, Learning Resources, Organizations

• Algorithm Incorporated
  
  

 http://www.algorithm.com/virtual/virtual.html

• Association for Women in Computing
  
  

 http://www.halcyon.com/monih/awc.html

• Interface Online Training Center
  
  

 http://www.iftech.com/iti/itioltc.htm

• SIGGraph 96
  
  

 http://www.siggraph.org/conferences/siggraph96/siggraph96.html

• Team WebGrrls
  
  

 http://www.women.org/

• Women Online
  
  

 http://women-online.com/

Books

• Beyond HTML
  
  

Richard Karpinki

Osborne, 1996

ISBN 0-07-882-198-3

• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
  
  

Shishir Gundavaram

O'Reilly & Associates, 1996

ISBN 1-56592-168-2

• Danny Goodman's JavaScript Handbook
  
  

Danny Goodman

IDG Books, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 0-7645-3003-8

• Learning Perl (the Llama Book)
  
  

Randal L. Schwartz

O'Reilly & Associates, 1993

ISBN 1-56592-042-2

• Programming Perl (the Camel Book)
  
  

Larry Wall & Randal L. Schwartz

O'Reilly & Associates, 1991

ISBN 0-937175-64-1

• Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days
  
  

Laura Lemay and Charles L. Perkins

Sams.net, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 1-57521-030-4

• Using CGI: Special Edition
  
  

Jeffry Dwight and Micael Erwin

Que, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 0-7897-0740-3

• VRML: Flying Through the Web
  
  

Mark Pesce

New Riders, 1996

with CD-ROM

ISBN 1-56205-521-6

http://www.mcp.com s