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Applications.
Where to find images
Staying Legal: Favorite Sites
Cyberspace
Law for Non-Attorneys
Good Web Design
Dan's Web Tips
Ten Good Deeds
in Web Design, (and more!) This is a GREAT site.
Page Layout,
Margins, Indenting, and Columns Another GREAT site about making
your web page readable.
And...if you really want to get into the psychology of web design
http://www.stars.com/Authoring/Design/MoreThan/index.html
....this is a well written...still basic...article
http://www.stars.com/Authoring/Design/Pages/index.html....
this is also a well written article
Comprehensive Web Design Help
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
http://www.stars.com/
Other good stuff:
Some basic tutorials
FTP
FTP stuff is at
http://www.calpoly.edu/pub/supported/pc/win95/ftp/wsftp95/wsftp95_overview.html
This is a comprehensive site that tells you how to download, install,
and use this program. For those of you with the program already installed....check
out the"Quickstart"
tutorial.
And...for those of you wanting to understand FTP, http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/ftp.html
Alternative Programs
http://www.talweb.com/faq/WS_FTP.html
http://www.awod.com/web/wsftp.html
Compression Program
Using Winzip is at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~thicks/WinZip/InstallWinZip.html
(You will need to scroll down the page a bit.....but the instructions
are there)
HTML
HTML Goodies
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html goes pretty much
through images
Another fine tutorial, HTML
Tutorial 
written by a pretty fantastic high school student, (back then).
Information about images
Creating Small,
Fast Loading Graphics for Web Pages © 1998 by Walt Howe
Some helpful learning tools
Students call me from time to time and ask what my approach to learning
HTML would be. The truth is I would not want to take a class in it.
I would want a great tutorial that I could work through with the ability
to ask a teach/mentor about difficult questions when I needed extra
help. Unfortunately, that is not the model of teaching in place at colleges
and universities. So....below I have listed my recommendations for for
a self help approach
- Get yourself a "basic" book.
My choice is one that is easy to follow, contains many examples, and
is arranged by what you want to know.....(not the way
someone finds convenient to teach.) My choice would be HTML4 for
Dummies, Deborah Ray & Eric Ray, ISBN 0-7645-0332-4, (or
the latest edition).
- Get yourself an HTML text editor
No....don't get yourself a WYSIWYG editor. You need to understand the
HTML tags but you don't need to have them memorized. An HTML editor
keeps you in contact with the code without driving you nuts having to
keep looking it up in a book all the time because you haven't memorized
it. Here is one I think helpful.
Arachnophilia http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html
- Find an online tutorial
I find it easiest to learn with a "plan of progress" in mind.
There are several online tutorials that provide this. My choices are
listed above.
Not so basic tutorials
JavaScript
HTML Goodies http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/jsp/jsp_toc.html
An easy to follow....chock full of concepts....interlaced with interactive
exercises......for learning Java Script
A great Java site: http://www.javafile.com/
Another great site:
http://javascript.internet.com/
Style Sheets
Create a consistent look to your web pages and/or avoid unnecessary
coding. (Of course, your viewers will have to be using Netscape or Explorer
versions 4.0 or higher).
This is a great tutorial http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css.html
Another good tutorial can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/quick-tutorial.html
For a good listing of comparative support of the browsers see http://www.webreview.com/guides/style/mastergrid.html
A list of all style sheet rules can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/properties.html
Beyond basic HTML.....Multimedia on the web
http://www.stars.com/Multimedia/
If you find a program you like especially, let me know at cdgracie@wccnet.org
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