Web Stuff

Despite the technology, it is often not easy to find things. Different tools may give wildly different results. If one fails, try another.

Google web search [Google's Advanced Search lets you pick languages, dates, ....]
New York Times Navigator has a splendid list of search tools (free, but registration is required).

Basic documents, such as this page, are not difficult to make. The first reference below is basic and easy. Plenty to get started.
- A simple example and A more involved example.
  [On your browser, use "View/Document Source" to see how these were written.]
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- From Dave Raggett: Beginner's Guide Advanced Guide Style Sheets
- A Barebone Guide to HTML (a list of all the tags)
- HTML Forms
  - More Examples: Computing x + y Voting Scripts
  - An HTML Form Containing All Form Elements (view the source too)
  - HTML Forms (technical reference)
- Useful links
- - Art: www.artchive.com
  - Photos: community.webshots.com
  - Buttons: http://wow.buttons4free.com:82/
Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual
HyperText Mark-up Language The primary authority on HTML and XML
WWW FAQs Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Look here before asking standard questions.

HTML References
John December has assembled an large collection of hypertext references to computer network resource in his Internet Tools Summary. Since this document just briefly describes and then links elsewhere, one must to a fair amount of exploring to use it effectively.
USENET FAQs Here you find many netnews articles with answers to Frequently Asked Questions (=FAQ). Most of them are of interest only to specialists.
Dejanews USNET discussion search (now part of Google)
Search Slashdot for computer information:

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