Searching and Finding Information

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 [Advanced Search lets you pick languages, dates, ....]

Making Your Own WWW Documents

• Basic documents, such as this page, are not difficult to make. The first few items below are basic and easy. Plenty to get started. Edit these with a "plain text" editor.
  • HTML Tutorial [HTML 5 compliant)
  • A simple example and A more involved example.
    [On your browser, use "View/Document Source" to see how these were written.]
  • HTML Tutorial
  • From Dave Raggett:   Beginner's Guide   Advanced Guide   Style Sheets
  • A Barebone Guide to HTML (a list of all the tags)
  • HTML Forms
    Introduction (with 12 simple examples) -->
    • More Examples: Computing x + y     Voting Scripts
    • An HTML Form Containing All Form Elements (view the source too)
    • HTML Forms (technical reference)

    
    How Do They Do That With HTML?
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  • Useful links
  • • Art: www.artchive.com
• 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.

Documents and References

• 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.
• Search Slashdot for computer information: