Chapter Four - Webpage Components
This chapter cannot begin to offer a comprehensive guide to the components and styles that make up a good web page. And since most of this has already been done by others and is freely available on the web, the best choice is to offer you a set of links to the resources that exist on the web, specifically made for beginning web authors. If you visit and review the following websites, and download and print the most essential materials, you'll soon become an expert web page programmer. And remember, whenever you see a really cool new item on the web, take a look at the web code from the page, and see for yourself how they managed to create that effect or feature. You'll be suprised how quickly others will be complimenting your masterful web pages!

WEB MARKUP LANGUAGE

• Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML.
  The ultimate desktop reference for web page authoring. Download it to your desktop as source code, then make a bookmark to the web page on your dektop in your browser. Then print the pages out and keep them handy - you'll quickly find yourself relying on it less and less!
• Netscape's Comprehensive website for web authors
• HTML Quick Reference Guide
• (another) HTML Quick Reference Guide - a handy guide with visual examples of all the major markup tags.
• Neli's Homepage - has some good links to starting web documents, and one advertised as helpful for those creating web pages in a foreign language.
• The WWW.W3.ORG HTML information page.
• For a comprehensive list of HTML elements see http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html

STYLE GUIDES

NOTE - These links were shamelessly lifted from the NCSA Server's Style Guide Page.

• Composing Good HTML by James "Eric" Tilton (Willamette U)

• Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee (W3)

• NCSA HTML Style Sheet

• Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Alan Richmond (NASA GSFC)

• Elements of HTML Style by Jonathan Cohen

• Gareth Rees' style guide

• Web Authoring Style Guide - doesn't seem to work.

• The HTML Manual of Style (just the preface and TOC) by Larry Aronson.

• The Ten Commandments of HTML FAQ
• Bad Style Page - a collection of DONTs for HTML.

• The HyperTerrorist Checklist of WWWeb Design Errors
• Top 10 Things NOT to do on a Web Page
• From Grass Roots to Corporate Image - The Maturation of the Web by Christine A. Quinn

• Style Guide for NRAO Home Pages

• A Basic HTML Style Guide for HEASARC at GSFC.

• Style Guides for WebStars at GSFC.

• The AstroWeb Consortium has a standard HTML Interchange Format

• Design Considerations

• Why the web sucks, II by C J Silverio.

• Top Ten Ways To Improve Your Home Page & Top Ten Ways To Tell If You Have A Sucky Home Page by Jeffrey M. Glover

• Why is the Web So Boring? A Call for Better Interactive Design by Stovin Hayter

• Overview of hypertext design theory is an excellent summary of the design issues addressed by many of the style guides.

• An HTML 2.0 Pattern Language

• A Field Guide to Home Pages by D.C. Denison

• Tom's Tips for Web Designers is about graphic images, such as backgrounds and buttons.

• Tutorial on Graphics Techniques at the Spider's Web.
• Some whys and caveats of HTML

• Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media's (C/AIM) WWW Style Manual by Patrick J. Lynch

• HTML Design Guide includes information on HTML, HTML+, HTML 3, and Netscape Extensions.

• Thoughts on Web style by jorn, also a few references

• What is good hypertext writing? by Jutta Degener

• Driving a Newspaper On the Data Highway by Melinda McAdams

• Create Your Audience: The pros and cons of Web writing by Rob Jellinghaus

• Why I Like the Web by Kristen Ankiewicz gives an artist's perspective - including HTML style.

• An article by Jim Hurley on meaningful Anchor Text is here

• The TuLiP Project is an online, hypertext project dealing with many facets of Web design. It's more than a style guide or checklist of do's and don'ts for creating Web pages. We delve into the concepts underlying the Web and show how they can be used to design effective Web sites.

• Pointers on how to create business web pages that work by J&E Copywriting

• Constructing Your Web Site