Shareware Converters
| ANT_HTML | Converts from HTML to Microsoft Word and other WYSIWYG formats. Windows and Macintosh
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| HexMac | Converts Quark Xpress files to HTML. Windows and Macintosh
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| HTML Markup | Text-to-HTML conversion. Macintosh
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| Hypercard to HTML: TrueTools | Freeware. Macintosh
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| LiveCard | Hypercard-to-HTML conversion. Macintosh
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| mswtohtml | Microsoft Word-to-HTML conversion. Macintosh
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| rtftohtml | Macintosh, DOS / Windows, and some UNIX platforms
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Image Map Editors
For further information about image maps, check the Yahoo! site at http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Imagemaps. These programs do the work of selecting the coordinates for the hot spots of an image map.
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| HotSpots | Windows
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| Map This | Windows
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| MapEdit | Windows and UNIX
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| Interactivity: Java, JavaScript, Netscape Plug-Ins, and ActiveXJava, JavaScript, Netscape plug-ins, and ActiveX are all means by which you can add interactive elements to your Web pages. All require going beyond standard HTML, but most Web users have access to at least some of these.
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| JavaSoft HomePage | The official Web site for the Java language.
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| Microsoft Active Platform | Microsoft's Active Platform and ActiveX are one way of adding interactivity to your Web pages.
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| Netscape JavaScript Authoring Guide
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| Netscape Plug-ins | A listing of Netscape plug-ins that extend Netscape's functionality.
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Internationalization and Localization on the Web
The resources listed here help you create multilingual Web pages.
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| Apple Language Kits | These kits facilitate document creation in a variety of languages.
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| AsiaSurf | A program for viewing documents written in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Windows 3.1/95
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| Babel (internationalization of the Internet) | Packed with information discussing the creation of multilingual Web sites and the internationalization of the Internet.
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| Character Tables by Koichi Yasuoka | A comprehensive listing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters and their hexadecimal values in the Unicode character set.
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| "Characters and Character Sets for Different Languages" | A general discussion of languages and character sets.
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| Frank Tang's Netscape Internationalization Secrets | This page has links to sites that show you how to configure your system to view pages in different languages.
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| ISO 10646 character set with descriptions in French | Describes many of the thousands of characters in the Unicode / ISO 60646 character set.
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| ISO-8859 Alphabet Soup | A good discussion of the ISO-8859-x character sets.
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| Twinbridge | A number of products for viewing and composing Chinese and Japanese documents. Windows
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| UnionWay | A comprehensive package for viewing and composing documents in various Asian languages. Windows
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| W3C Internationalization and Localization | A summary of what the World Wide Web Consortium has done and is doing in regards to internationalization.
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Internet, World Wide Web, and SGML Standards Organizations
The Internet is vast, with hundreds of thousands of different servers. Tens of millions of different Web pages are available to any WWW user. In this type of situation, standards are difficult to enforce, but following them, or at least knowing what they are, can be very helpful. Many companies, both large and small, have found it to their advantage to jointly develop standards.
Most of the organizations listed in this section have significant commercial participation.
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| International Standards Organization
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| Internet Engineering Task Force
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| SGML Open Organization
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| Unicode Consortium
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| World Wide Web Consortium
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Some Mailing Lists Related to HTML
The mailing lists in this section are forums that allow experienced ans aspiring Web authors to share questions, answers, and experiences with HTML and various aspects of Web development. If you choose to subscribe to these lists, basic netiquette is important, as always. This sites in this section provide instructions on how to join these lists.
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| ADV-HTML | This list covers advanced HTML topics, as well as other Web programming issues.
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| HTML Writer's Guild Mailing Lists
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| NCSA Mailing Lists
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| World Wide Web Consortium Mailing Lists
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Displaying Mathematical and Scientific Expressions in HTML
The programs listed in this section help you put mathematical and scientific expressions into HTML. Each takes a slightly different approach, and all are platform-specific. No perfect solution yet exists.
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| Arena Browser | This browser supports the HTML 3.0 MATH element. For UNIX platforms.
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| Harlequin WebMaker | Converts FrameMaker files to HTML and graphics, including FrameMaker equations.
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| | For use with documents, usually mathematical or scientific texts, written in TeX or
LaTeX. Windows 95/NT
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| LaTeX2HTML | This program converts text written in
LaTeX, such as mathematical papers, to HTML 2.0 and praphics. UNIX
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| math2html | Converts LaTeX math and tables to HTML 3.0. UNIX
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| MathEdit | This is an equation editor that can be used to create mathematical graphics or LaTeX equations. A free demo version is available. Windows
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| MathType | Like
MathEdit, this equation editor can be used to create mathematical graphics or LaTeX equations. Windows and Macintosh
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| MathView Plug-In | Can be used to view equations and graphs created with the Maple program. Windows and Macintosh
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| MINSE | A system that interprets a page through a CGI script and generates mathematical graphics and descriptive ALT text for these graphics.
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| OmegaType ActiveX Control | This ActiveX control generates mathematical graphics from coded equations. For use with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.
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| Mathematical and scientific symbols made freely available for specific uses. |
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| Udi-WWW | An HTML 3.0-compliant browser with an excellent implementation of the
<MATH> tag.
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| WebEq Java Applet | A Java applet that converts specially coded equations into mathematical graphics. For all platforms that support Java
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SGML Resources
The listings in this section provide bibliographies and introductory discussions of SGML.
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| Essay: "A Gentle Introduction to SGML" | A helpful introductory guide that explains the conceptual basis of SGML.
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| Robin Cover's SGML Web Page | A Comprehensive SGML bibliography.
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| SGML Open Home Page | A consortium of vendors who support SGML.
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| SoftQuad: SGML Resources | Download the Panorama SGML browser, and read a guide to SGML.
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Some Standards Documents
The World Wide Web is based on certain well-defined specifications. The documents at the sites listed in this section are very interesting for the technically-minded reader. They also are useful reference materials.
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| HTML 2.0 Materials |
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| HTML 3.2 Materials |
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| RFC (Request for Comments) Documents |
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| W3C Tech Reports |
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Usenet Newsgroups
The newsgroups listed in this section are very helpful if you need to find information on a particular topic, or if you simply want to learn more about these topics. Remember to observe basic rules of netiquette.
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| comp.infosystems.www.advocacy | Comments and arguments about the best and worst.
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| comp.infosystems.www.announce | World Wide Web announcements (moderated).
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi | Writing CGI scripts for the Web.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html | Writing HTML for the Web.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images | Using images and image maps on the Web.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc | Miscellaneous Web authoring issues.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design | Web site design philosophy.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets | Layout / presentation on the World Wide Web.
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| comp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools | Programs to aid in the authoring of Web sites.
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| comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac | Web browsers for the Macintosh platform.
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| comp.inforystems.www.browsers.misc | Web browsers for the other platform.
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| comp.inforystems.www.browsers.ms-windows | Web browsers for Microsoft Windows.
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| comp.inforystems.www.browsers.x | Web browsers for the X-Windows system.
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| comp.inforystems.www.misc | Miscellaneous World Wide Web discussions.
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| comp.inforystems.www.servers.mac | Web servers for the Macintosh platform.
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| comp.inforystems.www.servers.misc | Web servers for the other platforms.
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| comp.inforystems.www.servers.ms-windows | Web servers for Windows and Windows NT.
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| comp.inforystems.www.servers.unix | Web servers for UNIX platforms.
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| DejaNews | Archives of Usenet newsgroup discussions on the Web.
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Validators and Cross-Browser Compatibility
Clever programmers have invented a number of tools to aid aspiring Web authors. Validators are useful for checking your HTML code to ensure that errors haven't somehow crept in. You can check to see if your code conforms to a particular DTD (document type definition). Link checkers automate the process of making sure that all the links you have created for your pages actually work. Other programs can determine whether your Web pages are compatible with all or certain browsers under certain conditions.
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HTML Code Validation
All the resources listed in this section relate to HTML code validation. Each operates differently, so you'll probably want to use more than one site to check your pages. Each of these can be used with any Web browser unless other wise specified.
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| Catalog of HTML DTDs | Lists the DTDs against which you can validate your Web pages.
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| Doctor HTML |
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| HTMLChek |
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| HTMLChek: Web Gateway |
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| Kinder, Gentler Validator |
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| Spyglass | An offline HTML validator for Windows 95 users.
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| Webber (editor and
validator) |
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| WebLint |
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| WebLint Gateways |
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| WebTechs |
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| Yahoo! Listing |
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Link Checkers
When creating a Web site that includes hyperlinks to other sites, you might find that links sometimes change. An automated link checker can be very helpful and save much time, particularly dif you write many pages.
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| CyberSpyder | Windows
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| missinglink | For use on a UNIX Web server.
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| MOMspider | A Perl script for systems that support Perl 4.036.
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| URLMinder | Available for all platforms.
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| Webxref | A Perl script.
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Cross-Browser Compatibility
When creating Web pages, you should always keep in mind that your visitors might use one of any number of Web browsers.
To the extent possible, you should test your pages in as many browsers as you can.
However, most people lask the disk space and the number of computer systems necessary to do a complete job of testing.
The sites listed in this section help determine if any problems might crop up with different browsers.
All these sites can be accessed from any Web browser.
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| Bobby | This site tells you if your site will cause any problems for users who have older or text-only browsers, or users who have certain disabilities.
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| BrowserCaps | This site compares the capabilities of different browsers in regards to how they handle various HTML tags and character entities.
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| Lynx-Me | You can see what your site will look like when viewed with the Lynx browser, the most commonly used text-only browser.
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| Web Page Backwards Compatibility Viewer | You can see what your Web pages look like when various features such as fonts, frames, JavaScript, and others aren't supported.
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Vendors of General Interest to HTML Authors
Web page authors tend to use the products of a few big-name vendors repeatedly. These vendors are listed here.
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| Adobe |
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| Apple |
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| Microsoft |
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| Netscape |
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Web Space and Internet Access Providers
The sites listed in this section provide Web space for their customers. Some are free, and others are relatively inexpensive.
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| AngelFire | Free Web space.
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| BudgetWeb | Inexpensive Web space.
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| Geocities | Free and paid Web space.
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| The List | A comprehensive listing of almost 5,000 Internet providers throughout the world.
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| Tripod | Free Web space.
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