Useful External Links

• Hot Mail
• NetAddress
• Rocket Mail
• Geocities, if you also sign up for a homepage.

JavaScript

• Netscape's JavaScript Handbook
  You don't need to buy a book. It's all here.

Some Online HTML Tutorials

• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  A good, short and concise list of all HTML tags. Print it out and keep a copy near your computer.
• Peter Flynn's World Wide Web Handbook
  • Introduction to HTML
  • Intermediate HTML
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to HTML
  Basic stuff, introduces IMAGE MAPS, CGI, too.
• The Compendium of HTML Elements
  Requires clicking through layers of pages to find the information, but it all seems to be there.

Some Useful Sites

• Developing Good Low-Speed WWW Presentations
  Written in 1994, but still very good guidelines.
• How Not to Be Annoying
  Common mistakes to avoid.
• HTML Goodies
  HTML Tutorials, Free Images, Java Goodies, etc.
• A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator
  It checks HTML documents for compliance with HTML standards. (Your page must be online.)
• Dr. HTML [FRAME]
  Checks web page spelling, syntax, links, etc.
• WebTech's HTML Validation Service
  This one lets you check stuff that's not online.
• NCSA - A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
  69K
• Creating Web Sites
  HTML, Scripting, Style Guide, OK except they make some elementary web design mistakes themselves. (ie. over-enhanced, large-sized, slow-laoding pages, tables too wide for small screens, forcing visitors to excessively click by doing pages in multiple layers.)
• HTML Writers Guild: WWW Resources/HTML Resources
  This is just a set of links, but check it out if you need more information.

Style Guides

• Systems Magic HTML Style Guide
  Last modified 21st April 1997 by Paul Clark
• Composing Good HTML
  James "Eric" Tilton, Last modified: May 8, 1997
• Hints for Web Authors By Warren Steel

Useful Macintosh Software for Writing HTML

• BBEdit_Lite_4.0.1.sit.bin
  FREE, This is my favorite (Macintosh) text editor and the one I use to write HTML.