Writing Web Pages

Here are several tutorial and reference pages on writing Web pages. They also contain links to other such pages.

Before linking in a page, run Netscape on its file first as a test, just as you have for this page. Published pages should have all read permissions set.

One way to find out more about writing Web pages is to see what others have done. Find a Web page with a special feature and view its source: select the View menu in Netscape, and then the Source option. The source can also be stored to a file. It is usually also cached in ~/.netscape-cache.

Sometimes this gives unexpected results. A cause of this is that some documents use physical format tags, rather than logical ones. The appearance of text formatted with physical tags is browser-dependent, whereas text formatted with logical tags is not.

You can also produce HTML documents from LaTeX ones via LaTeX2HTML.

Reference Books

Many primers on the World Wide Web and HTML have appeared, and some titles follow below. Some of them are based on the HTML reference pages mentioned above. Those whose prices are in Australian dollars were available in October 1995 at the Co-operative Bookshop at ANU. Each has sections on writing Web pages.

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