Internet Publishing Page
Copyright 1995 Katherine A. Althen (kalthen@cyberport.net)
-
Purpose
- This page consolidates various Internet publishing-related sites. It
is
a DRAFT. Please send suggestions (additions, changes,
improvements)
to: Kath
Althen
Contents
- Internet Publishing -- General
- Classes in Internet Publishing
- Web Page Creation -- General
- Tools for Creating Pages
- Tools for Publishing Pages
- Elements of Web Pages
- Technical Considerations
- Publicizing Web Pages
- Internet Publishing Organizations
Sections
- Internet Publishing -- General (Back to Top)
- Journal of
Electronic
Publishing
- University of British Columbia's Certificate in Internet
Publishing --new
- ***University of Michigan's ILS 605 The Making of Digital
Libraries Rel
ate
d Topics readings -- on electronic publishing
- Tim Guay's Web
Publishing Paradigms -- "You know what they say about paradigms--
shift
happens!" " The print paradigm will fade into obscurity, to be found
only in the work of rank amateurs. The key paradigms [Multimedia,
Hypertext, Docuverse, and Interactive] will converge and fuse into one
dominate metaparadigm, hyperadaptivity. Hyperadaptivity will blend
both
the information-focused hypermedia Docuverse and the
interaction-focused adaptive interactivity to provide an intelligent,
adaptive, global information space. A space where one can both learn
and be entertained. A space where anyone who has something to say,
can."
- ***University of Colorado School of Education's Hyperte
xt<
/A> links --"Introduction; History; Hypertext Theory; Educational
Applications; Development Tools; Style Manuals; Bibliographies; and Other
Indexes"
- What Every
Information Provider Should Know -- "The major problems facing an
information provider can be summarized as the four R's: [1] Relevance
Is
anyone besides myself going to care about what I'm doing? Will it be
meaningful to those who use it? If this is a low-maintenance project,
will
it maintain its relevance over time? [2] Repetition Has what I'm doing,
been done before? Am I reinventing the wheel? Is anyone else doing this?
[3] Release How are others going to find out about my work? How can I
distribute it effectively to those who need it most? [4] Repair
Maintenance. Information decays, due to the volatile state of the
universe.
The bigger your database, the more time you'll have to spend keeping it
up
to date."
- Linkname --new
- Classes in Internet Publishing (Back to Top)
- ***John Unsworth (Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities, University of Virginia in Charlottesville)'s Theory
and Practice of Hypertext -- "Members of the seminar will work in
small
groups over the course of the semester to construct their own
hypertexts, the nature of which (critical, creative,
bibliographical,
documentary, autobiographical, etc.) will be determined by the
authors. The World-Wide Web will be the medium for exchanging information
related to the seminar, and wherever possible readings and projects
will be presented through the Web, but seminar members are welcome
to
construct their projects in environments other than the Web." Check
out its Web Reading section, including "History, Theory, Fiction, Related
Sites, Search Tools, Manuals, Reviews, [and] Other Readings."
- Linkname --new
- Web Page Creation -- General (Back to Top)
- Design (Back to
Top)
- Design -- Essays (Back to Top)
- Onar Em's "Cyberspace and the Structure of Knowledge" -- "Hypertexts
mimic
the associative structure of the mind, and it is therefore reasonable
to
assume that a good hypertext should also resemble the macro-structures
of the mind."
- V. Balasubramanian (Graduate School of Management, Rutgers
University)'s "S
tat
e of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications" --
Chapters:
"1. Hypertext - An Introduction; 2. Implementation Issues;
3. Database Issues; 4. User Interface Issues; 5.
Information Retrieval Issues; 6. Integration Issues; 7.
Applications; 8. A Systematic Approach To User Interface Design
For
A Hypertext Framework; 9. Summary Of Research Issues."
- Jay David Bolter's So
me Thoughts on Web Design -- "Current web designs are exactly what
they
should be and have to be: first steps. They accept the limited typography
of html. They often put considerable amounts of text on a single page.
They
display graphics appropriate for (and appropriated from) other media,
especially print. They still manage to convey the excitement and promise
of
the web--its potential for unlimited access and endless chains of
association. And they convey the heterogeneity of the web...." -- [404
Not
Found]
- Design Principle
Issue --new
- C J Silverio's "Why the Web Sucks,
II" -- "There are four major reasons why the Web pages I've seen have
sucked: [1] Most people aren't very good at designing & producing
documents. [2] HTML doesn't help. [3] Good content is expensive. [4]
People
who can pay for content usually want to sell something."
- RhetNet:
A
Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing -- "RhetNet is an effort to adapt
the
functions of academic print journals to the new environment. Journals
simultaneously serve as the medium of conversation and the repository for
knowledge. RhetNet serves those purposes, but takes the shape of its
native
environment: cyberspace."
- Jorn Barger's "HyperContent,
HyperJunk: Hypertext theory as if the WWWeb matters" -- "here's a
digest of what I found... Eight categories of problems in hypertext
design:
The varieties of hypertext; Making hypertext navigable; Menus and maps;
Making hypertext exportable to other sites; Maintaining a system with
worldwide links; HTML issues: structure vs layout; Platform issues:
speed,
reliability, graphics, whitespace; Professionalism: grammar, spelling."
- Jutta Degener's "What is
good
hypertext writing?" -- "The two pitfalls of writing hypertext copy
are
links and emotions. Links are a new stylistic element that writers must
learn to handle. The emotional problem is harder: we must snap out of the
"host" or "provider" role, must get away from the excitement of guiding
another person through the text, and get back to - just writing."
- Peter Muller's "Writing
Hypertext Books" -- Chapters: "1 Introduction (1.1 Requirements, 1.2
Acknowledgements); 2 What is a Hypertext Book? (2.1 Overview, 2.2
Requirements); 3 Global Rules (3.1 Link Rules; 3.2 Document Rules); 4 The
Cover Page (4.1 Modification Date; 4.2 Printing ); 5 The Table of
Contents;
6 The Chapters) (6.1 Chapter Length, 6.2 Layout, 6.3 Images); 7 The
Reference Chapter; 8 References (A Summary of Rules, B Figure
References)."
- David G. Green's "From Honeypots to a Web of SIN - Building the World-Wide
Information System" --new
- Jaap Jasperse's "CD-ROM: Roadfill for,
or
permanent landmarks along the Infobahn?"
- Fi Adam 's Links (with a
Lynx
enhanced section in addition to an image-map) -- new
- Paul Fontaine's Writing Accessible HTML
Documents -- "The following technical guidelines should be followed
in
designing and coding accessible HTML documents." --new
- Linkname --new
- Design -- Guides (Back to Top)
- Gareth Rees's Style
Guide
-- "1. Choose the right structure; 2. Present coherent articles as a
whole; 3. Try not to have more than two levels of index; 4. Give
an
impression of the size of your database; 5. Distinguish internal and
external links; 6. Never use your home page as the startup page for
your browser; 7. Use links as you would references...; 8. ... not
as you would footnotes; 9. Annotate your references; 10. Don't
discuss your own pages; 11. Provide a title page for multi-part
documents."
- James "Eric" Tilton's Composing Good HTML --
"[I]mportant to write HTML that will look good on any client, and not
just
on the specific client which the author may have access to."
-
HTML Style Guide & Test Suite by Urb LeJeune -- "This document is
designed to demonstrate that one example is more effective than 1,000
descriptive words."
- Australian National University's Coombsweb Social
Sciences Server's Quality,
Guidelines & Standards for Internet Inf. Resources -- "[T]o keep
track
of the leading sources of information dealing with the standards,
measures
and management procedures aimed at improving the quality of the networked
information facilities."
- Tim Berners-Lee's Style
Guide for Online Hypertext -- "designed to help you create a WWW
hypertext database that effectively communicates your knowledge to the
reader."
- Tim Berners-Lee's Web
Etiquette -- "There are a few conventions which will make for a more
usable, less confusing, web."
- The Sybase
External
World Wide Web Style Guide -- "a style guide used internally by
Sybase
to help people design good WWW pages."
- Top 10 Things NOT to
do
on a Web Page
- Web Style
Manual at Yale -- "describes the design principles used to create the
pages within the Center for Advanced Instructional Media's (C/AIM) World
Wide Web site."
- Web Critique
Archives --new
- Jaffe
Design 2 --new
- Online Type
Design Research --new
- Tips for Creating Web
Documents --new
- Mindy McAdams' Basic Questions about
Cybermedia --new
- Bob Allison's Tips for Web Spinners
--new
- Dr. Ralph F. Wilson's 12 Web Page Design
Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make --new
- WWW Manual of Style
--new
- Market Space --
web page design --new
- HTML
Design Guide Main Page
- Matthew CiolekTop 10
Ways
to Make a WWW Flop --new
- Netscape.Com's How to
Create High-Impact Documents
- Saber's Web Spinning
Page --new
- Jamie McKenzie's Creating WWW Pages Which
Deliver --new
- Yale's Center for Advanced
Instructional Media's WWW Style
Manual -- talks about the "design of school WWW pages and WWW sites
as
an "information system."--new
- D.C. Denison's A Field Guide
to
Home Pages -- "an early attempt to describe the evolution of a
species:
The Elementary Home Page; The Homeric Page; The
Homestead Page; The Home Office; The Home Pageant"
- J.K. Cohen's Elements of
HTML Style -- "These are some tips on formatting which I've learned
while bringing up the UCI Bookstore's Web server."
- NCSA
HTML Style Sheet -- to "insure some measure of consistency across
NCSA's online documents and to simplify document maintenance as much as
possible."
- Short Style Guide for
writing NRAO Home Pages
- Alan Richmond (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)'s A Basic HTML Style
Guide
-- "essentially a template that I recommend you to use as a basic
starting
point, to help us keep some conformity of both internal (HTML) and
external
(screen appearance) styles."
- WebStars at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science
Archive
Research Center's Style Guides
--
"a modest effort to synthesize some of the above [guides] & my own
experience into yet another style guide."
- Syed S. Towheed (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)'s
"My
Style Guide and General Opinion on How to Do Pages, Also Known AsCandy
Style" -- includes sugar bullets, taffy buttons, and logos.
- The AstroWeb database's agreed Interchange
Format
- Matterform Media's Hyper
med
ia Ideas -- "a list of "rules" that guide my Web design and which may
be of interest."
- Richard Andrew Miles Outerbridge's Some Whys
and Caveats of HTML
- The
WebSurfer's Handbook -- including "Stupid Internet Tricks: Top Ten
Signs Your WWW Home Page Is Not Cool" and "The Web-to-English
Dictionary."
- Web
Design -- includes information about designing for the physically
challenged --new
- CERN's W3 HTM
L3
Design section --new
- Learning Technologies Center at Cornell University's Style Sheet
links
- University of New Brunswick's Style Guide for a WWW
Service
- Linkname --new
- Design -- Compilations of Links to
Guides (Back to Top)
- Examples of Good Designs (Back to Top)
- Examples of Bad Designs (Back to Top)
- Examples of Creative Designs
(Back to Top)
- World3's Voices -- "a
space
devoted to exploring the nature of internetworked hypermedia design.
First,
a quick word about the structure of World 3. We've tried to design the
space to reflect one of the most remarkable attributes of hypertext.
Namely, its ability to connect ideas, to draw analogies, to create
intelligence. Although all the contributions were originally constructed
independently, many of them have since become fused. Drill down into one,
and you'll more than likely find yourself eventually popping up in
another
- on the wing of a new, related thought." Check its Connection Map
which includes quotes related to numerous concepts. Thought provoking! --
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- Linkname --new
- Content (Back to
Top)
- Indexing Pages (Back
to
Top)
- Tools for Creating Pages (Back
to
Top)
- Tools for Creating Pages -- General
(Back to Top)
- Tools for Creating Pages --
Software
(Back to Top)
- Uniform/Universal Resource Locators (URLs)
(Back to Top)
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) (Back to Top)
- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
(Back to Top)
- Programming Information (Back to Top)
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) (Back to Top)
- CGI Tutorial -- "Gateways
are
programs which handle information requests and return
the appropriate document or generate a document on the
fly. Your server can serve information which is not in a form
readable by the client (e.g. an SQL database), and act as a
mediator between the two to produce something which clients can
use."
- CGI --new
- cgi counter
script --new
- Common Gateway
Interface (CGI): Forms --new
- Bean Counter --new
- Web-site Visitor Counter --
"creates a very subtle counter. The site not only has the well-commented
source code for the script but lots of help on how to install and use
it."
--new
- Bruce Lewis's CGIEMail and Ralph Wilson's working copy of the
script -- for "trying to get an e-mail message to convey from
information entered in forms." --new
- UIUC's A Common Gateway
Interface overview and an alternative
address --new
- Beginner's
tutorial --new
- The Common
Gateway Interface (CGI) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)List --new
- Web Developer's
Virtual Library: CGI --new
- Yahoo's CGI page --new
- Allaire's Cold Fusion
and
an alternate site -- an
"off-the-shelf product that allow you to do very rich interactive
applications with simple relational database programming." "Cold Fusion
allows you to rapidly develop and deploy applications without a detailed
knowledge of a language like PERL, and there is a healthy community of
Cold Fusion users who share techniques at the Cold Fusion support forum.
Cold Fusion has an impressive pedigree of huge institutions that are
using
it, including NASA, Bayer, Compuserve, Digital, Intel, and Microsoft.
The
product is not shareware, but compared to incredibly less
functional tools for any platform, it is a steal. Also, if you contact
Allaire, I know that one of their technical support representatives has
authored a general-purpose survey builder with a web-based front-end
which
would let you do online surveys with "off the shelf" Cold Fusion
templates." --new
- Carlos's Forms
Tutorial --- "Interactive guide to creating Web forms." --new
- Creating
cgi-bin scripts -- "In perl." --new
- CGI Programmer's
Reference
--new
- perlWWW
-- "An index to perl cgi-bin scripts available over the Web." --new
- Clickables -- "to sell CGI
programs in an In-The-Box manner." --new
- Linkname --new
- Perl (Back to
Top)
- Executable Programs within
Browser
(Back to Top)
- MM WWW PC -- "how
to
setup both the browser and server for successfully downloading a ToolBook
book and immediately having netscape launch the runtime ToolBook files
and
run the program." --new
- Sun's Hot Java
Project --new
- Linkname --new
- Tools for Publishing Pages (Back to Top)
- Elements of Web Pages (Back
to
Top)
- Text on the Internet (Back to Top)
- Graphics on the Internet (Back to Top)
- Tom Karlo's Tom's
Tips for Web Designers -- "These tips are written for use with
Photoshop 3.0 on either the Mac or PC."
- MIME FAQ --new
- Hexidecimal
Color
Chart -- "Explains background colors and has a chart with examples."
--new
- Netscape
Colorcode Index --new
- Netscape's Background Color Page --new
- RGBtoHex -- "converts
standard RGB values (three 0 to 255 ASCII numbers indicating red, green,
and blue), into a hexadecimal triplet that can be used for the
background
and text colors in Netscape 1.1 or in any other program that requires
colors in this format." --new
- Background Generator -- "Lets you create background gifs." --new
- Julianne Tolson's Websterina
--
"background images examples site" --new
- Netscape's Background
-- "use of background colors and background images." --new
- David Boorstein
and Associates' corporate identity stuff --new
- Howard
Besser -- information on standards for cataloging images --new
- Electronic
Photojournalism Workshop 6 -- "The Smithsonian Institution presented
a
"Heroic Achievement In Information Technology" award to the Virtual
Assignment portion of the NPPA's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop 6.
The
project made a common assignment to an entire community of online
participating photographers, editors and designers from all over the
world
and allowed them to upload their work for evaluation by all." --new
- Updat
ed
Guide to creating interactive maps for a Mac Web server -- "a quick
guide to creating in-line graphics in your HTML files that do different
things when you click in different places ("maps" in HTML-speak)."
- Linkname --new
- Audio on the Internet (Back to Top)
- Video on the Internet (Back to Top)
- Virtual Reality on the Internet (Back to Top)
- Multi-Media on the Internet (Back to Top)
- MultiMedia World Wide
Web PC v. 3.0 beta -- "How to publish multimedia documents on the
Internet"
- Computer Graphics Unit,
Manchester Computing -- " This site gives access to a report from the
Multimedia and Copyright Conference organised by ASLIB in collaboration
with the DTI which covered the legislative framework, electronic
publishing, rights clearance and protection methods as they affect the
development and use of multimedia products." --new
- Establishing
Multimedia Authoring Skills in Higher Education -- "This Web page is
related to the ITTI project of the same name. It includes tutorials on
multimedia authoring in AuthorWare, HyperCard, Toolbook and details of
publications on design, planning and evaluation of computer assisted
learning packages. E-mail: g.doughty@elec.gla.ac.uk" --new
- Linkname --new
- Technical Considerations (Back to Top)
- Publicizing Web Pages (Back
to Top)
- Internet Publishing Organizations (Back to Top)
NOTE: This site is located at Binary Brothers Ltd.
Created on: 6 March 1995
Last revised on: 16 February 1996
kalthen@cyberport.net