HTML Guides

• For starters, you should know what a webmaster does.
• A Beginner's Guide to URLs covers the basics of what a URL is.
• Due to overwhelming requests for help getting started, I've developed a Homepage Maker Tutorial that will help even the most computer-illiterate person get webified.
• World Wide Web Etiquette
• Sandia's HTML reference manual.
• Ron Woodal has a Compendium of HTML Elements"
• Doc's WebDev Page
• The Web Master's page by Boba.
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library
• IETF's HTML Working Group
• Sun has a guide to Web sytle that discusses a wide range of issues.
• The Internet Help Desk is full of tools and advice.
• Browser Survey lists information about various browsers. To see what browser you're using, check out Browser Watch.

Seriously Advanced HTML and other stuff

These are trained professionals on a closed track. We don't recommend you try this at home. ;-)

• Webmonkey
• HTML world
• Invented Worlds
• HTML 2.0
• HTML 3.0
• Content models of the various DTDs.
• PURL. Persistent Uniform Resourse Locator.
• Information on displaying mathematical expressions on the web.
• The WWW Security FAQ

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Guilds, Organizations and Societies

• I'm a member of the HTML Writers Guild. This guild discusses HTML authoring. A great resource.
• SGML Open is an organization promoting... you guessed it, SGML.
• Confusion net is "dedicated to providing flexible access to the 'net."
• Webmaster's Guild
• The Society for Technical Communication
• The WebEdge is a good resource for Mac webmasters.
• The Digital Directory is "a showcase for graphic talent."
• The Mac Web Consultants Directory
• The Bandwidth Conservation Society is fighting a losing battle.
• From what I gather, the National Writers Union is sort of like the nerd version of the Teamsters. "Give me a new Bic, or we'll strike."

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Graphics

• Graphical Information Map Tutorial
• Passing state data throughimagemaps.
• Q bullets are thumbnails that indicate where links go.
• A graphics desigining guide. Check out his homepage too.
• The latest graphic type is PNG. It's supposed to solve the Gamma problem that causes color problems across different platforms.Group 42 has lots on this. Or, you can try to fix gamma on your own.
• Interactive Graphics Renderer
• Lari Software's LIghtningDraw looks promising.
• A pretty comprehensive list of Photoshop filters and plug-ins
• QTVR.COMis a page devoted to Apple's QTVR technology.

Animations

• The Multimedia Resource Group has some walking feet.
• Animation
• The blue dot has some great animation.
• More animations from World Wide Power & Light. It's in Frames.
• NS finally takes advantage of a property of GIF 89 that allows simple animations. You can find out how to do this at Royal Frazier's. You'll need the GIF Construction Set (Windoze) or GifBuilder (Mac) to do this.

Those pesky background colors

• "A web designers tool for selecting color hex codes without straining the brain" from Firehorse
• InfiNet
• A pretty good one from ColorServe.
• A quick Netscape colour chart reference
• A discourse about web-colours.

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CGI

General GCI Stuff

• An introduction to CGI 's.
• GCI Programmer's reference
• A mailto form converter.
• A CGI-form tutorial
• More CGI stuff.
• Some guy named Grant has a CGI that generates a random URL. It's only goood on a Mac.
• A few basic, yet useful CGIs.
• Whatever CGIs you do on the Mac, you'll probably want to have Tanaka's osax
• The Web Robots Database attempts to keep track of all the robots roaming around.
• Selena Sol has a good collection of CGI scripts and info.

Frontier

• The Outpost
• Some FCGI goodies are available from PandaWare
• Cutting Edge has some fontier scripts for conversion from Quark.

Java

• The selv-proclaimed first user-friendly tutorial on Java Programming is at Shlurrrpp......Java
• The name says it all: The Java Developer:How Do I
• Information about Java for the Mac.
• Use Java to manage your stocks at WallStreetWeb.
• Some Java Applets.
• A bunch of JAVA stuff from NetRunner.
• Juice, the JAVA alternative?
• Netrunner has a pretty in depth supply of Java and JavaScript.

And it's little, bastardized cousin, JavaScript

• A site about JS security problems.
• Playing with JavaScript
• JavaScript resources at Netscape.
• The JavaScript Index is JS central.
• A JS presentation at a Java conference I wnet to.
• Some documented JS problems.

Perl

• A good book for programming beginners to cut their teeth on is Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days. However, the book has a lot of errors. I have documented those errors I've found and their solutions.
• University of Florida's Perl Archive
• stats
• more scripts
• Matt's script archive
• That other UC -- Irvine.
• Wes's Hotlist
• PGPERL is a graphic extension for perl.
• function grapher
• Forms in PERL
• perlWWW is an attempt to index PERL resources.
• MacPERL infromation straight from the MacLlama's mouth (Matthias Neeracher).
• HTML Form Processing Modules, the name says it all.
• The PERL Journal
• HTML form processing modules are a bunch of PERL scripts that look like they may help speed form writing and processing.

Python

• Python

Forms

• forms document
• Learn to write CGI Forms.
• IETF's form file uploading draft.

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Web browsers

• Those of you using Netscape on a Mac may have noticed a slight problem with crashing. This can be fixed with Netscape Defrost.
• Netscape's release notes.
• UdiWWW proudly claims this is a completely HTML 3.0 compatable browser.
• NCSA's Mosaic 2.0.
• InterCon makes a web browser that supports much HTML 3.0.
• Java not the coffee, the language.

Plug-ins

• Beatnik is hands-down the best MIDI plug around.

Web Editors

Personally, I think these are just about useless. Learn how to code

• Hotdog is a web editor by Sausage software. They are going to incorporate i-view into this.
• Web Weaver comes highly recommended by a friend of mine.
• I lied. I do use WebMap for Macintosh to create imagemaps. It plots the grid coordinates for you, just draw the circles and squares.

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HTML validators and other Checkers

These, however are a necessity. Use them!

• HTML checkerby Webtechs
• Web Lint
• Georgia Institiute of Technology Validation Service
• A kinder, gentiler HTML Validator.
• Doctor HTML will check your spelling.
• Chinook checker
• A suite of validators
• BrowserCaps is a repository for which tags can be seen by which browsers.

Hacking and Cracking and security

• L0pth Heavy Industries.
• Phrack magazine
• 2600 magazine
• DEFCON
• Cyberpunks
• A site for all you who like Hacking Macs.
• This site claims to be the Ultimate Hacking Experience.
• Anonymous remailers
• RSA
• Get your very own public key with PGP. My PGP public key. DigiCrime takes a somewhat humourous look at the security issue.
• Hacker to English translation is made easier with the Jargon file Resource.
• The WWW Security FAQ is a must-read.
• Spoofing
• Hack xxx has a lot of Mac resources.
• The Ultimate Hacking Experience was the ultimate letdown the last time I visited.
• Chaos Computer Club are some great people in Germany.

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Other Computer Goodies

• SATAN
• Apple
• Filters fo Html
• Kevin Luster's Homepage has oodles of stuff. Scroll down about 1/3 to get the perl and security stuff.
• Mac
• PC catalog
• Shareware galore at Galt.
• Thoughts on the internet at World3.
• One of the best access points to info-mac.
• I got that last one from the sober witness. He has some nice discussion on web direction and theory.
• Mulitple domain names with Two Servers.
• Say hello to Fred, the SGML grammar builder.
• Proof thet Macs are better than IBMs.
• Change URLs in a document to clickable link with URL key.
• The United Computer Exchange is a good place for used macs.
• Index and search your HTML files with HIDX.
• Group Cortex is beta-testing a stats package.
• NetPhone is the Mac equivalent of Internet Phone.
• For easier site maintenance, MOMspider helps check hyperlinks.
• Brad.net lists Mac web servers.
• The Mac will never die, but if, by some strange chance it does, there's a Macintosh heaven. Really, he slams M'hicrosoft and has a slew of Mac resources.
• I-Robot\
• Software Agents

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