Beginners ?
One of the best springboards for beginning Web page
designers is Netscape's Creating
Net Sites section. Here you can find a number of valuable resources, including: Page Starter, a
step-by-step walk-through of Web publishing using Netscape's Navigator Gold; A Beginner's Guide to
HTML, a must for newbies; and Composing
Good HTML, which addresses stylistic points of HTML composition.
For introductory tips on Web graphics in particular, visit
Netscape's Creating
High Impact Documents and The WWW Devloper's Virtual Library Graphics section. The latter contains
a number of useful resource links, including introducitons to GIFs, JPEGs and a comparison of GIF
vs. JPEG.
Finally, one of the most important elements in Web design
is file size. Learn how to keep the byte count low without sacrificing image quality at
sites like the Bandwidth Conservation
Society, which offers some useful tips on optimizing graphics for the Web. For a real
step-by-step, in-depth tutorial on this subject, however, take a look at Web
Developer®'s Graphics
Performance Tuning.
Guides to Writing HTML Documents
These guides are about writing style, which HTML constructs
to use when, when to divide up documents into multiple parts, etc. Also see information on
the HTML language
itself, learning
HTML, editors,
and converters.
HTML Style
Sheets let authors specify preferences for aspects of presentation. These are not
about writing style but presentation style.
Guides for Providers
Also see Yahoo's page
on Design and Layout and the Virtual Library HTML Style page.
Add responses below about writing style guides, when to
divide up documents into multiple parts, etc. Don't add responses here about the HTML language
itself, learning
HTML, editors,
and converters.
Credits
to :
Daniel
LaLiberte (liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
GIAS