Internal USGS Access Only

Bibliography

Online

HTML: HTML 4.01 Specification, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation; Werbach's the WWW help page includes: Colors, Style, CGI Forms, Counters, Guestbooks, Imagemaps, Frames, Java, Graphics, GIF Animation, Sound, Javascript, and Publicizing; A good general purpose directory of Web information by EchoEcho.com; Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML, a brief list of tags and what they do.; HTML 4.01 entities; Introduction to HTML Validation. Validation tools and services: Unix command-line tool validate, and Windows-based tools such as "CSE HTML Validator" ($69) and "A Real Validator" ($25). Online validators include W3C HTML Validation Service and the Page Valet Visual Validator which has a nice layout for messages.; linklint, a link checker, a Solaris version is prepackaged (perl, free) and LinkScan (Windows, Unix $300)
CSS: Cascading Style Sheet information from W3C; Style Sheets Guide, browser compliance tables; A Beginners Tutorial On CSS; W3C CSS Validation Service and WDG CSSCheck are online Cascading Style Sheet checkers; CSSize, converts existing html to HTML 4.01 with embedded style sheet information; TopStyle style sheet editor for Windows ($80); The CSS Zen Garden provides a demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS based design.
Web Guidelines and Style: USGS WWW and Internet Topics, including
Guidelines for Presenting USGS Data and Publications on the Internet World Wide Web; U.S. Geological Survey Web Standards Handbook [544Mb PDF]; A reference to Web usability information and a Government web site on Web usability.; useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Web Site, high-quality advice and information on a broad spectrum of topics; How Users Read on the Web, results of a study; The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design, a list of things not to do at you web site; The "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign, promoting an open web; HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother? By Alan Richmond; So what's wrong with Frames?; Articles on Usability,compiled by Human Factors International; The Web Standards Project; stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading browser makers that standards are in everyone's best interest.; "web pages that suck", a highly entertaining review of bad Web design.
Graphics: Realm Graphics: A source for textures, bullets, buttons, icons and lines.; Mapedit a imagemap editor for NT/95, Mac, Unix, or Java; shareware ($25); SVGmaker a SVG conversion tool for Excel, PowerPoint, Viso, ArcView, etc.; Online: RGB Color Calculator; "Optimizing Web Graphics", a guide to graphics tools and techniques.
Editors: DreamWeaver html editor (NT/95, Mac); HoTMetaL html editor (NT/95, Mac, Sun); Xemacs (Unix, anticipated for NT/95), a text editor with an html-mode which provides SGML-based validation and editing (public domain).; MS FrontPage; BBEdit (Mac) ($119); QUED (Mac), A full-featured text editor which can search and replace through multiple files ($60); Html fixers; MS HTML Filter 2.0 for Office 2000, tidy and html-pretty for general use.
Accessibility: W3C Issues First Public Draft of WAI Accessibility Guidelines: Page Authoring; USGS assembled listing of links to resources; Access Board summary of section 508 requirements for the Web; HiSoftware Section 508 Web Validation Tools, the USGS procured software for accessibility monitoring and repair.; Bobby, analyze web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities; Lynx, the text-based browser of choice. (PC version available); A source for "Colors for the Color Blind".; Vischeck allows you to see what your web pages would look like to color blind individuals.; JAWS reads web pages aloud.; The html 4/CSS1 compliant browser Opera, has many features specifically for users with disabilities; The Art of ALT: Creating effective ALT text for inline images is a key element in creating a usable, high-accessibility Web Site. But what makes for effective ALT text?; Accessibility checking tool PageScreamer, pricey but full featured ($1,270 GSA).; LIFT provides modules for other programs such as DreamWeaver and FrontPage to enhance accessibility.; Links to MathML software
Server/CGI: The Apache HTTP Server Project; CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, the main perl library; The World Wide Web Security FAQ, by W3C; Web Server Administrator's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol; the CGI Resource Index; Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control
Miscellaneous: General Information covering many aspects of web authoring; A Web Master's Guide To Search Engines, what they are, how they work; A guide on how to rank well with the various search engines; xml information; Law and the Internet, a library of court decisions; netmechanic; Xenu link checker (NT, free); Webveil lists a number of sites providing subscription anonymous proxies. Another such site is Anonymizer.com. See your site from outside the USGS; ActivePerl for Windows. CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, which includes perl for NT/98/85; Dublin Core metadata standards.

Books Used in This Course

Title: HTML : The Definitive Guide
Author: Musciano & Kennedy
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 800 998-9938
ISBN Number: 1-56592-492-4

Title: Web Design in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
Author: Niederst
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 800 998-9938
ISBN Number: 1-56592-515-7

Title: Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition; Designing for the Web
Author: Hakon Wiun Lie, et al
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 800 998-9938
ISBN Number: 0-20159-625-3

Books from Previous Classes

Title: Raggett on HTML 4
Author: Raggett, Lam, Alexander, Kmiec
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN Number: 0-201-17805-2

Title: Web Master in a Nutshell
Author: Spainhour, Quercia
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 800 998-9938
ISBN Number: 1-56592-229-8

Title: Cascading Style Sheets
Author: Lie, Bos
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN Number: 0-201-41998-X

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