Course Links

School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University

Kenley Neufeld, Instructor
kenley@wahoo.sjsu.edu

Resources on Web Style: A great place to start for the beginning web page designer. Lists a couple of useful "Top Ten Lists"
Yale Style Manual: An academic presentation on web site design authored by Patrick J. Lynch & Sarah Horton
Guide to Web Style: Another thorough style guide written by Rick Levine at Sun Microsystems
Hypertext Theory as if the WWWeb Matters: Scathing but useful critique of Web design. This person doesn't care much for the above two "academic" style guides. It does include a potentially useful HyperTerrorist Checklist of WWWeb Design Errors and The Ten Commandments of Good WWWeb Design.
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: Yet another list, take it for what it's worth.
Web Pages That Suck: "Learn good design by looking at bad design"

A Study of Library Web Sites: Jan Whalen of John Rylands University writes a study of Web Sites provided by Library Web Servers from around the world.

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language: This is useful site with many pointers; provided by the Library of Congress.
Webmonkey: Geek Talk Archives: The archive index to Hotwired's weekly column on technical www issues. Very useful
Webmonkey: HTML Archives: The archive index to Hotwired's weekly column on HTML. Very useful.
HTML Quick Reference
HTML Quick Reference by Robert Mullen: This is the online version of the quick reference book that I am using in the class.
HTML 3.2 Specification: This is the standard approved by the W3C members on January 14, 1997 and replaces the HTML 2.0 standard.
Introduction to HTML documentation: This HTML document collection explains how to write good HTML documents and how to correctly use the different HTML document description elements, or tags. Includes HTML 3.0 and Netscape Extensions
Web Design Group: Cascading Style Sheets

EWAN Telnet
GIF Animator [Windows 95]
GIFBuilder [Macintosh]
GIF Construction Set [Windows 95 and Windows 3.x]
Home Site
Hot Dog
Map This [Windows 95]
Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft GIF Animator [Windows 95]
Paint Shop Pro: Available for Windows 95 and Windows 3.x. A free 30-day trial is available.
Web Map: Mac map maker
WS_FTP

Lynda Weinman Homegurrrl's Page: Author of designing web graphics
IUMA Fancy Pants Wallpaper: Twelve modern and ready-to-tile patterns for your Web browser
Bowersma, J. Page Web: Lots of images, icons, horizontal rules
Chris' Shockzone: Clipart, Animated GIFs and Backgrounds
Yahoo! -- Graphics

Examples and Sources: Do you have javascript in your browser; Frequency Graphics JavaScript; JavaScript at EarthWeb; JavaScript Junkies; Tertius the Scribe; JavaScript in Libraries
Reference: Official JavaScript; Yahoo!; Java/JavaScript Resource Center; Stas Bekman
Tutorials: JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer
Readings: Netscape Navigator JavaScript 1.1 vs Microsoft Internet Explorer JScript

The CGI Resource Index: A source of CGI scripts you can use on your site for FREE or a small fee.

World Wide Web Initiative: The Project: The World Wide Web Consortium promotes the Web by producing specifications and reference software. W3C is funded by industrial members but its products are freely available to all. The Consortium is run by MIT with INRIA acting as European host, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated.
Internet Engineering Task Force
World Wide Web and Mosaic: An Overview for Librarians: A slightly dated (1994) article that still has some value.