Web Publishing for Genealogy: Reference

Starting Points
Introductory & General
HTML Reference
Web Design
Tutorials
Individual Topics
Advanced Topics
Where to get answers to your questions
Web Genealogy

Starting Points

Yahoo's list of HTML resources
Yahoo's Web authoring resources
Webcom's HTML Resources Guide
The Web Developer's Virtual Library (WDVL)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Introductory & General

The resources listed here provide good coverage of the main aspects of Web publishing, in varying amounts of detail, or else provide links to a range of such materials.

Web Communications - HTML Help (WebCom)
HTML Guide (WebCom)
A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)
HTML with Style (Webreference)
The Web Design Group's HTMLHELP pages
Yahoo's list of Beginner's Guides to HTML

HTML Reference

The pages given here will provide information about HTML 4.0 tags and how they are used.

Web Design Group's HTML 4.0 pages
Web Design Group's Overview of all HTML 4.0 elements
HTML Home Page (W3C)
HTML 4.0 Specification (W3C)
Raggett's 10 minute Guide to HTML
Special Characters
- List of Special Characters
- ISO8859-1 character set overview (WDG)

Web Design

These pages give advice on page design and layout, and on site design.

Yahoo's Web Design and Layout page

Good Design

Bad Design

Web Pages that Suck
Holly Burns' Top Fifteen Mistakes of First Time Web Design

Tutorials

Yahoo's list of Guides & Tutorials
Writing HTML a tutorial for creating Web pages
Peter Christian, Creating Web Pages: A Tutorial Workbook for Windows Users
How do they do that with HTML?
Cyndi Howells' Home Page Construction Kit
Webmonkey's Crash Courses

Individual Topics

URLs

Images/Graphics

Yahoo's list of Web Graphics resources
Luisa Simone, Creating Graphic Images for the Web (PC Mag)
Preparing Graphics for the Web
Graphics Tools, Techniques, Examples and Resources (WDVL)
Cooltext's Online Graphics Generator
The Banner Generator
Free Graphics

Colour

Yahoo's list of Colour resources
WDVL's Color/Colour Page
Lynda Weinman, The Browser Safe Color Palette
Netscape (6x6x6) Color Palette Map
The Browser Safe Palette
The Limitless Background and Text Colour Selector
ZSPC Super Color Chart

Publicising your Web Site

WebCom Guide - Publicizing Your Web Site
Submit It - this site is not now recommended, as it has a tedious registration procedure.
NetAnnounce - this site seems to be unreachable
AltaVista
Links to other search engines will be found on the pages for Finding Genealogy on the Internet.

Advanced Topics

Style Sheets
- Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
- Cascading Style Sheets (W3C)
- Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial - no longer available
- Adding a touch of style
Image Maps
- Yahoo's Image Maps page
Scripting
- Yahoo's CGI (Common Gateway Interface) page
Frames
- Framing the Web (Mecklermedia)

Where to get answers to your questions

Newsgroups

What newsgroups discuss the Web

The following links will only work if you have access to a news server and have configured your browser accordingly. Consult your Internet Service Provider if you do not know how to do this.

Other forums

HTMLHelp BBS - hypertext discussion forum

Web Genealogy

Peter Christian, "Genealogical publishing on the World Wide Web", in Computers in Genealogy Vol 5 Nos 10/11 (March/June 1996)
Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Exposing Our Families To The Internet
Mark Howells, Copyrights & Wrongs
Mark Howells Linkrot in your family tree in Computers in Genealogy Vol 6 No. 8 (December 1998)
Mark Howells, Transforming your GEDCOM Files into Web Pages