General Reference | HTML Guides | Setting Colors | Style guides |CGI Scripting | Forms | Access Counters | Guestbooks | Imagemaps | Graphics Libraries | Publicizing Your Site
These pages have large, organized collections of links on various aspects of Web page design.
These documents describe the HTML markup language, which is used to created Web pages.
This is probably the most common question I get. Netscape Navigator 1.1 and several other current browsers support background, text, and link colors via the <BODY> tag, but the colors have to be entered in the form of a hex triplet. Several pages provide tools to help generate the color codes; choose the one that you find most useful.
Style and design are often overlooked in creating Web pages, but the way you present information has a tremendous impact on the way people respond to your pages.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts can be used to perform many powerful functions, including adding forms, guestbooks, and access counters to your pages, as described below. Your ability to use CGI scripts will depend on whether your service provider offers access to the cgi-bin directory of the server.
The sites below offer information on how to write scripts and HTML code to process fill-out forms in your Web pages. This generally involves puttin CGI scripts on your server, so you need to check with your service provider to find out whether they support forms.
Access counters let you see how many people have accessed your page. They can be implemented either by using cgi scripts or by scanning the systemwide access log files that most servers generate automatically.
Guestbooks let people who view your pages "sign in" and leave messages for you and others to peruse. You can create a guestbook manually, as I have, by using a form to gather information and adding the responses to your guestbook page by hand. If you are able to put cgi scripts on your server, you can create a guestbook that updates automatically.
My service provider just installed the server software necessary to support clickable imagemaps, so I don't have any on my pages yet. Try these sites for more info.
These pages contain libraries of graphics and other tools that you can use to spruce up the look of your pages.
Everyone wants people to know about their pages. These sites allow you to register your page with various announcement and "what's new" services on the Web.
