Re: Good Book/Document?

Cecilia Farell (farellc@io.org)
Wed, 26 Apr 1995 12:27:17 +0500


At 02:32 04/25/95 +0500, Mark E. Madsen wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, John Foulds wrote:
>
>> Just a quick question. I'm trying to master HTML and am running into the
>> problem of not being able to find high-end documentation or manuals. Does
>> anyone know of a good online or offline source?
>>
>
>I know this is probably redundant, but the *best* documentation there is
>for HTML is the HTML 2.0 Specification, which I always get off the menu
>from Yahoo in Computers:World-Wide-Web:HTML. There are also many good
>style guides, but one of the best online is at www.willamette.edu, and is
>most easily found as one of the items near the top of www.netscape.com's
>Creating Websites page as the Composing Good HTML style guide.
>
>Print-wise, there are several manuals appearing -- for the money,
>O'Reilly and Associates book _Managing Internet Information Services_ is
>a good bet, because it's got a section on HTML, including forms, but also
>covers many of the kinds of services you might want to interface HTML
>with, such as CGI scripts, WAIS, etc.
>
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>
>

Another good print source is Ian Graham's "HTML Sourcebook", published by
Wiley & Sons.

Regards,

Cecilia Farell

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