Web Publishing Resource Center:

HTML Features

These are links to resources and information on specific HTML features and functions that are available on the Web.

Tables
Colors
Forms
Image Maps
Frames
Counters, Guestbooks, and Message Boards
Character Sets
Multimedia
Style Sheets
Other Features

Tables

NCSA Mosaic(tm) Tables Tutorial.
TableMaker by Sam Choukri. A neat online utility which allows yu to enter your table data into a form, then creates the HTML table for you.
So You Want A Table, Huh? by Joe Burns.

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Setting Colors

RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart by Doug Jacobson. Color chart is a GIF file that can be downloaded and then used as an easy reference.
The Color Specifier for Netscape by HYPE Electazine. Lists the colors and their ASCII and Hex RGB values, with a link from each color name to a page using it as a background color.
ColorMaker by Sam Choukri. Point and click to specify colors for the background, text, and links, then specify a web page, and see the new colors applied to the page.
Free JavaScript Hexadecimal & RGB Color Generator. Submit RGB decimal numbers to return hex numbers, hex numbers to return decimal numbers.
Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Color Palette. Strategies and provides color chart for getting best color display results in Netscape Navigator.
Browser Safe Colors: Interactive Text/Background Color Evaluation. Displays all of the colors, along with their hexadecimal code values, that are included in the "browser safe" (aka "Netscape") color palette. Select a text color and a background color to see what they'll look like together in a web page. The hexadecimal value is displayed for each color. A hex-decimal conversion table is included.
ColorGuides.net. An online store that specializes in Pantone color guides, and other Pantone color identification products.

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Forms

So, You Want A Form, Huh? by Joe Burns. Another Joe Burns contribution, this time on creating forms.
Forms Tutorial by The Web Diner.
Tags for creating forms in HTML.
Remotely Hosted: Form Processing from The CGI Resource Index. Listing of remotely hosted form processing scripts, with comments and ratings.
MFormsPro2: A multipart forms processor. If you need to set up multi-part forms using multiple web pages, this could be the solution for you.

Secure Forms/Financial Transactions

What is a digital certificate? from Webopedia.
Understanding a 'secure' form?.
Digital Signature Guidelines Tutorial from the American Bar Association.

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Image Maps

Image Map Tutorials by Joe Burns. Excellent tutorials aimed at the non-techie.
Creating a Client-Side Image Map by Kaspar Stromme.
Creating Imagemaps (clickable images) from WebCom.com.
NCSA Imagemap Tutorial.

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Frames

Frames: An Introduction by Netscape. Netscape introduced Frames as a proprietary extension to HTML, before they were incorporated into HTML 3.2 and 4. Here is Netscape's own rundown on creating framed web sites.
FrameShop! by Sam Choukri. Specify the dimensions of your main frame and subframes and this online utility will create them for you. Can create up to 3 main frames/3 subframes.
Framing the Web by Webreference.com (Dan Brown). Another good rundown on creating frames. Includes a cheat sheet.
Frames Tutor from PageTutor.com.

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Counters, Guestbooks, and Message Boards

Counters

So You Want A Counter, Huh? by Joe Burns. Another in Joe Burns' excellent series.
Remotely Hosted: Access Counters? from The CGI Resource Index. Lists a large number of free remotely hosted counter scripts.

Guestbooks

Remotely Hosted: Guestbooks from The CGI Resource Index. Lots of free remotely hosted guestbooks listed, with user comments.

Message Boards

Remotely Hosted: Bulletin Board Message Systems from The CGI Resource Index. Lists lots of free remotely hosted bulletin boards, with comments and ratings.

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Special Characters: The ISO-8859-1 and Unicode Character Sets

The extended, or special, characters that should be displayable in all web browsers are defined by the ISO-8859-1 character set, also sometimes called the ISO-Latin1 character set. HTML 4.0, additionally, allows characters to be displayed from the Unicode character set, although browser support for this is less than universal (and none at all for older browsers).

ISO/IEC 8859 by Wikipedia.
i18n: HTML Character set issues beyond HTML3.2 by Allan J. Flavell.
8 bit ASCII codes (for ISO-Latin1 character set) by W3C.
W3Writer: HTML Special Characters by Gordon Hake. Excerpted from the HTML 2.0 specification, but edited and simplified.
Characters and Character Sets by Society for Scholarly Publishing.
The Unicode Consortium.
A tutorial on character code issues by Jukka Korpela.

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Multimedia

Embedding Sound in Web Pages from the WDVL.
Add Sound to Your Web Site from The Web Diner.
Embedding And Adding Sound Files To Your Pages from HTM-Hell.
Adding Sound and Video to your Webpage from TeacherTECH.
Standard MIDI Files on the Internet.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets by WDG (Web Design Group).
WebDeveloper.com's Guide to Cascading Style Sheets by Scott Clark.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 by W3C.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 by W3C.
CSS Support Charts from Netscape DevEdge. These were originally available through WebReview.com and cover compatibility with features of CSS1 and CSS2 for browser versions up through IE5.x, NS6.0, and Opera 4.
Articles about CSS by Holly Bergevin and John Gallant.

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