Pack Tools
This is an in-house tools page for the UCSB Many Wolves authoring collective
with a collection of information and software tools that facilitate web
authoring.
Authoring Info
General Web Authoring Tools
HTML Editors
HTML Filters (word processor to HTML
converters, HTML rule-checkers, etc.)
Form Authoring
(CGI & Perl scripts, etc.)
Graphics Tools &
Resources
Page Management Tools
Lines of Flight (Project Proposals) |
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AUTHORING INFO
- FOR BEGINNERS
- Beginner's
Guide to HTML
- Beginner's
Guide to URLs
- Bare Bones
Guide to HTML (Kevin Werbach; crib sheet of HTML tags for reference)
- Crash
Course on Writing Documents for the Web (Eamonn Sullivan)
- How to
Write HTML files
- COURSE:
Introduction to HTML, Kevin Lowey, U. of Saskatchewan
- Honolulu
Community College Introduction to WWW (excellent intro)
- How To Publish On The Internet (excerpts and updates to print book by
Andrew Fry and David Paul)
- HTML Quick
Reference (SoftQuad)
- HTML Tutorial
(Wm. Dennis Horn)
- HTML Tutorial
(Eric A. Meyer, Case Western Reserve U)
- Learning
HTML (metapage of resources for learning to author Web pages) (Daniel
LaLiberte)
- Macmillan's HTML Workshop
- NCSA Home Page
- ADVANCED
- The Fifteen
Web Info Usenet Groups (comp.infosystems.www.*)
- Adding
Media to Mosaic Documents (how to put still images, moving images, and audio
onto a Web page) (Lisa R. Wood, U. Michigan)
- Advanced HTML,
Tables and Forms
- A Quick
Preview of HTML 3.0
- The Art of HTML
(extensive metapage of information and resources for Web authoring) (Krish
Menon)
- Authoring
Style
- Creating Forms (U
Texas, Austin)
- Creating Clickable
Maps (U Texas, Austin)
- HTML Reference
Manual (Sandia National Laboratories)
- HTML Writers Guild Homepage
- Making an MPEG Movie
(U Texas, Austin)
- Netscape
- Netscape's
New HTML-Extensions (Netscape)
- Creating
High-Impact Documents (Netscape)
- Dynamic
Documents (Netscape)
- Tables in
Netscape 1.1 (Netscape)
- The
Background Sampler (Netscape)
- Document
Specific Background and Foreground Control (Netscape)
- Netscape &
Open Standards FAQ
- Authoring with Netscape
1.1+ Enhancements (metapage of guides and examples) (Harold Carey, Jr.,
International Business Information Center)
- Philosophy
and the World Wide Web (advice on setting up a home page, a server, etc.)
- Publishing on
the World Wide Web (how to announce and otherwise publicize your Web page)
- Information about HTML
3.0
- Intro to
HyperText Transfer Protocol
- Intro to the
Common Gateway Interface CGI)
- Intro to Web
Searchable Databases
- Hypermedia and
the Internet (Web info galore)
- DEMO:
3D User-Controlled Interface, Paul D. Bourke
- Technical
Reports from the UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
- UVA
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) Guide to On-Line
Academic Publishing on WWW
-
Webcraft (theory and practice of Web page design) (Alan Eyzaguirre)
- Web Developer's Virtual Library
- WebNotes Internet Conferencing
and Forums Service (read and post without charge to a Web server organized by
discussion forums)
- WEBsurf
(journal)
-
The Web Word (journal)
- The Western World Wide
Web
- "Why the
Web Sucks", C. J. Silverio (essay with links and examples on principles
of Web page design)
- W3 Consortium
History of WWW
- Yale C/AIM
WWW Style Manual
- Comprehensive List of
Web Sites (by country)
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GENERAL WEB AUTHORING TOOLS
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
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HTML EDITORS
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
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HTML FILTERS (word processor to HTML
converters, HTML rule-checkers, etc.)
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
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FORM AUTHORING (CGI & Perl scripts, etc.)
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
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GRAPHICS TOOLS & RESOURCES
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
- Image Sources (downloadable graphics for your Web page):
-
Adding Media to Mosaic Documents (how to put still images, moving images,
and audio onto a Web page) (Lisa R. Wood, U. Michigan)
- The Bandwidth Conservation
Society (technical information on how to reduce size of images for Web
pages)
- The Color
Specifier For Netscape 1.1
- HYPE Web
Authoring Tools for Netscape 1.1-Enhanced Pages (color specifier, background
selector, backgrounds)
-
I Spy: Image Fetcher (a forms-based tool that goes to a URL you specify,
grabs all the images off the page, and puts them as links on a generated
page--which you can then download and keep on file as a de facto catalogue of
other people's images)
- Imaging Machine Page
(image manipulation utilities from Visioneering)
- Invented Worlds Color
Background Browser (interactive color background selector for Netscape 1.1+
pages)
- Mapedit
1.1.2 (ftp directory for WYSIWYG imagemap editor for Windows and X11)
- RGB Hex Triplet Color
Chart (helps determine color codes to use with the new Netscape 1.1
color-setting tags) (Doug Jacobson)
- Thant's Animations
Index (animation, video, and interactive visual files; requires the
appropriate helper supplements to a graphical browser)
- 3DSite (3D graphics,
information, and resources)
-
transgif (tool to change GIF's into transparent Gif's)
- The WWW Graphics Page
(graphics resources for Web authoring)
- WWW Viewer Test
Page (Scott Nelson) (use this interactive page to test how your browser
views various file formats, ranging from plain text to audio, video, etc.;
trying a file format leads to a subpage with links to the viewer or helper
programs your browser is missing)
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PAGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Note: "binary" means a link goes to the executable program file
(or its compressed version). Lynx users can download with the "d"
command. Users of Netscape, Mosaic, or other graphical browsers can download by
pulling in the file and saving to a filename.
- GENERAL
- Daniel's Web (scripts
for managing HTML pages, tracking hits, etc.)
- Earl Hood's (OAC) Home Page
(excellent collection of HTML, SGML, Unix, and other tools)
- HTML VALIDATORS
-
College of Computing HTML Validation Service (forms-driven HTML checker)
(Georgia Tech)
- HTMLChek
(awk or perl program for checking HTML syntax) (Henry Churchyard, U. Texas
Austin)
- HTML Validation Service
(fill out a form and have the HTML on your page validated; options for HTML
2, 3, Netscape-HTML) (Mark Gaither, HaLSoft)
- Weblint Home Page
(info and links for Neil Bowers's Weblint HTML validation perl-script
program) | Check Your Page with
Weblint
(fill in your URL and this site will run Weblint on your page to check for
HTML errors) (Clay Webster)
- LINK CHECKERS
- Anchor
Checker (Unix) (program for verifying that links on a page are alive)
(George Xie) |
Anchor
Checker for Windows (beta)
- MOMspider (spider
to check for dead links over whole Web tree)
- Verify
Web Links (link-verifier bot; currently verifies only http: links but
development plans include ftp: and gopher: links) (Webtest Tool Suite)
- WebWatch
(local-machine-based spider that checks links and generates a report page in
HTML) |
WebWatch
(16- bit Windows version)
- COUNTERS
- Statbot, Dave
Tubbs (hit counter)
- AUTOMATIC PAGE & LINK GENERATORS
- "Curl" (tool
for automatically generating the links between pages of a WWW document complex)
(download "curl.tar.Z", then use Unix "uncompress" and "tar
-xvf" commands to unarchive)
- HTMLRef:
"htmlref.zip" (binary) (runs in DOS environment to scan any .html
or .htm file, gather URL's, and output the URL's to a browser-readable HTML
file) (download this link)
- htmltoc
(Earl Hood) (Perl program for creating a table of contents using the H1-H6
tages in a set of HTML pages; creates links from the table of contents to the
appropriate sections of the original pages)
- Hypermail
(Kevin Hughes) (C-language program to convert UNIX e-mail messages into
cross-referenced HTML pages)
- makehomeidx (indexes home pages on a Unix system; also allows users to
mount personal home pages without calling upon the sysadmin)
- MHonArc
(Earl Hood) (Perl program to convert e-mail messages into HTML pages; also
builds an index of the messages)
- Newdex (C
program that creates an index of all the links on a home page as well as on all
lower-level local pages, recursively; output is either an HTML page with live
links or raw text) (Bill Kendricks)
- PAGE MONITORING
- The URL-Minder
(robot that e-mails you when a page you want to track has changed)
- Web Reception Monitoring
Service ("This network of monitoring stations will routinely scan a
list of registered URL's, access each one, and record the elapsed time to
receive each page . . . resulting statistics are mailed each week to the
appropriate Webmaster.") (Timedancer Systems)
- OTHER
- WebSEEK
(commercial CGI-utility that allows users to do real-time searching of your Web
site)
- WEBula
(Web page announcement service) (Dave Maher)
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