The World Wide Web

If the Internet is the road system, the WWW
is the parcel delivery service.
—Robert Cailliau, CERN

Getting Started

• What Makes a Great Web Site?
• World Wide Web, the project
• World Wide Web, a little history
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Starting Points for Internet Exploration
• Internet Resources Meta-Index
• NCSA Mosaic Home Page, for historical interest
• Emacs Browser
• The latest versions of Lynx, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera

Finding Things on the Web

• Search the Web, maintained by Peter Losin
• CORA: Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine
• Search Engine Colossus
• Google
• AltaVista
• Yahoo
• Northern Light Search
• WWW Virtual Library
• Inter-Links to the Internet via WWW
• Lycos
• ResearchIndex: The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
• Starting Point
• SearchEdu.com, also searches for gov and mil, plus books!

HTML, XML, and Related Resources

• W3C HTML Home Page
  • Getting Started with HTML, by Dave Raggett
  • Advanced Features, by Dave Raggett
  • Adding Style Sheets, by Dave Raggett
• The HTML Reference Library
• HTML Style Manual
• HTML Coded Character Set
• Unicode Home Page
• IETF-HTML Working Group
• Overview of SGML Resources
• Subjective Electronic Information Repository
• TIDY, cleans up HTML
• MediaBuilder, Links to fonts, images, editors, and more
• OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
  • (XML) Extensible Markup Language: The XML Cover Pages, by Robin Cover
• XML.com
• The XML Files
• XML.ORG
• XML-RPC Home Page
• XML Zone
• Open Source XML Database
• Filters
• Java Programming Home Page
  • JavaWorld
  • Prentice Hall Java Books
• Java Developer's Journal
• A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript
• JavaScript Reference
• JavaScript Workshop - Book
• overLIB, a helpful JavaScript library and much more
• WEBsmith: A Magazine for Webmasters
• Webmaster Reference Library
• WebABLE! Information for People with Disabilities
• Improving Web Design, Advice to make your own website better, from Carmen Mardiros
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• World Wide Web, a journal for WWW professionals
• World Wide Web Laboratory, maintained by Anthony Thyssen
• TechTools for Advanced Users and Developers
• WebTechniques, Solutions for Internet and Web Developers
• Site Searching Tools

The above is a heterogeneous collection of WWW information sites and sites related to html & xml. Unix and other computing links are here. For other Internet pointers, look here.