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Web Page Development and Maintenance

This used to be a lot busier until I figured out that other people were doing such things much better. As such this has mutated into a list of metalinks to sites with comprehensive HTML overviews. I still have a separate section about Hypertext and TeX, though.


HTML Reference Manual
A browsable, encyclopedic manual of HTML up to the latest features of HTML 3.0.
[http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html]
Harmony
This is the UNIX/X11 client for Hyper-G, the first second-generation, publicly-available networked hypermedia information system running over the Internet. It integrates hyperlinking, hierarchical structuring, sophisticated search, and access control facilities into a single system, and is interoperable with other network information tools like Gopher, WWW and WAIS. The source code is not yet available but binaries are available for HP, SGI, Linux. OSF, Sun and ULTRIX platforms at the Hyper-G FTP site.
[http://elib.zib-berlin.de/A0x82496c0b_0x00000ec1]
Web Technology: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
An extremely well-done tutorial about the technical aspects of accessing and using the Web. This part part of a larger document called the Atlas to the WWW.
[http://www.rhythm.com/~bpowell/Atlas/Ch3.htm#Ch3]
WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
The usual stuff and lots of it.
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
More of the usual stuff and lots of it.
Web Masters
An almost overwhelming site with tutorials, tips and anything and everything else one might need to start and maintain a Web site.
[http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/masters1.html]
Webmaster's Starter Kit
An interactive experimental starter kit for Web publishing. This collection of software and documents lead you through the process of installing a basic Web server with optional extensions.
[http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/]
Cut & Paste HTML
A document designed to make it fast and easy to create web pages. Interactively create a web page with this.
[http://www.teleport.com/~blay/html.html#INDEX]
The Magician's Tricks for HTML
A series of hints and tricks for enhancing one's Web pages. Learn about everything from color codes to transparent images to protecting your pages from plagiarism.
[http://www.phoenix.net/~lsimon/tricks/default.html]
Yahoo WWW Index
The resource page for the World Wide Web from perhaps the best indexing service on the Web.
[http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/]
World Wide Web Consortium
The W3C promotes the Web by producing specifications and reference software. This place pretty much sets the standards.
[http://www.w3.org/]
Falken's Cyberspace Tools
A comprehensive list of and link to applications and tools available for accessing and using the Web.
[http://commline.com/falken/tools.shtml]
Repository for Internet Information
A long list of metaservices, information on how to do weird and strange things with and to the Web, HTML info, articles about HTML and the Web in the press, etc. compiled by Nikos Drakos, the creator of LaTeX2HTML.
[http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/doc/repository.html]
Background FAQ
A list of Frequently Asked Questions about Web page backgrounds. Probably the most valuable part of this is the information about choosing colors.
[http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/guide/color/faq.html]


Hypertext and TeX

This section has links to projects that attempt to, in one way or another, combine hypertext and TeX or translate from one to another.
Hyperlatex
A package that allows the use of LaTeX to prepare documents in HTML and hardcopy. It provides an authoring environment for writing printed documents and HTML documents at the same time, using an extended subset of LaTeX which excludes concepts that have no HTML counterpart and adds commands for HTML concepts such as hyperlinks or included images. The author was dissatisfied with LaTeX2HTML and decided to follow the model of texinfo rather than that of LaTeX2HTML when developing Hyperlatex. The use of this requires the Emacs editor.
[http://graphics.postech.ac.kr/otfried/html/hyperlatex.html]
HyperTeX
The folks who developed this state that "it is easier to add hypertext capability to TeX than to simulate the TeX typesetting environment within www browsers" (which is what LaTeX2HTML attempts to do). The gist of the HyperTeX paradigm is to insert TeX "\special" commands to add the necessary structure to the .dvi file. This structure will be ignored by .dvi processors that don't understand it, and properly processed by those that do. An example of the latter is a modified xdvi previewer called xhdvi. Many more links to related concepts and projects are offered at the indicated URL.
[http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/]
LaTeX2HTML
This is a project which attempts to translate LaTeX source code to which additional hypertext commands have been added directly to HTML. A LaTeX .sty file is used to translate the resulting source code to a .dvi file, and thus to hardcopy, while a large Perl script is used to translate the same into an HTML document. The main limitation is that one cannot do with an HTML document everything that one can do with a LaTeX document, i.e. HTML browsers can currently translate only a small subset of the typesetting commands available in LaTeX, although a surprising number of pragmatic rather than aesthetic things can be done. There is a LaTeX2HTML Archive Site which contains bug fixes and other relevant information. Quite a bit of work is being done by people other than the creator of LaTeX2HTML, Nikos Drakos, since he has left the employ of the organization for whom he originally created it and no longer has time to work on it.
[http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html]
bib2html
This takes a BibTeX bibliography and formats it into HTML. It can also create links to arbitrary URLs and PostScript, PDF, or DVI versions of the papers. It comes with a CGI script to allow the bibliography to be searched.
[http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html/]


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Last checked or updated: Jan. 20, 1996

S. Baum
Dept. of Oceanography
Texas A&M University

baum@astra.tamu.edu