LII.org (Home) About LII     IPL.org     Suggest a Site     Subscribe to New This Week     Contact
Librarians' Internet Index - Websites You Can Trust

Search Help


HTML, SGML, XML

email this email this page



 Websites presented in alphabetical order

Bare Bones Guide to HTML view detail comment email this

The guide "lists every official HTML tag in common usage, plus Netscape and Microsoft extensions," and is provided in several formats and nearly two dozen languages.
http://werbach.com/barebones/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Mar 28, 2004


Computing With Accents, Symbols & Foreign Scripts view detail comment email this

Extensive information about using foreign letters and other special characters in computer-generated documents such as word processing or web pages. Features characters by language, "Unicode Entity Codes for Phonetic Symbols" by letter (such as č, "c hachek" and ŵ, "Welsh w circumflex"), information for configuring browsers to display character sets, tips for website developers, links to related information, and more. Some information is specific to Penn State University.
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Jan 11, 2006


Cover Pages: Online Resource for Markup Language Technologies view detail comment email this

A site offering information and software pertaining to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its parent, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
http://xml.coverpages.org/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Aug 12, 2003


HTML Goodies view detail comment email this

For those of you doing HTML coding, and who wish to expand your Web site by using JavaScript, Java applets, CGI and Perl, and DHTML, this is a useful and friendly site. Beginning and intermediate tutorials and primers are available with explanations on what is needed to make these applications work. Searchable.
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Jun 1, 2005


HTML Station view detail comment email this

This site links you to reference information and demonstrations of hypertext markup language (HTML). You'll find information about all specifications of HTML, as well as tutorials, demonstrations, techniques, codes and entities, and links to supporting and reference information. Cogent explanations (with further links) of CSS, ActiveX, DHTML, XML, VRML, why you should validate and how, and a lot more. From John December, longtime Web expert and teacher.
http://www.december.com/html/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Apr 28, 2002


Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) view detail comment email this

Web site from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the official maintainers of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). "Here you will find pointers to ... specifications for HTML/XHTML, guidelines on how to use HTML/XHTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C." Includes information about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), XHTML, accessibility guidelines, validation, best practices, and more.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Sep 29, 2003


LinkScan view detail comment email this

Quickly check the code on a single Web page with the free demonstration server for this "industrial-strength link checking and website management tool." Find bad syntax, broken links, and more.
http://www.elsop.com/quick/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated May 16, 2002


LinkScan Reference Manual: LinkScan Status and Error Codes view detail comment email this

A lucid explanation of HTML error codes, from a reference manual for the LinkScan software program for checking Web sites.
http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/docs/links07.html
Topics: Internet, Web Design and Management
Last updated Feb 7, 2002


Numeric Code Character Entities view detail comment email this

HTML codes for special keyboard characters (ampersand, quotation marks, percent sign, etc.), copyright and trademark symbols, mathematical signs, accented letters (é, ñ, ö, etc.), and other signs and symbols.
http://www.december.com/html/spec/codes.html
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated May 11, 2002


TEI: Text Encoding Initiative view detail comment email this

TEI "is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics." This site inlcudes the guidelines, discussions, tutorials, a FAQ, presentations, project history, and links to local manuals and style guides.
http://www.tei-c.org/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Dec 1, 2007


Those Squiggly Little Marks view detail comment email this

Learn how to use word processing or HTML code to create six common accent or diacritical marks: acute, cedilla, circumflex, grave, tilde, and umlaut. Included is a chart for creating these marks for Windows, Macs, and HTML. From the About.com Desktop Publishing site.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/expertcharacters/a/diacriticals.htm
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Apr 6, 2003


W3C HTML Validator view detail comment email this

An HTML code validator for Web page design, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization responsible for HTML standards. In addition to validating live Web documents, the W3C validator can check local files you upload for validation.
http://validator.w3.org/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Aug 5, 2002


WDG HTML Validator view detail comment email this

This "HTML syntax checker" lets you check pages still on your computer and on the Web, and pages in batches. Also check a piece of code. Available in English and French. From the Web Design Group (WDG).
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Jul 30, 2005


Web Design References: Tools view detail comment email this

Annotated collection of links to Web design tools, including HTML validators, link checkers, and tools for accessibility, color, CSS (cascading style sheets), information architecture, usability, and XML (extensible markup language). From Information Technology Systems and Services, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
http://www.duluth.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/tools.html
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Aug 21, 2008


Web Style Guide view detail comment email this

A Web site devoted to good HTML and site design. Includes guidance for graphics, information architecture, style, and more.
http://www.webstyleguide.com/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Jun 1, 2005


Writing for the Web view detail comment email this

Presents "research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen."
http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Mar 11, 2006


XHTML 1.0 Specification view detail comment email this

Current recommended version of Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML). XHTML is a "reformulation" of HTML through "a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4" primarily through use of XML (Extensible Markup Language). An official standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Oct 28, 2003


XML.com view detail comment email this

An exhaustive site on all things XML (Extensible Markup Language), from schemas and style to the Semantic Web. Largely oriented toward power users, but includes useful FAQs for newcomers. Searchable. From the O'Reilly & Associates publishing house.
http://www.xml.com/
Topics: Web Design and Management
Last updated Oct 29, 2003




Home | About | IPL.org | Suggest a Site | New This Week | Contact

Copyright © 2009, Librarians' Internet Index, LII. All rights reserved. Financial support for LII (Librarians' Internet Index) comes from the The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology and the IPL Consortium. LII is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology.