Re: HTML Resources for a Newbie

[Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie Johnston [SMTP:juliajaj -at- MEGSINET -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 4:35 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      HTML Resources for a Newbie
>
> Hi everyone.  I'm a new technical writer (finishing off week #4) & one
> of my responsibilities is to assist in the creation of our department's
> Intranet page.  We are currently using FrontPage 98.  I would be
> interested to find out what books, websites, etc. current web designers
> use for reference.
>
Hi Julie.  It sounds like your responsibilities are similar to mine, as I'm
also responsible for our portion of the corporate intranet.

My personal favourite HTML resource is:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/

This is a great site with an online reference to standard HTML.  I learned
the 3.2 standard by printing out their entire site, assembling it in a
binder, then reading it through (the binder is still my only hardcopy HTML
reference, as I shy away from paying $50+ for a book that will most likely
be obsolete in another year).  For a technical reference, it's quite
well-written.

As an added bonus, they also provide a copy of their HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0 and
CSS references for download in various formats, including zipped HTML,
WinHelp, and OS/2 INF.

I rarely, if ever, create Web pages using a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage,
preferring to code HTML in a plain text editor or a tag-level tool like
Arachnophilia.  I do have to publish them to the intranet using Netscape
Composer, though, which is a royal pain (like many such editors, it makes
mincemeat of my human-readable HTML).

Take care,

Scott

--
Scott McClare - Technical Writer
DY 4 Systems Inc., Kanata, Ontario, Canada
(613) 599-9199 x502 smcclare -at- dy4 -dot- com
Opinions are my own

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