Guide to good practices for WWW authors

Table of Contents

• GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICES FOR WWW AUTHORS
• QUESTIONS FOR INFORMATION PROVIDERS
• STARTING AT THE BEGINNING
  • WWW as the medium for your information
  • HTML as the format for your documents
    • HTML and SGML
    • Alternatives to HTML
  • Generating HTML
  • Keeping to the standard
    • Validate your HTML
    • Usability
    • The use of non-standard extensions to HTML
  • Correct use of selected HTML Tags
    • Paragraph element
    • Headings
    • Lists
    • Overlapping and embedded tags
    • Anchors
• THE WEB SITE
  • Structure of a body of data
    • Structure of the information
      • What a template might include
    • How will the information be used
• THE WEB PAGE
  • Structure
    • HEAD
      • Metadata
    • BODY
  • Size of page
  • Links
    • Valid links
  • Graphics
    • Performance
      • File size
      • Opting to view graphics
      • Making graphics looks as if they belong
      • Graphics should work on a variety of monitors
    • Alternatives to graphics
    • Graphics as links
    • Network-friendly use of icons
• CONTENT
  • Maintenance of data
    • Methods
      • Example
  • Authorship
  • Use of forms and CGI
• ABIDING BY THE LAW
  • Libel
  • Copyright
  • Obscenity
  • Personal data
• DOCUMENT CHECKLIST
• SUMMARY OF GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE
• References
  • Tools
  • Examples of institutional guidelines
• APPENDIX
  • Elements in the current standard (HTML 2.0)
  • Further elements proposed in HTML 3.0
    • Style sheets

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