HTML References

This page hasn't been updated in quite a while and many of the links are outdated. You're probably better off just using Google.

HTML is not difficult to learn and master. Probably the easiest way is to use the View Source option available in the web browser. This option displays the actual HTML document, before processing by the viewer, allowing one to see how the paper was created. Online help is widely available. Some of the best primers and guide are:

HTML 4.0 Reference
Easy-to-use HTML Tag Reference
HTML Tag Reference
Another Convenient Tag Reference
HTML Home Page
The HyperText Markup Language Home Page
HTML 4.01 Reference Specification
Reference specification for version 4.01 of the HTML language
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
An excellent starting point on learning how to write HTML. Many useful, simple examples
HTML Quick Reference
A brief description of HTML Tags
Optimizing page load performance
Tips For Authoring Fast-loading HTML Pages
Intro to scripts & forms
An instantaneous introduction to CGI scripts and HTML forms
Robots.txt Tutorial
A short tutorial on how to control robots that crawl over your web site
Thau's JavaScript Tutorial
A 5-lesson tutorial on JavaScript. Now you too can be a JavaScript programmer
Simple common gateway interface class
PERL 5 Common Gateway Interface description
Style Guide for Online Hypertext
A nice short style guide to how to design and present hypertext documents. Includes an etiquette list for operation of a web server.
Web Style Manual
A comprehensive document describing good design principles to use when creating web pages
Elements of Style
Taking off on Strunk and White, a guideline for producing readable HTML
HTML Documentation
Definitions and examples of HTML
If you are the kind of person who wants a book to hold in your hands and mark up with yellow highlighter, then a good beginner's book is ``Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week'' by Laura Lemay. Published by Sams Publishing (Indianapolis, IN), ISDN# 0-672-30667-0. You might also take a look at Laura Lemay's web site.

There are a number of methods for creating HTML documents. One is to directly write your paper/poster in HTML. An alternative is to use your favorite word processing program and then convert the text to HTML. A number of these converters are available, and we list them below. We have used the rtftohtml converter and found it quite easy to use. You create your document in Microsoft Word and then save it in RTF format and the converter does the rest (like take care of headings, bold, italics, underlining and imbedded graphics).

A more extensive list of converters and tools is also available.