HTML = the HyperText Markup Language
Web = World Wide Web = WWW = 3W = W3
Visual Elements:
User Interaction
Commercial Programs:
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Query: There are a great many excellent technical books on HTML, the Web, and related subjects -- the shelves are overflowing at bookstores. Unfortunately. the same cannot be said for books on writing in this area. Some are very elementary for part-time Web authors; others are for established professional authors. Still others, which might be more suitable for this course, were written 3 or 4 years ago and, requiring extensive revision, have been allowed to go out of print. What does this book shortage tell us about our national interest in the web? |
Books -- Required: Crawford Kilian, Writing for the Web (Self Counsel Press, 2000)
The Internet Writer's Handbook by Martha C. Sammons
Writing for Interactive Media : The Complete Guide by Jon Samsel, Darryl Wimberley (1998)
Labyrinths: The Art of Interactive Writing and Design, Content Development for New Media by Domenic Stansberry (1997)
Elizabeth Castro, HTML4 for the World Wide Web
(4th ed Peachpit) ISBN# 0201354934 $20
» Second title TBA
Victor J. Vitanza, Writing for the World Wide Web (Addison Wesley, 1998, out of print but used copies at Amazon.Com)
Some Classics
Strunk and White's The Elements of Style
William Zinnser's On Writing Well
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox site
HTML / DHTML / XHTML / XML:
Molly Holzschlag, ed. Using HTML4 (Que, 6th ed, 1999) ISBN# 0789722674 $40
Molly Holzschlag, ed. Using XHTML4 (Que, Dec 2000) ISBN#0789724316 $40
Rick Darnell, HTML Unleashed (2nd ed 1999) $40
Bryan Pfaffenberger, HTML4 Bible (2nd ed, Hungry Minds, 2000) ISBN# 0764534734 $40
Chuck Musciano, HTML/XHTML: the Definitive Guide (4th ed O'Reilly) ISBN# 05960026x $35
Joe Burns, HTML Goodies
Style and Writing:
Patrick J Lynch, Web Style Guide (Yale)
Jacob Nielsen, Designing Web Usabilty
Jeffrey Zeldman, Taking Your Talent to the Web
Steve Krug and Roger Black, Don't Make Me Think
Javascript:
David Flanagan, JavaScript: the Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)
Danny Goodman, JavaScript Bible (4th ed 2001)
Tom Negrino, JavaScript for the World Wide Web, 4th ed (VQG Peachpit)
Joe Burns, JavaScript Goodies
Graphics and Design:
Jason Teague, DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web (2nd ed Peachpit) ISBN# 0201730847
Eric A Meyer, Cascading Style Sheets: the Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)
Lynda Weinman, Designing Web Graphics; creating HTML Designs
David Siegel, Creating Killer Web Sites
Rebecca Rohan, Building Better Web Pages
Jeffrey Veen, The Art and Science of Web Design
S o m e H T M L " T i t l e s "
Publisher: Series:
IDG * Bible; New Riders; Dummies
O'Reilly the Definitive Guide
Peachpit Visual Quickstart Guide
Que Using
Sams Unleashed
*renamed Hungry Minds, then John Wiley
Jeffrey Zeldman: Taking Your Talent to the Web
Introduction: Orality, Literacy, Electronic Discourse
Page Conventions
The Personal Home Page
The Electronic Essay
Additional, Collaborative Genres
Beyond the Single Page/File: Disposition of Pages (Directories/Files)
Elementary and Advanced Considerations of Placing Files in Directories
Scanning Images/Pictures and Using PhotoShop
Using the (Re)Search Engines
Citing Electronic Discourse
Special Characters