The Internet and the Web
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Additional Books

• HTML &XHTML The Definitive Guide (as reference)
• Robin Williams and John Tollett, The Non-Designer's Web Book (explains visual principles)
• David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites (addressing aesthetic issues)

Tutorials

• Gentle Introduction to HTML and the World Wide Web (includes coverage of some deprecated tags)
• W3Schools has tutorials on HTML, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript, CSS, and many other topics.

Background and History

• Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) page including a history of HTML
• Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Usability

• Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir, Homepage Usability (50 web-sites deconstructed, excellent examples)
• Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usablity
• ok-cancel, the usability comic strip

UNIX

• free ssh client (5.3M!) for both connecting to your account and ftping files there (more info at ssh page)
• Unix Tutorial
• Unix Reference
• Indiana's pico page

HTML

• The WRCs HTML page including XHTML 2.0 specification.
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Microsoft Frontpage
• EditPlus HTML editor
• Web Design Group's HTML help
• Special Characters
• Special Characters
• Unicode
• online HTML editor (with instant feedback)

JavaScript

• Netscape's JavaScript Guide
• Using Regular Expressions in Javascript
• JavaScript games
• Alice in Wonderland (Javascript games)

Cookies

• Cookie documentation
• Cookie Central

Cascading Style Sheets

• A quick reference to selectors and values.
• A short guide to style sheets.
• The W3C's style sheet page.
• W3Schools style sheet page

Security and Privacy

• Counterpane newsletter
• Junkbuster's cookie page
• Privacy issues