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Web Site Development

When beginning to build your own web site, you'll need to know the basics of the most current Internet state-of-the-art development techniques. Web site pages are almost always written in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is not a programming language, rather a way of formatting text for viewing on the World Wide Web (WWW). In practical terms, HTML is a collection of platform-independent styles (indicated by markup tags) that define the various components of a WWW document. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. Below you will find serveral links to HTML documents on the web which can be valuable in learning HTML and various other commonly used Internet develpment tools such as CGI and Java. You will find the most popular programming language used on the WWW and reference material for Unix. Unix is an operating system designed at AT&T for their own personal use and is now the operating system of choice on probably the majority of Internet servers. And, you guessed it, WebTent servers are Unix based.

Writing HTML
HTML Editors
- Windows
  - Arachnophilia *WebTent choice
  - Web Wizard
  - Web Edit
  - HoTMetaL
  - HTMLed
  - Hot dog
  - Web Documents Toolkit for MS Word 97
- Macintosh
Using CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs
Using Java
Unix
- UNIXhelp for Users
- Unix Reference Card
- Non-Unix versions of Unix utilities
  - Perl Interpreter for all platforms
  - Gunzip for various systems
  - Complete set of Unix utilities for Windows95. Using these programs, you can do most of the things you would otherwise need a shell account to do.
Robots
- All about robots and robots.txt
  A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web's hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving all documents that are referenced. These are commonly used by search engines on the Internet when you register your site with them. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders.
Helpful Downloads
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- HTML Reference Library - HTMLLIB.ZIP (807K)
  A complete HTML reference library with language lookup and tips and tricks. This compressed zip file also includes a nifty Color Wizard for authoring your own color codes and saving your color schemes in HTML or Style code.
- Tray Color - TRAYCOLOR.ZIP (121K)
  This little programs rests in your system tray providing on-the-fly color grabbing off your screen and translation of the color to HTML, Hex or Decimal. Complete with color palette for finding exactly the right shade your looking for quickly.
- Server Side Includes (SSI) Help File - SSIHLP.ZIP (15K)
  A Windows help file with a SSI+ 1.0 Introduction while in development. Also includes reference for SSI Tags, Variables and Data.

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