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Entering the WWW: A Guide to Cyberspace
The Best of the Web is a great way to see the "cream of the crop."
The WWW FAQ
It's a growing boy! Check out the GVU Center - NSFNET Statistics. Check the packet counts for WWW traffic-monthly tables. These show an astounding monthly and annual increases in WWW traffic. Also see:
InterNIC Directory and Database Services
The InterWeb Journal is an online Web magazine where people can find out what's going on on the Internet, World Wide Web, and UseNet.
Try the HTML Validation Service provided by the folks at HAL Computer systems, or get their HTML Check Toolkit if you want to do validation regularly.
Clay's Weblint has been updated and expanded.
WebChat Home Page
StatBot
A listing of ISO8859-1.
The WebWalk project is a project to extend the usefulness of imagemaps. They have set up a sample WebWalk area for you to look at.
W30's HTML3 browser, Arena, is now at prerelease version 0.97.
Gene Devereaux has written a perl script that maintains page counters for multiple pages and multiple users.
gwstat version 1.10 is now available. This version adds a new type of graph (by-archive) to show the traffic of most accessed pages.

Gwstat is a program that works with wwwstat to graphically illustrate httpd server access stats. Here is an example.

Getstats is another of Kevin Hughes' great little programs, and has links to others.

Images and Icons

Anthony's Icon Library

Rutgers Image Archive

Yet More Icons

Images

Yahoo's Icon links

Another good icon collection

Netscape's publicly-available collection of backgrounds

Search Wustl for Images

CGI and HTML

The story of how we redesigned the user interface for Sun's WWW pages is a wonderful object-lesson in interface design. These folks know how to design, and they are already in the next-generation of Web design - usability studies. Highly recommended. More highly recommended, even. The author says, "I think I am one of the few user interface designers to put rejected designs on the Internet for all to see, but I hope you will find them a worthwhile learning resource." That you will. Read it or lose.

The NCSA Mosaic Web Index has links to all manner of WWW-related documents. When in doubt, go to the source. Among the more indispensable ones are the CGI documentation , the CGI Interface documents, and the Beginner's Guide to HTML. Plus, the tables tutorial, the access and authentication tutorial, and the graphical information map tutorial are good stuff.

The NCSA docs on Using PGP/PEM authorization with https/Mosaic are somewhat instructive, though less so now that the jack-booted- thugs-that-don't-exist have stepped in and "requested" that the security hooks be taken out of NCSA's products. Heh. "He ain't heavy-- he's my gargantuan, violent, paranoid-psychotic control-freak big brother."

The OneWorld/SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation (at Johns Hopkins) has links to lots of good info.

The Web Developer's Virtual Library has a section on WWW Development, with links ranging from how to develop WWW pages to setting up servers to the evolution of the WWW. There's even an in-progress Advanced HTML/CGI Tutorial.

Nik's CGI Tutorial
CGI Programmer's Reference
How to do forms
University of Toronto Guide to good HTML
The Complete-ish Guide to HTML is an excellent resource.
Tony Sanders' HTML bad style page.
Tim Berners-Lee's HTML Markup top-level page at The World Wide Web Consortium.
Netscape Communications Corp. (makers of Netscape) are proposing these HTML extensions to the soon-to-be-released HTML 2.0 specs.

Netscape also provides docs on the NSAPI and other stuff.

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