What Next?

Contents

  1. HTML Elements
  2. Editing Tools
  3. Graphics, Sound and Video
  4. References

The things you have learned up to now will hopefully suffice to make a nice homepage. What else is there to know?

HTML Elements

Tables and Frames
These are new HTML elements. With frames you can split up your browser window and display different HTML files in different parts of your window (see for an example the site of Netscape Assistence)
Sending Mail
You can insert an anchor with the HREF attribute equal to mailto:xxx@yyy.zzz which by most browsers will allow you to send a mail right away.
Forms and Scripts
Interaction with a WEB server is possible by filling out forms. There is an executable that will read the filled entries and processes them. Quite often, the language PERL is used for these executable scripts. Far more interaction will be possible with the language Java, which does not need forms for interaction.
Clickable Maps
Images can be made "clickable". A database tells what the meaning of a mouse click in a particular region of the image means. Examples can be found in the Digitale Stad
Java Applets
Why not send over an executable via WEB, and let the browser execute it right away? This is possible with Java. Programs written in Java can be inserted in your HTML documents just like images. These inserted programs are called applets, and need a tag of the form
<APPLET CODE=... WIDTH=... HEIGHT=...>

Editing Tools

There are editors available that help you with writing HTML documents. A good example is HoTMetaL. Also macros are available to expand existing editors with HTML facilities. They exist for instance for MS Word, for emacs and for FrameMaker. A list of HTML editors is provided by Yahoo.

There is also a converter from LaTeX to HTML.

Graphics, Sound and Video

There are many types and formats of graphics. Often it is possible to convert to various formats and to change the graphics. On UNIX, xv and ImageMagick are quite useful (see the Resource Guide of Lincoln Stein below for more conversion tools.). Some browsers are capable of interpreting sound files and video images. That works similar to graphics.

References

  1. How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide Web Site by Lincoln D. Stein, Addison Wesley1995, ISBN 0201-63389-2 It contains a useful Internet Resource Guide.
  2. HTML 2.0 Standard Specification
  3. Extensions of Netscape to HTML
  4. List of HTML tutorials is provided by Yahoo
  5. The HTML Source by Ian Graham, Wiley and Sons, 1995, ISBN 0471-11849-4
  6. The complete HTML reference guide
  7. Scienceweb support

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