Web Reference Documents

Getting Started

Writing Hypertext at the MIT AI Lab: Some notes written by Laurel Simmons and Robert Thau. If you're here at the AI Lab, you should probably read this first.
HTML Quick Reference: This will probably be quite useful to anyone who knows what they want to do, and understands the general idea of writing in HTML.
Beginner's Guide to HTML: This is very thorough, but may contain more information and raw verbiage than someone who is just getting started wants to wade through.

ISO Latin 1 character entities: How to include stråñgë léttêrs in HTML. :-)
An HTML specification: A list of HTML tags.
Official HTML+ specification: The technical specifcation of HTML.
Other character entities: How to use "<", ">" and "&" in HTML.
A warning: Mosaic does not support non-breaking spaces.
Things to Avoid in HTML documents: Some stylistic comments by Tim Berners-Lee on writing good hypertext
An explanation of the <link> tag.: It's good to put these in your document headers. Examine the source of this document for an example of headers and link tags.
A Style Guide for Online Hypertext written by Tim Berners-Lee

More complex web stuff: A list of NSCA documents explaining various things of interest to webmasters
Help with ISMAP: This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what you should do to set up imagemaps on www.ai.mit.edu . If you're interested in doing this, please send mail to nocturne@mit.edu.
Help with HTML forms: NCSA documentation on HTML forms tags
A CGI Overview: Fairly complete documentation of the Common Gateway Interface, used by many web servers to allow painless addition of services to the server.

-Eric Mumpower (nocturne@mit.edu)