Ingredients:

• Existing online information
• New information for a new medium
• A plan for how this information should appear
• The tools to make this plan a reality

This is your main course-the pièce de résistance. Everything else was just a prelude to this moment. This is where you take existing information, any new information, and knead it and cook it just long enough to serve an Internet meal entrée that will be both lasting and satisfying.

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Examples	Image alignment.	Example color scheme.
	Sample personal home page.	Sample group page.

Table 9-1 Background Information on Hypertext

Product	Description
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush	Essay in which the hypertext concept was first suggested. Originally published in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
HTML Home Page by W3 Consortium	The official home page of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
Project Xanadu by Theodor Nelson	The company resulting from Ted Nelson's original ideas.

Table 9-2 Sources of Information on HTML

Product	Description
A Beginner's Guide to HTML by NCSA	From the originators of Mosaic.
A guide to HTML and CGI Scripts by Mike Smith	Useful HTML guide, but the CGI scripting is Unix-oriented.
How do they do that with HTML? by Carl Tashian	A great page on some lesser known features of HTML.
HTML Home Page by W3C Consortium	The official HTML Home page.
HTML resources by Yahoo!	Listing of HTML-related resources.
VSE HTML Turbo by Voget Selbach Enterprises	Optimizes HTML documents so that they become much smaller and load more quickly into Web browsers.

Table 9-4 Special Character Listings

Product	Description
Character Entity Sets by W3 Consortium	Representing special characters in HTML.
Character Table by Kevin Brewer	ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Table with HTML Entity Names

Table 9-5 Sources of Web Page Templates

Product	Description
Web Page Templates by Netscape	A starting point for creating your own Web pages.

Table 9-6 Web-safe Color Schemes

Product	Description
Color choice resources by Yahoo!	Dozens of sites to help you choose your Web site colors.
Color choice tools by Nuthin' but Links	Links to tools for choosing colors.
ColorCenter by hIdaho Design	A JavaScript application that lets you try out text and background color combinations. Choose colors from a palette or specify colors in hexadecimal, decimal or percentage form.
HTML Background Color Selector by ImagiTek Network	A basic form that lets you enter hexadecimal colors and preview the look of the page's color scheme.>

Table 9-8 HTML Named Colors

Product	Description
Named HTML colors by Jack Holden	More than 470 named colors and codes. Slow to download, since each color sample is an image.

Table 9-10 Transparent Background Images

Product	Description
Transparent Background Images by HTML Guru	Step by step guide, including sources of image editing tools.

Table 9-11 Background Images

Product	Description
Background image library by Software Labs	A large collection of images, including a large number of backgrounds.
Background Images by The Pixel Foundry	Thumbnail sketches of a variety of backgrounds and how to make transparent backgrounds.

Table 9-12 Clip Art and Other Images

Product	Description
Images and Icons by Web Developer's Virtual Library	A variety of images and icons.
Starter images and pages by Netscape	Images and sample pages from Netscape.
Web Design Gallery by Software Labs	Over 1500 buttons, bars, and other common icons.

Table 9-13 HTML Source Guides

Product	Description
HTML style guide by Tim Berners-Lee	One of the original HTML style guides, with many points still valid today.
Web Style Guide by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton	Another useful style guide. Also considers performance issues.

Table 9-14 Getting Your Web Pages Known

Product	Description
Announcement services by Yahoo!	Web services for publicizing your Web site.
Promotion World by DevStart.com Network	A site with free information for promoting your site.