Two4U's guide for WWW-providers

This page is meant for people who start making their own WWW-documents. It mostly consists of useful links to other WWW-sites, but we also have some useful local stuff. If you want to know something and you can't find the answer on/via this page, mail guide@two4u.com and we'll try to help you.

The tips are divided into four sections:

As you will notice, descriptions have been kept to a minimum to keep the size of the page under control. If you run into a non-functioning link, be sure to notify guide@two4u.com, so we can fix the reference.
Local goodies
COMPOSE YOUR FAVOURITE COLOR COMBINATION!!!
Well, it's finaly finished. After some hard work, we came up with an engine that allows you to compose your favorite color combination. Next to the engine we've made some databases with color samples ready for downloading and on top we have a FAQ on backgrounds.

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Tips for all
ABOUT WWW.
Official World Wide Web FAQ * a European mirror

HOW TO CREATE A DOCUMENT.
NCSA's Beginner's Guide * Ian Graham's Documentation * The Bare Bones Guide * HTML Quick Reference * Style Guide * Style guide on the english language

PEEK INTO THE FUTURE.
New HTML-specs * Java * XML * PDF (printing your webpages)

SPÉÇIAL CHÆRACTÈRS.
Æ págè wíth speçial ©hæracters, in case you need them.

YOU GOT TO BE COOL.
Project Cool * What makes a great web site? * How to create high-impact documents

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Tips for page designers
ICONS RULE.
Yahoo's page with icons * J. Boersma's collection of icons, images, backgrounds and sounds * DCS's Icon Library

BACKGROUNDS ARE COOL.
Thalia's page on backgrounds * Yahoo's background-page * SAM Pattern Sampler

EDITING/CONVERTING IMAGES.
Tucows's page with image editing software for Win95/98 * Linuxberg's page with image editing software for Linux * Tucows's page with image editing software for Macintosh * Webmonkey's graphics and fonts

CLICKABLE IMAGES.
Tucow's overview of imagemappers for Win95/98 * Tucow's overview of imagemappers for Macintosh * Java image mapper: MapEdit

CONVERTING OTHER FORMATS TO HTML.
Yahoo's list of converters * CERN's list of converters * TXT 2 HTML.

HTML EDITORS.
Tucows's page on HTML editors for Win95/98 * Linuxberg's page on HTML editors for Linux * Tucows's page on HTML editors for Macintosh * Yahoo's page on HTML editors

HTML++ (MAKE HTML MORE COOL)
Style sheets * JavaScript * Dynamic HTML * XML * Create HTML documents that are XML-compliant: XHTML

RESTRICTING ACCESS TO YOUR PAGES.
Use User Authentication with Apache webserver * Authentication with Microsoft's Acitve Server Pages (ASP) * Use sessions in PhP

FORMS, HOW DO THEY WORK?
NCSA Overview of FORMs * Carlos' FORMS tutorial

RUN SCRIPTS / INTEGRATE DATABASES
The old way: CGI Programming * The new way: PHP and ASP (ASP comes with the Internet Information Server (IIS); IIS comes with the Option Pack) * PHP and ASP are nothing without a database like MySQL

INDEXING YOUR FILES.
Web Glimpse * ht://Dig * Yahoo's list of Indexing-programs

HANDY PROGRAMS.
W3C's HTML Validation Service * WebLint HTML syntax checker ( source, on-line usage ) * Place a counter on your page

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Tips for site maintainers
YOU NEED A HTTP-DAEMON.
Apache is the most used webserver * An overview of available daemons * But which is the best?

MONITORING YOUR HTTP-DAEMON.
The webalizer for server statistics * Yahoo's page on log analysers

PERL, THE CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION.
A list of useful WWW-tools * Perl Homepage

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