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Toolbox
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BBEdit 4.0
Platform: Mac, Power Mac
Cost: US$99.95; a "lite" version is free
Company: Bare Bones Software, Inc.
In the words of its creators: It doesn't suck. BBEdit's earned the affection of Mac programmers and hacks worldwide for its bare-bones approach to text editing. If you're on a Mac, and you hand-code your HTML, this is the webmonkey choice for text editors. Full reveiw...

Programmer's File Editor
Platform: Win 95, NT, 3.1
Cost: Free
Company: A. Phillips
Though it's optimized for use by programmers, File Editor makes a pretty good all-purpose text editor as well. And you just can't beat the price. Full reveiw...

Recommended reading
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These are books the Webmonkeys rely on. You can buy them online from Barnes and Noble.com.

Teach Yourself Web Publishing With Html in a Week
Sams One of the earliest easy-to-use guides to Web publishing, this book still ranks among the best. This version covers the newest Netscape and Microsoft browsers, stylesheets, and more. Learn more...

HTML: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
O'Reilly & Associates O'Reilly, the grand poobah of Internet reference publishers, gives you all the HTML reference you need. Includes sample code and good advice. Learn more...


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HTML Specs
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A Cougar in Your Cache?
The HTML 4.0 specification's pre-release (codenamed "Cougar") is here, but can HTML specs keep up with the pack? 5 May 1997

Caching Cougar, Part II
Jeff examines frames, objects, and entities in the HTML 4.0 spec's prerelease 12 May 1997

Caching Cougar, Part III
Jeff continues to delve into the HTML 4.0 spec's prerelease; this time, he looks at forms and the RFC collection 19 May 1997

The History of HTML
How browser companies complicated a simple markup language, before things got (kind of) compatible again 28 Apr 1997

What You Should Know about HTML 4.0
The HTML 4.0 specification is out. It looks sane and functional, but won't knock you out of your boots 11 Aug 1997

Mastering Tables
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The Basic, Basic Table
The bare bones of tables, those basic, flexible, lovable layout devices 21 Nov 1996

The Not-So-Basic Table
Derek tells how to take tables - those building blocks of Web layout - to a higher level 27 Nov 1996

The Well-Dressed Table
Learn to color your table cells and create a Mondrian nightmare! 18 Sep 1996

Mastering Frames
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Basic Frames Rehash
If Jillo's frames-as-a-picnic primer didn't satisfy your appetite, Aaron serves up a second course 19 Jun 1997

Changing Two Frames at Once
Soooo, you think you can pull the old Double Frame Change maneuver, eh? 17 Jan 1997

Don't Forget the Non-Frames Folks
Don't make your site look like doo-doo to the frame-challenged 14 Aug 1996

Frames Are A Picnic (Metaphorically Speaking)
If you understand picnics, says Jillo, you can understand frames. It's that simple. 2 Aug 1996

IFRAME, I Saw, I Conquered
Zach says the iframe tag is kind of like Miss Cindy's magic mirror on Romper Room. You be the judge .... 11 Sep 1996

Let's Talk Targeting
How come some frames can change and others stand still? It's all in the targeting. 4 Sep 1996

Server-Side Includes
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Serving up Different Pages with XSSI
Luke shows how to use Apache server software's XSSI module to serve up different pages to different people 3 Jul 1997

The Fundamentals of XSSI
XSSI lets you serve up on-the-fly Web pages and lots of other tricks. Nadav tells you why it's the bomb. 30 Sep 1997

Using XSSI Variables
Emily shows you how to use eXtended Server-Side Includes' variables to build pages on the fly 8 Sep 1997

Virtual Includes Equal Less Work
Liz shows how server-side includes save production time 30 Sep 1997

Tags: Beyond the Basics
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Client-Side Image Maps
Patrick shows how to map out clickable images 2 Oct 1996

DIVersity
The humble div tag can be awful darn useful in laying out your pages. Aaron tells how. 14 May 1997

Piecing Together Server-Side Image Maps
Patrick covers the basics of CGI-based navigation 25 Sep 1996

Rhymes with Feta
Mmmmm...meta. These tags are invisible to your viewers, but can include some important information, like keywords for search engines. 18 Dec 1996

Sifting Through Layers
The tag is a generic container that (hark!) lets you position stuff where you want it - in Netscape 4.0, that is 22 Jan 1997

T is for Template
Who really wants to copy and paste for a living? Use templates for the boring stuff and spend your time creating. 11 Dec 1996

XML & Other Specs
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Acronyms You Can't Live Without
A quick primer on the latest proposals for defining metadata - the information that describes content 20 Oct 1997

Building with the Document Object Model
Have it all and do it all with the DOM 12 Aug 1997

That's Marimba, Not Macarena
Marimba's Castanet technology offers another kind of push media 21 Oct 1996

The Fine Art of Negotiation
Why aren't browsers smart enough to download only the kinds of media they can deal with? Well, they should be. 18 Nov 1996

The Web in the Palm of Your Hand
Handheld-Device Markup Language may bring the Net to your cell phone, PDA, whatever, without cluttering your two-inch screen 16 Jun 1997

XML: Metadata for the Rest of Us (Part 1)
How Extensible Markup Language could add heaps of features and flexibility to HTML 7 Jul 1997

XML: Roll Your Own Markup Language (Part 2)
Jeff adds more on how Extensible Markup Language could add heaps of features and flexibility to HTML 14 Jul 1997

Other
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A mailto with a Subject
Wendy makes a fancy mailto that pops a topic into the user's subject line 18 Sep 1997

Accessible HTML
Is cutting-edge design worth excluding part of your audience? Depends on your definition of "cutting edge." 21 Mar 1997

Form(s) over Function
June shows how to use HTML form elements for fun and profit 12 Feb 1997

Getting It Right
Don't let your HTML code make a monkey out of you. Jeff says validate. 17 Feb 1997

HTML for Smart People
Understanding your page's HTML structure and keeping your page's elements separate will make you a happy designer 10 Feb 1997

Symbols, Accents, and Funky Characters
How do you get symbols like © to show up in HTML? JoAnne explains ISO-8859-1 entities. 11 Sep 1997

WYSIWYG or the Real Thing?
Nadav explains why coding HTML by hand is better than using a program that promises to do it all for you 25 Apr 1997
 

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