Links to useful technical documentation have been updated in April 2000.

FrameMaker information

Adobe product information about FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML. http://www.adobe.com/

Charles Poynton, expert FrameMaker user, web page including his FrameMaker advice. Poynton's web site is a valuable locus of color science information too.
http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/

Conrad Taylor, expert FrameMaker user, web page including his desktop-publishing papers and the Framers' Wishing Well compilation of users' enhancement requests.
http://www.datatext.co.uk/ideography/

FrameMaker FAQs, Framers newsgroup archives, and other FrameMaker information from Falcon Interactive Media.
http://www.FrameUsers.com/

Framers newsgroup. To subscribe, send electronic mail to
Majordomo@FrameUsers.com with "subscribe framers" or
"subscribe framers-digest" in the subject line.

Tools

Acrobat product information.
http://www.adobe.com/

Cyberleaf product information.
http://www.ileaf.com/

Douglas Stewart web page of Acrobat information.
http://www.campusmall.com/adobe/acrobat/acrobat.html

FrameMaker product information.
http://www.adobe.com/

HTML Transit product information. (Intranet Solutions acquired InfoAccess in 1999).
http://www.infoaccess.com/

Rousseau, Bertrand and Mario Ruggier. 1994. Writing documents for paper and WWW: A strategy based on FrameMaker and WebMaker, First International WWW Conference, May 1994.
http://www.cern.ch/WebMaker/whywebmaker/WMwww94_1.html

WebWorks Publisher product information.
http://www.quadralay.com/

World Wide Web Consortium lists of filters and converters. (This list is not up to date but portions may still be useful).
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html

HTML and CSS specifications and guides

Microsoft Web Workshop including HTML, DHTML, and CSS reference.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/

Lynch, Patrick J. and Sarah Horton. Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide.
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/

Mosaic information and an HTML primer.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/

Netscape help for authors and HTML extensions.
http://home.netscape.com/computing/webbuilding/index.html/

World Wide Web Consortium list of HTML guides and information.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/

World Wide Web Consortium specifications for HTML and CSS.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/

Cascading Style Sheets demonstration page.
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/css/gallery/entrance.htm

Cascading Style Sheets compatibility charts.
http://www.webreview.com/pub/guides/style/style.html

Cascading Style Sheets validation tools from the W3C.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Graphics

PNG graphics format.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Graphics/PNG/Overview.html and http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/

Usenet graphics FAQs.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/fileformats-faq/top.html

World Wide Web Consortium graphics page.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Graphics/

Web design, including the browser-safe color palette, from Lynda Weinmann.
http://www.lynda.com

Web design products and more color palettes.
http://www.molly.com/molly/info.html

Color palettes and a color lab for trying out combinations of the 216 browser-safe colors.
http://www.vivibone.com

Christine Rigden's "Safe Web Colours for Colour Deficient Vision.
http://www.labs.bt.com/people/rigdence/colours/

Registration for search engines

AltaVista page registration.
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl

AltaVista search site.
http://altavista.com/

Excite page registration.
http://excite.com/Info/listing.html

Excite search site.
http://excite.com/

Google page registration.
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Google search site.
http://www.google.com/

HotBot page registration.
http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.html

HotBot search site.
http://www.hotbot.com/

Go (InfoSeek) page registration.
http://infoseek.go.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html

Go search site.
http://infoseek.go.com/

Lycos page registration.
http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html

Lycos search site.
http://www.lycos.com/

MetaCrawler search site. MetaCrawler searches other search engines. It does not have its own database, so sites cannot be registered with MetaCrawler.
http://www.metacrawler.com/

NorthernLight page registration.
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

NorthernLight search site.
http://www.northernlight.com/

WebCrawler page registration.
http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/

WebCrawler search site.
http://www.webcrawler.com/

Yahoo page registration.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Yahoo registration and promotion-services list.
http://dir.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/internet/world_wide_web/announcement_services/index.html

Yahoo search site.
http://www.yahoo.com/

Examples of web books

Apple developer documentation, some written in FrameMaker and converted to HTML and PDF.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/mac8.html

Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
http://www.britannica.com/

Digikey, using HTML as an index to PDF catalog pages.
http://www.digikey.com/DigiHome.html

Dance Plus catalog, built with HTML tables.
http://www.danceplus.com/

Denning, Peter J. and Bernard Rous. The ACM Electronic Publishing Plan, 1995.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/epub_plan.html

InformIT free library, including technical books from Macmillan, Que, Addison-Wesley, New Riders, and other commercial publishers. An example of centralized printing (commercial publishing) and Web publication.
http://www.infomit.com/itlibrary//

Microsoft's Slate web magazine. An example of Microsoft Word as print files for a web site.
http://slate.msn.com/

Project Bartleby, literature on the Web.
http://www.bartleby.com/

Project Gutenberg, public domain texts in ASCII.
http://promo.net/pg/

Project Muse, online scholarly journals by institutional subscription.
http://muse.jhu.edu/

Project Perseus, classical texts with linguistic tools.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Dictionaries

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

On-line dictionary of Internet and computing terms at whatis.com.
http://www.whatis.com.

Printed resources

Horton, William. 1994. Designing and writing online documentation. 2d ed. New York: Wiley.

Landow, George P. 1992. Hypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.

Lemay, Laura and Denise Tyler. 2000. Teach yourself web publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days, 2nd ed.. Indianapolis: Sams.

Musciano, Chuck, Bill Kennedy and Mike Loukides. 1998. HTML: The definitive guide, 3rd ed.. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.

Weinman, Lynda. 1997. Designing web graphics: How to prepare images and media for the web, 2nd ed., Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing.

For more information, please email me at ken@jkjackson.com.