UPDATED: Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians

[Eric Schnell]

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UPDATED: January 1996

                Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
                           by   Eric H. Schnell. M.L.S.
 
URL: http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html


     ABSTRACT: The most time consuming aspect of setting up a library
World-Wide Web service is creating and maintaining the documents which
make up the site. While each library will need to adopt their own policies on
how their Web service is organized, all participants in library Web projects
need to know how to construct basic Web documents.

     This paper discusses basic concepts and terminology which are
associated with writing documents for the Web. It is not an in-depth HTML
guide, but a general introduction on how Web documents are created. In
addition, newer technologies used in Web site construction are described and
references to other resources are provided. An interactive glossary of terms is
also included. 

CONTENTS: 

   1.Introduction 
   2.Background 
   3.Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 
   4.Hypertext Links 
   5.Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) 
   6.HTML Writing Tools 
   7.Graphics and Images 
   8.Multimedia 
   9.Design Considerations 
  10.Portable Document Format (PDF) 
  11.Java and JavaScript 
  12.Future Considerations 
  13.Reference and Resources 
  14.Glossary 



URL: http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html

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Eric Schnell, Head of Automation Services
Prior Health Sciences Library, Ohio State
  schnell.9 at osu.edu      614-292-4870
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/eric.html