Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Introduction

The HTML Writers Guild strongly encourages all members to review our FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) before posting to the Guild Mailing Lists. It is especially important that you read the Guild's Member's FAQ, Common Issues FAQ, and the Bylaws and Charter. If you plan to subscribe to any of the Guild's mailing lists, please be sure to read the Netiquette Guide and the FAQ appropriate for your mailing list.

If you wish to help write or maintain a FAQ, please read "How To FAQ" (including the list of current FAQ topic openings) then email faqs@hwg.org. Any general questions about FAQs or the FAQ program can also be sent to faqs@hwg.org. The FAQ maintainers' mailing addresses can be found in each FAQ if you have a specific question about the the topic. Thank you for your consideration of FAQ maintainers' time!

Table of Contents

Emphasized links are written by members of the FAQ Team for the HTML Writers Guild

• Guild related FAQs
• Mailing List related FAQs
• Basic HTML
• Graphics and Image-maps
• Advanced HTML
• CGI, Scripts, Perl
• Java and JavaScript
• Business Related
• Security and Encryption
• Validation
• Glossaries and Other Miscellaneous Sites

Guild related FAQs

• Members' FAQ
  A comprehensive listing of answers to questions most new members and many long-time members need answers to. Maintained by the HWG Support Team
• About The HTML Writers Guild
• Governing Board Members
• Guild Bylaws
• Guild Issues FAQ
  Questions/suggestions that have already been hashed out.
• Guild Pricing Issues FAQ
  Questions about pricing and pricing discussions on HWG lists.
• Online Logo Usage FAQ

Guild Mailing List related FAQs

• Netiquette Guide
  Please read if you are subscribed to any of the Guild's mailing lists other than hwg-news.
• Mailing Lists Information including information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to each list.
• Mail FAQ
  Tips, hints, and strategies for using email
• Filtering FAQ
  A guide to using the filtering/sorting features of many popular email programs.
• Netiquette Guidelines from Internic (RFC1855)
  Widely recommended.
• Mailing List Topical FAQ's
  • HWG-Basics
  • HWG-Business
  • HWG-Graphics
  • HWG-Languages
  • HWG-Servers
  • HWG-Software
  • HWG-Standards
  • HWG-Style
  • HWG-Techniques
  • HWG-Theory
  • HWG-XML

Basic HTML

• HWG-Basics Mailing List FAQ
• Basic HTML
• shtml FYI
• World Wide Web FAQ
  This may be the most definitive FAQ ever - provided by Thomas Boutell. Check here first.
• The W3C HTML Reference
  Information from the World Wide Web Consortium on the current version of HTML.
• Browser support for Tags
  A comprehensive site on HTML, including a list of the tags supported by Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, and Mosaic. Includes in which browser version they were first supported.

Graphics and Image-maps

• HWG-Graphics Mailing List FAQ
• Graphics FAQ
  All sorts of information on format, construction, and use of graphics.
• Graphic File Formats FAQ
  From the FAQ intro: This FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list contains information on graphics file formats, including, raster, vector, metafile, Page Description Language, 3D object, animation, and multimedia formats.
• Designing Web Graphics 2, and other up-to-date color and graphics information books from Lynda Weinman.
• Graphics and Image-maps
  Links to several tutorials and information articles.
• 3D Specialists' Tutorial

Advanced HTML

• Frames FAQ
• XML FAQ
• Cascading Style Sheets FAQ
• A Frames Tutorial

CGI, Scripts, Perl, Cookies

• HWG-Servers Mailing List FAQ
• Perl FAQ
• CGI FAQ
• Perl FAQ Indes
• Robot Exclusion Instructions
  A description of how to set up your site to exclude robots from reading part or all of it. This is not a standard,just a consensus among robot creators.
• Cookies FAQ
• The IETF cookies draft document
• Netscape's cookie implementation

Java and JavaScript

• JavaScript FAQ
• Java Boutique
  The Java one-stop-shop. Instructions, information, and a selection of Applets for your use.
• Voodoo's Introduction To JavaScript
• The Gamelan Java FAQ

Business Related

• HWG-Business Mailing List FAQ
• Setting your rates
  An in-depth look at how to set your rates. Several methods are provided and discussed.
• Contracts: what to include and an example contract.
• Copyright FAQ
• How To Start an HTML Business
• The Internet Provider FAQ
• Cyberspace Law for non-lawyers, A tutorial by the Cyberspace Law Institute.

Security and Encryption

• The World Wide Web Security FAQ
• Where to get the latest PGP FAQ
• Internet Firewall FAQ

Validation

• The Kinder Gentler Validator
• W3C HTML Validation Service
• NSGMLS: a UNIX program to check your code. This is the back-end to KGV; not a simple program, but very useful.
• The Bobby Validator for checking the accessibility of your web pages.

Glossaries and Other Miscellaneous Sites

• Very Basic Internet Terms
• Net-Dictionary
• ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
  (Internet Literacy Consultants)