This is a listing of tools to help with HTML authoring and CGI scripts. Some of them are installed locally on ITS machines that serve ITS user homepages and others are URLs to services provided by other institutions.

• The Basics
• HTML Editors
• Error Logs
• Restricting Access to Web Pages (Passwords and Robots)
• Forms and CGI
• Web Counters
• Books

The Basics

Web Creation at UCB

• Beginner's Guide to HTML:
  • www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ General/ Internet/ WWW/ HTMLPrimer.html
• The HTML Sourcebook Table of Contents:
  • www.utoronto.ca/ webdocs/ HTMLdocs/ NewHTML/ htmlindex.html
• World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ):
  • www.boutell.com/faq/
• W3's HTML Style Guide:
  • www.w3.org/ hypertext/ WWW/ Provider/ Style/ Overview.html
• Eric Tilton's HTML Style Guide:
  • www.ology.org/tilt/cgh/
• Imagemap Tutorial:
  • hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ docs/ tutorials/ imagemapping.html
• User Athentication Tutorial:
  • hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ docs/ tutorials/ user.html.
• Server-side Include Tutorial:
  • hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ docs/ tutorials/ includes.html.
• The World Wide Web Consortium:
  • www.w3.org

HTML Editors

• Yahoo List of HTML Editors
  

Error Logs

• The error log for cgi errors, except www.colorado.edu, is in /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/error_log
• The error log for cgi errors on www.colorado.edu is in /htdocs/logs/error_log

Restricting Access to Web Pages (Passwords and Robots)

• How to password-restrict web pages
• How to keep robots out of your web pages

Forms and CGI

• Forms and the Common Gateway Interface(CGI) Specification:
  • hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi

  cgi-proxy - (spot and ucsu) Unless you use cgi-proxy to run your forms programs, they will run as the user nobody. This is OK for some situtuations but it is troublesome if you want to have your programs write to files under your home directory or preform other actions. cgi-proxy allows you to have your cgi programs run under your username. To see the cgi-proxy man page for details on how to use cgi-proxy, run the following command from your UNIX account: man cgi-proxy.

cgi-su - If your documents are stored in the /htdocs directory, then they reside on www.colorado.edu. You must use cgi-su for the same effect. To see the cgi-proxy man page for details on how to use cgi-su, run the following command from your UNIX account: man cgi-su.

Web Counters

• For help with web counters, click here.

Books

• Books section of the WWW FAQ:
  • www.boutell.com/ faq/ books.htm