The WorldWideWeb Handbook

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Roadmap
• Technical note

  Part One: How to get started

1. Introduction
   • Quick-start for existing Internet users
   • If you're not connected yet
2. WorldWideWhat?
3. For beginners
   • Getting connected to the Internet
   • How to find an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
   • Hardware: the boxes and wires
   • Software: the programs
   • Making the connection
4. Getting used to the Internet
   • Electronic mail: communicating with other users
   • Usenet news
   • Telnet: logging in elsewhere on the network
   • FTP: downloading files from the Internet
   • Finding your way around the network
5. Using a WorldWideWeb browser
   • Different kinds of browser
   • Installation and configuration
   • How to use a Web browser
6. How it works
   • Clients and servers
   • Universal text
   • Identifying text with markup
   • Editing software

   Part Two: How to make WorldWideWeb files

7. Introduction to HTML
   • Why a formal specification?
   • How HTML markup works
   • Basic file structure
8. Simple document markup
   • The document type declaration
   • The HTML header
   • The text body: paragraphs and headings
   • Making lists
   • Emphasis, fonts, and formatting
   • Accents and symbols
   • Block text
9. Hypertext links and graphics
   • The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
   • The anchor element
   • Graphics
   • Documenting your files
10. Tables, mathematics, and forms
    • Tables
    • Mathematics
    • Forms
    • Forms processing
11. Controlling appearances
    • User requirements
    • Alternatives to HTML

    Part Three: Running a service

12. Server software
    • Picking a platform
    • Servers available
    • Installation
    • Management and maintenance
13. `Searchable' URLs
    • Scripts
    • Including external data
14. Keeping things straight
    • Checking link integrity
    • Server security
15. Rights and responsibilities
    • Conduct and etiquette
16. Copyright and intellectual property
    • Development of copyright
    • Copyright law
    • Intellectual property
    • Prohibition and permission
17. Authentication, encryption, and charging
    • Authentication
    • Authorization
    • Encryption
    • Charging and accounting
18. Future developments

    Appendices

    1. Converting existing text
       • Conversion programs
    2. HTML3
       • New header elements
       • Body content
       • Character-level elements
       • Lists
       • Tables, figures, and images
       • Mathematics
       • Forms
       • Notes and blocks
       • Style sheets
    3. Resources
       • Mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups for the Web
       • Digging for information
    4. ISO and other sets of code tables
       • MIME content types
       • Language codes
       • HTTP status codes
       • Country codes
       • Suggested values for link relationships
    5. Authors and Suppliers

• Bibliography
• Index