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For Further Information

For information about the Internet and the various types of Internet services, see:

Harrison, Mark, The USENET Handbook, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 1995.

Krol, Ed, The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog, second edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 1994.

Liu, Cricket, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buss, and Adrian Nye, Managing Internet Information Services, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 1994.

Musciano, Chuck and Bill Kennedy, HTML: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 1996.

Niederst, Jennifer with Edie Freedman, Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 1996.

The Web itself is crammed full of information about creating and using inline graphics (try performing a Web search using the key phrase "Web graphics"). The following Web resources contain very good information on Web page graphics, but they are by no means the only available sources:

http://hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages

A complete Web page construction tutorial courtesy of the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. Tutorial 7 contains the inline graphics information.

http://www.w3.org/CERN/Divisions/SL/off-comp/links.html
Jaap's Link Collection

Links to many useful Web pages for HTML development.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Contains a nice section on inline images.

http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html
Extensions to HTML 2.0

Information on advanced features of Web graphics.

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mime.html
What is MIME?

An introduction to MIME.

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Programming/Icons/
Yahoo Icons and Bitmaps

Links to numerous icon and bitmap archives. All suitable for use as Web graphics.

http://dragon.jpl.nasa.gov/~adam/transparent.html
The Transparent/Interlace GIF Resource Page

A terrific source of information for using GIF files to store Web page graphics.

http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~ta/tgif/transgifnotes.html
The Creative Internet: Transparent GIF Info

More info on transparent GIFs and GIF software tools.

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/www/inline-images-faq.html
WWW Inline Images FAQ

Frequently asked questions about inline images on the Web.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html
WWW FAQ

Tom Boutell's excellent FAQ on the World Wide Web.

http://melmac.corp.harris.com/transparent_images.html
Transparent Background Images

More info on transparent GIFs and how to create them.

http://sd-www.jsc.nasa.gov/web_formats.html
Recommended File Formats for WWW Documents

Information on file formats used on the Web.


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