Publishing on the Web

B. Rousseau CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

Publishing on the Web is a complex activity for which the knowledge of the HTML language is only a very basic prerequisite. Web publishers have to compose good HTML documents that satisfy a number of constraints imposed by the WWW media. They must then interlink these documents to build webs with good readability and maintainability properties. During this process, publishers have to use and sometimes to program software tools, ranging from editors and converters to sophisticated documentation systems.. A tour of the web publishing tasks is presented. At each stage, guidelines and automated tools are proposed, that may contribute to build webs of good quality.

1 - Introduction

2 - The Web Publisher's Workbench

3 - Composing HTML Documents

3.1 - The Essence of HTML
3.2 - The HTML Syntax
3.3 - Device Independence
3.4 - HTML Semantics
3.5 - Images
3.6 - WWW Etiquette

4 - Building Webs

4.1 - The structure of Webs
4.2 - Anatomy of Nodes
4.3 - The maintenance problem
4.4 - Converters
4.5 - Towards Documentation Systems

5 - Conclusion

6 - Acknowledgements

7 - References

Presented at the CERN School of Computing, Arles, France,
20 August - 2 September, 1995.

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