Books and Literature on Web Authoring | The Literature

If you have returned to read more about on, go right on below, but if you want to know about the origins and its historical content, go read the first entry.

Really, there is much to discuss when it comes to books and literature about web authoring, there are so many aspects which could be covered. Here in this post, we have to take a look into literatures on web authoring, and these literatures are include materials published in magazines, as well as on sites across the Internet.

There are many magazines which are published for the budding web author. Some of the hundreds of magazines includes Practical Web Design, Digital Web Magazine and D-Zine!. Although there are many magazines in print, there are others which are not published in printed form and published online. These magazines include web authoring tips as well as software. This however, doesn't necessarily open the nitty gritty of the internal coding of the actual site.

Other sources of information include online forums. These forums provide a world wide, interactive source of web authoring, where people can read up tips and tricks as well as look for help. Unlike books, magazines, and content websites, they allow for interactions, and searches for relevant information. Forums are usually up-to-date and because of this is helpful for young budding web authors find what they want.

Lastly of the basic literatures is content websites. Some websites are dedicated to specific coding formats, while others have a jungle of information though it. Much like books, online websites describing coding and formats are of a seemingly dead source, however a few provide interactive samples. Differing from books, online websites are coloured. This difference enables budding web authors see the colours and effect online.

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A little piece of history of Books and Literature on Web Authoring

I guess you are all wondering, why start with the history of Books and literature on web authoring, to most of you it might sound pretty boring, like 'blah blah blah' most importantly this gives us an insight into how far the world wide web has come from its inception. This is a handy part to know for a budding web authors.

Web Authoring, also known widely as web design is the know how to build a doorstep to you from the world vastly unlimited space of the world wide web. From the inception of the world wide web hypertext concept by Tim Berners-Lee, to the public arena commercially in 1996, along side with the Webby Awards (an award for the recognition of the best websites) in 1995, has drawn great interests in creating a piece of virtual paradise. Over the years there has been many books and other literature, written on how to build websites, turning what looks like a plain screen into to the beautiful sites such as, as Microsoft, Apple Computers, and Blogger.com

As the world wide web grew, many problems and challenges were faced, the first being the amount of browsing software, secondly the differing formats. A browser is like the visual tool to view the pages published on the world wide web. The browser in itself like different cars, they handle and operate differently firstly because of their internal engines, and it's visual interface, this is noticeable if you have experimented with Mozilla Firefox (using Netscape open source Mozilla Engine), and the Internet Explorer series of browsers. As such, this affects the way in which the website is coded, to accommodate for the differences in handling.

The secondary issue is that there are many different formats in which that can be coded, such as .html, .asp, .php. This has come about because of the number of different core operating systems available in the industry such as Windows Server, UNIX, and LINIX. Due to this complexity, there has been numerous Books and Literature on Web Authoring based in each of the coding format. Despite the differences and the complexities of all the above, there are key basics which are adhered to in Web Authoring, and as such most Books and Literature on Web Authoring cover these key aspects.

to be continued.

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