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This FAQ site provides you with information on anything and everything you have always wanted to know about the world wide web (but were afraid to ask). The following is a listing of the FAQ contents:

• Contents
• About this document
• Recent changes to the FAQ
• Introduction to the World Wide Web
• Obtaining and using web browsers
• Establishing and using web servers
• Authoring web pages, images and scripts
• Other resources about the Web
• Credits
• Overview of the World Wide Web


Contents:

• What is the Web?
• What is a URL?
• What are SGML and HTML?
• How does the Web compare to Gopher and WAIS?
• What is the W3 consortium?
• How can I access the Web?
• What is available through the web?
• How do I find out what's new on the Web?
• Where is the subject catalog of the Web?
• How can I search through ALL web sites?
• Can I catch a virus from a web page?
• How can I find out when a web page has changed?
• How do I publish on the Web?
• Who uses the Web?
• What is VRML?
• What is Java?
• What can I do to protect my legal rights on the web?
• Obtaining and using web browsers


Contents:

• Browsers accessible by telnet
• Obtaining Amiga browsers
• Obtaining Macintosh browsers
• Obtaining MS-DOS (non-Windows) browsers
• Obtaining NeXT browsers
• Obtaining Unix and VMS browsers
• Obtaining VM/CMS browsers
• Obtaining Microsoft Windows and OS/2 browsers
• Obtaining X Window System / DecWindows browsers
• Obtaining Acorn RISCOS browsers
• Obtaining batch-mode "browsers"
• I can't get SLIP or PPP. I want web access. Is there a way? Can I browse HTML files locally when I'm offline?
• How can I access the Web through a firewall?
• I'm running XMosaic. Why don't my external viewers work? I have a Windows PC or a Mac. Why can't I access WAIS URLs? How do I convert HTML to (plain ASCII, PostScript, other printable formats)? How can I save an inline image to disk?
• How can I send newsgroup posts in HTML to my web browser? How can I get sound from the PC speaker with WinMosaic?
• Establishing and using web servers


Contents:

• Amiga servers
• Macintosh servers
• MS-DOS and Novell Netware servers
• Unix servers
• VM/CMS servers
• VMS servers
• IBM OS/2 Servers
• Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95 Servers
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 Servers
• Servers for Embedded Applications
• Can I serve two domains from one server?
• Comparison: which server is best?
• How fast does my connection have to be?
• How can I make my web site searchable?
• How can I get my server to recognize both .htm and .html?
• Do I have to approve every imagemap my users create?
• Can I safely allow my users to run their own CGI scripts?
• Can I lease space on an existing server?
• How can I keep robots off my server?
• How do I publicize my server?
• How can I secure access to my server?
• Can I prevent others from studying my HTML?
• How can I keep statistics on my server?
• How can I serve [Word documents, Excel spreadsheets...] through my server?
• Authoring web pages, images and scripts


Contents:

• Overview: how to create web documents
• Writing HTML documents yourself
• HTML editors
• Converting other formats to HTML
• Checking web pages for errors
• How can I "include" one HTML document in another?
• How can I include a "back" button in my web page?
• How can I create a background and choose my own text colors?
• Generating web pages from a program (CGI)
• How can I keep "state" information between CGI calls?
• How can I identify the user accessing my CGI script?
• My CGI script doesn't work! What's wrong?
• How can I keep my document from being cached?
• How can users send me comments and/or email?
• How can I create fill-out forms?
• Are HTML 3.0 tables ready? Are there other options?
• How can I use inline images without alienating my users? Can I create animations in my web page?
• How can I distribute audio through the web?
• How can I generate inline images on the fly?
• What is HTML 3.0?
• How do I comment an HTML document?
• How do I create clickable image maps?
• How can I create transparent and interlaced GIFs? What are they?
• Why do my transparent GIFs look (grainy, chunky, not so transparent)...
• Which is better for the web, JPEG or GIF?
• What is a progressive JPEG? How can I produce progressive JPEGs?
• Can I lease space on an existing server?
• Can I make a link that doesn't load a new page?
• How can I redirect the browser to a new URL?
• How can the user download binaries from my server?
• How can I mirror part of another server?
• Does mailto: work in all browsers?
• How can I serve [Word documents, Excel spreadsheets...] through my server? How do I publicize my work?
• Hey, why can't I write a web-exploring robot?
• Where can I get an access counter for my page?
• Other resources about the Web

 

 

Contents:

• Books about the Web
• Mailing lists about the Web
• Newsgroups about the Web
• IRC channels about the Web (real-time chat)

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