A List Apart (ALA) is an online magazine that "explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards." Published on a very irregular basis (perhaps as new articles are contributed), ALA features between one and three articles per issue on topics ranging from usability to Cascading Style Sheets to Extensible...

In 1998 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 specification as a W3C recommendation. Cascading style sheets help to improve layout control of HTML documents. CSS2 adds further to this control, including new positioning properties and dynamically downloadable fonts. It is also designed to interface with XML (Extensible Markup Language--discussed in the ...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an Internet tool that separates the presentation from the structural markup of a Web site. CSS keeps the structure of a document lean and fast while controlling the appearance of its content. This product is not an adapted tool from print or programming; rather, it is a means of enhancing HTML. For users interested in learning more about this tool, this informative...

Since the advent of the internet, a number of artists and related organizations have become interested in utilizing the web to promulgate new forms of artistic creation and their subsequent dissemination. Supported by the Arts Council of England, these Diffusion eBooks are essentially pdf files that readers can download, print out and make into booklets. As the site suggests, "the Diffusion format...

Grav is a flat-file based content management system (CMS). Unlike database-backed content management systems like Drupal, Wordpress, or Joomla, Grav generates pages based on folders of Markdown files. This means that site content is stored in a simple format that can be easily modified with standard text editing tools. It also means that no database is required on the web server, just a reasonably...

Hexo is a static site generator designed for blogging, with an emphasis on speed. The developers state that sites comprising hundreds of files "take only seconds to build." Entries are written in GitHub flavored Markdown. There are more than 330 themes included in a default installation. Users may also create their own custom themes. Numerous plugins are available to add still more themes, provide...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the HyperText Markup Language 4.0 specification as "a W3C recommendation. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to web interoperability, and has been reviewed by all W3C members, who are in favor of supporting its adoption by the industry." Also included is more information about the features of the...

mdBook is a program that creates "online book-like websites," from directories of Markdown files. It is particularly well-suited to creating online manuals and is used somewhat widely for that purpose in the Rust community. The mdBook user guide is an example of one such website. A number of plugins are available that extend mdBook with additional features, like rendering of LaTeX equation...

Movable Type has recently released version 2.0 (an upgrade from 1.4). Movable Type is a Web-based personal publishing system designed to ease the maintenance of regularly updated news or journal sites. Most importantly, this product runs on your own Web server, allowing complete control over your sites. Some of its many features include allowing the importation of entries and comments from other...

If you're looking to start your own online exhibit, you'll want to give Omeka 1.0 a test run. This web-based publishing platform was created by staff members at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and it allows users "to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming". First-time users may wish to look at some of the online exhibits that have been created...