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Web authoring

Web Teaching: Choosing a Web authoring tool
There is no preeminent tool for Web authoring: a number of solutions exist, depending on what you want to do, the complexity of the site you have in mind, and your skill level with HTML and other computer applications. This article written by Sarah Horton at Dartmouth College discusses courseware tools, text editors, visual editors, and conversion utilities. Included are links to the major vendors.

Review of authoring tools
Webmonkey's comparative review of the major visual Web authoring tools and text editors (1999), and a dozen more articles, including reviews of newer versions.

CNET Builder.com on authoring and site design
A wealth of materials on authoring tips and how-tos, site design and usability, HTML editors, standards, and product reviews, plus other Web authoring resources.

For tutorials on various authoring tools, see: cit home > how to > tutorials > web authoring

Reference shelf

Web Style Guide
Subtitled Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, this site, and companion book by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, is an essential guide for Web site creators.

The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style's Questions and Answers are a useful resource citing electronic sources. The manuscript editing department at the University of Chicago Press invites questions about style.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
There are many dictionaries on the Web, but this is the one we recommend as a publishing reference. Included here is the Collegiate Thesaurus.