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Web authoring bookmarks

For starters

WWW Summary by Tim Berners-Lee: This short article explains what the Web is all about from the point of view of the man who invented the WWW. 1992.
A history of HTML by Dave Raggett, Jenny Lam, Ian Alexander and Michael Kmiec: Chapter 2 of Ragget on HTML 4. 1998. You may also buy the book from Amazon.com

HTML primer (43K) by Jukka Korpela: A short and highly recommended tutorial.
HTML 4.0 Reference by the Web Design Group.: A comprehensive and reliable guide to the current HTML recommendation.
HTML documentation by W3C: Includes the normative specifications of HTML.

Style Sheets vs. Frames as Web Extensions by Jakob Nielsen: A thoughtful comparison between style sheets and frames.
Cascading Style Sheets by W3C
The CSS2 specification. W3C recommendation.
The CSS pointers group: A valuable resource for style-sheet designers
CSS guide by the WDG
Cascading Style Sheets - Designing for the Web by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos: Selected chapters from a book by the authors of the CSS specification. You may buy the second edition of this book from Amazon.com. The first edition is also available.

These check the validity of syntax of HTML documents. All are based on nsgmls from James Clark's SP.

HTML Validator of WDG: Checks documents by URL and file upload. Supports many character encodings, and gives easy to understand error messages.
A Real Validator: A validator for Windows. An offline version of the above.
HTML Validator of W3C: Checks documents by URL.
WebTechs by Dan Connolly and Mark Gaither: World's first online HTML validation service

Webxact
Web Page Purifier by Delorie Software: This service reduces your browser to a browser conforming to an older level of HTML and/or to a character-mode browser. It simply erases from the original document all tags unknown to the specified HTML level. Following links in the output will purify the followed URL.
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer by Delorie Software: Similar to the purifier, but has other combinations of conformance.
Lynx Viewer by Delorie Software: Produces an imitation of the output of Lynx, a common character-mode browser. Its advantage is that it gives the layout of Lynx rather than reducing your browser to character-mode.

Hints for Web Authors by Warren Steel: An excellent article explaining the fundamental concepts of Web authoring.
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design by Jakob Nielsen: Some good advice from a professional.
Ten More Things to Avoid in Authoring a Web Page by Terry Sullivan: A complementary list to the above.
Alertbox by Jakob Nielsen: A bi-weekly column on usability issues.
Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee: An ever green classic, by the man who invented the Web.

that you won't find in tucows. And it is all free.

Lynx a web browser for the thinking person.: If you are not convinced, try these poetic thoughts. In particular, I like its "print to file" option that converts HTML to well formatted plain text.

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium: An international body that sets standards for most things that need standards on the Web. Lots of valuable information.
The Web Design Group: Includes a variety of reference guides, tutorials, and FAQs.
Things to do with the WWW by A.J. Flavell: A collection of articles on various Web issues including internationalization, content negotiation and caching, text friendly authoring, and stylesheets.
Web site development information by Tobias C. Brown: A highly selective references guide

A brief intro to copyright by Brad Templeton
Ten big myths about copyright by Brad Templeton
Notes on Copyright & Related Issues from the Geometry Center at University of Minnesota
Links and Law by Tim Berners-Lee
Linking Rights by Brad Templeton