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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 4.0 Reference by the Web Design Group.: A comprehensive and reliable guide to HTML4.0.
HTML documentation by W3C: Includes 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 CSS pointers group: A valuable resource for style-sheet designers
CSS guide by the WDG

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.
Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee: An ever green classic, by the man who invented the Web.

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