Chapter 6: Working with Links and URLs

Links: Learning More About Links and URLs

• W3C: Links in HTML Documents
  From the HTML 4.0 specification.
• Anchors and Links
  From Netscape's HTML Tag Reference.
• Webmonkey on Links and Mailtos.
  The very basics.
• Top Level Domains (country codes)
  Where is .il, anyway?
• DomainStats.com
  Numbers of domains registered in specific countries and to other top-level domains.
• AboutDomains.com
  How domain names work, and more.
• Namedroppers.com
  Find out which .com, .org, and .net names belong to whom. This whois lookup is my current favorite, because you can search on partial and multiple words.

Links: Some Sites That Use Links Wisely

• Everything
  Links here aren't coded exactly like regular HTML, but in some ways it seems like links were invented so this site could exist.
• Salon
  They always link keywords to archived stories, and they always provide related links. Nice colors, too.
• Justin's Links from the Underground
  You're never quite sure where a link here will take you, and that's okay.
• Memepool
  Fresh links daily. The authors are creative not only in which sites they pick, but with which words they link.
• Astounding Web Sites
  A reader-run link exchange. Easy to navigate.
• Ditherati
  The content and the relevant contact and attribution links all fit nicely on a little over one screen. Note how I said "attribution." (Webster's)
• The Fridge
  Link text may or may not be related to the destination. This one's mine. :)