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Net publications in English by Jukka Korpela

Strictly job-related

About Web authoring

• Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples
• So you want to create a home page? - instructions for building up a really cool personal home page
• Getting Started with HTML
• Why style sheets are harmful
• Publishing on the Web Is Different
• Margin notes to HTML 4.0 in Netscape and Explorer

See also the page about my activities related to Web, which lists some more publications of mine.

Other material of general interest

• How to use images in communication in general and on the Web in particular
• Flag as a symbol of language - stupidity or insult? (see also a nicer version published by irt.org)
• My comments on the HTML 4.0 draft
• Material on the Perl programming language: Getting Started With Perl and Perl Lessons
• Using ISO Latin 1 characters in Emacs
• A tutorial on character code issues
• The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire - a description with usage notes and other material on ISO 8859 character sets
• Copyright basics for Web authors and users
• ISO Latin 9 as compared with ISO Latin 1 - a discussion of a character set which contains the euro sign
  
• ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard - tells you why to denote dates in the 1998-05-12 style
• The seven donts of Usenet, including Why you shouldn't ask for E-mail responses on Usenet and Why and how to crosspost
• How all human communication fails, except by accident, or a commentary of Wiio's laws
• What RFCs are
• Tab Separated Values (TSV): a format for tabular data exchange (e.g. between Excel and other programs)
• Definition: a definition and an analysis

Of local interest

• Instructions for providing information via WWW at HUT
• Welcome to the Computing Centre (originally written by Andreas Holmberg, revamped by me)
• User's Guide to Cactus and Cypress (largely outdated)

Other

• The Finnish Language (a very short introduction, pronunciation information, etc)
• English - the universal language on the Internet?
• The Effect of Computer Technology on the Design of Artificial Languages
• Will Computers and the Internet make an IAL Necessary?
• Go metric!

Date of last update of this list: 2001-01-15.