Web Publishing

InDesign CS3 lets you create Web pages from your layouts, for use in Web editors such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Bare Bones SOftware's BBEdit. The eported files will not be replicas of your layout but XHTML-format pages that contain links to the source imgaes (converted for you during export) and to the CSS file that defines the text appearance (style names in your document are converted to CSS names, but the formatting itself is not exported).

Although InDesign CS and CS2 do not let you create Web pages directly, you can export InDesign documents to XML format for use in Adobe GoLive.

There are tons of online sites with Web, HTML, and CGI content, but most are really fronts for script sales operations. It's best to get a good book and use an online manual from one of the many university sites that make them available at no charge. Here are the resources I recommend:

XML, HTML, and CGI Resources

• O'Reilly (news, tips. conferences, book): Web, Perl, scripting, and XML sections
• HTML Character Entity References (HTML special character codes)
• Perl manual (CGI scripting)

Books

• XML Bible, Gold Edition, by Elliotte Rusty Harold.
• Beginning XML, 2nd Edition, by David Hunter, Kurt Cagle, Chris Dix, Roger Kovack, Jonathan Pinnock, and Jeff Rafter.
• XML for the World Wide Web, by Elizabeth Castro.
• HTML 4 Bible, 2nd Edition, by Bryan Pfaffenberger and Bill Karow.
• HTML 4.01 Weekend Crash Course by Greg Perry.
• HTML 4 For Dummies: Quick Reference, 2nd Edition, by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray.
• HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible, 4th Edition, by Stephen Schaefer.
• CSS: The Definitive Guide, by Eric Meyer.
• Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition, by Paul Hoffman.
• Custom CGI Scripting with Perl by Kevin Hanegan.
• Creating Web Pages Weekend Crash Course by Charlie Morris.
• Web Design in a Nutshell, by Jennifer Niederst.
• AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications, by Cristian Darie and Bogdan Brinzarea.
• Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8, by David Powers.

For links to Web-related product books, go to the Books and Software page.