• Author: Michael Karbo
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free

A completely illustrated, 33 chapter, basic beginners guide to HTML, that will teach even the most inept among us how to build a basic web page from scratch. Using Notetab Lite (freeware), the author guides you through using the application and coding your pages, adding text, links, graphics, and more.

Note: Although the top of the table of contents page may lead you to believe this is a Photoshop tutorial, it is an HTML one.

Chapters include:

• Preface and Introduction. You need HTML!
• Tags – make it work.
• Choosing programs.
• Installation and preparation.
• Start the home page.
• Text and line length.
• Headings and basefont.
• Fonts.
• Graphics and colors.
• Studying the code.
• Background graphics.
• More about graphics.
• Introduction to the tables.
• Color and spacing in tables.
• The Fish Page.
• Insert bookmarks.
• The first links.
• Checking the links.
• Let’s make a travellers homepage.
• Copy text to the page.
• We need links ….
• Layout with table.
• Layout with CSS.
• Using the search/replace function.
• A frame set.
• A better design.
• Rollovers with JavaScript.
• Graphic links with buttons.
• More about CSS.
• About publishing on the net.
• Get a counter for the page.
• The META tags.
• More about NoteTab.
• Methods to interesting homepages.

http://www.karbosguide.com/books/html/start.htm

• Author: Gary Kessler
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free

A brief introduction to cryptographic methods focused on the terms and concepts, comparing cryptographic schemes in use today, including Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, RSA, DES, PGP, IPsec, SSL, Cisco’s Stream Cipher, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Rijndael.

Contents include:

• Introduction
• The Purpose of Cryptography
• Types of Cryptographic Algorithms
• Trust Models
• Cryptographic Algorithms In Action
• Conclusion… of sorts
• References and Further Reading

http://www.garykessler.net/library/crypto.html