Web Publishing is a broad subject that encompasses learning how to create web documents in any of a number of ways, getting and setting up a place for your documents to reside on the web, and figuring out how to get those pages found by the people you want to read them.

The best tip I can give you, is proof read, proof read, proof read your pages always several times before or after uploading them to your server. It will save you from looking like an idiot when you make a mistake writing a page.

Another good tip is to reread your pages a week later, then about once a month to spot mistakes, and improvements that can be made to your pages. Updating articles is important to keep up with the changing landscape of the Internet.

Participating in Google Analytics allows you to see what keywords people used when they wound up on your site. You can use the phrases they search on to write content aimed at what the searches are looking for on your site. To do this you have to be part of the Google Ad Sense program which can help you make money from your web sites.

This page will contain links to some resources for learning how to code web pages, and links to some of the major search engine's Web Master pages that help you discover how to get your pages indexed.

I do not recommend using any of the line of WYSIWYG web page editors for anything other than quickly laying out a template page which you will then load into a good text editor with syntax highlighting to finesse the resulting code. Many on these editors add style declarations in line within the document you are creating which isn't recommended. You should strip these style definitions out, and put them in an external style sheet where you can control the general look of your entire web site with a single style sheet.

The very first place I would go to, and bookmark, is the W3 Schools This excellent resource will teach you to code in HTML, to create CSS Style Sheets, to program in Javascript and other client based scripting languages, and teach you to write server side scripts as well. Every page there has a search box near the top which searches W3 Schools only, and can help you find out how to do any specific thing you may be trying to do with your pages quickly. Their tutorials start off simple and continue on to advanced concepts quickly.

Before I start listing Web Publishing tip sites, the Web Site Development forum on Bleeping Computer's web site is an excellent place to get help if you are stuck. They're not going to write your pages for you, but when you just can't figure it out, these guys can help.

PageResource.com This site has many excellent tutorials on a variety of Web Publishing subjects. On their Web Links page they link to many more sites that have Web Publishing tutorials.

Javascript City This site has tutorials on Javascript programming, and many free scripts you can use on your own site. They also have links to many more Javascript resources, including discussion forums, other tutorial sites, and sites on Web Publishing.

You will also find several good Javascript related links on my Programming page.

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor This is the main site for the server side scripting language PHP. They have a tutorial, documentation, and downloads related to PHP.

Google Web Master Central This is where you go to learn to get your pages indexed by Google, and where to check on them to see how they are doing.

Yahoo Site Explorer This small set of tools allows you to check up on your site, and submit changes to Yahoo for indexing.

Another leg up to writing your own code, is to get some tools which allow you to inspect what others are doing on their web sites. My favorite tools for this are the Firefox web browser with the Web Developer add on installed to it.

Web Developer allows you to inspect anything you want about a page including it's HTML, style sheets, cookies, page elements, etc... Another good add on to Firefox is Firebug, which allows you to inspect and debug Javascript code associated with the currently loaded page.

Web Development Bookmarklets These are handly little tools for discovering things about a web page. They are Javascript code in a bookmark that you can drag and drop on your toolbar to add to your browser. One is called "make link", and when you are on a page you merely need to click the "make link" bookmarklet to have a complete link to that page generated which you can copy and paste. This eliminates spelling and keyboarding errors pretty effectively. [I used it to make the link to Bookmarklets on this page.]

Google Web Toolkit - Google Code This is the home page for the Google Web Toolkit which eases your development of cross browser apps in Javascript and AJAX. You write code in it's Java interface, and when you are done, it generates the Javascript, HTML, and AJAX calls to use for each browser for you. It uses a hosted mode browser so you can see your changes as you make them without having to upload to your server.