Overviews of intranet technologies and advise from the experts.

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HTML 4.0 unwrapped
Now in its 4.0 release, HTML has come far from its roots as a quick hack Tim Berners-Lee wrote for use with the World Wide Web he invented back in 1989. 8/31/98

Style sheets, Take 2
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently elevated Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2) to Recommendation status, a quick move that indicates just how important this specification is to Web developers. 7/27/98

Multimedia with a SMIL
Your CEO has a flash of genius regarding the intranet: He wants to post a slideshow that employees can look at while listening to him explain his new diversification strategy. 6/29/98

Making sense of browser identification
Even if you've established intranet standards, you'd be wise to make sure your servers can identify what type of browsers are requesting information and can deliver content to them accordingly. 5/25/98

The World Wide Web Consortium ponders new standards that deal with content delivery protocol.
Tired of listening to users complain that it takes too long for Web pages to appear and sick of worrying about what impact this might have on intranet use? 4/27/98

Lookin' into Linux
Set aside those operating system biases. If you're delivering intranet services, you've got to check out the Linux program -- it's free, fast and feature-rich. 3/30/98

OBI: Paving the way to electronic commerce
3/30/98

Open Profiling Standard: At home on intranets. 2/23/98

Picking a Publishing Package
Follow these five guidelines to ease the tricky task of choosing a Web authoring/publishing tool. 2/23/98

Collaborative catchall
Intranets are migrating from document libraries to platforms for collaborative applications, and that means new challenges for IT managers. 2/23/98

Tapping roots
Web technology offers remote and nomadic users easy access to the home office. But is surfing the 'Net and into the intranet as safe and easy as it first appears? 1/26/98

Browser configuration kits Simplify rollouts, updates 1/26/98.

Lean and Mean Trimming a few thousand bytes from image files can make all the difference for users downloading Web pages. 1/26/98