Nik Clayton's article series on Daemon News is an excellent introduction to the unix way of managing websites. These articles are available online.

The ``Managing websites under unix'' series

• Managing websites using Unix (Part One: An introduction to CVS)

• Managing websites using Unix (Part Two: An introduction to make)

• Managing websites using Unix (Part Three: A more complete make install )

• Managing websites using Unix (Part Four)

DocBook is a popular SGML document type definition that is used to write computer documentation.

More information about DocBook can be found from the docbook.org web site.

DSSSL stands for Document Style and Semantics Specification Language. DSSSL offers a portable way to specify the transformation of an SGML document into other formats.

More information about DSSSL can be found at:

• James Clark's page on DSSSL,

• Robin Cover's page on DSSSL, which includes links to a number of tutorials available on the Internet.

The FreeBSD Documentation Project uses SGML and DocBook to manage their documentation.

Our documentation system shares a number of architectural features in common with their effort. In particular, the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors is recommended reading.

Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language developed by James Clark. Information about this tool can be found from its home page.

openjade is a project undertaken by the DSSSL community to maintain and extend jade.

PostScript™ and PDF are page description languages created by Adobe Inc..

PostScript and PDF Specifications

• The PDF Reference is available online, and also from Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-75839-3).

• The PostScript Language Reference is available online and also from Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-37922-8).

The ISO/IEC DIS 10180 [1995] standard ``Standard Page Description Language'' defines a page description language that is, in effect, an internationalized version of PostScript™.

SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, a language for defining structured markup. SGML is an international standard, [ISO 8879:1986].

There are a number of resources on SGML on the Internet:

• Robin Cover's pages on SGML are an excellent resource. In particular, a number of tutorials are referenced from the general introductions and overviews page at this site.

SourceForge is a collaborative development system hosting a (very large) number of open source projects. More information about this innovative way of doing software development can be found at their main site, ``http://sourceforge.net/ ''.

There are a number of books catering to readers new to Unix. The following books are recommended reading:

• Learning the Unix Operating System (ISBN: 0-596-00261-0) [older edition available online].

• Managing Projects with make (ISBN: 0-937175-90-0)

• Unix Power Tools (ISBN: 1-56592-260-3)

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML is a standard from the World Wide Web Consortium.

Robin Cover's pages on XML are an excellent starting point for finding out more about XML.

Another good resource is the web site XML.com.