Guides and Tutorials
- XHTML! What's
That All About?
http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0903.htm#feature - XHTML Tutorial (W3 Schools)
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/ - Learning XHTML
(Simon Jessey)
http://jessey.net/simon/xhtml_tutorial/ - Introduction
to XHTML (Alan Richmond)
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XHTML/ - XHTML Web Design for Beginners
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html - XHTML
Explained (Ross Shannon)
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/accessibility/xhtmlexplained.html - XHTML
1.0: Marking Up a New Dawn (Molly Holzschlag)
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-xhtml.html - XHTML Web Design for Beginners (Peck)
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/1010 - Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure
http://www.brainstormsandraves.com/articles/semantics/structure/ - NY Public Library Online Style
Guide
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/ - HTML Goodies:
XHTML (Joe Burns)
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/tutors/xhtml.html - Writing HTML--A Tutorial
for Creating WWW Pages
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut - Jan's Guide to HTML and more...
http://www.weijers.net/guide/index.php?lang=en - Developing with Web Standards
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/ - HTML An Interactive
Tutorial for Beginners
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ - HTML Primer
http://www.htmlprimer.com/ - Lissa Explains It All
http://www.lissaexplains.com/ - Draac Beginner's Guide to HTML
http://www.draac.com/ - Writing
for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html
(X)HTML Reference Manuals and Cheat Sheets
Top of Page- Index
DOT HTML (Brian Wilson)
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/index.html - HTML Design Guide
http://www.ncdesign.org/ - Sizzling
HTML Jalfrezi
http://vzone.virgin.net/sizzling.jalfrezi/iniframe.htm - Barebones Guide to HTML
http://www.werbach.com/barebones - XHTML: Differences between Strict & Transitional
http://liorean.web-graphics.com/xhtml/comparison.loose-strict.html - Comparison of Strict and Transitional XHTML
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xhtmlReference/Output/comparison.html - Web Browser Standards Support
http://nanobox.chipx86.com/browser_support.php - Character Entities
http://www.copysense.co.uk/entities.php - Character Entity Html Reference
http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ - HTML Codes
http://ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
WWW/Hypertext Style Guides
Top of Page- Yale Web Style Manual
http://www.webstyleguide.com/ - Universal Usability
http://universalusability.com/ - Styleguide: 100
Do's and Don'ts (SpiderPro)
http://www.spiderpro.com/pr/prstgm001.html - Web Page Design for Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm - December's Web Development
http://www.december.com/web/develop.html - Web Design Tips
http://www.colin.mackenzie.org/webdesign/ - Web Design from Scratch
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/ - Web Pages that ...
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ - Designing
information-abundant web sites
http://ijhcs.open.ac.uk/shneiderman/shneiderman.html
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/scchome_old/policies/web.htm - Criteria for Optimal Web Design (Dept. of Psychology, Witchata State Univ.)
http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/
Accessible Web Page Design
Top of Page- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ - World
Wide Access: Accessible Web Design
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/universal.design.html - WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
http://www.webaim.org/ - Accessites.org
http://accessites.org/home/ - Before and After Accessibility Demonstration
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2005/Demo/Overview - Accessibility from the Ground Up (Matt May)
http://digital-web.com/articles/accessibility_from_the_ground_up/ - Getting Started with Practical Web Accessibility
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/acc/ - Web Accessibility Learning Modules
http://www.csufresno.edu/webaccess/learningmodules/ - Evaluating Website Accessibility (Roger Johansson)
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200604/evaluating_website_accessibility/ - Dive Into Accessibility (Mark Pilgrim)
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ - Simply Accessible
http://simplyaccessible.org/ - Accessify
http://www.accessify.com/ - Accessibility Internet Rally
http://www.cookiecrook.com/AIR/2003/train/ - Microsoft
Accessibility Design Guidelines for the Web
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsent7/html/vxconAccessibilityDesignGuidelinesForWeb.asp - Web Accessibility
Checklists
http://www.rnib.org.uk/digital/hints.htm
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/ - Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accessibility
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/accessibility/ - Web Accessibility Best Practices (U. Illinois)
http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/index.php - Accessible Web-based Distance Education: Principles and Best Practices (L. Harrison)
- Dispelling the Myths - Web Accessibility is for All
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/library/papers/accDistanceEducation.html - Zoom Layouts (Joe Clark)
http://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/zoom/ - Accessibility Audit of One Page
http://www.ocawa.com/Home_7_en/ - Web Accessibility Test
http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/en - Cynthia Says™ Accessibility
Validation
http://www.contentquality.com/ - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium
http://www.wat-c.org/tools/ - Accessibility Tips
http://www.accessibilitytips.com/
Usable Web Page Design
Top of Page- Usability First
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/ - Universal Usability in Practice
http://www.otal.umd.edu/uupractice/ - Usable Information Technology (Jakob
Nielsen)
http://www.useit.com/ - Usability News
http://usabilitynews.com/ - Usability Views
http://www.usabilityviews.com/ - Usability in the Library (U. Michigan Library)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/usability/ - Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines
http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/usability/library_usability.html - Web Design Practices
- Web Site Usability Guidelines (MIT)
http://web.mit.edu/ist/usability/usability-guidelines.html - Usability
Research Review, 2006
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/dec06.asp - Usability (User Experience Design)
http://www.deyalexander.com.au/resources/uxd/usability.html
Web Site Creation Reference/Resource Sites
Top of Page- Web
Design Resources (U. Minnesota Duluth)
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/ - Web Developer's Handbook
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ - Bookmarks for Web Designers and Web Developers
http://www.alvit.de/web-dev/ - W3Schools.Com
http://www.w3schools.com/ - Smashing Magazine
- Project: New (Kevin Leitch)
http://www.kevinleitch.co.uk/projectnew/ - Web Developer's Virtual Library
http://www.wdvl.com/ - Web Browser Standards Support
http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support.php - HTML HELP
http://www.htmlhelp.com/ - Better Practice in Online Service Delivery (Australia Govt.)
http://webdesign.informit.com/ - BigNoseBird - Web Authoring Resources
http://www.bignosebird.com/ - Web Builder Zone
http://webbuilderzone.com/ - Webmaster Reference Library
http://webreference.com/ - December's HTML Station
http://www.december.com/html/ - Yahoo
HTML Section
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Data_Formats/HTML/ - Open
Directory Project HTML
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/HTML/ - Microsoft Developer
Network Library
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp - Creating a Web Site (Jessett.Com)
http://www.jessett.com/ - ProjectCool
http://www.devx.com/projectcool/developer/default.asp - Web Publishing Curriculum
Resources
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/it/webpub/
http://www.thefixor.com/ - Web Design/HTML
(About.com)
http://webdesign.about.com/compute/webdesign/ - HTMLcenter
http://htmlcenter.com/ - XHTML Information
and Resources (Website Tips)
http://www.websitetips.com/xhtml/index.shtml - EchoEcho
http://www.echoecho.com/
http://www.worldzone.net/ss/antelope/ - Webweaver.Nu - Free Webmaster Resources
http://www.webweaver.nu/ - IRT.ORG
http://www.irt.org/ - SitePoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/ - MetaCollection - CGI and PHP Scripts
http://www.metacollection.com/ - Open Source Web Design
http://www.oswd.org/ - Bite Size Standards
http://bitesizestandards.com/ - Protolize - Essential Web Tools
http://www.tonyyoo.com/protolize/
Colors
Top of Page- ColorMaker
http://www.bagism.com/colormaker/ - Technicolor Web Colour Designer
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/ - Designer Plaything
- Visibility of Text on Background
http://www.colorcombo.com/bgtxt.html - Accessibility Color Wheel
http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php - Color Palette Creator
http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ - Franklin Interactive RGB Hex Color Chart
http://my.athenet.net/~franklin/tips/hexclick.html - ZSPC Super Color Chart
http://www.zspc.com/color/index-e.html
http://entries.the5k.org/171/visualizer.html - Visibone Webmaster's Color
Laboratory
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ - Browser-Safe Color Palette (Lynda
Weinman)
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html - Color Blender
http://www.dzinelabs.com/Pages/color_blend.html - Color Scheme Generator 2
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html - Color Schemer
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html - Colr.org
http://colr.org/ - Kuler (Adobe)
http://kuler.adobe.com/ - Spin the Colour Wheel
http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp - Color Harmonizer
http://www.easyrgb.com/harmonies.php - Color Blender (Eric Meyer)
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ - 4096 Colors
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html - Palette Master
http://www.nebulus.org/freebies/coders/palette/ - ColorMatch
http://www.colormatch.dk/
http://kohaistyle.com/scripts/quickcolor/ - moreCrayons
(Non Browser-Safe Colors)
http://www.morecrayons.com/ - Colour Contrast Check
http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html - JuicyStudio Colour Contrast Analyser
http://juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.php - HP
Color Contrast Verification Tool
http://h10014.www1.hp.com/hpweb/accessibility/color_tool.html
Backgrounds, Buttons, Clip Art, Icons, Lines, Photos
Top of Page- All Free Clipart
http://www.allfree-clipart.com/main.html - Open Clip Art Library
http://openclipart.org/ - Cool Archive
http://www.coolarchive.com/ - Animation Library
http://www.animationlibrary.com/a-l/ - Clipart Warehouse
http://www.clipart.co.uk
http://www.freegraphics.com/ - Absolute Web Graphics Archive
http://www.grsites.com/webgraphics/ - Open Directory
Graphics
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/ - Yahoo
Index of Clip Art Sites
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Graphics/Clip_Art/ - Yahoo
Index of Icon Sites
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Design_Arts/Graphic_Design/Web_Page_Design_and_Layout/Graphics/Icons/ - Classroom Clipart
http://classroomclipart.com/ - Library Cartoons
http://pw1.netcom.com/~dplourde/cartoons/ - Pics4Learning
http://www.pics4learning.com/ - Discover Channel's School Clip Art
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ - Stock.XCHNG
http://www.sxc.hu/ - Fotosearch - (Stock Photography & Royalty Free Stock Photos)
http://www.fotosearch.com/ - Clipart.com
http://www.clipart.com/ - Common Content
http://www.commoncontent.org/ - Yotophoto
http://yotophoto.com/ - Free Stock Photos
http://www.graphicsngraphicdesign.com/freestockphotos-graphicdesigners/ - EveryStockPhoto
http://everystockphoto.com/ - Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - Finding Images on the Web
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/ - MorgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ - Image*After
http://imageafter.com/ - Dreamstime
http://dreamstime.com/
Make Custom Buttons, Banners
Top of Page- Flaming Text
http://www.flamingtext.com/ - CoolText
http://www.cooltext.com/ - Cool Archive Logo Generator
http://www.coolarchive.com/logogen.cfm - Button Generator
http://www.buttongenerator.com/ - Mediabuilder
http://www.mediabuilder.com/
Media Search Engines
Top of Page- Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/ - Yahoo Image Search
http://images.search.yahoo.com/ - Ask Jeeves Image Search
http://pictures.ask.com/ - AOL Video
http://videos.aol.com/ - picsearch
http://www.picsearch.com/ - Web Places - Clip Art Searcher
http://www.webplaces.com/search/ - Image Search Engines (Fagan Finder)
http://www.faganfinder.com/img/ - Flickr: Creative Commons
http://flickr.com/creativecommons/ - FindSounds
http://www.findsounds.com/ - SearchForVideo
http://searchforvideo.com/
HTML and Accessibility Validation
Top of Page- W3C HTML/XHTML Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/ - W3C CSS Validation Service
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - Total Validator
http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/ValidatorForm - Web XACT
http://webxact.watchfire.com/ - AnyBrowser
http://www.anybrowser.com/ - Dr. Watson
http://watson.addy.com/ - Web Page Backward Compatibility
Viewer and Other Web Page Checkers
http://www.delorie.com/web/ - Vischeck
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ - Colorblind Web Page Filter
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ - Web Page Analyzer (Andy King)
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Copyright Considerations
Top of Page- Copyright Bay
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/ - UT
System Crash Course in Copyright
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm - ©
Primer
http://www-apps.umuc.edu/primer/enter.php - Copyright Website
http://www.benedict.com/ - Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford
University Libraries)
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ - Copyright Information Page
(University of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/ - Copyright
Considerations in the Digital Age
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/howto/guides/CopyrightTips.html - Center for Intellectual
Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (UMUC)
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/cip.html - Ten Big Myths
of Copyright Explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/cimhp01.htm - Copyright Management Center
(IUPUI)
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Eokerson/copyproj.html
HTML Editors and Other Software
Top of Page- NoNags
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ - TUCOWS
http://www.tucows.com - thefreecountry
http://www.thefreecountry.com/ - WinPlanet Windows Software
http://cws.internet.com/ - Webmaster Freebies
http://www.thefreesite.com/Webmaster_Freebies/ - Freeware Home
http://www.freewarehome.com/index.html - WebGrid Freeware
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/ - Download.com
http://download.com.com/ - SnapFiles
http://webattack.com/ - List of Lists
http://lists.gpick.com/ - Hypertext Builder 2004
- NVu
http://www.nvu.com/ - KompoZer
http://kompozer.net/ - AlleyCode
http://www.alleycode.com/ - First Page 2006 (Evrsoft)
http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3.shtml - Aptana
http://www.aptana.com/
