| WEB DESIGN REFERENCES |
 Browser Sizing- when you design a Web page, how wide should it be? |
| How Users Read on the Web- from useit.com |
| Project Cool Developer Zone |
| Tips & Tricks- this site was created to help you design "a better web page". |
| Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management- from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox |
| Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003- from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox |
 Web Developer's Handbook |
| Web Page Design for Designers |
| Web Page Editors |
| Web Style Guide |
| Web Tools- a small collection of web tools to help get you started building a web site. |
| Webopedia- online dictionary for computer & internet terms. |
ACCESSIBILITY |
| Introduction to Web Accessibility- helps make Web sites 'friendly' for users with disabilities. |
| Purdue Universal Access Initiative |
| Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 |
| University of Delaware Office of the ADA |
| University of Iowa Web Accessibility Site |
| University of Minnesota: Accessibility of Information Technology |
| W3C Tools for Web Content Accessibility |
| W3C Web Accessibility Initiative |
| W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines |
| Web Accessibility in Mind |
USABILITY |
| Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design- Jakob Nielsen is the expert on web usability. His Alertbox columns contain helpful information on making your pages usable and on preventing mistakes in web design. |
| Usability.gov- This is an excellent site for developing usable and accessible web pages. |
VALIDATORS |
HTML Tidy can
quickly convert your HTML to XHTML. You must acquaint yourself with its settings and preferences to ensure desired results.
W3C Validator
WDG Validator Links
CSS Validator
Total Validator
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WEBZINES FOR DEVELOPERS |
| Browser News- weekly newsletter gives you news about browsers, helps you find browsers both old and new, answers the question "why update?", and reports internet statistics. |
| Search Engine Watch.com- learn how search engines work and how to get them to return your pages. |
| Vitamin - nourishment to Help the Web Grow- features, training, reviews, interviews, and more. |
| User Interface Engineering- usability consulting, training, & events. |
| Web Page Design for Designers- monthly articles and a thorough collection of web design links. |
| Web Reference.com- an execellent resource for web development with articles, code, web forums, newsletters and more. |
CLIP ART & FONT WEB SITES |
| 1clipart.com- over 10,000 free clip art images in over 300 categories. |
| 1001freefonts.com- 1001 free fonts first opened its doors in December 1998 and has since grown to become the most popular free fonts archive online. |
| aaaclipart.com- find thousands of free clip art images for your web site! |
| Font Freak.com- one of the largest archives for downloading free true type fonts and dingbats for both PC and Mac. |
| Free-clip-art.com- totally free clipart that has been collected and categorized in an easy to find manner. |
| Jupiter Images (formerly ArtToday.com)- online subscriptions for photos, clipart, graphics, flash components, animations and other digital art assets. |
| Larabie Fonts.com- if it's a free font you want then get it free here. |
SOFTWARE VENDORS & SUPPORT |
| Adobe- product info. and support for programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. |
| Macromedia- product info. and support for programs like Dreamweaver and Flash. |
| Microsoft- product info. and support for Windows and Internet Explorer |
| Netscape- product info. and support for Communicator and Netscape mail. |
HELPFUL UTILITIES |
| WebXACT- a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. |
| HTML Help- The WDG Validator will check the syntactical correctness of your HTML to help you produce more accessible Web pages. |
| NetMechanic- power tools for your web site. Has references on maintaining, promoting, monitoring, and accelerating your web site. |
| TidyGUI- a free utility application from the World Wide Web Consortium that helps you clean up your web pages. |
| WebSiteOptimization- reports on page load time and ways to improve load time. |
HTML REFERENCES |
| Bare Bones Guide to HTML- simple collection of HTML tags. |
| Character Encoding- learn the proper way to make sure your web pages validate correctly. |
| HTML Tutorial- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML and more tutorials from W3Schools. |
| WDG Reference Section- offers background information and technical specifications on HTML authoring. Also links for Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) reference. |
| Web Developer's Virtual Library- WDVL is a free encyclopedia of Java, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, DHTML, XML, Perl, web design and domain name tutorials and resources. |
| Writing HTML- a tutorial for creating web pages- excellent resource on beginning and intermediate HTML topics. Covers HTML tags, basic CSS and JavaScript, META tags and forms. |
NOTED AUTHORS & WEB GURUS |
| David Siegel- author of Creating Killer Web Sites. |
| Jakob Nielsen- writer and speaker on web usability. |
| Jeffrey Veen- an internationally sought-after speaker, author and consultant. He is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, a user experience consultancy focusing on the impact of design on business. |
| Lynda Weinman- author of Designing Web Graphics, Creative HTML Design, and other easy-to-read web design books. |
WRITING FOR THE WEB |
| Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)- by Jakob Nielsen |
| Quick Reference Tips- from Plan Language.gov |
| Readability Test- from Juicy Studio |
| What's Different about Writing for the Web- on Usability News |
| Writing for Readers Who Scan- by Kathy Henning on ClickZ |
| Writing for the Web: Guidelines for MIT Libraries- from MIT |