personal cage

Bookmarks

… or Favourites

Reasons for using CSS:

• Hot Design: – Why Tables for Layour are Stupid?

CSS resources:

• A List Apart
• Ben Meadow Croft
• CSS Zen Garden
• Glish
• CSS Links from alt.www.webmaster- link archive
• Mezzoblue – archives
• Porjes Examples – link archive
• POI – Position is Everything – need to
  say more?
• The Noodle Incident CSS - Tutorial
• TJK design – articles archive
• Toby Inkster – tutorial & link collection
• Alex CSS – examples, hacks
• Spartanicus – experiments, articles
• CSS Discuss – mailing list devoted to CSS

My Web site is standard! And yours?

• W3 Web Quality – standards, doctypes, validation

Creating HTML

• pretletters – Common Mistakes in Creating HTML Pages and how to Prevent or Correct them

HTML Standards Compliance – Why Bother ?

• Authoring/HTML/Standards/
  - article by Alan Richmond

4 Reasons to Validate your HTML

• Html help – validator
  - Netscape Issues

So, why bother?

• The Noodle Incident – why not just use tables?

Validation: does it matter?

• The Noodle Incident – Validation

The Importance Of Standards Compliance and The Process of Validation

• Karl Core – Article

Why don’t you code for NS

• A List Apart – by Zeldman

A message to clueless website authors

• Night Owl
  - lear how to write websites properly!

Site Valet – Why Validate?

• Valet html help – what? why?

"HTML validation" is a good tool, but just a tool

• Jukka Korpela – Validation misleads

The Business Value of Web Standards

• Adaptive Path – Essay

What are the advantages of using web standards?

• Web Standards – Web Standards Project
  Faq

The Business Benefits of Web Standards

• Developing
  with Web Standards – by Roger Johansson

The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!

• Max Design – Benefits
• Tech irt – seems to be dead
• Stop Design – Throwing
  Away Tabless + Seatle presentation
• Web Standards – Interviews
• Devedge -
  ESPN redesign Interview
• POI - CSS bugs in Explorer
• Why Tables Are Bad For Layout – ten reasons why

free text editors:

• jedit »
• nedit »
• ewisoft »
• netpadd »
• araneae »
• 1st page »
• crimson »
• ezpad »
• notepad »
• acehtml »
• screem (linux) »
• notetab light »
• html-kit »
• context »
• pspad »
• websmill »
• SciTE »
• metapad »
• quanta (linux) »
• dirt and stick »
• tswebeditor »
• notespad »
• pagebuilder »
• grey matter pro »
• editpad lite »
• stones webwrite »
• matizha sublime

Free PHP editors

• phpedit
• Winsyntax »
• devphp »
• phpcoder »
• Davor’s PHP Editor »
• php designer »

Free FTP software

• Smart FTP »
• FileZilla »
• Core FTP LE »
• WS_FTP LE »
• FTP Master »
• Fresh FTP »
• FTP Surfer »
• AceFTP Freeware

html tutorial/references:

• W3 – world wide web consortium A to Z
• User Dox – seems to be broken
• Dan’s Web Tips- by Dan Tobias
• Html Help – tools, articles, resources, help
• Html Cookbook – plenty of articles and tutorials
• W3 School – learn whatever you need
• Web Monkey for beginers, builders and masters
• Page Tutor tools & resources
• Html Primer lessons, templates, articles
• Html Colour Codes – hexadecimal HTML color codes
• Echo Echo – comprehensive html tutorial
• Chami Tips – plenty of html tips & tricks
• Jukka Korpela’s – Tips
• Dave’s webstation – popular interactive tutorials
• Html Help Faqs – web authoring faq
• Page Resource – html pit stop
• WDG Html Help – Standards for HTML Authoring for the WWW
• Html Center – tutorials & downloads
• Web Page Workshop – tutorials,
  articles
• Blooberry index – advanced html reference

HTML 4.01 Specification:

• W3 org – W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999

how to read the w3c specs

• A List Apart – a specification is not a user’s manual

How to read the HTML DTD

• W3 Org – understand the technical details of the HTML specification

Standards for HTML Authoring for the World Wide Web

• WDG Html Help – standards

DTD Switching:

• Opera
• Mozilla
• Internet Explorer

HTML Validators:

• Html validator for Firefox – very efficiant and conveniant
• W3 Org Validator – w3c official – sometimes slow
• W3 Org CSS Validator – w3c official
• Valet Validator
• Html Help Validator
• XML Validator

Beyond validation (draft as of 12/apr/2004)

• W3C tips

deadtree quick refs:

• visibone

Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C)

• wai

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

• wai webcontent

Accessibility Toolbars

• nils toolbar
• Chris Pederick Web Developer for Firefox (direct download!)
• aprompt
• Cynthia says
• bobby "accessibility" validator
• website analysis

website checklist (Web Bible)

• Web matters – excellent
  resource by Stephen Poley

downloadable tutorial/reference

• NC design
• Training Tools
• distribution
• werbach download

collection of w3c sites

• Css Art gallery
• ArtantA – Artist Front against invalidity
• collection – w3c sites
• my profile – on w3c sites
• submit yours – if you validate

overall good resource – All MY FAQS

• read only – HTML, CSS, PHP, CGI, Perl, mySQL, XML,
  JavaScript, etc.