Resources

• CSS — debugging, external links, forms, headlines, media types, menus, punctuation, slants
• Meta Tags What are they and how are they used?
• Color Theory What is the best color for my site?
• Gif or JPEG? How do I know which one to use?
• Storyboards, What are they? How do I use them?
• Common ASCII Codes for special characters plus the alt codes for “real” quote marks and em dash
• Forms
• My HTML Snippets: A selection of some of my frequently used snippets of code to make it easy on myself
• Typography - The Basic Rules of Typography and Font links
• Bravenet.com - Free Web Tools for Webmasters

Favorite Resource Links

• Zeldman.com — Excellent resource with tons of links to teach you about Cascading Style Sheets.
  
• MyerWeb—CSS tips and tutorials.
  
• NYPL Style Guide
  XHTML and CSS basics. Converting from HTML to XHTML.
  
• CSS Zen Garden
  Highly recommended: a collaborative gallery showing what can be done with CSS-based design.
  
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding
• DevShed - A site created by web developers for web developers. Provides news, discussions forums, resource areas, and developer tools covering HTML tutorials, graphics design, multimedia, JavaScript and more. Designed for beginning, intermediate and advanced web developers.
  http://www.devshed.com/
  
• Do-It-Yourself Website - Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction provides a site that lets you build your own website.
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/diy/
  
• Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - A comprehensive guide to writing websites. Beginners and design professionals will find what they need; quickly and clearly.
  http://www.jalfrezi.com/
  
• The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all. http://www.webstandards.org/
  
• Tips, Tricks, How-To, and Beyond - A site created to help you design a better web page. Find the answers for most web design problems.
  http://www.tips-tricks.com/index.asp
  
• Web Page Design for Designers - A site dedicated to the creative side of web design: graphics, typography, writing and free-thinking.
  http://www.wpdfd.com/
  
• Web Style Guide - Web site design combines traditional editorial approaches to documents with graphic design, user interface design, information design, and the technical authoring skills required to optimize the HTML code, graphics, and text within web pages. By Sarah Horton and Patrick J. Lynch.
  http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
  
• WebMonkey - Webmonkey is the comprehensive source of information for professional and amateur web enthusiasts, offering daily articles and technical updates, as well as an archive of more than 200 features and tutorials.
  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
  
• WhatIs.com - A knowledge exploration tool about information technology, especially about the Internet and computers. Contains over 3,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of "Fast Reference" pages. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references.
  http://whatis.techtarget.com/
  
• Writing HTML - A tutorial for building web pages, intended to help teachers create learning resources that access information on the Internet. From the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction.
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

   

   

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