WEB DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
Defining a Site in Dreamweaver (Updated Winter, 2010)
Web Server Guidelines (Updated Winter, 2010)
XHTML Specifications (Updated Fall, 2010)
CSS Resources:
- CSS Zen Garden -- http://csszengarden.com
- CSS Layout Techniques -- http://glish.com/css/home.asp
- CSS Layout Resevoir-- http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
- CSS Articles -- http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/css/
- Design -- http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design
- Box Model -- http://thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html
- CSS Panic Guide -- http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/index.html
- CSS Positioning -- http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp
- CSS edge -- http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
- Quirks Mode -- http://www.quirksmode.org/
Server Resources:
- Apache Security -- http://www.cgisecurity.com/webservers/apache/
- Windows Security -- http://www.cgisecurity.com/webservers/iis/
Scripting Resources:
- PHP -- http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php
- Javascript Toolbox -- http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/
Accessibility
- Section 508 -- http://www.section508.gov/
- Web Accessibility in Mind -- http://www.webaim.org/articles/
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) -- http://www.w3.org/WAI/
HTML Web Tools
- W3C HTML Validator -- http://validator.w3.org/
- WDG HTML Validator -- http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
- HTML/XHTML/WML/XML Validator -- http://www.validome.org/
- Doctor HTML v6 -- http://www.doctor-html.com/RxHTML/
- Special Characters in HTML -- http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php
Usability
- useit.com Jakob Nielsen's Web Site -- http://www.useit.com/
Image Resources:
- Free Images http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
- The Stock Solution http://www.tssphoto.com/
- Super Stock http://www.superstock.com/
- Free Stock Photos http://free-stock-photos.com/ (watch the pop-ups on this one)
- Microsoft Design Gallery http://dgl.microsoft.com/
- All Free Backgrounds http://www.allfreebackgrounds.com/background_select.html
- FamFamFam http://www.famfamfam.com/ free icons
- Morguefile http://www.morguefile.com/ beautiful public domain photos
- Big Nose Bird http://www.bignosebird.com/sets.shtml
- TomaWeb's Free Button Generator http://www.tomaweb.com/buttons.asp
- Cooltext Logo Generator http://cooltext.com/ButtonBrowse.aspx
- Create Free 3-D Banners http://www.3dtextmaker.com/
- My Cool Button http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ easy button generator
- Web 2.0 Badges http://www.web20badges.com/
Color Resources:
- Color Scheme Generator
- Visit Color Schemer to try out color combinations
- Color4WebMasters color picker tool
- Names of colors in HTML
- Colour Lovers - user-submitted color palettes
- Ideo - lets you see how colors will look on your screen
- A good place to verify if colored text will show up on a background. This site also contains a Hex converter that allows you to enter the RGB values and convert it to a Hexadecimal value that can then be used in your HTML code
- Hex and Word Color Codes by Joe Burns Ph.D.
- Non-dithering Colors --Browser Safe Colors by Joe Burns Ph.D. and Lydia Weiman
- Return of Design offers many ideas for color schemes
More Color Info