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- Accessibility Home Page - Microsoft site provides information and tools to make the web more accessible to people with disabilities.
- Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All - By Barbara T. Mates. From ALA's Open Stacks, "a browsing space of resources for the library and information services community managed by the editors at ALA Editions."
- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Sun Microsystems' guru of interfaces. Some columns of interest: First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users (5 August 2001), Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly (12 November 2000), Search: Visible and Simple (13 May 2001). (See also That Mess on Your Web Site from the September/October issue of MIT's Technology Review.)
- A List Apart - "Weekly magazine and daily discussion list for people who make websites."
- Beginner's Guide to HTML - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Best Viewed With Any Browser: Campaign for a Non Browser Specific WWW - Cari D. Burstein
- Bobby - "Easy to use program that will help you make web pages accessible to those with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers."
- Browers.com - CNET site offers browser reviews, and feature comparisons
- BrowserWatch - News on browsers, plug-ins and ActiveX controls from Mecklermedia's iWorld
- Building a School Web Site - Jade Writers Group, Ltd.
- Cascading Style Sheets - Web Design Group
- Color Specifier For Netscape - Hype Electrazine
- Compendium of HTML Elements - Ron Woodall
- Composing Good HTML (Version 2.0.6) - Eric Tilton (Last modified: Jul 13, 1998)
- CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media - With Web Access Project.
- Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice - Alan Morrison, Michael Popham and Karen Wikander, Oxford Text Archive.
- David Siegel's Home Page
- DevZone - RealNetworks provides streaming media resources for web developers.
- Developer Zone - Tutorials and reference on HTML and web page design from Project Cool.
- Doctor HTML - Verifies that links are valid, checks spelling, document structure, image syntax, table structure, form structure and shows command hierarchy
- Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Guide HTML - Dominique Lerinckx, Université Libre de Bruxelles (in French)
- Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions - Charles B. Faulhaber, Bancroft Library, University of California
- HTML Editors (32-bit) - Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List
- HTML Goodies
- HTML Reference - Web Design Group (WDG)
- HTML Tidy
- Source Forge's free utility for cleaning up html is recommended by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). They also refer to Site Valet, WDG HTML Validator and W3C CSS Validation Service.
- HTML Writers Guild Website
- Information Architects Institute - Provides a Usability Toolkit.
- Information architecture: Tools for cutting-edge Web developers - Compiled and annotated links by Rob Withers, Rob Casson, and Aaron Shrimplin, electronic information services librarians at Miami University. (College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, October, 2000.)
- Internet Professional Publishers Association - Award for design excellence
- Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide
- Library Web Manager's Reference Center - Roy Tennant, Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
- LinkPopularity.com - Queries Infoseek, Altavista, and Hotbot and reports on link popularity
- Macromedia: Director - "Shockwave Technology"
- Matt's Script Archive
- META - Meta-information - Web Design Group (WDG)
- Mind-it - Will email you when relevant changes occur on a web page.
- MSDN Online Web Workshop - Microsoft site "provides the latest information about Internet technologies, including reference material and in-depth articles on all aspects of Web site design and development."
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- NetMechanic - Will "search your site to find broken links, spot bad HTML tags, and rate your server's response time."
- Network Solutions - Register web address or search for a domain name in their database of Internet domain registrations. Type in domain name and find technical locating information, as well as a contact name, telephone number, and billing address of the company or person who owns the domain name.
- P22 Type Foundry - "Unique selection of unique fonts for the designer in search of that font that no one else has."
- Protect Your Webserver from Spam Harvesters - Charles J. Brabec, Web Systems Programmer. (See also Anti-Spam Email Information and Spammer Robot Trap.)
- Quality Web Content
- Reading in Bed: How to design web pages for reading postures - William H. Calvin, University of Washington
- ReallyBig.com - "More than 3000 resources for web builders including free clipart, CGI, counters, fonts, html, java, animation, backgrounds, icons, wysiwyg editors, buttons, photographs, site promotion...."
- Remedi Project - Online showcase for 10 digital designers
- Sausage Software - Makers of the HotDog Web Editor
- Scripting News - Dave Winer's software industry news site covers website management, server operations and human features relating to free speech, music and the creative side of website management.
- SGML/XML Web Page - Robin Cover's site is described as a "comprehensive online database containing reference information and software pertaining to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and its subset, the Extensible Markup Language (XML)."
- Ten Good Deeds in Web Design - From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 3, 1999.
- 32-bit HTML Editors - Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List
- TypeIndex.org - International Type Index, based in Paris, is a user-built font database.
- Typology for Ready Reference Web Sites in Libraries - Steven W. Sowards, First Monday, Vol.3 No.5 - May 4th. 1998.
- University and College Designers Association - Has Annual Design Competitions
- useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website - Columns on Web usability
- Web Design for Librarians - Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library at Rutgers University.
- Web Design Group
- Web Developer Magazine - iworld
- Web Developer's Virtual Library - Comprehensive encyclopedia of web technology with more than 1,500 pages and some 6,000 links. In Next Generation HTML: The Big Picture, Ken Sall covers "cascading Style Sheets, HTML 4.0, the Document Object Model, Dynamic HTML, the XML family of specifications, and the many specifications based on XML, such as RDF, SMIL, and MathML."
- Web Page Design for Designers - Joe Gillespie
- Web Review - Songline Studios. They have a useful Style Sheets Reference Guide.
- Web Site Garage - Offers a "5 point checkup to diagnose common mistakes in Web site maintenance and promotion."
- Website Help for Librarians
- Web Site Search Tools - Reports on web site search tools, providing news about local site search engines and indexes, and supports web server administrators and web site designers with information, advice and news. (Search Tools Consulting)
- Web Techniques - "Solutions for Internet and Web developers"
- Webmaster T's World of Design - Terry Van Horne
- Webmonkey - HotWired column, billed as a "service station for the wired world", regularly offers useful tips for web designers.
- Webreference: The Webmaster's Reference Library - Web site design tips and tutorials
- WebSter's Dictionary - Spell checker for WWW documents
- World Wide Web Consortium - W3C site provides a number of useful sections including Technical Reports and Publications,
HTML 4.0 Specification, Cascading Style Sheets, MarkUp Validation Service which checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML recommendations and other HTML standards and
WAI Accessibility Guidelines: Page Authoring, "a list of markup guidelines that HTML authors should follow in order to make their pages more accessible." They also have a Cascading Style Sheet Validation Service and a WC3 Link Checker.
- Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians - Eric H. Schnell, Prior Health Sciences Library, Ohio State University
- Xenu's Link Sleuth - Spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links.
- XML Cover Pages - Has a news section and information on Academic Applications.
- Yahoo: HTML Validation and Checkers
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide - Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton, Yale University School of Medicine's Center for Advanced Instructional Media (C/AIM)
- Zuberlinks: A Resource Guide to Links for Web Site Builders - Bethany Bilbrey