Web Reference Guides

• W3C Validator - The validator allows you to check your HTML code to make sure it's built properly. This is the first step in tracking down errors.
• Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - The W3C was founded in 1994 to develop common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web. If something is going to evolve on the web, this site will tell you about it first!
• ZVON.org - XHTML 1.0 Reference - Great reference for XHTML information and the standards for each tag and parameter.
• ZVON.org - CSS 2 Reference - CSS Reference for use of css files, or css formatting in web pages.
• W3Schools - Great references for XHTML, CSS, and a number of other web technologies.
• CSS-Discuss Wiki - Specifics, the nitty-gritty of writing good stylesheets.

Web Standards Blogs

For your convenience, a .OPML file is available to be used with the news aggregator of your choice.

• Web Standards Organization (WaSP) - WASP is the group that started the push for Web Standards.
• A List Apart - Operted by Jeffrey Zeldman and company.
• Zeldman - Jeffrey Zeldman's (Web Standards Advocate) web site.
• Meyerweb - Eric Meyer's (CSS Guru) web site.
• What Do I Know - Todd Dominey's web site.
• CSS Zen Garden - Dave Shea's CSS project site. Learn about the potential beauty of CSS.
• Simon Willison's Weblog - PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development.
• Stop Design - is a collection of creative work and thinking capturing the view of a designer and world problem solver. (Douglas Bowman)
• Mezzoblue - is a semi-daily expository and exploratory on all things web, design, and typographic. (Dave Shea)
• Glish - where coding, markup, stylesheets, and internet matters are discussed. (Eric Costello)
• SimpleBits - Dan Cederholm's site. Be sure to read the SimpleQuizzes for insightful questions about design.
• Asterisk* - D. Keith Robinson's site. Often has insightful, well-thought discussions about the Web.

Tools

• Emulators
  • Openwave Phone Simulator - allows you to develop world-class mobile applications and services.
  • Palm OS Emulator - emulates the hardware of the various models of Palm Powered handhelds.
  • Web TV Simulator - emulates the interface for Web TV for both PC and Mac. It also shows the error panel for faster debugging.
• Mozilla Extensions
  • Web Developer - The most useful extension available! Will disable CSS, show image errors, display javascript errors, resize windows, submit validation requests, run speed reports and much more.
  • IE View - Will add an option to the right click of the mouse to open the page being viewed in IE.
  • Fangs Screen Reader Emulator - Will simulate a text version of the page being viewed as it would be read by a screen reader.
  • FoxyVoice - Provides text-to-speech functionality by using Microsoft Speech API (Firefox on Windows only.)
• CSS Hacks
  • centricle : css filters (css hacks)
  • CSS Filters and Hacks
  • CssHack - CSS Discuss
• Miscellaneous Tools
  • Basecamp - Project Management Utopia from 37 Signals.com
  • Bookmarklets - Bookmark these JavaScript functions and allow them to help you.
    • Ancestor - Show the DOM heirachy in the status window of IE and Mozilla.
    • PDAize - Shows what a PDA version could look like in Mozilla.
  • IE 7 - Created by Dean Edwards. Make IE 6 behave correctly with *.htc files

Book Recommendations

• Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide - Eric Meyer
• Eric Meyer on CSS - Eric Meyer
• More Eric Meyer on CSS - Eric Meyer
• Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook - Dan Cederholm
• Bulletproof Web Design - Dan Cederholm
• The Zen of CSS Design - Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
• Web ReDesign : Workflow that Works - Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
• Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works - Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler

Accessibility

• W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative - Learn about how Web Accessibility functions.
• Section 508 - Learn about the US Federal Government Section 508 on Web Accessibility.
• Web Accessibility for All - Lots of online resources and downloadable tutorials.

General Information On Web Standards

• WaSP - What are web standards and why should I use them?
• WaSP - Learn the Standards
• Mozilla.org - Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages
• GAWDS - Using standard markup to increase accessibility

Important Reference Articles about Web Standards

• A List Apart - A Web Designer's Journey by Jeffrey Zeldman
• A List Apart - Better Living Through XHTML by Jeffrey Zeldman
• A List Apart - Search Engine Optimization by Brandon Olejniczak
• A List Apart - To Hell With Bad Browsers by Jeffrey Zeldman and David Eisenberg
• A List Apart - Why Don't You Code For Netscape? by Jeffrey Zeldman
• A List Apart - Going to Print by Eric Meyer
• A List Apart - Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards by Daniel M. Frommelt
• A List Apart - Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards Part II by Daniel M. Frommelt
• A List Apart - Cross-Column Pull-Outs by Daniel M. Frommelt
• A List Apart - Cross-Column Pull-Out Part Two: Custom Silhouettes by Daniel M. Frommelt
• Advocating Standards by Simon Willison
• ALPHABET SOUP - A Web Designer's Journey to Standards and Accessibility, by Randal Rust
• An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN by Eric Meyer
• Design Rant by Owen Briggs
• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: How can I sell standards?
• The Business Value of Web Standards by Jeffrey Veen
• Things can only get better by Marko Karppinen
• Web Standards for Hard Times by Paul Boutin
• WaSP - WaSP Interviews Daniel Frommelt On Web Standards in Higher Education

Links of Interest

• Creative Commons - devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.
• Lorem Ipsum - Industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.
• Listamatic - takes a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options.
• List-o-matic - takes Listamatic one step farther and helps a user make a valid list with a style.
• Layout-o-matic - generates a basic layout by the specified specifications (layout type, content width, spacing between areas and padding within an area).
• Web Page Analyzer - calculates page size, composition, and page download time.
• Mobile Internet Guidelines - online book on HTML and XHTML Basic that'll work with mobile devices' web browsers.
• ZVON.org - RSS 1.0 Reference - Learn how to implement RSS 1.0 correctly.

2005 CWCW Presentations

• Web Standards - Daniel M. Frommelt
• An Interview with Daniel M. Frommelt - Educause Community Blogs [podcast]

2004 CWCW Presentations

• Using the Web to Promote Student Events - Paula Ganyard
• Daniel M. Frommelt's presentation Web Accessibility for All [Windows Media Player - streamed]
• Elements of Design - Paula Ganyard
• The Future of Web Browsers - Paula Ganyard

Color and Graphics

• Behr Paint's Explore Color - Works for selecting paint, it might help you with your Web color selection.
• Meyerweb - Color Bender - takes two valid css colors and shows the midpoint colors from one to ten.
• Color Schemer - Color scheme selector tool.