CIS86 Fall 2007 References : Web Sites
This is a compendium of links I've found useful, interesting, or entertaining. I've broken it up into rough sections, although there is inevitably overlap in sites within categories. Here are the sections: DFF Toys (some of my own code) • Design Ideas • References & Tutorials • Real-Time HTML • Toolbars • Technologies & Tools • Color Pickers • HTML (HyperText Markup Language) • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) • DHTML/Javascript • PHP • Handy Pointers • Fun Stuff.
DFF TOYS
- DFF's testbed for ideas, code : lots of tidbits with ideas, code, variations, proofs of concept
- DFF's photo gallery : a simple PHP-based gallery using XML files to store info (not my code)
- MendocinoFun.com : the Discriminating Guide to Adventure on the Mendocino Coast
DESIGN IDEAS
- Open Web Design .org most popular designs
- Great CSS page layouts
- About visual complexity
- Web pages that suck
- Digital-Web.com: an online magazine
- Some design ideas
- Web Page Design for Designers
- 40 CSS layouts
- An interesting article about design
- More articles about Web design.
- Articles about Web design processes -- very practical. An excellent resource.
REFERENCES & TUTORIALS
- W3C is the granddaddy of them all
- CSS validator from W3C
- Special Characters in HTML (table)
- References, quick guides, articles on all things Web
- Good overview, framework from Web Design from Scratch
- Pointers for learning the top Web technologies
- Awesome compendium of links
- Links to hundreds of tech references
- A lot of articles
- Lookup all kinds of stuff
- Lots of pointers!
- Fighting for Web standards usage
- Huge compilation of links for Web, CSS, etc.
- HTML FAQ from USENET
- Another excellent source of Web info, references
- An excellent source of articles and examples.
- Excellent source on SEO
- Lots of Web tech stuff
- Great list of Web resources
- All Internet FAQs
- Great CSS syntax reference
- List of lists of tech stuff
- Dictionary and thesaurus
- O'Reilly books on Web
- Deprecated HTML tags
- Huge Web reference
- Free Webmaster tools
- All about copyrights
- More HTML/CSS info
- Very technical info on SEO, low-level Web utilities, domain tools
- Info about running a Web design company
- Lots of tutorials
- Excellent resource, with dozens of high-quality links to CSS, Web, HTML, etc
- Excellent resource -- hundreds of well-organized links to everything about HTML, Web, CSS, DHTML, etc
- Lynda Weinman, who has written extensively on Web design.
- Molly E. Holzschlag's site about Web stuff
- Tutorials on everything Web
- Web Developers Virtual Library
- Web developer's resource, excellent reference, plus quick reference guides
- Lots of articles on a lot of topics
- Directory to the world of Symbolism
- Web Design from Scratch
- Pointers to Ten Top CSS Tutorials
- A basic CSS Tutorial
- Misc Web Tutorials: custom 404 pages, etc
- Excellent CSS and Javascript info
- Free slideout menus. This site has a vast amount of DHTML info and code!
- SEO articles
- Webmaster stuff
- Another compendium of links
REAL-TIME HTML
- Real-time HTML editor
- Excellent side-by-side Font comparison tool
- Font Tester with many text attributes
- CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
- HTML/CSS Table Border Style Wiz
TOOLBARS for WEB DEVELOPMENT
- FireFox Web Developer Toolbar
- Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
- Opera Web Developer Toolbar
- Safari Toolbar
TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS
- Realtime HTML display as you type
- Realtime CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
- Realtime HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard
- Web toolbox
- Web tools
- Lightweight ecommerce support
- Ecommerce system for small biz
- Generate your own favicon
- Another favicon generator
- Single color tool
- Web 2.0 references
- Web 2.0 Search Engine
- Tools for AJAX developers
- Sortable tables, other JS/AJAX stuff
- AJAX pointers
- Some good AJAX tutorials
- Mozilla AJAX Developer Info
- Sound files of lots of stuff on the Web
- All kinds of Web scripts
- All things Computer, not just Web
- Lots of stuff for programmers!
- SEO stuff
- About good SEO practices
- Summary of the top SEO blogs
- Overview of site SEO evaluation tools
- 12 Free SEO Tools
- SEO optimization
- Open-source Content Management Systems
- Open-source Content Management Systems
- Generates CSS menus when you fill in the boxes
- About .htaccess files
- Tool for making 3D text banners
- An AJAX-based file uploader
- Points out some issues with Internet Explorer
- Pointers to CSS Tools
- Pointers to Free Buttons and Icons
- Free fonts
- Convert virtually all formats of video, audio, graphics, by uploading to Web!
- Stock photos from US government -- a big collection.
- Convert online videos to handier formats
- Excellent list of Web-based applications
- Web-based tools (lots)
- BuiltWith : see how a site is built
COLOR PICKERS
- Interactive Color Selector, with lots of variations
- Kuler, Color Scheme Tool from Adobe
- Color blender by Eric Meyer
- Pairs of colors sliders
- Color scheme tool
- A directory of color resources
- An excellent color palette picker -- great site!
- Colors
- Color-wheel approach to color palettes
- An excellent color palette picker
- Simulates color-blindness
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- Draggable iframes
- SE tools for checking sites
- Lots of browser-specific tests
- HTML and Web reference
- Shows IE problems
- The best bug table on the Web
- More browser info
- Info about cross-platform issues, browser statistics, and more
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Smashing Magazine: 53 Techniques You Couldn't Live Without : an incredibly useful collection of techniques
- AListApart: Great CSS, Web design articles. Especially see this about styling lists....
- CSS Zen Garden: A wonderful resource
- Debugging CSS problems
- PositionIsEverything: a great resource
- GLISH: great CSS reference
- Eric Meyer
- More Eric Meyer
- Eric Meyer's site (CSS guru)
- 120 tools for Web developers
- HTML Dog : tutorials and stuff on HTML and CSS
- CSSJuice : another blog about CSS, with great resource links
- Huge CSS reference
- Big tutorials on CSS Floats
- Great description of CSS positioning.
- 10-step example of CSS positioning.
- Formatting lists
- Thumbnailed CSS layout demos
- CSS examples
- CSS tutorial
- 3-column, explained
- Simple 3-column design
- Huge collection of CSS-related sites
- Good CSS articles
- Lots of CSS articles
- CSS Mania -- showcase of designs
- CSS, Web usability
- Nice rounded boxes with CSS
- Lots of CSS tips
- CSS tutorials on lists, floats, selectors
- Lists of CSS and HTML commands
- CSS2 reference
- HTML 4.01 reference
- General CSS pointers
- CSS 2.1 reference
- 3-column CSS layout
- Liquid 3-column CSS layout
- CSS layouts, tips, techniques
- Great resource for creating Web 2.0 effects: buttons, backgrounds, etc.
- Dated, but some excellent CSS articles
- CSS and Web standards info, tutorials
- 6 excellent CSS designs for download
- More free layouts, articles, tutorials
- CSS table gallery
- Lots of CSS templates
- More CSS Templates
DHTML / JAVASCRIPT
- Great Javascript reference
- DHTML ref from M$
- Lots of software
- DHTML scripts
- Search engine for Javascript code libraries
- Sortable tables using Javascript
- Free dynamic menu scripts
- Free dynamic menu scripts
- A comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more.
- DHTML Scripts and Tutorials, Graphics, Dreamweaver Extensions and much more by Eddie Traversa.
- Experiments in web programming. Features articles, tutorials and example code related to client-side and server-side web development. Heavy on the standards.
- Two cross-browser JavaScript libraries for DHTML. Product news, examples, downloads, and documentation.
- Articles and message boards focusing on DHTML and a collection of free scripts.
- An open source JavaScript programming library for developing DHTML web applications.
- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials and over 400 free JavaScripts.
- Cross browser Dynamic HTML techniques, DHTML tutorials and free cross browser DHTML templates.
- Free scripts, articles, and tutorials about client side web-programming and server-side Java.
- Original DHTML and Javascript Widgets by Paul Whitrow.
- DHTML scripts, tutorials
- DOM reference
PHP
HANDY POINTERS
- InkjetArt: great inkjet supplies
- Review of free stock photo sites
- Free stock photos
- RefDesk: Reference for *everything*
- Chicago Manual of Style
FUN STUFF
- SlashDot: ultimate geek news
- BoingBoing: one of the great blogs
- FreshNews: meta geek news
- Snopes: debunking Internet hoaxes
- HoaxBusters: debunking Internet hoaxes
- NewsMap: amazing visualization of current news!
- GeoEye : fun satellite images
- Google zeitgeist
- Engadget: Tech gadgets
- Dvorak occasionally has something useful to say
- National Gallery of England
- FindSounds.com : vast library of sounds
- The Life of a Packet (PDF): very technical description of how Internet traffic is routed by being broken down into many tiny chunks (less than 1500 bytes each).