Resources for Creating Web sites

Tutorials from the horse's mouth.

The WDVL/ Tutorials - Introductory material on most topics listed on this page.

The Web Design Group

was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings.”

A Guide to Web Authentication Alternatives by Jan Wolter: a detailed and thoughtful introduction to the subject.

Jakob Nielsen on web usability

Tog's "Webzine for Computer Professionals, their Families, & Friends"

moreCrayons: description and nifty demonstration of a 4,096 color "web-smart" palette.

Dan's Web Tips

FrankenMatrix Interface is an attempt to create a searchable database of images navigatable through manipulation of catagories.

Zooming User Interfaces with a list of Papers and Articles on ZUIs 4/8/02

WWW Consortium

HTML 4.01 Specification

Meta - navigation link definitions

"The Compendium of HTML Elements"

Please Validate your HTML here or here.

CSS1 Specification

CSS2 Specification

Why style sheets are harmful

Some nice CSS tutorials on Simon Willison's Weblog: The anatomy of a stylesheet • Understanding the Box Model • Fun with links

Pure CSS2 Rollovers

A tableless, CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout.

This is a short guide to styling your Web pages.

It will show you how to use W3C's Cascading Style Sheets language (CSS) as well as alternatives using HTML itself. The route will steer you clear of most of the problems caused by differerences between different brands and versions of browsers.”

An excellent reference guide to CSS2 with examples.

"Agitprop": good discussions and demonstrations of various font and style sheet issues.

The LaTeX2HTML Translator Last Changed: Sun Nov 29 1996

LaTeX2html mailing list and links

Vulcanize

The most important thing to remember about vulcanize is that it does not work, and it will never work, because the problem it is trying to solve is completely intractable. However, it adequately solves a worthwhile subset of this intractable problem. For a program that doesn't work, it is remarkably successful.”

TtH translates the equations, instead of converting them to images. But see this

TeX4ht

Open Source Content Management System List

An early experiment using Webware for Python, Modeling, and OpenTAL.

Historical Interest

NCSA Mosaic Home Page

Misc.

Trackback, referrers, etc.

Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing

JavaScript MD5

URLs qua URLs

A List Apart: How to Succeed With URLs, Part One

“Good URLs should have a form like /products/cars/bmw/z8 or /articles/january.htm and not something like index.php?id=12.”

URLS! URLS! URLS!, By Bill Humphries

“The goal is to create a mod_rewrite ruleset that will turn
/content/YYYY/MM/DD
into
/content.cgi?date=YYYY-MM-DD
or something similar”

Your Friend, The Trailing Slash

Language

A detailed look at the differences between American and British usages. cache 4/16/03

The Economist Style Guide

I also recommend Fowler's Modern English Usage, which is more entertaining than you might think, and Kingsley Amis's The King's English, which is just as entertaining as you might think.

The apostrophe

The Dark Side?

Shockwave

Useful uses of Flash