Web Authoring
This is a pretty old page, containing little, so far, since the dawn of HTML5.
General Design and Practice
Tutorials from the horse’s mouth.
The WDVL/ Tutorials - Introductory material on most topics listed on this page.
“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”
Interface Experiments
jParallax is an amazing bit of javascript that allows a stack of images to slide over each other in a way that suggests, as you’ve guessed, parallax.
HTML
Meta - navigation link definitions
Please Validate your HTML here or here.
Cascading Style Sheets
Some nice CSS tutorials on Simon Willison’s Weblog: The anatomy of a stylesheet ○
Understanding the Box Model ○ Fun with linksA 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.”
A bird’s-eye view of the CSS landscape.
Fonts
“Agitprop”: good discussions and demonstrations of various font and style sheet issues.
Converters
LaTeX2html mailing list and links
TtH translates the equations, instead of converting them to images. But see this related comment.
Content Management Systems
Open Source Content Management System List. Last updated in August 2004, but still of interest.
Misc.
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
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.”
Language
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.
