web design resources

• Notable textbooks
  • An Introduction to Web Design and Programming by Paul S. Wang and Sanda Katila
• Server side includes
  • Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes
• Cascading style sheets.
  • Cascading style sheets from W3C
  • Tutorials: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css.html
  • Old but interesting article about css.
  • CSS examples:
    • http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp
    • http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/
  • CSS verification. Submit your URL for verification to a Word Wide Web Consortium verificator.
  • Adding a touch of style. A short guide to styling your Web pages. It will show you how to use W3C's Cascading Style Sheets language (CSS). From the Word Wide Web Consortium.
  • Compatibility Chart: shows to what degree each CSS attribute and value is implemented by different versions of several browsers.
  • CSS Pointers Group:
  • Font-variant examples.
• Character encoding.
  • FAQ about UTF and BOM from unicode.org (e.g. what is UTF-8?)
• Colors in the Web.
  • HTML colors
  • Non-dithering web colors : A table from Lynda Weinman.
  • Text, Link, and BGCOLOR Comparisons:
    • it uses Javascript. Hover over the name of the color and the background of the page changes to that color. On the same page there are examples of text using all the colors mentioned so you can see how each color looks on every background.
• Web hosting
  • PETS: An Entrepreneurship Society & Club at CalStateLA
• HTML
  • HTML Tutorial - (HTML5 Compliant) (W3Schools)
  • HTML5 Introduction (W3Schools)
  • AJAX Introduction (W3Schools)
  • XHTML W3C
  • Getting started with HTML. A tutorial from the from Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • Advanced HTML: More advanced HTML features (W3C)
  • Basic HTML from Webmonkey
• HTM validators
  • HTML verification. Submit your URL for verification to a Word Wide Web Consortium verificator.
  • Detailed validator: W3 detailed validator
  • Link checker
  • Semantic data extractor: This tool, geared by an XSLT stylesheet, tries to extract some information from a HTML semantic rich document. It only uses informations available through a good usage of the semantics defined in HTML.
• Javascript
  • JavaScript Tutorial (W3Schools)
  • Webdeveloper.com.
• Meta tags
  • Meta Medic: checks meta tags for validity and offers some suggestions for improvement.
• Usability.
  • Jakob Nielsen's useit