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Web Development Resources
For my students and anyone else looking for some resources to aid in their Web knowledge and capabilities, I've included this page of links. Please feel free to email me with any suggesstions you'd like to contribute.
Resources on the Web
The shortlist
www.devguru.com (lots of resources)
www.webmonkey.com (lots of resources
& articles)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/ (very cool quickie)
www.websitesthatsuck.com (Vincent Flander's design theory)
www.Istockphoto.com (great place for free or $1 photos)
www.lab188.com (solid blog/resource area for Keith Krieger, a KC web designer and instructor)
HTML editors
http://textpad.com/download/index.html (textpad, very basic & straightforward)
www.evrsoft.com (1stpage)
www.editplus.com/download.html (30-day free trial text editor)
Color Chart
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/html/quickref/color_chart.html (includes color names)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/ (bigger color bars)
Special Characters (or Character Entitites)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters
http://www.devguru.com/features/knowledge_base/a100211_entity.html
Design Theory
www.useit.com (Jakob Nielsen's Usabililty
thoughts, etc)
www.websitesthatsuck.com
(Vince Flander's design ideas)
Images
http://www.1clipart.com/ (annoying deluge of pop-ups, but the art's free)
http://www.321clipart.com/ (annoying deluge of pop-ups/advertising, but the art's free)
{these formerly quality sites appear to be having problems or to have gone under}
www.barrysclipart.com
www.free-graphics.com
Search engine site submissions
www.dmoz.org/add.html
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
www.google.com/addurl.html
Various Web resources & Web development portals
www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossname.html
(named list of HTML tags)
http://wdvl.internet.com (Web
Developer's Resource. free, good stuff, mostly articles on the industry)
www.oreilly.com (promos for respected
tech print resources, see below)
www.blooberry.com/indexdot
Flash examples
www.kimble.org
www.balthaser.com (current)
http://209.209.36.178/B1/home.html (Balthaser 1998; I particularly like their JOBS section done like a newsreel)
Linguistics
instructional site: by Anastasia Lakhtikova (an excellent example
of Flash as an interactive learning tool)
Personal interest: personal publishing
Example Form Processing
Browser Differences
Discussion of examples of browser rendering differences
Print Resources
*HTML & XHTML, The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly (this is likely to be the best search term)
Authors: Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy
~US $34.95
*HTML Pocket Reference
Publisher: O'Reilly (this is likely to be the best search term)
Author: Jennifer Niederst
~US $9.95
*Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in a Week
Author: Laura Lemay
"There is no reason for any individual
to have a computer in his home."
~Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 (from www.aphids.com)
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