Accessibility

Accessibility
Accessible Web — From the University of Newcastle in Australia
Accessible Web Page Design — From the University of Washington: "Information on accessible Web page design."
Accessible Web Design — from Suite101.com
Alliance for Technology Access — "Assistive Technology Advocates"
Bobby — "Bobby is a free service provided by CAST to help Web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities." This is a well-known site from the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST). It often considered the standard in evaluating Web-site accessibility.
Designing More Usable Web Sites
Equal Access to Software and Information — From the Rochester Institute of Technology
MIT Disabilities Resource for Information Technology
Web Accessibility Initiative — From the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Web Accessibility in Mind
Web Site Accessibility - electronic class — An on-line class which says it will teach you "how to create, modify, and check your web pages" to make them "universally accessible.'"

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Browser-Safe Colors

216 ALL BROWSER SAFE COLORS: Chart and Sampler — YACC ("Yet another color chart")! But this page includes on an-line tool that shows you instantly what color results from any given Hex code. Could be handy.
All You Need To Know About Web Safe Colors — from The Web Developer's Journal. Technical details. Discussion of "dithering." Brief discussion about using color photographs on the Web.
Death of the Websafe Color Palette? — Web-safe colors in 2001. Includes – but not limited to – technical discussion of the issues.
Integrated Design | True Colors — Web Techniques, May 2001
Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers — By Lynda Weinman, a very authoritative voice regarding the use of color on the Web.
Open Directory - Computers: Graphics: Web: Colors — Links from the Open Directory Project.
Optimizing Web Graphics: Which Color Palette? — webreference.com. Discusses color differences regarding Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms.
Safe Web colours — "for colour-deficient vision"
VisiBone — A variety of color resources.
Yahoo! Arts > Design Arts > Graphic Design > Web Page Design and Layout > Color Information — Links from Yahoo!

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Extras

Acme Label Maker — Create "Dymo"-type labels for you pages
The Alertbox — "Current Issues in Web Usability....Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability"
Be a freelance Web builder — Web Building, from CNET. Set up your own business as a Web designer
BizWeb 2000 — "Internet marketing website for small business web site promotion:
eBoard — "Teacher Sites to Post Classroom Info & Homework. Teacher Resources for Class Websites to communicate with Educational Resources about teacher tools, teacher resources, and class homework."
Forget Glitz, Make Your Site Speedy — from PC World
Guerilla Usability: "WebShui" — Tips on how to make your site user-friendly. From CNET
Improve Your Web Site — from Web Site Garage
JavaScript Central — from Netscape DevEdge
JavaScript FAQ
LinkAlert — "A private [fee-based] service that keeps you informed of new linking opportunities, tools, tips, techniques, and articles....LinkAlert will explain how to maximize your site's free and paid links, listings, and site reviews. "
The Link Controversy Page — "The Link Controversy Page is intended to provide an overview of the legal problems of using hyperlinks, inline images and frames on the WWW. Right now, this page covers problems in the area of copyright, trademark, trespass law as well as unfair competition law. By Stefan Bechtold
A List Apart — "For People Who Make Websites." Top-notch resource. Info and interactive forums "fora"?).
Matt's Script Archive — All kinds of "scripts" (programs) to add features – maybe a guest book or a counter – to your site. For more advanced folks willing to experiment a bit.
Search Engine Software For Your Web Site — How to add software to your site to allow your visitors to search your site.
Search Tools - Information, Guides and News — How to add software to your site to allow your visitors to search your site.
SWiSH — Create Flash animations without Flash. For advanced users.
useit.com — Jakob Nielsen's site (Usability and Web Design). Nielsen is the somehwat controversial "guru" of Web site usability.

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Hosting

Addy & Associates, Inc. Hosting and Web development. (Providers of the free Dr. Watson syntrax HTML checker.)
Compare Web Hosts — "the Best Search for a Web Host Provider
FindWebspace.com — Lists of many Web-hosting companies.
Domain Name Search Engine — from Namedroppers.com. "The Web's most innovative utility to SEARCH and REGISTER domain names!"
Free Homepage Center — "Free Web Hosting, Email, File Space, Clip Art, Freebies, Music, and much more"
Homestead — Web host. Provides automated I-don't-need-to-know-HTML tools. Various pricing plans, including a free trial account.
Hostingplus.com — "Internet presence you can afford!"
Hostway — Web hosting. E-commerce. Domain name registration.
HyperMart — E-commerce. Create an online store.
ISPcheck — Info on finding a Web host. Appears to "feature" some hosts – i.e., money may have changed hands here.
One-Stop Budget Web Hosts — CNET review of four low-cost Web hosts
Reliable Hosts
Tripod Site Builder — Free Web site host. Includes tools to let you build a site without knowing HTML!! (Do we really want to do this?)
Web Hosts and Search Engines — from Search Engine Guide. Addreses the question: "Are there any search engine related issues that I need to be aware of before I select a host?"
Web Hosting 101 — from CNET
Yahoo! GeoCities - Membership Brochure — Another free Web site host. Includes tools to let you build a site without knowing HTML!! (tsk, tsk!)

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HTML Authoring Tools

AOL Press — Source #1. I used this one for five years. Quirky but capable. Creates tables and frames quickly and easily (altho it sometimes puts the <frameset> tag in the wrong place). Cannot deal with CSS, which is why I no longer use it.
AOL Press — Source #2
Authoring Programs — from reallybig.com
CoffeeCup Software — "HTML Editor, Web Hosting and Cool Website Design Software"
Cool Page
Cute HTML
1st Page
Home Site
Hot Dog Web Editors
HTML Editors — from reallybig.com
HTML Editors and Associated Tools — All kindsa stuff!
HTML Tool
HTML Web Weaver Lite
Lightning HTML Editor (Use the left- side menu: Software > Web Page Design > HTML editor. Here's an example of a framed site which makes it impossible to link directly to this content.)
Review of four HTML editors — from CNET
Review of code- based HTML editors — from PC Magazine
TopStyle Pro — "HTML Editor, CSS Editor, XHTML Editor for Windows"

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Web Design Tools — The checkmark says it all!
Web Page Design tools — ZDNET downloads (mostly HTML editors)
Web Wizard— Works from within your browser. Requires MSIE 5.5 or later.
Web Wizardry — Review of some (mostly?) WYSIWYG editors from PC Magazine

I'll be adding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) links. Stay tuned. Back to HTML Authoring Tools

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Images, Clipart & Graphic Resources

Beginner's Home Page Starter Kit — Framed page; no direct link to images. Click on the "Images" link on top frame.
Clipart — Clipart, photos and many links to similar resources
Clip Art Connection — Clipart, photos, fonts, animations
Elated
Free Clipart and Graphics
Graphics Do's & Dont's: Copyrights...
Graphics Resources
Graphics
Home — Image tutorials and links to images
Homepage Tools
IconBazaar
Icons for Web Page Design
Image O Rama
InfoService — links to many graphics sites
Optimizing Web Graphics: References — from webreference.com (2003)
Patti's Place — Graphics and lots of other Web development tools
Reallybig.com
Web Graphics Utilities — from the Web Developer's Journal

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Search for Images

Alta Vista Image Search
Ask Jeeves (1) — images
Ask Jeeves (2) — clipart
ditto.com
Google Image Search
Lycos Image Search
Mister PiX — "Mister PiX is a powerful yet simple to use program that will search for pictures on the Internet and in Newsgroups!"
Open Directory Project (1) — images
Open Directory Project (2) — clipart
Picsearch
WebSEEK — "Content- based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web" from Columbia University
Yahoo! — clipart
Yahoo! Picture Gallery — images
Purloining and Pilfering — Issues relating to legal use of graphics you find on the Web

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Promoting Your Site

Commission Junction — "Affiliate Programs...Online Pay-for-Performance Advertising and Marketing"
ClickZ — Articles on many aspects of Web site design and maintenance. Focus is on Web site as a business.

Doctor Ebiz

I-Advertising — "We help businesses reach customers and generate revenue through targeted Internet advertising campaigns."
Internet Marketing Dictionary
Internet Resources for Online Promotions
LinkPopularity.com — "The Free Link Popularity Service....Link popularity is the total number of web sites that link to your site...good link popularity can dramatically increase traffic to your web site."
Recommend- It® — Web site marketing
WebPromote.com — "the intelligent internet marketing resource"

Note: Search Engine Optimization is only one aspect of making your Web site more "visible." The links in this section deal with other aspects.

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Resources — Tutorials etc.

Read this first.

Advanced Tools — Aimed at AOL users, but stuff here for everybody.
AllAboutYourOwnWebSite.com — The emphasis here is on site design and management.
AlertMeFirst — "remote Web site monitoring that allows you to monitor the performance and availability of your Web site"
AnyBrowser.com — "Your Source for Browser Compatibility Verification"
Art-O-Matic — "Instant 3D Graphics"
Beginners Home Page Starter Kit
Bravenet Web Services — "Professional Web Tools for Your Website"
Castle Software & Products — Software for dividing an image into multiple parts for use on web pages
Complete Code Reference Guide to HTML — Alphabetical listing by both tag itself (e.g., <HEAD>) and tag description (e.g., "horizontal rule"). (Good example of bad color choices for a Web page.)
TheCounter.com — "The Full- Featured Web Counter with Graphic Reports and Detailed Information"
CSE HTML Validator — "Professional HTML Syntax Checker and HTML Editor." Software to make certain your code is correct. Syntax checkers do for your HTML code what spell checkers do for your word processing file.
Cute Site Builder — "lets you easily create a professional Web site in minutes without having to know HTML, FTP or graphic design!" ("Professional"? Sounds too good to be true.)
Design Resources — "web resources for web design, free images, free animations, style guides and design guides"
DevEdge Online — "Sample Code, Access & Manuals for Developers." Techie stuff for advanced users
DevelopersNetwork.Com — Resources for both new and experienced Web developers. "Nerd Exchange" is a forum to get your questions answered.
devshed.com — "The Open Source Web Development Site." Mostly for advanced Web developers.
DevX.com —Advanced stuff.
Dream Tools — "Free Webmaster Tools"
Dr. Watson — Free HTML syntax checker. Syntax checkers do for your HTML code what spell checkers do for your word processing file

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Essential Sources for Web Performance Analysis and Improvement— From the "Free Pint"newsletter. (This link will take you to the top of the page. To find this article, search for [Control-F] – or scroll down to – "TIPS ARTICLE.")
eXactMapper Lite — "Create a professional site map for your Web pages without writing a single line of code."
Freepolls.com — "The leading provider of free web polls!" Hosting, as well.
FuzzPad HTML Tester
HomepageTools — "Powerful free web tools and web site resources"
HTML Station — Tutorials and other resources.
HTML Checkers — This is a list of free HTML syntax checkers. Syntax checkers do for your HTML code what spell checkers do for your word processing file.
Info Service — A variety of Web design resources
Index Generator — "A free HTML index generator. The index generator effortlessly indexes your website, creating sitemaps, A-Z indices, image lists, file lists, etc." (Last time I checked, the top of this page sported a big "document not found" sign, but the info was there.)
JavaScript Source — "Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Help"
Links — Lottsa links!
NetMechanic — "HTML code help, search engine optimization and web site maintenance tools."
O'Reilly & Associates — Book publishers. Several books on HTML and Web design. There are lots of books out there on these topics, yet O'Reilly has the uncanny knack of publishing only good books.
Patti's Place — Graphics and lots of other Web development tools
Personal Web Pages — "Create Your Personal Site and See Others' Personal Sites...Use the HTML from other people's web page code to help you create your Web pages."
Powermapper — Tool for "Automatic Site Mapping"
Reallybig.com — "The Complete Resource For All Web Builders."
Section 508 — "Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications - 1194.22. "These provisions of the standards provide the requirements that must be followed by Federal agencies when producing web pages."

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SiteExperts.com — "web-development discussions and resources"
Site Meter — "Counter and Statistics Tracker"
Sitepoint — "Empowering Web Developers Since 1997."
Teachers.Net: Web Tools
Teethmag.com — Links to a variety of resources.

Trellian Software

Typofile Magazine — All about fonts.
Up2Speed — A variety of mailing lists dealing with creating and managing a Web site. (formerly "Adventive")
W3C MarkUp Validation Service — Validate ("check") your HTML code. W3C is the organization that sets many Web standards.
Walt's Publishing on the Web Forum — A variety of resources from one of the Web's gurus.
Web 3D Consortium — "all aspects of 3D technologies on the Internet"
Web 3D Repository — "The term Web3d describes any programming or descriptive language that can be used to deliver interactive 3D objects and worlds across the internet."
Web Design and Style Resources — from Windweaver
Web Design Library — from CNET.com
WebDeveloper.com ® — "Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript, and More!"
Web Developer's Journal — "Free Software Downloads - The Latest Web Development Tools." Links to lots of potentially useful stuff. Their home page has many other useful links.
Web Developer's Virtual Library — "Keyword Search and Index"
Web Development — "Successful Web development requires knowledge and skills in many areas, and constant attention to six processes and six key web elements." Comprehensive discussion of Web site development.
Web Genie Software — "Software to create Common Gateway Interface (CGI) for online forms, shopping cart software, guestbook, affiliate system, Site Visitor Tracker and many more."
WebmasterBase - Master the Web
Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
Web Page Design tools — ZDNET downloads (mostly HTML editors)
Web Page Generator — "provides a turn key system to teachers for creating a web page for their classroom."
Web Tools & Graphics
Who Owns the Copyright to Your Website? — from sitepoint
Wise-Women — "An online community and network dedicated to supporting women web designers, developers, and programmers."
Working with HTML — from reallybig.com
Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition — Online edition of this comprehensive book.
ZyWeb — "Build your own Web Site with our Web Site Builder"

Read this: The sites in this section contain both tutorials and other kinds of resources. "Other" resources may include HTML authoring tools, clipart, scripts and links to many other "Web resource" sites. Back to "Resources" links.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Read this.

Academy of Web Specialists — "Search Engine Marketing resources and training for generating traffic and increasing profits." (2003)
Best Practices Search Engine Forums (2003)
Dancing with Crawlers — "An article about making websites both search-engine friendly and accessible, without sacrificing 'cool' design." (2003)
Design Tip: Some META Tags Don't Work (2001)
Ebooks on search engine promotion — From Pandia, an excellent resource. (2003)
Finding Search Engine Optimization Professionals — from SearchDay (2002)
1st Search Engine Ranking — "Search Engine Optimization & Placement - Multiply the traffic to your site"
HighRankings.com — "Search Engine Optimization Services - Expert SEO Consulting and Speaking" (2003)
HitBox.com — "The Leader in Real-Time Web Analytics, offering web site analysis, statistics, web site traffic analytics, free monitoring, log file analysis tools, free reports, traffic analyzer, reporting and website analytics outsourcing." (2003)
How to design a search engine and user friendly website (2002)
How You Can Get Your Website Ranked High in the Search Engines — Part 1 (1999)
How You Can Get Your Website Ranked High in the Search Engines — Part 2 (1999)
I Help You, Inc.
Keywords — A bunch of links to articles on choosing appropriate keywords. (2003)
Keyword Research Tools, Stop Words, Inktomi Based Engines (2001)
Is SEO a Dying Art? (2002)
Learning Search Engine Optimization from Scratch (2003)
Link Popularity Don'ts, Yahoo! and Niche Sites, Cloaking (2001)
Page Zero Media — "Search Engine Marketing and Keyword Advertising Specialists" (2003)
Rank Write Roundtable — "The Rank Write Roundtable features expert answers to your questions about successful online writing and high search engine rankings." (2002)
SearchDay — A free newsletter dealing with many aspects of using search engines, including SEO. (2003)

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Search Engine Blog — "Search Engine Blog provides the latest search engine marketing news, information and resources." What's a blog? (2003)
Search Engine Guide — "Search engines are covered in depth with daily search engine news, information on search engine marketing, our directory of thousands of general and specialty search engines, and our search engine books and services section." (2003)
Search Engine Optimization Is Too Expensive and Doesn't Work (2001)
Search engine and directory submission tips (2001)
Search Engine Optimization — From Pandia, an excellent resource. (2003)
Search Engine Optimization FREE! (2001)
Search Engine Placement Tips — by Danny Sullivan, search engine guru (2002)
Search Engine Positioning, Part 1 — "Interview with Fredrick Marckini, author of Search Engine Positioning. Fredrick is the CEO of iProspect.com, and one of the SEP's pioneers." (2001)
Search Engine Positioning, Part 2 — Interview with Fredrick Marckini, Part 2. (2001)
Search Engine Submission Tips — from Search Engine Watch (2003)
Search Engine World — "By Webmasters For Webmasters" (2002)
SearchEngines.com — "Search engine rankings and search engine optimization tips." (2003)
Search Engine Optimization Takes Time — (2002)
Search Engine Yearbook — This e-book (PDF format) is aimed at: "Professional webmasters, Professional researchers, SEO professionals, Internet marketing professionals, Those looking to buy SEO services, Serious Internet entrepreneurs and - of course - search engine fanatics." (2003)
Selfpromotion.com — "Creating and Submitting Search Engine Friendly Websites | Register Web site | Add URL Free" (2003)
Ten Things You Need to Know About Linking and Link Popularity — (2002)
WebPosition Gold — "Search Engine and Web promotion Software" (2003)
What are Doorway Pages?" — Also called "bridge pages." By Danny Sullivan, search engine guru. (2001)
What Search Engines See Isn't Always What You Get — from SearchDay (2001)
When to outsource your Web hosting — from CNET (2001)

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Note: Search Engine Optimization is only one aspect of making your Web site more "visible." The links in Promoting Your Site deal with other aspects.

Moreover....SEO is really a moving target. What gets you listed in the top ten results of Search Engine "A" make not work for Search Engine "B." And, just to keep it interesting, Search Engine "A" may change the rules, so all that hard work may have to be re-done to get good results again. If search engine placement (ranking) is very important to you (maybe you run a business and are hoping for Web-generated clients/customers), hire a professional.

Finally, wherever possible, I have added a date to each link. For Web sites, this is the copyright year. For articles, the year is the date of publication. This will help you determine whether the information is current and – therefore – possibly useful. However, information that is a year or two old may still be current and useful. Information that is current may, in fact, be lousy information. I am not an SEO pro: Caveat emptor!
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Shareware sites

-½cut's freeware list
5 Star — From the U.K.
Bill's Software Picks
Download.com
CWSApps - Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List — Home Page
CWSApps - Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List — Alphabetical listing
Jumbo
Links to Freeware
Open Directory Project
PC World
Pricelessware
Shareware.com
Tucows
Tudogs
Windows File of the Day
Yahoo!
ZDNet

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Tutorials

Abandon Tables, simplify design with CSS (2002)
Advanced HTML — "CSS, DHTML, XML, SMIL" (2003)
All About HTML — from WebDeveloper.com® (2003)
All About Your Own Website — "Your Guide to Creating and Managing Web Site" (2003)
ASP — Active Server Pages. From WDVL (2003)
Borrowed brilliance — "Web Design Library" from CNET (2001)
Cascading Style Sheets — From WDVL (2003)
Chris's HTML Tutorial Center (2001)
The church of usability — "Web Design Library" from CNET (2001)
Classroom Resources — "Web Page Design," Part 1: "People Actually Get PAID To Do This?" & Part 2: "Internet Graphics for the Artistically Challenged" (2002). "Guidelines for GOOD Web Design" (2003). Good guidance with a sense of humor from Patrick Crispen. (You will need a Powerpoint viewer to enjoy these files.)
Design Nightmares (2000)
DHTML — Dynamic HTML. From WDVL (2003)
Diary of a Webmaster Part 1 — My Site Design Checklist (2000)
Diary of a Webmaster Part 2 — Create a Content Feed (2000)
Diary of a Webmaster Part 3 — Create the Perfect Newsletter
Diary of a Webmaster Part 4 — Backing Up With MySQLDump (2000)
Draac.Com - Building A Better Internet — A Complete Guide to HTML (2003)
Easy Steps to a Great Site — from PC World magazine (2001)
Fun With Frames — from CNET (1999)
HTML Goodies — Various resources, including some relating to VBScript and JavaScript. (2003)
HTML — Hypertext Markup Language. From WDVL (2003)
HTML Help Central (2003)
HTML Help Central: Message Board — Exchange messages with other HTML authors.
Introduction to HTML — "Getting Started with HTML" from Dave Raggett (2002)
Introduction to HTML (2) — "More Advanced Features" from Dave Raggett (2000)
JavaScript — From WDVL (2003)
Lissa Explains it All — "HTML Help for Kids." Well, aren't we all kids at heart?? (2003)
Patti's Place for Web Developers
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi (2003)
Usable Web — Very important topic. Anyone can create a Web site, but is the site easy to use? Lots of links to many aspects of this topic. (2003)
Web Design/HTML — "HTML XML - Web Development - Web Site Design" (2003)
WebReference.com — "The Webmaster's Reference Library - Web Authoring Tips & Tutorials for Developers" (2003)
Writing HTML (2000)
XML — Extensible Markup Language. From WDVL (2003)

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Resources for Web Site Development

Accessibility

Browser-Safe Colors

Extras

Hosting

HTML Authoring Tools

Images, Clipart & Graphic Resources

Search for Images

Promoting Your Site

Resources — Tutorials etc.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Shareware sites

Tutorials