Links

Web Development

World Wide Web Consortium Site
This is the central site to find out information about current and developing standards for Web Design and production.

DevGuru
An extremely useful site as a jumping-off place for numerous aspects of web development.

HTML Writers Guild
is a very useful set of resources from the HTML Writers Guild.

Web Design Group
Helpful hints and tools.

W3Schools
This is a wonderful site for learning about several aspects of Web page design and creation. There are tutorials introducing you to HTML, XHTML and CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets), among several other topics. The beauty of these step-by-step tutorials is that you can immediately see real examples that illustrate the topic under discussion. Highly recommended.†

Jakob Nielsen's Useability Site
This is a website devoted to useability issues in software and website design. Jakob Nielsen has been working with useability issues for some time. It is worthwhile to surf around on his website a bit to see what might be involved in making sure you don't confuse users of your site.

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Dreamweaver MX

Macromedia Dreamweaver Web Site
gives the latest information on Dreamweaver, including software updates, service and support. You will also find access to "extensions," which extend the capability of the base program. Here you will find the extension that will check your site for accessibility issues. Another extremely useful (and free!) extension is the Coursebuilder extension. This extension will allow you to create various quiz materials.††††††

Lynda Weinman Training
This is Lynda Weinman's home page. Lynda runs the Digital Arts Center in Ojai, California, where she and her staff offer numerous workshops on computer programs. Lynda is a pioneer in web development, and has written several books dealing with HTML, Web Graphics, and Web and Graphics Development tools. Garo Green is an instructor at the Digital Arts Center. He has authored Dreamweaver MX: Hands-On-Training, which is our textbook. Check out the other titles on this web site.

Fireworks MX

Macromedia Fireworks MX Page
As in the Dreamweaver site, this is the source for the latest information on Fireworks, including software updates, service and support.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Eric Meyer's CSS Examples Site
Excellent examples of different kinds of effects possible with styles. Eric is the author of several books on Cascading Style Sheets and is regarded as the current expert.

Zen Garden
An absoulutely amazing site that will convince of the value of learning and applying CSS styles. The site offers a multitude of different designs for the exact same HTML content, as well as lots of information on styling.

CSS Layout Techniques: For Fun and Profit
A nice introduction to laying out a page without the use of tables

The Layout Reservoir
Ready-made code for three different types of layouts.

A List Apart -- Practical CSS Layout
Another article advocating the use of CSS rather than tables

Open Source Web Design
This is a great source for freely available designs that you may download and use as quasi templates for your own site or page.

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Web Graphics

WebReference.com

This is a good jumping-off site for obtaining information on using graphics on the web.

gifworld.com
which is a source for many free graphics.† Or, you might want to try

Animated GIF Artists Guild
which is the home page of the Animated Gif Artists Guild.

WebPlaces.com Clipart Searcher
is a clip art search engine (or more precisely, an organized way to use a variety of available search engines to seek out information on and examples of clip art).

Clipart.com
is a humongous index of clip art sites.

Accessibility

Bobby
This is THE standard website to check your own site for accessibility issues.

World Wide Web Consortium Accessiblity
This page of the World Wide Web Consortium gives a complete overview of accessibility issues.

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This is a sizeable set of on-line resources, but it is only a small fraction of what is available.† As you start surfing these sites, you will encounter many more.† And even as you read the brief descriptions in this list, you will see references to many topics that this brief primer hasn't even touched on.† It is amazing how much is available on the World Wide Web, and how much of it is free.