Web Development Introductions
- Boston University Web Central Learning
- Nice simple introductions to various web development stuff, such as how to restrict access to part of your site, understanding site stats, as well as the usual tools.
- www.BrainJar.com
- Well written articles and tutorials about CSS, Javascript, ASP. Intermediate and advanced level stuff.
- Webmonkey The Web Developer's Resource
- The daddy of developer resources. Note the special characters section is especially useful.
- Open Source Web Design
- Neat source for sharing designs and templates.
- Sitepoint
- Huge resource covering most stuff, plus good email lists.
- TheFixor.com
- Another big resource. I particularly find the Dreamweaver and CSS sections very useful.
Specific Issues
- Colour Matching
- Utility that suggests matching colours based on the colour you enter. You might prefer this similar Colour Matching utility.
- Web Safe Non-Dithering Colours in Browsers
- Back from the days when 256 colours were common, we had to worry about this stuff.
- 404 Research Lab
- More than you could ever want to know about creating good custom 404 messages. Actually a big help in designing my own custom 404 message.
- Blogger Help
- Blogger's help page. See also the Unofficeal Blogger FAQ.
- Firdamatic
- Desing tool for uninspired bloggers - as they admit themselves.
CSS
- CSS discussion list Wiki
- The collective memory for the CSS Discuss email list, which is an excellent, if quite high volume list.
- CSS 2 Tutorial
- Good CSS 2 tutorials (and other stuff)
- What Place Has CSS in the XML World
- Quite a lot, thankfully.
- XML and CSS
- XML and CSS can work closely together.
- A List Apart Past Issues: CSS
- Archive of CSS articles.
- CSS Edge
- More top advice on CSS.
- Rich in Style CSS Masterclass
- How to write a clean CSS, and what pitfalls to avoid.
XML
- Google Directory - XML
- Google's CSS directory.
- Free XML tools and software
- Free stuff ...
- Top XML: XHTML articles, tutorials and editors
- Excellent XHTML tutorials.
- XML.com XML From the Inside Out
- Centre for XML expertise.
W3C
- W3 Schools Online Web Tutorials
- The horse's mouth.
- W3C XHTML Reference
- The horse's mouth XHTML guides.
- W3C XHTML Validation
- The horse's mouth XHTML validation service.
- W3C Technical Reports W3C Technical Reports
- The horse's mouth technical reports. In particular, their CCS2 specification, XHTML 1.0 specification, 2nd Edition, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Security
- Security & Human Factors
- A reminder of the human factors in security.
- The weakest link
- Good non-technical review of security issues.
My Website Links
- LowCostNames.biz
- Where I registered my Domain Name.
- Supanames.com
- My hosting company.
- NedStatBasic.net
- My free site statistics counter.
- EScrambler
- Simple piece of JavaScript for hiding an email address on a web page from spammers.
- Google's Advice to Webmasters
- Does and Don'ts of how to create a website that Google can rank properly.
