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AccessibilityDesigning Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities from UO Adaptive Technology program Usability Do's and Don'ts Info from James Bailey STEP508, the Simple Tool for Error Prioritization for Section 508 compliance WebAIM Web Accessibility in Mind Macromedia accessibility info including "LIFT" program Bobby Use this site to find out how accessible your page is for people with visual impairments. Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites from W3C How to use a "skip navigation" link for screen-reader users (to avoid navigation links repeated on each page)
Cascading Style SheetsCascading Style Sheet Summary (from IT Curriculum; good place to start) W3C Cascading Style Sheets, level 1, basic concepts Web Monkey Stylesheet Guide (Lisa thinks this is a nice simple one to start with) Web Developer "CSS Simplifiies Your Life" W3Schools CSS Info including "try it yourself" examples The Slacker's Guide to Stylesheets How to create an external stylesheet Google directory search for stylesheets Cascading Style Sheets: Styling your web pages Web Developers Virtual Library--CSS Cascading Syle Sheet Workshop notes from JQ Johnson The complete CSS Gude gives exhaustive list of properties, etc. Web Design Group stylesheet info Adding a touch of style Dave Ragett's Introduction to CSS ColorDesigneFUSE.com Learn how to Plan, Design, Build and Grow your web site. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines NetObjects Fusion offers 150 professionally designed styles to choose from, so you can get just the look you want. To see these styles, sorted by impression (such as formal, casual, modern, traditional, etc.), click here. Usable Web A collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Alertbox May 1996) "Top Ten Mistakes" Revisited Three Years Later Web Design References (Univ. of Minnesota Deluth-over 3,000 Links) DreamweaverHow to Define a Dreamweaver Site Documentation Notes from June 2003 Web Mechanics meeting Companion Web
site for Dreamweaver 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart
Guide, by J. Tarin Towers Lisa's Dreamweaver Notes a work in progress WebMonkey Dreamweaver walkthrough (this site will be closing soon) FormsA Tour of HTML Forms and CGI Scripts (from Speakeasy) Form Tutor from PageTutor.com CGI Scripts (for use with forms, access counters, guestbooks and other stuff like that) General & Misc Information on Web PublishingWeb Publishing Curriculum Resources Documents Room, UO Computing Center Has videos, books and CDs on html, Dreamweaver and other web publishing topics Notes for WWW Information Publishers Info from JQ Johnson at UO Library Web Manager's Reference Center (DL SunSITE) Web Mechanics Meeting Notes from 6/12/2003 (Lots of stuff, including meta tags, validators, html tutorials, etc.) Special characters: Latin-1 Entities (includes coding for cent sign, copywright sign, etc.) Web Developers Virtual Library Graphics and Clip ArtImages on Web Pages (basic info from IT Curriculum) Clip art suggestions from FITT Center Cooltext.com (free logo creator!) About--Graphics for the Web (tools/techniques) Barry's Clip Art Server (public domain) Google search for free clip art Google search for free graphics Icons for Use in WWW HTML Documents WebCom Guide - Publishing on the Web - Icons Index Web Developers Virtual Library--Images HTML and XHTML GUIDESHTML Standards and Useful Guides to HTML This page lists some sites the UO Computing Center recommends. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Introduction to XHTML: Differences with HTML 4 Here are some nice pages listing the changes from HTML to XHTML:
NavigationRobots, Security and IntranetsPassword-protecting directories Restricting access with htaccess Restricting Access to Your Site (part of Ted Smith's workshop on keeping sites organized) The Perils of Googling (2004 article on how search engines can be used to find sensitive info on web servers) Server Side Includes
Standards and Guidelines(also see section on validators above) What are web standards and why should I use them? April Fool's site about web standards which may be instructive: Meta tags and Docu tags Notes from June 2003 Web Mechanics meeting Introduction to XHTML: Differences with HTML 4 A List Apart Magazine Explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards. Notes for WWW Information Publishers at UO Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines Tableshttp://webdesign.about.com/cs/tables/ ValidatorsW3C HTML Validation Service Checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. Validator info from June 2003 Web Mechanics meeting Document type declaration info Web Design Group HTML validator CSE HTML Validator You can download an evaluation copy. This isn't the type where you can just enter the URL and get a report... HTML Tidy Best to download, save it to your desktop and unzip it. Then put in the url or point to the file, select "Tidy" and you'll get a line listing of errors and warnings. If you select "Output", you'll get the suggested changes. You can save that file under a new name, as a read-only so that you don't unintentionally overwrite your original. (Lisa doesn't think you can put in a URL; you have to point to a source file on your computer.) Dr. HTML Click on the "single page" link at the top and enter the URL of the page you want to check. Web Site Organization, Navigation and Maintenance (including link checkers)Organizing Your Web Site: Ideas for Web Authors Workshop taught by Ted Smith Lisa's notes from Ted's workshop CyberSpyder link checker Build your
website navigation friendly (site navigation guide) Tutorials, Training and Introductory InfoMacromedia Flash 2004 Tutorials HTML Goodies - General Tutorials HTML Goodies - Image Tutorials The IT Curriculum: Information Technology and Computing Workshops Web Publishing Resources from UO - basic info on how to make web pages and lots of other goodies. Web Monkey (a great site for beginners) Web Developers Virtual Library XHTML and Converting From HTML(Also see section above on Standards and Guidelines, and see Dreamweaver help files) Lisa's Notes on Converting HTML to XHTML XMLCompilation of resources from XML4Lib Electronic Discussion BEYOND HTML: XML AND AUTOMATED WEB PROCESSING, article by Tim Bream
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