Design
Anyone can slap up a web page, but the best sites, the "killer" sites require a lot of thought, planning, and up-front design.
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- Web Wonk
- Dave Siegel's tips for writers and designers
http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/
- Sevloid Guide to Web Design
- an outstanding guide for any web developer
http://www.sev.com.au/webzone/design.htm
- Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual
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http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
- Guide to Web Style
- from Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/styleguide/
- NCD's HTML Design Guide
- a reference for Standard and Enhanced HTML
http://ncdesign.kyushu-id.ac.jp/html/html_design.html
- Form + Function
- Vivid Studios designs web sites for major business/enterntainment enterprises, and here they share their design process and philosophy.
http://www.vivid.com/form/
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HTML
Here are some of our favorite indispsensible guides
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- HTML Goodies
- a giant collection of tutorials, resources, and even graphics for web developers
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
- Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- Kevin Werbach's extremely useful "cheat sheet"
http://werbach.com/barebones/
- Compendium of HTML Elements
- is a reference manual of all HTML tags in general use.
http://www.htmlcompendium.org/
- Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi
- gives examples for every HTML element and attribute including new Netscape and Microsoft extensions
http://www.woodhill.co.uk/html/html.htm
- HTML The Definitive Guide
- online, the complete book by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
http://www.ora.com/books/webref/html/index.htm
- TAoH of HTML
- The Art of HTML
http://www.taoh.com/
- Dr. HTML
- is a tool that can diagnose problems on any web page
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
- webmonkey
- a tutorial using the "Monkey See, Monkey Do" approach
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/
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Tables
These are they unseen backbone of high octane sites. |
- Killer Tables
- This is part of the fantastic book Creating Killer Web Sites" and web site by Dave Siegel, in which he illustrates the use of tables to layout your web pages. We were heavily influenced by this work!
http://www.killersites.com/tutorial/
- Table Tutor
- a step-by-step guide from Joe Barta
http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/tutor/tables/index.html
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Forms & CGI
Web pages can be beautiful, but what people really like are interactive sites. CGI requires access to and knowledge of programming languages that run from a web server, and are a level or two above page formatting.
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- Carlos' FORMS Tutorial
- Carlos walks you through the process of formatting web page forms.
http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~carlosp/cs317/cft.html
- Form Tutor
- a step-by-step guide from Joe Barta
http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/tutor/forms/index.html
- Web Diner Forms Tutorial
- covers the basics of formatting and using forms that email the form data rather than running through a CGI server (useful for web hosting sites like AOL that do not allow CGIs)
http://www.webdiner.com/annexe/forms/wdform1.htm
- Programming with HTML Forms
- WebReference provides this tutorial with examples, written by Andrew Davison.
http://www.webreference.com/htmlform/
- The Perl Language Home Page
- One of the most widely used server programming langauges
http://www.perl.com/perl/
- The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- a technical explanation from NCSA (you know, the folks that gave birth to Mosaic)
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
- CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
- online, the complete book by Shishir Gundavaram
http://www.ora.com/books/webref/cgi/index.htm
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Frames
Controversial and often un-necessarily used, frames can provide a better navigational structure to your site.
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- The Netscape Frames Tutorial
- by Charlton Douglas Rose
http://www.newbie.net/frames/
- Framing the Web
- by Dab Brown
http://webreference.com/dev/frames/
- Net Assist for Frames
- from Netscape's site
http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/frames.html
- Frames Tutor
- a step-by-step guide from Joe Barta
http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/tutor/frames/index.html
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Graphics
We like the web because it is more than text. Duh. But using graphics wisely and at a low cost to the viewer is a high form of magic and art.
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- GIF Animation on the WWW
- by Royal E. Frazier
http://member.aol.com/royalef/gifabout.htm
- get animated!
- Cecilia Farell wrote this c}net guide for how to create GIF animations.
http://cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Webanim/index.html
- GIFWizard
- an on-line tool to help you optimize your HIF images
http://www.gifwizard.com/
- Animated GIF Recipe
- a WebReview article by Richard Koman
http://webreview.com/96/03/29/tag/index.html
- "In Design School They Promised No Math"
- a Web Review article by Bob Schmitt
http://webreview.com/96/03/15/tag/index.html
- The Browser Safe Color Palette
- by Lynda Weinman, author of Designing Web Graphics without a doubt the best book on the subject.
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
- Consistent Color on ALL browsers -- 10 easy steps
- a Netscape World article by Geoff Baysinger
http://www.netscapeworld.com/common/nw.color.html
- Bandwidth Conservation Society
- "a resource for web developers with an interest in optimizing performance, but still maintaining an appropriate graphic standard."
http://www.infohiway.com/faster/
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JavaScript
Altough above we suggested the limitations of CGI for interactivity, JavaScript is text you can insert into your HTML that provides interactivity without requiring access to a server. It still looks like ugly computer code!
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- Website Abstraction's Ultimate JavaScript Tutorial
- an extremely comprehensive tutorial and collection of resources
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/9892/javaindex.htm
- JavaScript Cut n' Paste
- free collection of ready-to-go scripts
http://www.infohiway.com/javascript/
- JavaScript Documentation
- from Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/
- Introduction to JavaScript
- by Stefan Koch
http://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/js/script.htm
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
- the complete online book
http://www.ora.com/books/webref/jscript/index.htm
- JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer
- the title says it all
http://www.hardlink.com/~robyoung/javatour.htm
- Doc JavaScript
- is a bi-weekly column from webreference.com, which also features the JavaScript Tip of the Week Repository
http://www.webreference.com/js/
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Java
All the hype and promise? Java is a programming language that allows you to include plug-in free interactive "applets" as part of your web pages.
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- KneeDeep in Java
- by Stefan Koch
http://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/javatut/kneedeep.htm
- Gamelan
- is one of the best known repository of Java applets and information
http://java.developer.com/
- The Java Tutorial
- from Sun, the folks that started the craze
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
- Shlurrrpp......Java
- "The first user-friendly tutorial on Java" by Vijay Mukhi
http://www.neca.com/~vmis/java.html
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