SimDragon's Lair
Simone's Pick of Web Development Resources
These are sites I am most likely to reference in regards to "serious" web development. As well as being a portable "favourites / bookmarks" list for my own benefit, I thought they were worth sharing. ;)
One of the best sites to check out is irt.org (Internet Related Technologies). The FAQs are immensely useful, and there are articles, tutorials and other resources available for practically all aspects of web development. Another invaluable site is Site Point and its weekly newsletters.
Accessibility
- Web Accessibility Initiative - the "official" guidelines
- Accessify - tools, resources articles, forums...
- Watchfire WebXACT - test your site's accessibility
- Lynx Viewer - see what your site looks like in a text only browser
- Color Laboratory - see what your site looks like to someone who is colourblind
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- W3C Cascading Style Sheets - the official specifications
- W3C CSS Validator - check if your CSS code is valid
- CSS Vault - nice sites which use CSS, plus resources
- Style Sheet Switcher - even works in NN4
Learn CSS
- W3Schools CSS Tutorial
- CSS Pointers (includes Implementation Problems)
- Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS - a guide for the unglued - a great list of resources
- The CSShark - FAQs, basics and a large number of links
Browser Bugs
- QuirksMode - has W3C DOM compatibility tables and an interesting section on browsers past and present
- RichInStyle.com - Bugs - no 5th Generation browsers listed; these days only useful if you want to support Netscape 4 and its ilk
- CSS and Netscape 4.xx Issues
- CSS Bugs in IE5 for Mac
- MacEdition Guide to CSS Support for Tables
DHTML Script Libraries
Most of the cool sites I used to reference with Javascript tutorials have all disappeared or changed to the point where I don't believe there is enough useful content to link to them anymore... *sigh* If you want to learn JavaScript, apart from buying a book, the best site I can recommend is the JavaScript Reference section of the JavaScript Kit site.
Search Engine Optimization
- High Rankings Advisor - excellent articles and tutorials. I highly recommend subscribing to the newsletter
- Search Engine Watch
- Google Webmaster Guidelines
XHTML
- W3C HTML Validation Service
- Magic XHTML Quick Reference - find every XHTML tag and its allowable attributes
- Character Entities (Greek alphabet, maths symbols etc) - W3C specification
- HTML META Tag Dictionary
- Transitions Between Pages
- HTML Help - references, tools and other resources for web developers
- HTML with Style - tutorials
Miscellaneous
- Page Resource - tutorials on HTML, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, CGI, and Perl plus web design articles
- A List Apart - online magazine which contains articles on code, content, design and more
- Favicons - how to make those little pictures that appear next to titles in your Favourites
- clagnut - great web design blog
- Current Web Design Articles
- Unicode Charts
- Two-Character Language Codes - for use in setting language attributes
- VectorMagic - converts bitmap images to vector images
- dnScoop - a domain and site valuation tool
