Best practice for web design
These sites are recommended for good, reliable information on a variety of web issues.
For the latest in standards in any web technology, see W3C site
HTML References and Tutorials
- Web Design Group Home of many good online resources
- Good practices A site on basic web design.
- Rules of thumb Older well-written article about web design.
- Alertbox The best references on useability of web design.
- Best Viewed With Any Browser Authoring standards and reasons to ensure that your web pages can be viewed with any browser.
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML A very nice introduction to the basics about HTML and authoring your own documents.
- HTML 3.2 reference A complete guide to HTML 3.2, listing the tags and elements.
- Yale Style Manual A clear and well documented set of web pages that discuss many issues of web page development and web site design.
- Web Site Development Information page which has many pointers to other resources on web page development.
HTML Validation
Web Accessibility
- Checkpoints for Web Accessibility Guidelines
- Guidelines for Creating Accessible Web Sites
- Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education serves as a central resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility.
Link Check
- Anybrowser.com free utility which will check links on one web page.
- W3C check link free utility which will test links on up to 150 pages.
- Link Valet recursively checks links on your site.
- Link Alarm tests a site of any size for one cent a page.
Style Sheets
- CSS1 Properties
- WebReview Style Sheets Reference Guide
- CSS1 Leader Board Compares style sheet implementation across browsers
- CSS Pointers Contains a list of dangerous and safe CSS properties, demonstration style sheets .
- House of Style Tutorials. articles, a css cookbook and example uses of css.
- W3C Style Sheets Page which contains references to other online tutorials, Style sheet editors and utilities, books on CSS etc.
CSS Validation
CSS Editors
- TopStyle: My favourite CSS editor on a PC
- Dreamweaver HTML editor with style sheet editing
- Style Master Style sheet editor for Mac or PC.