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Books
Web Design in a NutshellWeb Design in a Nutshell contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need to know to design Web pages. It's the good stuff, without the fluff, written and organized so that answers can be found quickly.
This book provides quick access to the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from which Web designers and authors must draw.
It is an excellent reference for HTML tags (including tables, frames, and Cascading Style Sheets) with special attention given to browser support and platform idiosyncrasies.
The HTML section is more than a reference work, though. It details strange behavior in tables, for instance, and gives ideas and workarounds for using tables and frames on your site. Web Design in a Nutshell also covers multimedia and interactivity, audio and video, and emerging technologies like Dynamic HTML, XML, embedded fonts, and internationalization.
The book includes: Discussions of the Web environment, monitors, and browsers A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including browser support for every tag and attribute Chapters on creating GIF, JPEG and PNG graphics, including designing with the Web Palette Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash, Shockwave, and JavaScript Detailed tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets, including an appendix of browser compatibility information Appendices detailing HTML tags,attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags, and CSS compatibility
Ria: This book is a very good reference guide. It is very comprehensive. I use it all the time.
Don't confuse this with Webmaster in a Nutshell which is much more technical. It covers the server side, rather than page design.
Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual Quickstart Guide)
For those who are familiar with HTML and are ready to progress to JavaScript, this book offers a step-by-step approach.
HTML tutorials and reference guides:
- www.w3.org/ The official guide to HTML etc
- http://www.guru99.com/ Very good source of a wide variety of free tutorials. With many thanks to Lauren a student at the North Mountain Institute, Arizona, who shared this link she found with me.
- www.w3schools.com/ This site contains very good tutorials and references in HTML, CSS, WML, XML and XHTML
- The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- www.webreference.com/
- www.htmlgoodies.com/Good web design:
- HTML Writers Guild
- Web Design Group
- JavaScript showing all colours on your selected background
- Jim Price ASCII codes/
- JavaScripts
- www.javascripts.com/ Large library of JavaScripts
- www.javascriptsearch.com/
- webreference.com/javascript/
- www.wsabstract.com/
- www.dynamicdrive.com/
- CSS
- XML
Links to clip art sites:
- www.allfree-clipart.com
- www.clipart.com
- www.freepik.com
- www.digimarc.com/ Mark the images you created yourself with a digital watermark.
Web Tools and useful information:
- Software:
- www.adobe.co.uk/
- Animated Gif constructor
- Arachanophilia, a similar package to Hotdog standard; Freeware!!
- www.evrsoft.com/1stpage/ 1st Page 2000 editor. Includes JavaScripts and comprehensive HTML guide.
- LView and www.irfanview.com Graphics viewer, editor and creator
- WS_FTP FTP program
- General Shareware:
- Utilities, counters, site stats ...
- HTML Goodies
- www.freestats.com/ Counters
- www.extropia.com/
- Superstat Counters
- Site Checkers
- www.netmechanic.com/ will check your site and give advise on how to make it better.
- validator.w3.org
- www.htmlvalidator.com/
- Site Submissions
- to check for links to your site:
- www.linkpopularity.com/ Produces listing of all the sites referring to your homepage
- Webspace, Domain names
- www.angelfire.com/Free webspace
- www.ispreview.co.uk/
- www.domainnameshop.co.uk/
- www.easily.co.uk/ provides one of the cheapest domain names
- www.internic.net/ check name availability
- E-commerce
- CGI Scripts - check with your ISP!! Many do not permit use of CGI scripts
- Web Statistics:
- Search Engine Watch provides statistics on performance and coverage of different engines
- www.internet.com/
- www.internettrafficreport.com/