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This page was thoroughly gone over in December 2006. The dead links were deleted and a few new ones added. Although the info on some of these sites might seem outdated, it's probably not.

Glue is the stuff that holds web pages together. The links here are intended to concentrate on the client side of things.

I have very little specific to XML, PHP, SQL, or any of the other server-side technologies either here or on my computing page. (If you're writing scripts to serve up pages from a database, you're beyond me.)

I'm a believer in staying a bit behind the curve and not leaving older machines with older browsers behind (like mine). I've even posted a short rant (of course!) on web page design.

You might also look at my page of links about the internet.



site development | html | css | javaScript | java | images | late

    web site development
    Tho' some of these are kinda old, take a look anyway. Some things don't change.
    design:
  1. alistapart.com/topics/design: A List Apart, "for people who make websites," provides excellent articles on design
  2. philip.greenspun.com/wtr: the now obsolete but very cool Web Tools Review.
    More currently, read from Philip Greenspun's Software Engineering for Internet Applications
  3. med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html: Yale web style guide
  4. dsiegel.com: David Siegel's blog, but with some good ideas and links
  5. killersites.com: tutorials, info, and the old "Creating killer websites"
  6. tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/project/info.html: HTML links from the NWS
  7. webpagesthatsuck.com: examples of what you don't want
  8. webreference.com/dlab: Dmitry's Design Lab belongs on webpagesthatsuck.com
  9. webword.com: usability
  10. useit.com : Usability from Jakob Nielsen
  11. benjerry.com: Ben & Jerry's, offered as an interesting example
  12. geek.com: This site was once offered as an egregious example of webpage overload -- it's normal these days.
    tools:
  13. webmonkey.com: with how-to's, references, more
  14. fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser: fixing Microsoft junk
  15. vancouver-webpages.com/sitemap.html: web tools, including info on meta tags
  16. scn.org/help/web/webref.html: links to HTML tools and web software, but last update in 2003
    more references:
  17. Yahoo, of course: dir.yahoo.com...World_Wide_Web
  18. builder.com.com: good stuff from C|Net
  19. ibm.com/developerworks/web: "Resources for Web 2.0, Ajax, wikis, PHP, mashups, and other Web projects"
  20. ddj.com: Dr Dobb's Journal
  21. yourhtmlsource.com has lots of info, including a browser review
  22. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML: Character encodings in HTML
  23. webreference.com: ugly as sin, but useful
    counters:
  24. counterguide.com/listing/hosted.dir.html: a great site that gives examples of the styles, reviews, and more


    html
  25. w3.org/MarkUp: the folks who write the standards have tutorials, tools, validation, news, info, forums, and more
  26. seoconsultants.com/articles/1007/perfect-page.asp: "Building the Perfect Page - The Basics"
  27. davesite.com: scroll down for tutorials and more
  28. htmlhelp.com: the Web Design Group offers references, tools, forums, design info, links, more
  29. december.com John December provides tons of stuff, including html
  30. ology.org/tilt/cgh: is Composing Good HTML, from Eric Tilton, who also brings you the PinealWeb
  31. werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html: "The Bare Bones Guide to HTML"
  32. vancouver-webpages.com/sitemap.html: web tools and info
  33. webdesign.about.com/cs/htmltags/a/aacommentsie.htm: "Tricks with Comments that Only Work in Microsoft Internet Explorer: Conditional Comments," but can be used to finesse browser differences

    CSS
  34. meyerweb.com/eric/css: Eric Meyer's CSS page, with references, articles, tests, and notably cutting edge CSS, which is really cool if it works in your browser
  35. glish.com/css: CSS Layout Techniques for Fun and Profit, plus a good CSS Resources listing
  36. alistapart.com/topics/design/layout: A List Apart's articles on layout, many (most?) using CSS
  37. positioniseverything.net: "Position is Everything" tries "to explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers," mostly using the "Holly Hack." Unfortunately it doesn't work in IE7... But there is a good links list.
  38. tagsoup.com discusses position:fixed for Internet Explorer
  39. jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator: the w3.org CSS validator -- try it!
  40. csszengarden.com: The CSS Zen Garden "A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page." You can also download the sample html file and css file. Very cool.
  41. css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BoxModelHack: The box-model hack
  42. sitepoint.com/article/rounded-corners-css-javascript: rounded corners, method 1
  43. html.it/articoli/nifty/index.html: rounded corners, method 2

    javaScript
    tutorials, mostly:
  44. irt.org: Internet Related Technologies has much more than just javaScript
  45. msdn.microsoft.com/scripting: microsoft's jscript, if you must
    cut n' paste, mostly:
  46. a browser sniffer
  47. javascript.internet.com: more cut and paste from the JavaScript Source
  48. geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2554/index.html A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript, with links, and more
  49. treeview.net: Treeview, a Windows Explorer emulator in javaScript
  50. squarebox.co.uk/scalc.html: a javaScript calculater, the best I've seen -- they've exposed the code, too
    security:
  51. geocities.com/SiliconValley/7116: Be careful ! -- *bad* bombs
  52. file:///c:/   for the Windows users

    java
    tutorials, mostly:
  53. java.sun.com/.../tutorial: from the people who wrote the language,
  54. ibiblio.org/javafaq: "Cafe au Lait Java News and Resources" from elharo
    security:
  55. cs.princeton.edu/sip/Links.html: web security & Java links
  56. cigital.com/javasecurity/links.html: java security links
  57. sunsite.utk.edu/javasite
    apps and applets, cut 'n paste mostly:
  58. home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup: "TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild." Free and Open Source.
  59. javaboutique.internet.com: java applets w/class files, including an on-line compiler
  60. thefreesite.com/Free_Java_JavaScript: links to cut 'n paste java and javaScript
    java in use:
  61. caissa.com: chess
  62. pogo.com: games
  63. kinase.com/tools/HyperTree.html: "HyperTree is a phylogenetic tree viewer, with a hyperbolic ('fish-eye') view and editing abilities that help in managing very large trees," available for download as a .jar file
  64. inxight.com/products/vizserver: commercial trees and more
  65. npac.syr.edu/.../VisibleHuman.html: the best Java applet I've seen, from the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
  66. absurd.org: Java cellular automata, fun with ascii, and much more -- one of the the most well-imagined and successfully implemented sites I've seen
  67. plus the bit I have at attractor.htm:

    images
    tools:
  68. the-light.com/netcol.html: Victor Engel's NoDither Color Palette and his excellent netlinks.html
  69. members.aol.com/royalef/gifanim.htm: gif animation
    clip art, mostly:
  70. ozones.com/backgrounds/: good backgrounds
  71. bellsnwhistles.com/links.html: Animations, Graphics, Javascripts, and more
  72. barrysclipart.com: Barry's clip art
  73. clipartconnection.com: more
  74. freeimages.com: photo, graphics, and font links
  75. wings.buffalo.edu/internet/museum: "The following items contain exhibits (with graphics) from real museums..."
  76. iconbazaar.com: icons
  77. and take a look at my art archives.

    late additions
  78. htmlhelp.com/reference/css: Cascading Style Sheets from the Web Design Group
  79. php.net: PHP (the Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language) with all the info, tutorials, more
  80. sqlcourse.com: "introductory SQL tutorial...allows you to practice what you learn using the on-line SQL interpreter"
  81. oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html: XML, the Extensible Markup Language
  82. tizag.com: fine tutorials on all aspects of webpage creation
  83. secretsites.com/do_dont_part1.jsp: "Learn the secrets of web design"

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