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Subscribe to Mailing Lists

Google's Directory of Mailing Lists

E-mail Journals and Newsletters:

Webmaster Tips Newsletter from NetMechanic Subscribe from a link at any of their Free Tools. New issue each month. All past issues online starting from September 1998. (L-6)

About - Newsletters Computers section Web Development and Graphics and Design (L-6)

Magazines

Webmonkey advice on many web related topics. (L-6)

WebDeveloper.com Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript, and More! Webpedia merged with them. (L-6)

CIO Magazine's Resources for Information Technology Executives evolved from WebBusiness (L-6)

DevX: Web Development Zone (L-6)

A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites (L-6)

Books

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elizabeth Castro and Learning HTML Select Examples from the book.

Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in A Week by Laura Lemay.

HTML Sourcebook: Third Edition by Ian Graham.

Web Publishers Construction Kit with HTML 3.2

Graphics and Web Page Design by Laura Lemay

Professional Web Design by Molly Holzschalag

Effective Web Design : Master the Essentials by Navarro & Khan

Cascading Style Sheets Complete by D. Busch and J.W. Olsen

Dynamic HTML In Action (Second Edition) by W. Pardi, E. Schurman, E. William

Newsgroups

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (L-6)

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc (L-6)

alt.html.writers (L-6)

alt.hypertext (L-6)
Find other newsgroups that might be of interest at

Google Groups Participate in Usenet discussion forums via the web. Integrated Deja archives (L-6)

Utilize Resource Lists

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (L-6)

The New WWW FAQs classic updated by Thomas Boutelle (L-6)

WebReference Tutorials from experts in JavaScript, DHTML, 3D Animation, Web design, and the Internet as well as Web Tools, Services and articles. (L-6)

Kira's Web Toolbox (L-6)

Web Designer's Paradise Annotated resources. (L-6)

HTML Writers Guild Resources (L-6)

Web Developer's Virtual Library Wealth of material and resources make this a spot you will return to often. (L-6)

HTML Goodies Many step-by-step original tutorials with examples of how to accomplish almost any given task. (L-6)

Web Site Development Information, Good Site Design Practices extensive listing of resources. (L-6)

reallybig.com The Complete Resource for All Web Builders (L-6)

Builder.com - Beyond the Code Featured columns and How-To Web Development Library. Free registration to view entire site. Part of CNET Networks. (L-6)

Utilize Search Engines

Yahoo Page Creation (L-6)

Google (L-6)

Look Smart Web Site Design (L-6)

About.com Web Design and other topics. Real people guides for topics. (L-6)

• Computing Dictionary US mirror or original UK site Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
• Experts Exchange Home Page from Chris
• Classroom Connect How to Cite Internet Sources ConnectedTeacher
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources adopted by Walker/ACW Style Sheet. Moving to Columbia Guide to Online Style
• About.com Web Design (L-5)
• Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability (L-5)
• Angela Lilleystone's Guide to Homepage Publishing from Sally
• Browser Offsets by D Siegle from chris and e-less
• Five Steps to Good Web Site Design (L-6)
• Gallery of HTML, Webpage, and Internet Resources Roz also takes classes at VU. Join the HTML-Haven discussion group she started. (L-4)
• The HTMLSourcebook 4th edition by Ian Graham examples (821)
• HTML Style Advice another recommendation from DE.
• How do they do that with HTML? on graphics, counters, dynamic documents, tables and frames, etc. from Ingo
• NCSA - Character Formatting (L-2)
  
  
• Page Layout, Margins, Tabs, Indenting, and Columns from WDVL (L-6)
• CSS-P in Current Browsers Web Page Design for Designers editorial Oct 2003. (L-6)
• Web Style Sheets W3C (L-6)
• Style Sheets in HTML documents W3C HTML 4.01 (prior 3) (H3)
• Cascading Style Sheets Tutorials at DHTML Pit Stop (H3)
• Cascading Style Sheets: CSS1, CSS2 Tutorials, Resources, Help at House of Style (H3)
• Index DOT Css Cascading Style Sheets Guide (L-6)
• CSS specification/browser support page: General Syntax Select each element or attribute for information on which version supports it. (H3)
• CSS Pointers Index for practical uses of CSS. Comprehensive reource site. (H3)
• Get Started With Cascading Style Sheets - Builder.com Preview still available, free registration to explore entire site. (L-6)
• Cascading Style Sheets WebReference.com resources and tutorials.
• Web Development Library - Builder.com CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (H2 5)
• Effective Use of Cascading Style Sheets (Alertbox July 1997) (H3)
• JavaScript Kit DHTML/ CSS tutorials
• W3C Info On Using CSS to Replace Deprecated Elements Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules (L-6)
• WebReview.com's Style Sheet Reference Guide by Eric A. Meyer. Excellent information with Browser Compatibility Charts. Master Grid CSS1 Support (L-6) (H2 5) Sign up for Basic subscription to access.
• Overview of the CSS1 Spec Web Review article now at Dr. Dobb's (L-6) (H2 5) Sign up for Basic subscription to access.
• HTML Element Support Cross Reference DevEdge Library Netscape technotes (H3)
• CSS From the Ground Up from WPDFD
• A List Apart: Fear of Style Sheets 4 "Give me Pixels or Give me Death (even though not W3C rec.) (H3)
• Web Design Group CSS Properties Reference list of property and values in CSS1 (H3)
• glish.com : CSS layout techniques Glo's favorite site (CSS)
• MaKo 4 CSS: FAQs - Netscape4 Issues - Introduction The CSShark Answers FAQs The CSS Know-How Site (H3)
  
  
• SitePoint : Empowering Web Developers Since 1997 Articles cover the whole gamut of web development and design. (H2 6)
• The Web is Ruined and I Ruined It 10/02/97 Seigel's view on style sheets and design.
• Ten Commandments of HTML good advice. (L-6)
• Tips and Tutorials for Web Developers Create polished presentations and other helpful articles. (L-6)
• Dmitry's Design Lab - Graphic Web Design Using Fonts, Photography, Animation and HTML - WebReference.com good info
• Turbo-Charging Your Web Site! Tips and resources to enhance and add interactivity. Demo pages for VU summer 98 class co-taught by Jean Engel aka Ghatten and me. Sorry no longer online as of 4-2005 (L-6)
• WDVL: Web Site Design Listing of web design resources (L-5)
• Web Design and HTML Tutorials: pagetutor.com Barta's helpful tutorials for tables, frames, forms, creating a web page. Worth joining to get the complete tutorials and access to other material on the site. Special discount/offer right now. (L-6)
• Web Page Design - Resources Suzanne and Carla's Mega List of has many topics.
• Web Page Design - Taming the Electronic Page sent by Liz on guidelines for page size, etc. Save the Browser Grid which replaces the prior web rulers. (L-6)
• WebDesign & Review from DTG Magazine - The Design & Publishing Center (L-5)
• WebWord.com : Usability, Web site design, Human Factors, Content Development. Articles and information.
• What is Good Design? (L-6)
• Yale Style Guide 2cnd edition for site and page design (L-5)
  
  
• Dynamic Drive DHTML code library Original DHTML scripts and components. (L-6)
• MSN TV Server Developer Support Site (L-1)
• Getting Your Site Ready for WebTV (L-5)
• Builder.com - Script Library (L-6)
• HTML Emerging Technologies John December highlights established and emerging web technologies: XHTML, XSL, XFORMS, SVG, SMIL, DOM, MathML, Java, VRML (L-6)
• Sizing Up the Browsers based on default screen measurements, info to design sites for different resolutions. Webmonkey article updated May 2002
• LearnAsp.com - ASP.net Tutorials by Charles Carroll Active Server Pages (L-6)
• Builder.com - PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor from Web Development Library Programming & Scripting
• Cookie Central - The Cookie Concept Information on Internet cookies and why they exist? (L-6)
• Server push and client pull Dynamic documents explanation from Netscape sent sent by Irwin
• Webdata-the first EASY database for the web for Unix and Windows NT servers.
• 20 Questions about XML - Builder.com (L-6)
• Database driven websites overview and how "dynamic web pages" are built (L-6)
• Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess (beyond html)
• .htaccess Tutorial beyond html)
• Apache Tutorial: .htaccess (beyond html)
• PHP Link Checker Script download (beyond html)
• Simple Search zip at nms (beyond html)
• PHP Script Resource Index

• BigNoseBird.Com's Basic CGI Primer Even if you do not plan to write your own script, humor, analogy and graphics will help you understand what happens if you add a guestbooks, message board or form from the section on adding these without needing cgi access on your own server: you are still using a cgi-bin on someone else's server. (L-6)
• CGI Programming 101 and CGI 101 Script Library (originally with Web Developer's Toolbox: CGI Library) (L-6)
• CGI for the Total Non-Programmer - a tutorial basics of creating CGIs with Perl on a Unix platform (L-6)
• The Common Gateway Interface Intro At NCSA (H2 2)
• CGI Resource Index (H2 2)
• Perlmasters Perl Script and CGI Script Resource Site Was Dave's collection (821)
• Matt's Script Archive (H2 2)
• eXtropia | free downloads Perl applications. Selena Sol also has tutorials. (H2 2)
• Form Tutor by Barta for mailto forms: send the data to a cgi script for processing or by email. If you can, use CGI as not all browsers support e-mail forms. (L-6)
• BigNoseBird.Com's Form's Tutorial (L-6)
• Simple CGI Email Handler
• Forms Tutorial at WebCom (H2 2)
• So, You Want A Form, Huh? and Creating Guestbooks Forms (H2 2)
• WDVL: HTML Forms for Web Site Interaction examples of tags as well as differences between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4 (H2 2)
• A Tour of HTML Forms and CGI Scripts some basics
• Yahoo's List of CGI Resources (H2 2)
• A Guide to HTML and CGI Scripts and Form Filling (L-6) (H2 2)
• Carlos' FORMS Tutorial 4-5a partial archive of Pero
• Data Submission Form developed by Chris
• BigNoseBird.Com's Homesteading Page- Where to stick your site for free! Bruce's recommendations review free hosting services that also support cgi scripts, some allow business sites. (L-1) (H2 2)

Free forms, counters and stuff to add without CGI access

CounterGuide.Com: listing of FREE web counters Be careful because some counters really add additional load time to your page.

TheFreeSite.com: Free Counter Services, tracker, counters, stats Reviews different ones so that you can make an informed choice. Look for sections on free forms and other things. (L-6)

Bravenet ASP Based (NOT CGI) for many things to add to your site. Password Gate allows you to password protect up to "20" URLs on your site.

Cgi For Me more than 10 scripts including a message board and voting booth you can add to your site and Password Protection for a page. (H2 2)

The CGI Resource Index: Remotely Hosted Links to lots of categories to use CGI applications hosted by others if your server does not permit them.

Dreambook ... Free Guestbook Server (L-6)

guestGear guestbook server was Lpage and GuestWorld (L-6)

Freedback.com: FREE feedback forms without CGI! (L-6)

Boardhost Message Boards, 14-day free trial (L-6)

Response-O-Matic Free Form Processor Lots of help to make forms, surveys and questionnaires with nice features besides using their server to process the information. (L-6)

Atomz.com Search Engine Free to allow visitors to search your site. See it in action on my site map. (L-6)

All-Yours Free Greeting Cards Service free program interface for your web site, customizable greeting cards/digital postcards. Dee aka frogz has good luck using theirs on her site.

[SiteGadgets.com] Free CGI Hosting, Free Scripts, CGI, Perl, and more! Message board, free content, counter, guestbook and more gadgets to add to your page. (L-6)

Promoting Your Page

<meta name="description" content="Place a brief description of your page here"> in between the opening and closing <head>/<head> tags.

Death Of A Meta Tag Danny Sullivan explains the de-emphasis on the meta keywords tags. Still use the one for description with a 25 word description. (H2)

Promotion Tip: Search Engine Promotion Checklist February 2004 (Part 2). (H2)

Promotion Tip: Top Five Keyword Strategies Incorporate keywords and phrases in context on your web page including in your attributes. Use descriptive navigation structure. (H2)

Promotion Tips check others from prior issues Netmechanic. (H2)

Announce and promote your web site tips for search engines and other places. (L-8 spr 98)

Choosing Keywords! Angie suggested this from WebPosition tutorial. (L-6)

How to Use HTML Meta Tags Not all search engines support them. (L-6)

META Tag Builder Online application to create tags for your page. (L-6)

Web Monkey META Tags Article What can <META> Do for You? Info on how to use and create. (L-6)

Search Engine Tutorial - Design & Promotion suggested by Angie teaching WebStyle class.

Search Engine Promotion Tutorial at The Write Market (L-6)

Virtual Promote Lots of information and a newsletter at JimWorld. (L-6)

Webring (L-8 spr 98)

Search Engine Submission Tips (formerly Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines) at Search Engine Watch with a Search Engine Search Engine Features For Webmasters and Results chart info & tutorials. (L-6)

Measuring Link Popularity (H2)

Submitting To Directories: Yahoo, LookSmart & The Open Directory (H2)

Submitting To Crawlers: Google, Inktomi, AllTheWeb, Teoma & AltaVista (H2)

Submitting Via Paid Listings: Overture (GoTo), FindWhat & Google (H2)

The Web Robots Pages FAQs, how to exclude and additional information

Introduction to robots.txt Starting to add in root directory

Robots.txt Validator at Search Engine World Feb 05 2/05 main site appears to be offline although inside parts still there.

• AWARE Center Homepage -- HTML Writers Guild Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education (L-6)
• Creating Accessible HTML benefits the disability community, but helps everyone. (L-6)
• Designing More Usable Web Sites cooperative efforts.
• Archimedes Project promotes equal access to information for individuals with disabilities
• Best viewed with any browser campaign
• National Center for Accessible Media CPB/WGBH
• ATA-Related Resources-Web Accessibility Designing and Understanding Accessible WWW Pages at Alliance for Technology Access
• Access Technology Institute online-training for blind and visually impaired computer users. (Used to have Cathy's Newstand)
• EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities
• Readers with visual impairments 2/05 not found
• Trace Center Continues to work with W3C Web Access Initiative. Researches ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities. (L-6)

Resources taken off pages as older no longer use in current lessons

Composing Good HTML 7-13-98 (821)

Create It!! 101~Building A Home Page Karen started this in vu class 861.

How to put information on the web archived for historical interest from 1995.

Building a Home on the Web is hosted by Virtual U.
Check the online calendar for other courses too.

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