The WDVL, the IRT - HTML/javascript/CSS/articles, tutorials. U Minn - web design references,
BoogieJack from entry level to nifty tricks; Lissa, writes for kids.
PageResource has basic HTML tutorials; EchoEcho, W3Schools have more advanced topics.
1000 Website Tools and theFreeSite offer free webmaster tools.

How domain name servers work. See Practically Networked on building/running your own server.
Netcraft and Domaintools can tell you the environment of a domain, performance records and more.
About Intranets; about http & browser/server communication. Server Side Includes - more on SSI.
All about htaccess tricks; customizing the 404 error result; the 404 lounge.
An HTML /XHTML document should start with an appropriate DOCTYPE; here are examples.
AnalogX has network utilities; keyword analysis, super whois, performance, system tweaking tools.
Codeflux and Faganfinder have more basic tools; nslookup, ping, whois, validate, tidy code.
Speed Tweak of the Week offers tricks on speeding up your pages.
Too much spam from your mailto link? Use the Encoder or Safe MailTo or ascii codes to encode it.

You need an HTML Tag Reference and the ISO/HTML entities alphabetically and by type of character set.
See Vancouver Web Pages or the WDVL to learn about meta tags; understand the DOCTYPE declaration.

HTML Editors: Dreamweaver is the dominant WYSIWYG but NVU and PageBreeze are free.
1stPage2006, and Html Tidy (repairs bad HTML) are free text based editors. Also try Coffeecup.
TUCOWS is a great site for editors and other development software!!  Also see about.com.

Books, Magazines, References, On/Off Line
Teach Yourself Web Publishing With HTML 4 in 21 Days, Laura Lemay, Sams Pub.
Web Design in a Nutshell, Jennifer Niederst, Sams Pub.
HTML Goodies, Beyond HTML Goodies, Joe Burns -- or browse other HTML books at Amazon.Com.
PC Magazine has regular coverage of HTML editors, graphics tools, web techniques. Subscribe!
Webreference is an on-line 'magazine' w/regular web design/technique articles and tips.
The Web Developer's Handbook - set of designers/css/development resources; also see the WDVL.

Searchpositioning discusses the art of S.E.P; Overture is a good source for selecting keywords.
Rankthis tells where your site is ranked by the key search engines.
The Counter - web user data; Upsdell - browser trends.

Style, Error Checking, Compatibility and Accessibility Issues, Misc. Tools
Use the Browser Archive for older/obscure browsers.
BrowserCam ($$), and Browsershots tests a URL on browser/OS combinations.
Delorie turns off features for backward compatibility.
Bobby analyses accessibility; Use the accessible site design guide; the DOJ spells out fed reqmnts.
There are many other requirements for federal websites. This Whitehouse memo specifies compliance.
Netmechanic, SiteReportCard, - checks HTML, spelling, links, performance.
The W3C validation service checks HTML and XHTML for conformance to standards.
WebMetrics Tool Kit from NIST is a testbed, online or offline, for usability problems.
The Yale Style Guide is THE guide for design, layout, navigation.

Sound and other strange formats
CNet or Prof.Al for sound mouseovers and Webreference for embedding sound in a website.
Indezine offers a treatise on sound format conversion tools and see Nunzio for streaming audio.
Common File Types and How to Open Them.
How to create an MP3 player on your website using flash.

Tables, Forms - see also general resource sites listed above.
Tables tutorial from HTMLgoodies. Learn about Iframes.
Webcom and PageResource have well formed forms tutorials.
Bagism offers a tablemaker tool, a framemaker tool and an on-line colormaker.

Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, DHTML, CGI, XML, PHP
TechRepublic has CSS tutorials, a great Reference Table. Also WestCiv. And our CSS Resource page.
Sample javascript at Javascript Source, ScriptSearch, ppK, WebSource, OnlineScripts.
A basic DHTML tutorial; about the DOM; DynamicDrive, Evolt or dhtmlCentral for scripts.
Tips and tricks on CSS, javascript, etc. Code4U and FatScripts have scripts of all flavors.
CGI scripts: the VL, the CGI Resource Index, the official PERL site; from Matt's Archive and CGIextreme.
See XML.COM.
Hardcoder has an intro to using PHP & resources; PHP.net offers a manual, a tutorial and more.

Graphics Tools;
Webreference and the Virtual Library offer articles on technique; transparency, anti-aliasing ...
All kinds of rounded corners ...
Irfan View is a fine image editor, opens thumbnails, converts formats, basic effects, text.
All about protecting your images and original work; how to determine fonts in images.
Gifworks is an online gif editor while WebFX applies special effects to your images.
Creative, CoolText, Banner Generator, 3dTextmaker, BannerzRus, LogoYes for banners, buttons, bullets.
Try myfonts.com to identify and find fonts ... it will identify unknown fonts in your banners.
SiteReportCard, Netmechanic, Gifworks (gifs), Chami (jpgs) optimize images online.
The GIF animation page; technique/tools; Alchemy Gif Anim; shareware; Anim. Factory; samples.
IPIX is a tool for interactive streaming 3D video.
About Server/client Side Image Maps; a Client Side tutorial and an overview of both.
Map This is a freeware imagemapper; Cute Map or Map Designer allows finer tuning.
A great pixel screen ruler, a screen color grabber and an image slicer are free.
How color works; how hex works, hex-dec conversion; goodcolor combos, a palette generator.
Try a color picker or a color wheel - on autoscripter choose color selectors for selector/converter tools.
More Color charts/conversions, a shareware color tool, an online color tool, a named color list.

Image Sources - Image 'kits' from Elated, BannerzRus and blanks from The Button Bin, and Buttonland.
Great sources for tiled backgrounds ... more here ... how to make them.
Image Search: Picsearch, Google, Lycos (&sounds), Alta Vista, Fotosearch (stock photos).

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