Useful Stuff for Web Authoring 425
Note to Students: If you find any of these links obsolete or in error, please let me know. Thanks.
Web Design Freeware
- PSPad - recommended freeware HTML editor
- GIMP - free graphics program
- Nvu - free WYSIWYG system
- Firebug - Firefox web developer add-on
- Web Developer Tool Bar - Firefox web developer add-on
- Big List of HTML and Other Editor Programs
Web Design Resources
- Dave Raggett's HTML tutorial
- Bizntech Design Resources
- W3 Schools
- Web Style Guide
- A List Apart - good advice "for people who make websites"
- CSS Reboot Spring 2006 - good for some design ideas
- Max Design - more good design advice
- The Noodle Incident - ditto
- 456 Berea St CSS and XHTML Lab
- Pixel Acres
- Silverorange Labs - interesting stuff; worth a browse-through
- That Standards Guy
CSS Resources
- CSSplay = excellent demos and styling ideas
- CSS Layout Tutorial
- Curing Float Drops and Wraps
- Customizing Links
- Eric Meyer's CSS/Edge
- CSS Zen Garden
Fonts & Web Typography
- Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
- Font Tester
- Typetester
- A Practical Guide to Web Typography
- Compose to a Vertical Rhtyhm
- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
Web Color Resources
- Colour Lovers
- Adobe Kuler
- Color Palette Creator
- Color Palette Generator (generates palettes from images you supply)
- Color Hunter (might do the same thing)
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Free Online Photoshop Training
- Image Optimizer (Dynamic Drives)
In-Class Demos
topResearch & Writing Resources
topOther sample web pages, links, etc.
- Ben Fry's fancy site - see in particular his thesis page
- Sample feature page - from Mappa Mundi Magazine
- Sample further reading page
