Dot's Idiosyncratic list of Web Designing Resources

• 404 Research Lab: *http://www.plinko.net/404/*
  
  
  
• PHP Tutorials *http://www.php.net/tut.php*
  
• Cascading Syle Sheets - http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/15/index0a_page2.html?tw=authoring
  
• Intro to Style Sheets - Alan Richmond http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/
• CSS Tutorial by Linda Cole - http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/Intro
• CSS Tutorial - http://www.westciv.com.au/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/

   

• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing *http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/*
• Jacob Nielson the Usability Guru - *http://www.useit.com/*
• Web Review is one of the oldest sites for professional web developers. *http://www.webreview.com/*
  
• websitetips.com - cool resources about fonts. http://www.websitetips.com/fonts/index2.html
  
• Companion to Great Web Architecture by Clay Andres *http://www.hungryminds.com/extras/webarch.html*
  
  
• Need someone to check a long page for broken links? *http://www.netmechanic.com*
  
• Another site that houses lots of info for web developers: *http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/*
  
• The Apache Software Foundation *http://www.apache.org/*
  
• Wired News *http://www.wired.com/*
  
  
• Can't remember a tag? Keep Kevin Werbach's BARE BONES GUIDE TO HTML bookmarked, or better still--download it and be ready! I'm just one among millions of his fans. *http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html*
  
  
• Still looking for tags?? Try this (somewhat bulky) HTML Reference. For general help, just truncate the address to reach Microsoft. *http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/newhtml/htmlref.htm*
  
  
• ZD Net's Tag Library *http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/resources/tag_library/*
  
  
• I picked up all my basic skills by using the "Writing HTML" tutorial  that Alan Levine designed for Maricopa Community College. Thanks Alan! They built in in '94 and have kept it up to date. Can't beat it. *http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/*
  
  
• 6 x 6 x 6 Browser-dafe Color Cube. Need the hexadecimal code? <Voila> *http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Colour/666.html*
  
  
• Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion Table: *http://www.jaworski.com/htmlbook/dec-hex.htm*
  
  
• ASCII Table - courtesy of Martin Ramsch iso8859 *http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html*
  
  
• Fetch Tutorial *http://www.rice.edu/Computer/Divisions/Humanities/fetch.html*
  
  
• Sites that suck. Enough said. *http://www.websitesthatsuck.com/*
  
  
• Some old but still solid pointers about designing for Search Engine Performance: *http://www.searchenginewatch.com/*
  
  
• TRANSPARENT GIFS These guys are hip! I know it doesn't sound like much, but check out Transparent GIFS resource pages. This will lead you to "Transparent Images Page". Both seem well-worth printing in order to read and consider at your leisure. *http://dragon.jpl.nasa.gov/~adam/transparent.html*
  *http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/transparent_images.html*
  
  
• Print to PDF shareware for the Mac! Very handy--throw it in your Extensions folder, select it with the Chooser when you need it:
  * http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=3595 *
  
  
  
  TECH SUPPORT ITEMS:
  
• Coaxing Frontpage 2000 to Publish to a Non-Frontpage Server - http://support.microsoft.com/support/Office/InProdHlp/FrontPage/PUB004_publish_FTP.asp
  
• Domain Names An explanation: http://www.efuse.com/Publish/domain_names.html
  
  Where to get them (at a gas station with your coffee and fill-up ... i.e. Everywhere these days):

  • Network Solutions http://www.networksolutions.com/
  • Register.com http://www.register.com/
  • TuCows> Domain Direct http://www.domaindirect.com/
    
    

   ALSO NOTEWORTHY:
• Net Surfer Digest
• Scout Report
• Salon Magazine
• The Smithsonian site is always fun. The ringing bells that accompany the opening page are a nice touch. *http://www.si.edu*
  
  
• A HUB for WONDERFUL SITES Try Glenn Davis'"Project Cool." *http://www.projectcool.com*
  
  
• ANOTHER HUB Dave Siegel's Highfive Award Winners.
  

I am doing some web projects lately, which means that this page has had a great deal more energy than anything else in the site.
If someone stumbles upon it and needs me for something, try: drdotwebb@traverse.net