Web Page Design Tools
A few sites to get you kick-started...
W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) standards and tools for Web design
Information Architecture
- The Information Architecture Institute
- University Of Minnesota, Duluth, Web Design References/IA
- Jesse James Garrett:
General (and accessible) Design
Just a few of the MANY sites to help get started or improve your current site.
- 456 Berea Street
- Accessify.com
- Accessites.org: The Showcase, how to look good and be accessible doing it
- A List Apart
- WebAble
- Webmonkey
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- CSS Globe tips and tools
- Smashing Magazine's list of CSS tools
- This is where I found the great tutorial to do this CSS layout.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Introduction
- Complete CSS Guide
- Website Tips links to more resources
Color
- Autopedia's Netscape/Hex/RGB converter
- lynda.com's The Browser-Safe Web Palette
- HYPE's Color Specifier for Netscape (This is nice for a larger size 'swatch')
- Colour Contrast Analyser (freeware)
- Juicy Studio's Colour Contrast Analyser (test from the Web page)
Pop and sizzle:
- Smashinging Magazine (design)
- CSS Zen Garden
- I Love Typgraphy (actually, I do)
- Creamundo (fonts)
Page Testing
- AnyBrowser.com browser compatibility site viewer: http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html
- Browsershots http://v03.browsershots.org/ similar tool, different method.
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator:
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/index.php (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Web developers can use FAE reports to look at the presence and absence of markup that improves functional accessibility."
E-mail Address Encoder
This page will convert your e-mail address to code that works
on your Web page, but slows down the bots:
http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
Windows Browsers
(I am noticing FF3 is not very happy on Vista.)- Google Chrome (in Beta) Very interesting volley in the browser wars
- Internet Explorer (if you must, but say NO to IE6!)
- Lynx This is a text only browser.
- Opera
- Safari
Also
Tiny URL makes a short, permanent URL from the foot long one http://tinyurl.com/
Social Netstuff
- Twitter test driving the tech, do you care if I'm having coffee?
- Dippity (ditto) make timelines and share them
