resources
Feel free to add to this page with your comments or suggested resources. - Jim
software and tools
- Firefox browser
- Text Editors
- TextWrangler2 (Mac; free from BareBones folks)
- Notepad++ (Win; open source)
- Emacs and XEmacs (unix etc; open source)
- Vi and Vim (unix etc; open source)
- IDEs
- Nvu - complete web authoring system (open source, win/mac/linux)
- Dreamweaver - commercial web development tool
- Image and Animation editors
- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - open source win/mac/linux image image editor
- Photoshop - most popular commercial image editor
- Flash - commercial web animation tool (displays in browsers with plug-in)
- Other
- BrowserCam - commercial service for seeing web pages with many different browsers
- browsershots.org - a similar free service
- Color Schemer - a $ tool for those not so graphically inclined that is amazing. --JD
css and design web sites
- W3C - the World Wide Web Consortium
- CSS Zen Garden
- Web Pages that Suck
- Open Source Web Design
- Open Web Design
- A List Apart - for people who make websites
- zeldman.com - web design news & info
- meyerweb.com - Eric Meyer (CSS guru) blog and CSS tutorials
- What do i know - the daily dish of dominey design
- HTML tutorial (Jen Kramer)
- Elements of User Experience diagram (pdf)
- web standards software and learning
- CSS Crib Sheet at mezzoblue.com
- Web Style Guide, 2nd edition (online book)
- building accessible websites (online version of book, Aug 2005, w/out pictures)
- index DOT html - XHTML and CSS reference
- Protolize : Essential web tools in one place - This is my starting site to find web tools and resources. It has sections for Content Management Systems, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ajax, Flash, and Ruby - Selena
- Digital Web Magazine - articles on various topics of web design, interviews with industry leaders, etc. - Tony, 10/4 8am
- CSSplay - "Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets"
- Jakob Nielsen's Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
- http://www.positioniseverything.net - CSS articles and examples
- http://www.brainjar.com - CSS, JavaScript tutorials and examples
- http://www.culturedcode.com/css - css 2.1 properties interactive reference
- http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html - nice list of CSS and design links from an Austrlian guy
- http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial - basics of floating elements
- http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResults.shtml - font families survey
- Mike Davidson - March to Your Own Standard
javascript and DOM web sites
general
- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript
tutorials
references
articles
online books
courses
examples, scripts, and code
- http://www.davidflanagan.com/javascript5/ - examples from 'the definitive guide, 5th ed'
- libraries, frameworks, and module components - open source
- various 'free' (not open source) cut-n-paste script repositories
AJAX
wikipedia articles
other courses
Free Online Books
paper books
open source, copyright, and academic integrity