Links: Webstuff

This page used to be much longer. It continues to shrink as the links rot and I periodically sweep out the dead ones.

General references and more information

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- The most authoritative source for Internet markup languages, style sheets, and much more.
• WDVL -- The Web Developer's Virtual Library. A great place to start, whether learning another computer language, downloading backgrounds or images, finding a web-related job, or any other web-related tips.

Unix

• UNIX for Webmasters -- Nice tutorial by Selena Sol at WDVL.

Making a webpage

• Web Style Guide, 2nd edition -- Originally the Yale CAIM Web Style Guide. Discusses page layout, site structure, readability factors, etc.
• Fonts -- A discussion of personal experiences with font issues. (SD)
• Color Codes -- A map of "universally" accepted hexadecimal color codes. (SD)

Important Issues

Copyright

• 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained -- some quick, general, info on copyright laws.
• Copyright Basics -- a circular put out by the U.S. Copyright Office. Quite helpful on specifics of the law, such as what is covered and what is not, registering, expiration, etc.
• The Copyright Law -- The full thing from the US Copyright Office.

HTML Validation

• WGD HTML Validator -- Important to keep the web unified on what HTML is and means that your page will more likely render properly on a wide variety of browsers. I found WDG's error comments and links to tag references much more helpful than W3C's validator. Also, you can validate a whole site at once. (Visit WDVL to read more on validation issues.)

Search Engines

• Search Engine Watch -- Everything you ever wanted to know about search engines. Learn more about <META> tags and robot.txt files here too. Their Major Search Engines page is great to work through when registering a site.

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