Links: Webstuff

This page continues to shrink as links rot and I periodically sweep out the dead ones.

General references and more information

• 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.
• Some other web developer sites that may be worth a stop are:
      Webmonkey
      CNET: Web Building
      ZDNet: Developer
  
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- The most authoritative source for Internet markup languages, style sheets, and much more.

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.)

Finding a server

Places to start

• CNET: Webhosting, Leasing a Server, and The List: Definitive ISP Buyer's Guide are just a few of the many possible starting points.

Free hosting

• Fortune City -- A popular free server that doesn't have pop-up ads. They do have banners, though you can move them around within your page. Your web address will be hard to remember. (Listed here mainly for posterity: I hosted here for a time.)
• Homepage.com -- Though you can't move their banners, you get to choose an easy-to-remember address (yourdomain.homepage.com). (Again, I've been here.)

Virtual servers/reselling

I visited approximately 60 different webhosting companies and took notes on about 45 of them. The following three links were my top choices for what I wanted to do--reselling space without incurring extra monthly fees; the more control I had, the better--at an affordable price.

• Rhyton Virtual Servers -- This is the one I finally picked and is where I am currently hosted. I went with the Lite Server.
• Advanced Internet Technologies -- I had my eye on their Server 2 plan.
• DataPipe -- I liked their reseller program more than any of their server plans.

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.

E-commerce

• Kagi -- An order processing company that works primarily with small software developers but also includes many other web-based products. You can personalize your order form on their server. (What I used for SD Shisha Exports.) Other similar companies exist.

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