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HTML5 & CSS 3 Tutorial

Useful Links to Sites for Webmasters

Useful Links and Sites for information, tutorials and downloads.

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Page Introduction

Business - Starting your own

CGI scripts. Also see JavaScript

CSS Tutorials & Tools

HTML Validation and Standards

JavaScript, Also see CGI

Password Protection

Poorly Computer or Software

Starting your own business

Technology Information Sites

Webmaster Tools

Page Introduction

I hope that you find this page of useful links helpful. The links have been sorted into various categories as shown above, but be aware that the some pages will include information covering several categories.

Links are constantly being added to this page.

I would be pleased to receive suggestions for inclusion and notification of any bad links.

Thanks John McGuinn

Adobe

The producers of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and many other top software.

Programs can be purchased as individual products or as one of the Creative Suites that contain several programs.

Students can obtain very large discounts.
Proof of Student status is required.

Useful Resources

HTML Templates & More

BoxedArt is the best supplier of HTML Templates in the world. They also are excellent at providing royalty free photos, mascots and hi-tech interfaces. You can visit the sight to view these items. To download them you have to become a member

Anti Virus

http://security.symantec.com/ Run a (free) online virus scan on your system.

ASP

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa336522 Microsoft's ASP Overview pages provide information about Active Server Pages (ASP).

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ ASP site

http://www.aspexpress.com/aspexpress.asp ASP Editor, tutorials etc.

Browsers

See also Tutorial 1 Browsers section

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/detect.html Browser detect

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/version5.html W3C DOM Browser (Version 5) Compatibility Table

http://cross-browser.com/ CBE is a cross-browser DHTML Javascript library or API. You download CBE to your own computer and use it to develop dynamic web applications (DHTML). You then upload your application and the CBE files to your own site.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/browserreview.html Review of Browsers

Business - Starting your own

Government Sites

http://www.beyondbricks.com DTI resources for e-commerce

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection Data Protection Act

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm Data Protection Act 1998

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk Customs and Excise - VAT etc

https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ HM Customs and Excise. News and information on tax and national insurance matters in the United Kingdom

Others

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/ Basic company information is free

CGI

http://www.hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/26/index4a.html "CGI Scripts for Fun and Profit" is an article from the Hotwired Webmonkey site on incorporating ready-made CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts into your pages.

http://www.cgi-resources.com/ The CGI Resource Index is a repository of all things related to CGI, including ready-made scripts, documentation, books, and even programmers for hire.

http://htmlhelp.org/faq/cgifaq.html CGI Programming FAQ and check out the rest of the site.

cgi.resourceindex.com

Computer Dictionary and encyclopaedias

http://www.pcwebopaedia.com Computer related terms . http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/ List of Computer Dictionaries

CSS

Vendor Prefix Generator

http://simplecss.eu/prefix.html

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/index.html Some fabulous demos of what you can do in CSS, and info on how it is done

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html CSS Popup menu

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ Loads of terrific examples of working with CSS - Demos galore, Boxes with round corners , dozens of CSS menus

http://webreview.com/style/index.shtml Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide explains what CSS styles are and which browsers they work in.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ CSS Validator you can enter your URI (URL) or Download

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/index.html Tutorial

CSS Editors

TopStyle

LiteDynamic HTML Editor (FreeFree CSS Toolbox)

http://www.webmasterbase.com/subcats/70 Good site and newsletter Loads of good help, advise and articles.

http://www.w3schools.com Basic intro to styles.

http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/fac/engtech/aandersen/htmlclass/mod4/ Tutorial Creating Web Pages With Style - CSS2

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/35/index2a_page2.html A very good tutorial on CSS text size control.
A far more comlicated subject than one would imagine. Many pros and cons for various solutions. I suppose in the end you use a compromise.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp ? CSS Reference Site

http://www.uiaccess.com/scaletext.html Scalable Text - Absolute and Relative sizing text

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/26/index1a.html Tables or CSS Layout positioning

http://www.osborne.com/programming_webdev/0072131780/0072131780_ch01.pdf Chapter 1 Basic CSS Concepts - Review this chapter - experiment with CSS and reread

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Menu

Database

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/ Tutorial

Design

Download Sites

http://www.tucows.com One of the top sites to download programs from available. Loads of shareware programs.

http://tuscows.cableinet.net A good site for program reviews.

www shareware.com Another top site

Dreamweaver / Ultradev

See my recommended Dreamweaver books section

See my Dreamweaver Tutorial - Set Up your new Site, Set up your working space

Check out:

Using Dreamweaver PDF file on the CD Rom
The Guided Tour, and Lessons in the Help Menu

http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver tools you can always trust

http://www.projectseven.com/ Tutorials, free extensions (also pay for extensions)

http://www.dwzone.net/

E-COMMERCE

http://www.mals-e.com/ FREE E-COMMERCE SERVICE
If you want to start selling goods or services on the internet then you probably need to add some sort of additional functionality to your website. Mal's free e-commerce service will help you do just that.

www.cubecart.com

www.paypal.com On line payments

www.oscommerce.com

Fonts

http://www.identifont.com/identify.html Answer a few questions to identify a font

Fun

http://www.talkinggreeting.com Talking messages from cartoon characters to send to your mates.

Graphics

http://www.xat.com/

http://www.irfanview.com/‎ Irfanview Graphic editor & viewer

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en Image search engine

http://www.axialis.com/axicons/ Create, Edit and Manage your Windows Icons! 30 Day free trial

http://www.favicon.com/ favicon.ico - Adding your own Favourite icon

Help Sites

http://support.pcpitstop.com or http://www.virtualdr.com You may have to register at these forum style sites, and navigate to the correct forum, but you will get answers to your problems.

Domain Names & Hosting

1&1 Domain Names & Web site Hosting *** Recomended ***

1&1 have more than 7.5 million customers world wide
Feature-packed web hosting services
Easy website creators
Superb customer service & support including 24/7 phone support
The latest technology at unbeatable prices

123 Reg Domain Names & Hosting

The UK’s largest domain name registra
Web site HostingDomain
Easy to use website builder

Network Solutions, based in America is a leading provider of Web services including: Search Engine Marketing, Web site design, e-mail security, Web hosting and more.

Network Solutions offers a comprehensive suite of products and services to help customers use the Internet to enhance their lives and drive traffic to their Web sites.

Dedicated Servers HostingSource, Inc. is a leading web hosting provider, offering reliable, scalable solutions for customers of all sizes and services.

HTML Tutorials

See my recommended HTML books section

Webmonkey's HTML Basics tutorial

www.webmonkey.com Web Monkey

All Levels
Reviews of the latest Web authoring tools,programs and applications.
Quick reference guides to:
- HTML.
- Stylesheets.
- Javascripts.
How to library

Joe Burns goodies Site

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/ Index DOT HTML is a comprehensive listing of HTML tags, attributes, and values, as well as their compatibility with the various browsers.

http://www.ncdesign.org/html/index.htm NCD HTML Design Guide

http://www.ncdesign.org/html/sindex.htm NCD Style Sheet Guide

http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/PixelSmith/colors/index.html Coordinated colours

www.echoecho.com HTML tutorial on Metatags:

http://www.oswd.org/ 100s of neat web site designs, that may assist you with your own design ideas.

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ Viewable in all browser Design, online or downloadable zip file

http://www.artlung.com/lab/scripting/the-problem-with-blur/ Demo and drawbacks of disabling the dotted lines around links with blur

HTML Accessability, Validation, Standards & Link Checkers

Accessability

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html Accessiblity Checklist

http://wave.webaim.org/ Accessiblity Validator.

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html See what your site looks like through the eyes of a text only browser

http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/ Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility

http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing Accessibility issues - demos and some free downloads

Validation

Dreamweaver has a built in Validator. Latest versions use the w3.org validator

http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html Validate your HTML or XHTML code. Upload file to be validated from your computer

http://validator.w3.org/ Validate your HTML or XHTML code by supplying URI (URL)

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ Free trial then costs £12.00 and its yours

Link Checkers

http://validator.w3.org/checklink Check all links on a page

Check all links on a page Check all links on a web site Excellent

Whois

Obtain information about web site owners

http://www.nic.uk/whois/ WHOIS for .co.uk domains

http://www.samspade.org/ Sam Spade Who is queries and other Tools .Lots of online tools. Sam Spade for Windows, The Library,Tools and utilities

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp HyperText Markup Language Home Page

http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html

http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html Test your page in different browsers, or at different resolutions on line

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/ Free trial then costs £12.00 and its yours

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

HTML

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp HyperText Markup Language Home Page

Browser Testing

Different browsers dont always display your web pages in the same way. Some browsers can display the page in a totally unacceptable manner

http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html

http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html Test your page in different browsers, or at different resolutions on line

JavaScript

See my recommended books Java Scripts section

http://javascript.internet.com/ Java Script Source. Great site

http://www.javaside.com

http://www.siliceo.com/java.html Javascripts and references:

http://www.hotscripts.com/ Java and other scripts

http://www.javascriptworld.com/ Tutorials, Script examples for the book

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/

http://webteacher.com/javascript/index.html Tutorial with examples

http://www.hotscripts.com/ Loads of Java and other scripts

KompoZer

KompoZer is a free WYSIWYG HTML & CSS Editor. Hints on it's use are given in the HTML & CSS tutorials on this site.

Download from Kompozer

Miscellaneous

http://filext.com/ File extensions

http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html File extensions

webdevelopersjournal.com There are areas dedicated to design, business, javascript, coding and discussion groups

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans Training, Lesson plans, tutorials on Microsoft programs

http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/mags/corner.htm List of British Computer Magazines with links to their Web sites

http://www.internic.net/whois.html To cheYou can stop search engines from spidering the pages too, by using a couple of lines of code in a robotsck the ownership of a domain name

http ://software.xfx.net/ pop-up killer

http://www.ripe.net Who is attacking you, connect to[ www.ripe.net ] and type in their IP address. This should give you an address to contacy for abuse reports. Email this address with the date and time of the attack and the details of the IP address attacking you. You will need to include a copy of your firewall log.

http://www.dslreports.com/secureme Check your Firewall-request a security scan.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ Nerds -Robert X. Cringely et al

http://visualroute.visualware.co.uk/ This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from this server to any other network device you choose. To trace back to your computer, just press the button with your IP address below. To trace to any other network device, enter the host name or URL

http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf Moores Law: Moore's original submission of his theory to the Electronics Journal in April 1965.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ Extensive Mathematics resource. By the makers of Mathematica

http://www.trafficzap.com/linkpopularity.asp Check who is linking to your site, using Alta Vista, Lycos, Hot Bot or MSN search encines

http://www.iberpass.com/ Useful if you want an internet connection and doing a lot of travelling.

http://www.sophos.com Trojan removal instructions

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lsmp/index.html Medical Problems - Self help

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tpsr/html/default.aspTelephone preference service sytop spam calls

Modems

http://www.speedtest.com/ Check your Modem speed

Paint Shop Pro

Tutorials

www.Gograph.com

www.kirupa.com

www.pspiz.com

http://loriweb.pair.com/howto.html

http://www.pinoy7.com/default.htm

http://www.state-of-entropy.com/ (this guy is an OU student!!)

these two are photoshop, but can be used for psp:

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/index.htm

http://www.vtc.com/productdetail.php?sku=33299&dealercode=A337

http://www.grafx-design.com/psp_tut.html

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/psp/tutorials/link2g.htm

http://mardiweb.com/web/

http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP/TOC.html

http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/default.htm

Password Protection

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth .htaccess method

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml .htaccess password protection

PHP

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/525 Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL

http://www.php.net/ The PHP pages provide information about PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor.

http://www.php.net/release_4_2_2.php Security problem in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1.

http://www.3dbuzz.com/ PHP Video tutorials. Log in ->home section ->downloads

http://www.thedemosite.co.uk/index.php PHP/MySQL/Javascript example on password protection.

Poorly Computer or Software

http://computerdocter.com/

Protocols

http://compnetworking.about.com/library/gateway/blip.htm Internet Protocol tutorials

http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm Internet Protocol Self Test

Search Engines

http://www.archive.org The Waybackmachine - Very useful reference archive of cached copies of over 10 billion web pages

Spyware

http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm Info on adware (spyware)

http://grc.com/oo/aureate.htm opt out

Student Sites

I have just placed these OU student sites onto the list below. I will be checking that they are still active links. I have accumulated them over a period of time. Many of them will be ex T171 students with relevant T171 information. Some are there because to me they are cool sites, or contain some useful feature that I would like to use. Other may be less relevant to T170 and T171 ers and be there because of my OU previous courses.

I hope to split the list into suitable subsections

http://www.jimsprograms.com/ John J Cook: Jims Programs. A must for Game lovers, also has java applettes, C tutorial, downloads, VB, source code

http://instanceofvisiblefrog.fws1.com/favorite_links.html

http://home.clara.net/martin.reed/webTools.html

http://www.2rps.com/

TCP/IP

Technology Information Sites

http://www.howstuffworks.com It tells you how things work.

http://whatis.com Techie things

Travel

Cities, Countries and Towns

Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorials

Web Design

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/ After reading all these links on web design and good and bad pages

http://www.useit.com/ http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

http://www.wdvl.com Good Site

Webmaster Tools

This section has been moved and is being geatly enlarged you may want to bookmark the new Webmaster Tools page

Windows

Some useful 'built in' Windows programs

regedit - Registry editor. Use with caution

rsrcmtr - Resource monitor

msconfig Check & ammend the configuration of your Windows Computer.

msinfo32 - System information

sysmon - System monitor

sysedit - System editor. Edit the files autoexec.bat, config.sys etc

winfile - Windows 3.1 file manager.

Microsoft Sites

http://support.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Support

http://support.microsoft.com/sp Support for Microsoft Service Packs

http://support.microsoft.com The Knowledge Base, over 250,000 articles: FAQs troubleshooting . UK section i.e. UK spellings, click international support, UK, Search our Technical Database. Try alternative words if no results.

Other Sites

http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm Startup / shutdown troubleshooting

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm links useful in sorting out which tasks you can remove from the startup folder:

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm

http://www.viglen.co.uk/support/Manuals/manuals.asp Manuals

http://www.annoyances.org/ Complete collection of Microsoft Windows information

http://www.greatis.com/regrun3startuporder.htm Specify an order of the startup programs

XML and XHTML

See my recommended books XML section

http://www.xml.com Iinformation, tutorials, and tips about Extensible Markup Language (XML), as well as other Web technologies.

http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/ As the companion site to Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition, this electronic café offers an assortment of free samples and tasty treats to help you get up to speed on HTML in a hurry. Hover over a clock number