Links for web design and scripting

How to Register for Personal Web Space (PDF).

Web design

• Style Guide for online hypertext from W3C - the World Wide Web Consortium
  
  
• The W3C Markup Validation Service - checks for compliance with W3C recommendations and other HTML standards
  
  
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - these guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities
  
  
• Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition - the classic, indispensable Yale C/AIM guide to good web design - essential reading
  
  
• A Guide to Creating Web Sites with HTML, CGI, Java, JavaScript, Graphics.. - from the Web Developers Virtual Library
  
  
• Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - bi-weekly column on web design
  
  
• Web Pages That Suck: learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design
  
  
• Experts - Webreference.com - a site with lots of tips and scripts, from graphics to Javascript and DHTML
  
  
• WebTrends - a cross between a portal and web reference site

Guides to HTML

• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML – NCSA is where Mosaic (the forerunner of Netscape) was developed
  
  
• Index DOT Html: The Advanced HTML Reference - describes every HTML tag and much more
  
  
• Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - everything from HTML tags to CSS and dynamic HTML
  
  
• Web Design/ HTML - includes sections on all aspects of HTML and everything from PERL to accessibility

Security and the web

• The World Wide Web Security FAQ - from W3C. Vital reading on security risks when building sites

Cascading style sheets

• Get started With Cascading Style Sheets
• Beginning Cascading Style Sheets
• Benefits of Cascading Style Sheets

CGI scripting

• Common Gateway Interface (NCSA)
• FreeScripts.com
• Matt's Script Archive

Java

• The Java Tutorial from Sun Developer Network
• Java Home Page from King's College London

JavaScript resources

• The JavaScript Source
• Voodoo's Introduction to JavaScript
• Freewarejava.com - with links to JavaScript sites
• Dynamic Drive - free JavaScript scripts
• JavaScriptCity - free scripts and other resources

ASP pages

• ASP Tutorial
• The ASP resource index

Web maintenance tools

• Xenu's Link Sleuth - fast, accurate and free

Please email m.cushman@lse.ac.uk to suggest other links for this page or inform us of any links that do not work.

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