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Web Authoring
Coding & validation
- AccessWeb
- Wonderful collection of resources by U of Washington's DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology).
- Browsershots
- Submit your URL, get screenshots in ten browser versions.
- CSS Reference Table
- c|Net's Builder.com site includes a master table of properties and values.
- CSS2 Specification
- The most recent recommendation for style sheets.
- HTML 4.01 Specification
- This is still a useful bookmark, since it provides easy access to all the elements and attributes.
- Index of HTML 4.0 Character Entity References
- A good source for finding that pesky little â or £ when you really need it.
- lynx-me
- See how your page would look in lynx, without having to telnet.
- Screen Reader Simulation
- Unicode Home Page
- ASCII grows up.
- W3C CSS Validation Services
- W3C HTML Validation Services
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- The W3C site, with pointers to a vast array of its own and other resources.
- XHTML 1.0 Recommendation
- The most recent mature recommendation. Continuing work includes the XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML recommendation, and the XHTML 2.0 Working Draft. Rendering across different device types is adressed in the XHTML Basic recommendation.
History & stats
- All About the Internet
- Includes articles by (among others) Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn.
- Browser News: Statistics
- Hobbes' Internet Timeline
- Robert Zakon has been keeping this timeline since 1993, and seems to have stopped in 2006!
- The Internet Archive
- Featuring the Wayback Machine - see how your pages (and the rest of the Internet) looked when they first went up. From the fertile mind of Brewster Kahle.
Tutorials et al.
- A List Apart: Topics
- A large collection of "how did they do that" articles, organized by topic.
- HTML Goodies
- Tutorials, primers, and more, on all sorts of topics, from HTML to XML and PHP.
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
- Covering HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, all kinds of scripting, and even WAP. All for free.
- Web4Lib Electronic Discussion
- One of the longest standing listservs of its kind, with well-organized archives.
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