Links to Web Development Resources:

• Reference Browser Chart, a Webmonkey article.
• Test using different browsers. If possible, your testing should also include using different browsers to view your Web pages. If this is not possible, visit AnyBrowser.com to view them.
• NetMechanic HTML Check Test how well your HTML matches the W3C standards. This free service will scan all the pages in your site and report coding errors that can break your page, browser compatability issues that affect how your page looks different on different computers, and design tips that can improve your site. 
• NetMechanic Load Check  This free service will test how long your web site takes to load at various access speeds, and help you identify which parts are slow.

• http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/ - This site is intended to provide information about copyright which will enhance the understanding of faculty, staff and students at The University of Michigan and provide guidelines for using and creating copyrighted material.
• http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html A brief intro to copyright - by Brad Templeton 
• http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm Copyright Crash Course 
• http://www.boogiejack.com/copyband.html   Boogie Jack's Web Depot Copyright and Bandwidth Issues
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/copyown/    CopyOwn: A Resource on Copyright Ownership for the Higher Education Community
• http://www.benedict.com/  The Copyright Website! This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net.
• “Ten Myths About Copyright Explained” at   http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
• http://www.lawforinternet.com/pages9.php3?asktype=mainfairuse.html Free Content: Fair Use On The Web

• http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson9.htm -  John C. Gilson's Lesson 9  - Understanding Color
• http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson10.htm  -  John C. Gilson's Lesson 10 - About the Color Table
• http://webdesign.about.com/od/charactersets/l/bl_htmlcodes.htm Special HTML characters from About.com
• http://webdesign.about.com/cs/charactersets/a/aa040703a_p.htm There's More to Special Characters than Accents, from About.com
• http://webdesign.about.com/library/nosearch/bl_class4-1.htm  HTML 101 Lesson 4 Font Face About.com
• http://webdesign.about.com/od/color/a/aa012703a_p.htm Designing in Color from About.com
• Brief overview of color computer displays that explains some of the basic terminology used in the Macintosh and Windows operating systems from Web Style Guide.
• Font Typefaces from Web Style Guide.
• http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/picker/index.html Font and Background Color Picker from pagetutor.com Great site for testing web page color combinations on the fly.  Select colors for background, text and links, then you can view what the combination looks like. 
• Font Viewer  
• Browser Safe Colors described along with chart from Lynda Weinman includes  full browser safe palette organized by hue  and the full browser safe palette organized by value 
• Netscapes 216 Browser Safe Color Chart   and expanded color chart from  Joe Barta  
• Netscapes 216 Browser Safe Color Chart - by Elizabeth Castro

• http://www.pagetutor.com/metaprimer/ Meta Tag Primer from Joe Burns
• http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/search/searchIndex.html: Improving your search-engine status This tutorial takes you through the basics of how search-engines work, different methods to improving your rating, and tips for search-engine submission.
• http://www.ftpplanet.com/webmaster/promo_guide.htm Quick Guide to Promoting your site from FTPplanet.com
• http://www.website101.com/free_ezine_content/search_engine_resources.html
• http://www.submit-it.com/  - Submit It Free Classic 
• Instructions for listing your site on Yahoo
• http://www.allsearchengines.com/
• http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap15.shtml Improved Search Engine Results from DaveSite.com
• Keyword Density Analyzer - High search engine ranking requires your pages to maintain optimimum word depth and keyword density.
• Tips for publicizing your web site from the Web Diner.
• Site Promotion Tutorials
• How keywords impact search engine rankings article,  at Builder.com  by Michael Meadhra,  February 4, 2004
  

• http://www.csc.flint.umich.edu/~hickslm/263/FreeWebHosts.htm Ranked by InfoSeek.  (Dated by still may be of value.)
• http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-page5.htm Getting Your Pages Online from howstuffworks.com
• http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=web-page.htm&url=http://www.hostindex.com/
• Free Web Sites that include ASP support:
  • Brinkster allows for free web space at:  http://www.brinkster.com/
  • FreeWebSpace.net at:  http://freewebspace.net/    
• Free Web Space with PHP support
  • http://www.free-php-hosting.com/ - Free PHP Hosting. Welcome to your guide to free PHP hosting and webspace providers. Here you can find key information on the best and worst free hosts for php and/or mysql.

• HTML Cheat Sheet from WebMonkey  
• References from Elizabeth Castro:
  • Complete chart of HTML 4 tags and attributes 
  • The complete table of characters with accents and other diacritical marks (umlauts, enyes, rings, and the like), together with the special code (and name, if available)
  • Hexadecimal to Decimal conversion chart

• SEO/SEM glossary - jargon, terminology and definition from tamingthebeast.net
• Search Engine Optimization Tips
• Search Engine Optimization by Bruce Clay
• Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization - SEO Chat.
• Search Engine Optimizers - Google Information for Webmasters
• Free website promotion tutorial from A Promotion Guide, also Ranking high at Google
• Search Marketing's About People and Principles, Not Just Algorithms, Part 1  and Part 2, from SearchEngineWatch.com

• Arachnophilia (download  the older version 4.0 if you do not have java installed on your machine) - HTML Editor CareWare by Paul Lutus - No Charge Software.  The latest version of Arachnophilia requires runs as a java application.  To use it you must have java installed on your machine.
• 1st Page 2000   One of the top 3 HTML editors ever made". - Michael Kor Winner of 30+ Product Awards!     Professional web builders are exploring 1st Page 2000, the world's free web builder to create and manage world-class Web sites. 
• NoteTab Lite a freeware HTML text editor that is rated highly within the industry.
• GifConstruction Set - Use to Create Animated Gifs and Banners
• MapEdit- Image Map Shareware 
• Paint Shop Pro 7.0   from Jasc Software -  Create and optimize Web graphics, design   animations with Animation Shop 3, Retouch, repair, and edit photos.  30-day trial versions. Excellent graphics package for about $500 less than the industry leader Photo Shop.
  • Robin's Paint Shop Pro tutorials and other resources.
• Ulead GIF Animator Tutorials  and  15 day Trial Version 
• WS-FTP LE - Freeware, WS-FTP LE is a great application that allows remote file edits, chmods on UNIX boxes and file moves.  (Download from Tucows.)
  •   WS-FTP tutorial from your texts   resources for chapter 2.  

• Webmonkey Unix Reference Guide
• UNIX Tutorials from webreference.com
• Linux Resources: Articles, Resource Compilations, Resource Compilations and much more.

• Professional Website Usability By Lauren Kirby May 5th 2000 article from Sitepoint.com, Reader Rating: 8.3
• Team Web Learning to Publish, Univ. of Texas Dynamic Web Sites with PHP.   PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.  
• Sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think: Chapter 2  How we really use the Web
• Team Web Learning to Publish, Univ. of Texas  XML - Extensible Markup Language .
• XHTML: Extensibility, portability, and no more messy markup practices: Article  in Builder.com by  Brian Schaffner, | Jan 7, 2002
• XML in 10 points: This summary in 10 points attempts to capture enough of the basic concepts to enable a beginner to see the forest through the trees.

Last updated on 04/23/2008  by L.M. Hicks