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CAOS/Arts 113A-61 Resources
  1. Accessibility
    1. Bobby
      1. "To check the accessibility of your pages you can use a tool like Bobby. Bobby is a free service provided by the Center for Applied Special Technology. After you supply the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of your page, Bobby checks the page against the Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines and flags potential barriers for users with disabilities. Bobby also recommends changes that will improve the accessibility of your pages. Check you designs at every development milestone to avoid time-consuming and potentially costly revampling efforts." Quoted from
        http://www.webstyleguide.com/process/design.html
        http://www.cast.org/bobby
    2. ETRE
      1. This site checks for:
        1. color blindness for images (beta).
          http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator
        2. Online Accessibility
          http://www.etre.com/tools/accessibilitycheck/
    3. WebAim
      1. This site is a wealth of resources for Accessibility Compliance Issues and Tools (ie Text Readers):
        http://www.webaim.org/.
    4. WebXACT
      1. This site is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
        http://webxact.watchfire.com/.

  2. Browsers
    1. Browswer News
      1. This website discusses browser trends, resolution trends, and colour-depth trends for designers who want to decide what to support.
        http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm
      2. Caution - Browser Statistics Can Be Misleading
        http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
    2. TheCounter.com Statistics
      1. This site provides monthy statistics on the following numbers: JavaScript, Java, domains, OS, browsers, users per day, screen resolution, and color depth.
        http://www.thecounter.com/stats/
    3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      1. These tables summarize browsers used by hosts in 72 countries made each day to the Engineering Workstations WWW server at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
        http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/bstats/latest.html.
    4. W3 Schools
      1. This website evaluates what is the most common browser and operating system.W3Schools' reports month-by-month statistics and trends.
        http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

  3. Cascading Style Sheets
    1. Introduction to CSS
      http://www.shire.net/learnwebdesign/introcss.htm
    2. Type Selectors
      http://www.shire.net/learnwebdesign/typeselectors.htm
    3. CSS 2 Attribute Selectors
      http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/qt/tipcssattrib.htm
    4. Using Style Classes & ID's
      http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa020899.htm
    5. When to Use Each Selector (Part 1: Taking Your Styles Further)
      http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/qt/tipscsclassvsid.htm
    6. The XHTML Elements: Span and Div
      http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmltags/a/aa001100a.htm
    7. Advanced CSS: Part 1: Taking Your Styles Further
      http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa112000a.htm
    8. Safe CSS - Cascading Style Sheets For Most Browsers
      http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa090902a.htm
    9. When to Use each Selector
      http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/qt/tipcssclassvsid.htm
    10. Properties Library
      http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aastylelibrary.htm
  1. Copyright
    1. Copyright.gov
      1. This is a U.S. government web site regarding copyright issues.
        See the FAQ section at http://copyright.gov
    2. Nolo
      1. There are excellent legal articles on this Web site including "Software and Web Development". Follow the navigation home>patents, copyright and art to find the article.
        http://nolo.com/article.cfm

  2. Images - Make sure to read and follow the copyright information on each of the following sites. See the Copyright Resources folder for links to copyright information.
    1. Geocities
      1. The Button Bin offers free button graphics.
        http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/4165/index.html
      2. Add text to navigation buttons using Paint Shop Pro.
        http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/4165/text.htm
      3. Download free 30 day trial copy of Paint Shop Pro.
        http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
        Corel3/Products/Display&pfid
        =1047024307383
    2. Getty Images
      1. Images, film, and digital services.
        http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
      2. Royalty Free Images
        http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/frontdoor/DefaultRfLanding.aspx
    3. Inmagine
      1. This Web site contains professional quality photography for free or at a low cost.
        http://www.inmagine.com
    4. Lucky Oliver
      1. This Web site contains professional quality photography for free or at a low cost.
        http://www.luckyoliver.com
    5. Pixeleye Germany
      1. This website contains links to unique design driven typography (fonts) you can download. Simply download, unzip, and copy the fonts into your computer's FONTS folder.
        http://www.pixeleyegermany.de/111204/typographyenglish
        2004.htm
    6. Robin Good
      1. This Web site entitled "Where to Find Free Images and Visuals for My Blog" contains links to websites where you can find images and photos.
        http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/01/where_ to_find_free_images.htm
    7. Springfield Township High School Virtual Library
      1. This website has 50+ links to mostly public domain photos.
        http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html
    8. Stock Expert
      1. This Web site contains professional quality photography for free or at a low cost.
        http://www.stockxpert.com
    9. stock.xchng
      1. "Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!

        Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 250.000 quality stock photos by more than 25.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around."
        http://www.sxc.hu
    10. Flamming Text
      1. This site has various links to image resources onsite and off. You can create banners and buttons from the site too. Most are free to use.
        http://www3.flamingtext.com/
    11. Cool Text
      1. Another free online tool.
        http://cooltext.com/
    12. Image After
      1. Another free online tool. Make sure to check out the links under :" What other sites do you recommend?"
        http://www.imageafter.com/
  1. Meta Tags
    1. WebDeveloper.com
      1. This website provides links to META Tag resource pages and META Tag software and services.
        http://webdeveloper.internet.com/html/html_metatag_res. html
    2. Search Engine Watch
      1. This site provides free information on how the search engines work, how to submit your site for best results, etc. They have a news page, a (free) newsletter that keeps you up to date with changes in the major search engines, information and links, and updates on how responsive the top engines are.
        http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
      2. "This section of Search Engine Watch (formerly called A Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines) is primarily for webmasters, site owners and web marketers. It covers search engine submission, placement and marketing issues. It explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.This site also provides links to Search Engine Watch's conference on search engine marketing." Quoted from Search Engine Watch www.searchenginewatch.com, Danny Sullivan, Editor; Chris Sherman, Associate Editor.
        http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.php

  2. Online Forums and Newsletters
    1. . WebmasterWorld
      1. http://www.webmasterworld.com/

  3. Scripts and Snippets
    1. Formmail - contains a script archive for CGI Scripts:
      1. This is a link to Formmail which will send the form data using the server side send mail.
        http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html/
      2. This website also contains other CGI scripts to do other functions such as a Guestbook.
        http://www.scriptarchive.com
    2. Joe Crawford's Space of Web Geekery
      1. This Web site includes snippets for your form (i.e. 50 U.S. States Dropdown Box HTML Code Snippets):
        http://lab.artlung.com/<;/a >

  4. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
    1. W3C's website for code validation. Upload the code to be validated or point to a URL.
      http://validator.w3.org
 

Accessibility
Browsers
CSS
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Scripts & Snippets
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 Updated Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 10:10:53 AM by Alice Mccarty - mccartyalice@deanza.edu
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