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External Links
Below be external links to places that might help you further with HTML, CSS, and general web design.
HTML Dog, The Book 
HTML Dog is hosted by Titan Internet
The World Wide Web Consortium
Web sites from the organisation that writes the various web design language specifications.
- W3C
- The home page of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- HTML
- A guide to HTML.
- XHTML 1.0
- A guide to XHTML 1.0.
- XHTML 1.1
- A guide to XHTML 1.1.
- HTML Validator
- Run your HTML through this to see if it's standards compliant.
- CSS
- A guide to CSS.
- CSS Validator
- Run your CSS through this to see if it's valid.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Resources.
- Including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Web Content Accessibility Checklist
Other Standards Related Sites
- The Web Standards Project
- "A grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all."
- The Web Design Group
- "Providing guidance and instruction to Web authors at all stages of development."
Developer References
- A List Apart
- Articles relating to standards-based design and development.
- HTML Central @ Netscape Devedge
- Great HTML articles from the now defunct Netscape.
- CSS Central @ Netscape Devedge
- Great CSS articles.
- Internet.com Developer Channel
- A whole host of related stuff.
- Website Tips
- Tutorials.
- HTML With Style
- More tutorials.
- Project Seven
- Yet more tutorials.
- Evolt.org
- Development related articles, often relating to HTML and CSS.
- The Noodle Incident
- Take a look at the good stuff in the sections under 'Web Development'.
- The Layout Reservoir
- Perhaps the best explanation of CSS layouts.
- CSS @ Glish
- More CSS layout techniques.
- Real World Style
- Informative "CSS Layouts, tips, tricks and techniques" by Mark Newhouse.
- ColorMatch Remix
- Handy tool to select colour schemes.
- CSS Crib Sheet
- A single page of rules and suggestions from Mezzoblue to help you make the most of CSS.
- CSS Vault
- Frequently updated links to CSS resources and a 'Gallery' of sites built using CSS.
- Max Design
- Highly informative articles written by Russ Weakley.
People and Weblogs
- Andy Budd
- An interesting man from Brighton.
- Tantek Çelik
- Technorati, and former Microsoft and W3C man.
- Glish
- The website of Eric Costello.
- Eric Meyer
- Previous 'Standards Evangelist' for Netscape. Author of 'Eric Meyer on CSS'.
- mezzoblue
- "A semi-daily expository and exploratory on all things web, design, and typographic" from David Shea.
- Molly.com
- The website of Molly E. Holzschlag.
- Craig Saila
- Great articles and weblog.
- Stop Design
- Website of web design Buddha Douglas Bowman.
- Superfluous Banter
- Website of Daniel S Rubin.
- Web-Graphics
- "A daily compilation of hypertext design, resources, links, commentary and notes."
- Weblog about Markup & Style
- By Anne van Kesteren. The title sums it up pretty well.
- Simon Willison
- Web standards and CSS, amongst other stuff.
- Zeldman - The Daily Report
- The not-quite-daily web site of Jeffrey Zeldman, the web-Yoda behind A List Apart, The Web Standards Project and the book 'Designing with Web Standards'.
- 456 Berea Street
- Website of Roger Johansson.
- Clagnut
- Richard Rutter.
- Hixie's Natural Log
- Ian Hixie.
- Asterisk*
- D. Keith Robinson's Web Design Blog.
- Whitespace
- Frequent, informative thoughts relating to the web design world from Paul Scrivens.
- etc.
- A web log of links to web design related stuff.
- The Man In Blue
- "Selected ramblings and work from Cameron Adams."
- Simple Bits
- A place for Dan Cederholm to collect everything he does on the web.
Accessibility and Usability
- Bobby
- "A comprhensive Windows-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities."
- Cynthia Says
- A better, more comprehensive Windows-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities.
- Accessify
- A whole load of stuff relating to accessibility.
- Isolani
- Accessibility articles.
- UK Usability Professionals' Association
- "Promoting usability concepts and techniques worldwide"
- useit.com
- The infamous Jakob Nielsen and his fetish for usability.
- GUUUI
- "The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break" - Great articles and postings.
Design
- CSS Zen Garden
- Perhaps the best example of the power of CSS with different stylesheets applied to the same HTML page to vastly different results.
- Kaliber 10000
- "The Designer's Lunchbox"
- Netdiver
- "An online magazine that focuses on digital culture, new media and, an international design portal."
Experiments
- CSS Destroy
- Pushing CSS so far it often falls off the edge - Experiments that often don't work in Internet Explorer and sometimes don't work anywhere at all.
- BrainJar
- "Experiments in Web Programming" - Advanced articles and tutorials.
Mailing Lists
- CSS Discuss
- Very popular discussion list, focussing on CSS issues.
- WebDesign-L
- List covering all things web design.
- The List
- The Evolt discussion list, covering all development issues, including HTML and CSS.
Misc.
- Pirated Sites
- Interesting site, highlighting web sites that have been completely ripped-off.
- Position is Everything
- Explaining browser bugs and idiosyncrasies and how to work around them.
- Digital Web Magazine
- An online magazine for web designers with articles, columns and reviews.