Reference


HTML

Links

Some nice tutorials for learning HTML:
http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk/?table=others&file=html_index.xml&menu=html

A reference chart to the most commonly used HTML elements and tags:
http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk/?table=others&file=html_reference.xml&menu=main

A wealth of good HTML information and advice (including an online HTML validator):
http://www.htmlhelp.com/

Books

For learning and using HTML appropriately, and doubling up as a good reference:
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy ISBN: 0-596-00382-X, Pub: O'Reilly, £28.50 UK

For a good reference only book:
HTML Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition By Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0-596-00296-3, Pub: O'Reilly, £ 8.95 UK


Design

Links

Usability:

Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox. An archive of articles on Website Useability. Indispensable for the professional Webmaster:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

Accessability:

Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible; from the World Wide Web standards authority:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/

Information Architecture:

Information Design for the World Wide Web:
http://www.washington.edu/webguides/design.class/index.html

Style Guides:

Web Style Guide. Formerly known as the Yale Style Guide. A complete style guide book online:
http://www.webstyleguide.com/

Multimedia Design for the World Wide Web. The basics of good Web design:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/AdvHTML/multimedia.design.html


XHTML

Links

A straight forword - converting how to:
http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk/?table=others&file=xhtml_index.xml&menu=xhtml

Another good conversion guide:
http://www22.brinkster.com/beeandnee/techzone/articles/htmltoxhtml.asp

More information about the differences:
http://www.vbxml.com/xhtml/articles/html_to_xhtml/default.asp

Online Validator:
http://validator.w3.org/

Books

For learning and using XHTML appropriately, converting from HTML, and doubling up as a good reference:
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy ISBN: 0-596-00382-X, Pub: O'Reilly, £28.50 UK


XML

Links

An article introducing and explaining XML:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/41/index1a.html

An XML portal:
http://www.xml.com/

The Semantic Web - the future of the World Wide Web:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21


CSS

Links

A complete online tutorial for learning CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

CSS reference:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

Validation:

Online testing for your CSSs:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Another online CSS testing service but with more stright forward error reporting. Very good but only handles CSS as a stand-alone file (i.e. not styles within a HTML page):
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/