| The 'Viewable with Any Browser' campaign | www.anybrowser.org/campaign | A campaign dedicated to explaining how and why you should build websites which are not tied to specific web browsers. |
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| The Web Palette | www.visibone.com/colorlab | A helpful web page showing the relationships between the 216 'safe' colours you can use on web pages. |
| W3C's HTML Validator | validator.w3.org | An online tool provided by the W3C which checks web pages conform to the standards, and lists any errors it finds. |
| W3C's Cascading Style Sheet Validator | jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator | An online tool similar to the HTML validator, but this time for validating cascading style sheets. |
| AChecker - website accessibility tester | achecker.ca/checker/index.php | An online tool which can test web pages and warn of potential problems which may arise when the page is viewed by someone with special needs. |
| W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium | www.w3.org | The definitive site for information about the world wide web. Contains everything from the technical standards to helpful tutorials. |
| Character Entity definitions (how to represent special characters in HTML) | www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_Latin-1_characters | Many special characters (most of which are not available on your keyboard) need to be specified as entities. For example, ® is specified as ®. This page has the list - albeit in a rather technical format! |
| Cascading Style Sheet tutorial | www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style | A W3C tutorial on using cascading style sheets by Dave Raggett. |
| Cascading Style Sheet reference | www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/all-properties.html | A quick reference list of the properties you can control with a cascading stylesheet. |
| W3 Schools | www.w3schools.com | A site full of tutorials and references on html and web development. |
| CSS Zen Garden | www.csszengarden.com | Examples of the astonishing variations possible by just changing the stylesheet. |
Note that this course was written in 2003, and things have moved on since then! You might like to check out this site for a more up to date html overview.
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