Information Services

Useful Links for Web Development

• Authoring Guidelines for Web Accessibility EdNA guide
• ColorMaker
• Dreamweaver Tutorial
• Graphics
  • 20/20 Freeware image viewer, screen capture and annotation application. It is also capable of creating slide shows, generating thumbnails, and creating muted backgrounds for web pages and stationery.
  • IrfanView [Australian mirror site] Leading free software for viewing or converting images.
  • Design Gallery Live Microsoft Clipart
  • Creating Graphics for the Web
  • The Free Graphics Store Australian site
  • Photoshop Tips
  • Pics4Learning Copyright-friendly images for Education
• HTML sites
  • Compendium of HTML Elements
  • HTML with Style
    Tutorials on topics from the basics of HTML to using CSS
  • Introduction to HTML - A well regarded HTML tutorial that takes 2-4 hours to complete.
  • Teach Yourself HTML
  • W3C's HTML Homepage
  • W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
    • HTML Character Entities
• HTML Validation Services
  • Bobby Accessibility of web pages to people with disabilities.
  • HTML Help by The Web Design Group
  • W3C HTML Validation Service
• Image Searchers
  • Amazing Picture Machine
  • Arriba Vista
  • Clip Art Searcher
• Hot Potatoes
  A suite of programs which can develop "interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web".
• JavaScript Made Easy
• Link Checking
  • LinkScan Checks link validity and analyses coding
  • Dr HTML
  • W3C Link Checker
• Metadata
  • Understanding Metadata [.pdf file, 20 pages]
  • Metadata Demystified [.pdf file, 19 pages]
    Free guide from NISO, the U.S. National Information Standards Organization
  • META Tag Guide and Optimization Tips
• NetMechanic Checks links, HTML, page load time etc.
• Tudogs Large collection of links to free software etc.
• Tutorials
  • PHP Tutorials
  • Software List A directory of links to tutorials for computer software.
• W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
  • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Web Design
  • Creating a Web Site: A Step by Step Guide Reviewed in Free Pint, July 2002
• Web Developers' Virtual Library
  • WDVL: Writing for the Web
• Web Publishing Curriculum Resources This University of Oregon site provides free online workshops on basic Web mechanics, Web publishing processes, and Web page creation.
• Website Design For Information Technology Professionals by Tom Worthington FACS
• Web Site Garage Checks for broken links (up to 25) and more
• Web Style Guide One of the Bibles for developing good University web sites
• Web Type Primer
  Interesting and useful information on the use of typefaces in web design
• WebLog Expert Lite Designed to collect information and statistics about Web sites. Download the free 30-day trial version of WebLog Expert, or the freeware (Lite)version.
• Webmastery from Beyond the Black Stump: Australian site with extensive list of links
• XHTML 2.0 W3C Working Draft
• XML
  • Introduction to XML by Lynn Alford, JCU
• Zuberlinks Guide to Links for Webmasters, Web Designers, and Web Producers

Education Resources

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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

Updated August 2004 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.