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By: NMK Created on: November 4th, 2003
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Links to useful online resources for web designers. Use the comments box to suggest any you think we've missed...

D&AD
Association representing the interests of the British design and art direction community.
http://www.dandad.co.uk

Design Council
Government-funded organisation promoting awareness of the benefits of design to business, culture and society.
www.design-council.org.uk

BD4D
US-based, but internationally flavoured, community for web designers "a place to get together and share ideas".
http://www.bd4d.com

Newstoday
Design-related portal, with links and ideas posted by well-known designers and 'undiscovered talent'.
http://www.newstoday.com

UK Web Design Association
Not-for-profit organisation established to encourage and promote industry standards within the British web design sector.
http://www.ukwda.org/


W3 Schools
Free and easy to understand online web building tutorials based on W3C Web standards.
http://www.w3schools.com/

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
An official forum overseeing the development of web standards, protocols and guidelines to lead the Web to its full potential.
http://www.w3.org/

Web Design Helper
Online tutorials with an emphasis on improving the visual side of web design and help other web designers, both professional and amateur, create better looking sites.
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/

Webmonkey
The web developers resource: reviews, how-to library and quick references about all web design programs and features.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Developer Shed
Since 1997 this open source web development site put a comprehensive pool of articles and tutorials together, both from the developers as well as the clients standpoint.
http://www.devshed.com/

PageResource.com
Provides tutorials, articles and forums about HTML, PHP, Perl and JavaScript.
http://www.pageresource.com/

Pegaweb
Tutorials about web design, graphic design & Adobe Photoshop.
http://www.pegaweb.com/

Web-Building.com
Delve down a couple of levels for one of the largest lists of web-building resource links on the net.
http://www.web-building.com/

Creating a web site
Step-by-step guide to making a web site, from registering a domain name, using HTML, Dreamweaver and style sheets, to usability, design principles, creating graphics, and search engines optimisation.
http://www.jessett.com/


useit.com
Jakob Nielsen's website. Featuring over 200 articles about usability on the Web.
http://www.useit.com/

Alertbox
Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly alertbox: Current issues in web usability.
www.alertbox.com

Accessify.com
The accessibility resource: everything you ever wanted to know about accessible web design.
http://www.accessify.com/


HTML:

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Beginners Guide to HTML
A primer for producing documents in HTML, from HTML terminology to building a comprehensive site and validating your code.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

HTML Goodies
Free html tutorials from industry experts.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

HTML Help by The Web Design Group
An excellent reference for HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
http://www.htmlhelp.com/

The SiteExperts.Community
This on-line developers community includes discussion groups for XML, HTML, CSS, Design issues, Browser issues and Active Server pages. The resource includes many downloadable scripts and examples. Of particular interest are the Dhtml and XML Toolkit and Library.
http://www.siteexperts.com

WebReference.com
Articles covering XML, 3D, DHTML and more web design technologies.
http://www.webreference.com/

Website Tips
Articles and tips about how to build or improve your web presence. Includes tutorials about CSS, HTML, XHTML and graphics.
http://www.websitetips.com/

PHP
A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
http://www.php.net/


CSS:

CSS level 1
This document specifies level 1 of the Cascading Style Sheet mechanism (CSS1).
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

CSS level 2
This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2).
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Flash:

Flash allows you to create rich interactive experiences for the web.

Flashkit
Comprehensive resource for Flash developers.
www.flashkit.com

Mook.org
The official support site for ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide
http://www.moock.org/

Virtual FX
210 Flash tutorials, from beginner and basic to advanced and expert.
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial.php

Java:

JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language.

The Definite JavaScript Resource
Comprehensive website with all about Java.
www.javascript.com

Java 2 Platform
API specifications for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.1.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/index.html

WebWork Documentation
A web application framework for J2EE.
http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/

Core JavaScript Guide
Online book that explains everything you need to know about using core JavaScript.
http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.5/guide/

Comments

paulanthony23 said:

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Elastikman said:

Good links site <p>Like Styleboost and FWA, this is a good links portal showing some of the world's best web sites: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.refreshlinks.org.uk&quot;&gt;Refresh Showcase&lt;/a&gt;<br/></p>

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