Resources for Web Designers
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This is a list of resources of interest to those creating their own web sites or working with XHTML or HTML 5. I have others
I'll be adding as time allows.
Web Design Resources Topics
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For those with non-commercial sites who are interested in free
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- https://neocities.org/
- http://sites.google.com
- http://www.dreamstation.com
- http://www.podbean.com/
For hosting podcasts.
- https://podlibre.org/tag/castopod-host/
For hosting podcasts.
I always check the credentials of my web hosting companies before purchasing their
services. Here are some sites that are helpful in checking up on
a company before you purchase web hosting services from them:
- http://groups.google.com
Run a search on reviews for a particular company name.
- http://www.hostsearch.com/
- http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
See my list of Open Source Alternatives for other options.
- text editor - Scite
- graphics editor - rendera, https://github.com/Mortis69/rendera
- graphics editor - mtpaint, http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
- graphics editor - Gimp, http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable
- graphics converter - GraphicsMagick, http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
- Html Help Image Editor, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670169.aspx
- CamStudio, http://camstudio.org/
- ftp - Filezilla, http://filezilla-project.org/
- telnet,
http://consoletelnet.sourceforge.net/
- IM - Miranda,
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/miranda_portable
- Stylish - CSS customization add-on for Firefox and Chrome, http://userstyles.org/
- browser - lynx, http://lynx.browser.org/
- browser - links, http://links.twibright.com/
- browser - Firefox, http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
- browser - netrider, http://sourceforge.net/projects/netrider/
- browser - Fifth, http://fifth-browser.sourceforge.net/
- GUI web editor - Kompozer, http://portableapps.com/apps/development/nvu_portable
- GUI web editor - Amaya, http://www.w3.org/Amaya
- GUI web editor - BlueGriffon, http://bluegriffon.org
- e-mail - FoxMail,
http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/
- e-mail - Sylpheed,
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
- Less,
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
- Zip,
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Info-ZIP.html
- 7Zip and 7za, http://www.7-zip.org/
- gsar (general search and replace), http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsar.htm
- preprocessor and make programs, http://www.mingw.org/
- gpp (general-purpose preprocessor), http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/GPP
- ps - Ghostscript, http://www.ghostscript.com/download/
- ps - html2ps, https://web.archive.org/web/20071218164109/http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
- ps - a2ps, https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/
- ps - enscript, https://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/
- pdf - PDFCreator, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
- pdf - pdf toolkit, http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
- pdf - wkhtmltopdf, http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
- pdf - htmldoc, http://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc/
- pdf - poppler, http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
- pdf - xpdf, http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- pdf - mupdf, http://www.mupdf.com/
- pdf for Windows - Sumatra, http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html
- drip - IE memory leak detector, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ieleak/
- Firebug - debugger for Firefox and Chrome, http://getfirebug.com/
- JavaScript library - graphics/animation/graphs, http://dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io/raphael/
- JavaScript library - graphs/plotting, http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- JavaScript cufon fonts, https://github.com/sorccu/cufon/wiki/About
- mobile app creator - MoSync (C/C++ and HTML/CSS/JavaScript), https://github.com/MoSync/
- mobile app creator - Apache Cordova (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), https://cordova.apache.org/
- mobile app creator - MIT App Inventor, https://appinventor.mit.edu/
- XHTML Validator,
http://validator.w3.org
- CSS Validator,
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
- CSS examples, http://www.csszengarden.com/
- CSS3 examples, http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/
- Feed Validator,
http://validator.w3.org/feed/
- Accessibilty checker,
http://wave.webaim.org/
- Accessibility checker,
https://www.ssa.gov/accessibility/andi/help/install.html
- Accessibility checkers,
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
- Accessibility checkers,
https://accessibility.18f.gov/
- color checker,
http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/
- color contrast checker,
http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
- 3d titles,
https://www.xara.com/eu/3d-heading-maker/
- browser viewer,
http://www.delorie.com
- link checker,
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
- Javascript lint code checker, http://www.jslint.com/
- Javascript minimizer, http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html - see JavaScript link
- JavaScript cufon fonts - font converter, http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
- my Atom feed generator
- Intercomp - creators of customized software
and web sites. They helped make this page a reality.
- XHTMLDesign mailing list - discuss web page
design with other web site owners. Mainly for web sites that
have fiction archives, but discussion on topics such as web site
readability and standards is welcome.
- My Programming References page has a list of my favorite reference books for web based programming.
- HTML reference,
http://werbach.com/barebones/download.html
- HTML reference,
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
- HTML tutorials,
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css.html
- CSS examples,
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
- Canvas demonstrations, http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
- HTML accessible navigation,
http://www.jimthatcher.com/skipnav.htm
- browser quirks,
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
- mail tutorial,
http://www.geoapps.com/nomime.shtml
- file formats,
https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/file-formats.html
- Perl tutorial,
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~kotliar/perltut.html
- Perl CGI tutorial,
http://www.lies.com/begperl/
- Flash development tools, https://web.archive.org/web/20110507002234/http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects
- usability, color tutorial, https://web.archive.org/web/20170611100216/http://surl.org/
- html, css and printed material, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
- browser compatibility,
http://www.anybrowser.org
- Wordpress tutorial, https://websitesetup.org/how-to-start-a-blog-guide/. Karol wrote to me recommending this guide to starting a Wordpress web site.
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