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Web Design and Programming Resources Basics and Tutorials Understanding the Web A Unix Primer (PDF) Resources on Textbook site Help Pages by the Kent State University Computer Center. Web Pages: HTML 4.0 Reference at the Web Design Group. The developing XML, Extensible Markup Language---draft specification. HTML Homepage at W3C Page Accessibility, Checking, and Validation: Free from W3C HTML Tidy W3C XHTML Validator W3C CSS validator Making sure that your pages are usable by the vision impaired. Why Write Accessible Pages?. Accessibility tips. Speech-Friendly Website Design. Designing More Usable Web Sites. Site Usability Presentation Audio. Web Usability Checking for Blind and Vision Impaired. WDG HTML Validator List of free HTML checkers Free on-web site checking service - link verification, spell check, and HTML syntax analysis, all in one nice little hyperlinked analysis. Linklint A free hyperlink checker. NetMechanic - a free online service. Our robot will search your Web site and find broken links, spot bad HTML tags, and rate your server's response time. Free HTML and Link Validation Service CSS validation What Server Software is running at the site and other information? Design: Good Web Development Practices Sun Micro System's Guide to Web Style The Yale Web Style Guide Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide Style Sheets: Style Sheet Reference from Web Design Group. Font-Family attribute settings Style Sheet Examples offered by `htmlgoodies.com` W3C CSS main page Browser Support of Style Sheets Javascript: A JavaScript Tutorial Javascript examples, tutorials, and references Javascript regular expression tester JavaScript Language Standardized, the ECMAScript Standard Javascript Explained at Wikipedia. Free Date and Time Picker. Free Javascript Libraries. Javascript Documentation at Mozilla Developer Center. Images, Animation, and Multimedia: Free icons and buttons. Common Graphical File Formats. LWZ and GIF Explained, Lempel-Ziv Welch compression algorithm, and the implementation that GIF uses. GIF License Questionnaire From Unisys Examples of ImageMagick Usage ImageMagick is a Linux/UNIX command-line based image processing application. GIF Controversy CompuServe/Unisys Patent on GIF PNG, homepage for Portable Network Graphics, a GIF replacement: basics, features, sample images, technical documentation, tools, and resources for PNG. GIF Clean remove comments etc. from GIF files to make them smaller. Web Graphics and Clip Art Collections Shockwave raster graphics animation. Flash vector graphics animation. Flash Resources Guide for Web Color Server-side Include (SSI): Apache SSI Server-side Include Tutorial from, Questar Microsystems Inc. CGI Programming in Perl: Wondering what the Web server to CGI program interface is really all about? Wanting to know the meanings of the various environment variables supplied by the Web server to a CGI program? Look at the CGI 1.1 Specification from NCSA. A Perl Tutorial Perl Script Collections Perl is freely available for downloading from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Perl5 Library for CGI programming CGI.pm Perl Modules CGI Examples in C++: `cgi-cpp.tar.gz` HTTP documentation: HTTP1.0 (RFC1945) HTTP1.1 (RFC2068) Cookie: HTTP State Management Mechanism (RFC 2019) (February 1997) Tools There are several source code search engines that you can use to obtain publicly available programs, including Google Code Search, Koders, and Krugle for developers. Recommended text editor VIM (free and for all platforms) Firefox is a popular web browser. If you like NN you'll like Firefox better: Firefox download page and Firefox plugins. Thunderbird is a popular and free email client. Adobe acroreader (free) for reading/displaying PDF files. Download link on this page. Secure shell (SSH) and secure ftp (SFTP) are an important tools. For UNIX and Windows visit this page. For Mac OS consider Fetch and nifty SSH. Freeware screen capture application for Windows MWSnap. Download nslookup for Windows (freeware) Download whois for Windows (freeware) Download CSS editor for Windows or Mac (demo) Web Tools from W3C Microsoft Frontpage --- a commericial page/site creation and management tool. At Stokely Consulting Resource from WebCom Discount computer books from bookpool

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