Help From Other Sites

Last Updated June 4, 2026

On this page, you’ll find a variety of online resources that may be helpful in authoring your website. Some references may not comply with current established Web standards. All links will open in a new tab or window.

References

New links added in May and June, 2026. Good for beginners and intermediate.

Articles about programming in general

A guide for women interested in a programming career: top 20 online resources for kickstarting your coding journey (updated September 12, 2024)
AI Coding and Programming Tools (August 22, 2023)

HTML and More

A Resource Guide for Web Developers (September 5, 2020) — page includes a brief essay on Web development and quite a few links to useful resources.
A Guide to Web Development and Programming Languages
Basics of Computer Programming with JavaScript
Dan’s Web Tips — an excellent compilation of Web wisdom.
HTML Help by the Web Design Group
HTML Survival Kit
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype

NOTE: The following three links may or may not be useful, as one can simply type in most characters if the character encoding of the Web page (charset) is utf-8.

Character entity references in HTML 4 — If you ever need an HTML code for an odd character (like ñ), find it here (but if you use character encoding as UTF-8, you can input most characters directly into the HTML)
Character Entities for ISO Latin-1 — part of the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
Table of ASCII characters and symbols

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Dave Raggett’s Introduction to CSS (April 8, 2002)
Guide to Cascading Style Sheets by the Web Design Group
Little Boxes (CSS layouts)
Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques (August 17, 2001) — an excellent article at A List Apart