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Help From Other Sites

Last Updated March 5, 2025

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

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 6, 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
• CSS and web standards tutorials (this could not be fetched on March 5, 2025)
• Little Boxes (CSS layouts)
• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques (August 17, 2001) — an excellent article at A List Apart

Webmaster Tools

• The W3C MarkUp Validation Service
• W3C’s CSS Validator
• HTML Tidy
• CoffeeCup Software
• Bravenet Web Services
• Font Freak