Best practice for web design

These sites are recommended for good, reliable information on a variety of web issues.

For the latest in standards in any web technology, see W3C site

HTML References and Tutorials

• W3Schools.com Home to tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript and other web site building languages. A first place to look if you are looking to learn the basics.
• Web Design Group Home of many good online resources
• Good practices A site on basic web design.
• Alertbox The best references on useability of web design.
• Best Viewed With Any Browser Authoring standards and reasons to ensure that your web pages can be viewed with any browser.

HTML Validation

• W3C validation service
• Web Design Group HTML validator

Web Accessibility

• Checkpoints for Web Accessibility Guidelines
• Guidelines for Creating Accessible Web Sites
• Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education serves as a central resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility.

Link Check

• Anybrowser.com free utility which will check links on one web page.
• W3C check link free utility which will test links on up to 150 pages.
• Link Valet recursively checks links on your site.
• Link Alarm tests a site of any size for one cent a page.

Style Sheets

• CSS1 Properties
• CSS Pointers Contains a list of dangerous and safe CSS properties, demonstration style sheets .
• House of Style Tutorials. articles, a css cookbook and example uses of css.
• W3C Style Sheets Page which contains references to other online tutorials, Style sheet editors and utilities, books on CSS etc.

CSS Validation

• W3C Style sheet validator
• Web Design Group CSS Check

CSS Editors

• Style Master Style sheet editor for Mac or PC.