Resources

Links to Other Web Sites

The Joy of JavaScript

The companion web site to the textbook (JavaScript for the World Wide Web). Download the example scripts in the book from this site. It also has links to other resources as well as additional tips and scripts.

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General

Wired's Webmonkey

My favorite site for web development. They have extensive articles and tutorials on a wide range of topics including authoring web pages, e-commerce, multi-media, etc., with a healthy dose of attitude.

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

The W3C is a non-profit organization that develops specifications, guidelines, software, and tools for the Web. Their site includes a little bit of everything.

HTML Writers Guild

The HTML Writers Guild is the world's largest international organization of Web authors and part of the World Wide Web Consortium. Their site has useful information for members and non-members.

Builder.com

An excellent source of articles and tutorials about all aspects of web design, including JavaScript

New Architect

An on-line magazine (formerly known as Web Techniques) that covers all aspects of web design.

CIS 290 - Resource Page

Rather than repeating myself, here is the resource section from the class page I created for cis290 - intro to web design.

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JavaScript

Netscape DevEgde JavaScript Central

This reference covers JavaScript 1.5 and is quite thorough. Site suggests using Netscape 7+ or Internet Explorer 5.5+

Webmonkey's JavaScript How-to Library

Wired's Webmonkey is one of my favorite resources for web developers. This page has links to various JavaScript tutorials and a library of scripts Wired has developed and used.

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FTP

WS_FTP

Download the FTP software WS-FTP, for PCs. You can download a freee 30 day evaluation version. This is the software installed in room 209 (Chicago Campus) and is a good FTP program.

Fetch

Download for Fetch, the most widely used FTP software for Macs. You can download a free trial offer or sign up for their free educational version. This is the software installed in room 202.

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Forms and CGI Scripts

About Forms in HTML - Index DOT Html by Brian Wilson

A good and thorough description of how create forms in HTML

CGISpy.com

A site that has 36 CGI scripts that you can use. They host the scripts on their site, and you can access them from your page. It is a free service, but you must sign up and give the URL of your page. They have an E-mail Form script that will send the information from a form to an e-mail address.

CGI Extremes - a Perl and CGI Script Resource

This is a directory of sites that offer free CGI scripts, with descriptions and ratings of each individual script. This site is geared towards taking a script and installing it on your server, rather than using remote hosts. Their tutorial section is very good.

Matt's Script Archives

A well-known script archive. Matt Wright offers free scripts that you can use on your server. There are tutorials as well.

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Design Issues

Web Pages That Suck

Learn the basics of web design by looking at poorly designed web pages. This is put up by a web design teacher. You can decide if you agree with his judgements.

Test your designs on people - by Jeffery Veen

An excellent web monkey article about how to test your web site to avoid navigational problems.

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

Jakob Nielson is a well known expert on web page usability. His alertbox articles cover a wide range of issues. Two useful ones are: Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability and Ten Good Deeds in Web Design.

Introduction to Web Accesibility

A very good introduction to the problems faced by users with disabilities and ways to make web pages more accessible to these users.

Web Page Design for Designers by Joe Gillespie

An easy to read guide to basic design principles for web design. The section on images is especially good.

Yale Web Style Guide

A detailed discussion of good design for web pages. The section on Interface Design is particularly useful.

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DHTML

Webmonkey - Authoring DHTML

A list of webmonkey tutorials about using DHTML. Very helpful.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Microsoft CSS Gallery

Many examples of what can be done with style sheets. Look at each page with both Navigator and Explorer to see differences in implementation. Section One and Section Four are particularly good.

Webmonkey Quick Reference Stylesheet Guide

Everthing you need to know about CSS to get started.

Webmonkey - Authoring Stylesheets

A list of webmonkey tutorials on stylesheets.

RichInStyle.com CSS2 tutorial

A good tutorial on how to use CSS.

Style Sheets - W3C

This page provides links to books and other web sites about CSS, as well as a link to the W3C specification/recommendation.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for July 1, 1997: Effective Use of Style Sheets

A nice essay on what CSS are and how to use them. This is not a tutorial, but a good introduction to how and why CSS should be used.

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Dreamweaver / Authoring Tools

Webmonkey - Authoring Tools

Links to Webmonkey articles and reviews of Dreamweaver, Studio MX, FTP and other authoring tools.

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Multi Media

Webmonkey Multimedia Tutorial

Although written in 1998, Adam Powell's introduction to sound and video on the web is still useful, particularily in explaining the history of multi media web formats.

Webmonkey's multimedia page

This page has links to all of Webmonkey's multimedia articles and tutorials, including the newest ones.

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Putting it On-line

There are several things involved in publishing your web pages. First you must find a server to store your web page on. Most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) will provide a web page account for a fee. There are also some free web servers. Once you upload (copy) your web pages onto a server, you need to make it possible for users to find your web page using a search engine. Do this by using meta tags and by submitting your site to several search engines.

Geocities (www.geocities.com)

A free web server and e-mail service. You can put a web page on this server for free, but you must put geocities logos and advertisements on your web pages.

Web Monkey Tutorial - Web hosting for under ten bucks

An excellent guide to affordable web hosting, by Jay Patrikios, written Feb 2003.

Search Engine Submission Tips

This is part of Search Engine Watch and gives information about how to ensure that your web page comes up on different search engines. It explains how search engines actually works and gives useful tips on how to submit your site.

Phil Bradley on Meta Tags

A very useful and easy to understand description of how and why to use meta tags.

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Real World Examples

ConnectingThreads.com - Fabric and Quilting Supplies

This e-commerce site has a wonderful example of writing text on the fly. Click on any of the featured collections to see a form that lets you click on a fabric swatch and read more information about it. They use a more complex version of script 10.8 to achieve this.

Links to How-to Sheets

• How to Upload using Fetch (MACs)
• How to Upload using WS-FTP (PCs)
• How to create forms in HTML

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