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Updated: Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 @ 3:54 PM EST [35]

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• 1.SimpleBits: Web Standards Link Bonanza

  Dan calls this large list of Web design and development resources "Standards" links, but they're really in a number of categories including standards of course, but also usability, accessibility, techniques and (CSS) hacks, blogs, news and more. [1043]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/06/21/bonanza.html
  Author:
  Dan Cederholm
  [2]
  Reviewed:Monday, April 25th, 2005 @ 1:02 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  SimpleBits: Web Standards Link Bonanza accessibilitycssdesigndeveloperdirectorystandardsusability
   

• 2.Tips for Webmasters

  From the W3C Quality Assurance group, short, simple bits of knowledge for better design, authoring, and use of issues related to technologies such as HTML, CSS and HTTP. Visitors are encouraged to submit new tips or suggest improvements to existing ones. [1698]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/
  Author:
  Dan Connolly
  [3]
  Reviewed:Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 @ 3:54 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Tips for Webmasters csshtmlhttpsemanticsurivalidatorw3c
   

• 3.These Web Sites Are Identical: Or Are They?

  This survey compares ten Web sites through elements of their layout: styles, page construction and elements. The survey seeks similarities and differences between those well known Web sites, built by (very) famous, talented designers. [1613]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://phnk.com/design/survey/
  Author:
  François Briatte
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, January 26th, 2006 @ 3:57 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  These Web Sites Are Identical: Or Are They? cssdesigndevelopermarkupsemantics
   

• 4.fadtastic

  A multi-author Wed design trends journal, in blog/comment format. Topics, excuse me, tags (or is it categories?) include code (CSS/Javascript), color, examples, layout, navigation, nostalgia, opinion, standards and accessibility, themes, and typography. [1571]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://fadtastic.aspiramedia.com/
  Author:
  aspiramedia
  [1]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 @ 6:55 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  fadtastic accessibilitycodecssdesignjavascriptlayoutstandardstypographyweb
   

• 5.MeasureIt

  This one is for you pixel-perfect fanatics out there. MeasureIt allows you to draw a ruler around any portion of a Web page to check the width and height of that area. You can move the box with your mouse, or use the keyboard in 1 and 5 pixel increments. [1565]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/
  Author:
  Kevin Freitas
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, November 28th, 2005 @ 1:39 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  MeasureIt designdeveloperextensionfirefoxmozilla
   

• 6.New Developer Features in Deer Park

  Deer Park is the Mozilla codename for the next release of Firefox. This page summarizes the major improvements for HTML, CSS, Javascript and DOM, and graphics. Of note: XForms, SVG, DOM Accessibility APIs, and CSS counters, nested quotes, and overflow. [1371]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/new-web-dev-features.html
  Author:
  Open Source Community
  [14]
  Reviewed:Monday, July 4th, 2005 @ 9:26 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  New Developer Features in Deer Park accessibilityapicssdesigndeveloperdomfirefoxgraphicshtmljavascriptmozillasvg
   

• 7.Nvu

  I'm a hand-coder myself, but if you're looking for an open-source, cross-platform Web authoring solution that rivals Dreamweaver and (cough) Frontpage, then you might want to give this package a try. Nvu is Mozilla Composer, reborn. [1329]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://nvu.com/
  Author:
  Daniel Glazman
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, June 24th, 2005 @ 5:13 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Nvu designdevelopereditorshtml
   

• 8.Design Buzz

  Outstanding community/blogger site from Artima Developer. They also have categories for Java, Linux, MacOS, Open Source, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, XML and a few others I won't mention. RSS feeds of new posts, impressive blogroll as well. [1152]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.artima.com/buzz/community.jsp?forum=124
  Author:
  Artima Developer
  [9]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 14th, 2005 @ 9:06 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Design Buzz designdeveloper
   

• 9.Web Page Development: Best Practices

  From the Safari team, this article gives some practical hints on how to create standards-conforming websites, and to work around some of issues that will arise for Explorer for Windows. [1075]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/bestwebdev.html
  Author:
  Safari Development Team
  [4]
  Reviewed:Monday, May 2nd, 2005 @ 6:04 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Web Page Development: Best Practices appledevelopersafaristandardsweb
   

• 10.Web Developer Documentation

  This page provides links to documentation for Web developers who are interested in the languages used to write Web pages for Mozilla and other browsers that support the same standards. [1074]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/
  Author:
  Document Team
  [2]
  Reviewed:Sunday, May 1st, 2005 @ 8:24 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Web Developer Documentation developermozillastandardsweb
   

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