Tools
UPDATE
The links below are a bit outdated. My current bookmarks are on del.icio.us. My account is http://del.icio.us/kristinsf. There you can see what I have been looking at / reading lately. Mostly about web site design and development.
The old stuff
This page represents my attempt to list all of my "bookmarks" in a way that benefits others (my students & other developers) as well as keeping track of them myself. That said, this list is loose, and many ideas here overlap. CSS, design, development - they are all related, and really everything could fall under "developer sites". Soooo, if you can't find what you are looking for, keep looking, or drop me a note and I'll try help you to locate what you need.
ACCIDENTAL WEBBIE HANDOUTS
- Legibility (PDF: 226k)
General Resources
- Domain Name Registration
- Web Hosting
- Developer Web Sites
- Design/Color Sites
- Design/Font & Typography Sites
- Adobe Flash
- Photos for Websites
- Site Search
- HTML Email
- Online Communities
- Mailing Lists
- Fax Services
- Web Traffic Analysis
- Online Surveys
- Places to Download Software
- HTML
- Link Checkers
- JavaScript
- Search Engine Registration Script Library
- Accessibility
- Keywords
- Software I use
- Good Books for Webbies
- Description of Internet Industry Jobs/Roles
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Usability
- Just cool stuff
- Stats
- Nonprofit Services
- ICANN
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html
find a company you can use to register your domain name
- Webmonkey - Web Hosting for Under Ten Bucks
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/01/index4a.html
all things interesting and useful for webbies
- Webmonkey
www.webmonkey.com
all things interesting and useful for webbies - Adobe
www.adobe.com
all things Adobe, including free trials of cool tools - evolt
browsers.evolt.org
"Evolt.org is a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences."
ALSO the BEST PLACE TO GET ARCHIVED WEB BROWSERS! - Downloading Multiple versions of Internet Explorer
http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/ - A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com/ - Jeffrey Zeldman (web standards)
http://www.zeldman.com/ - Web Standards
http://www.webstandards.org/
- Pixylophone Colorpicker
http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html
This is the coolest colorpicker in the world - VisiBone
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ - Artsy Fartsy
http://www.mcaf.com/color.html - Cool Homepages
http://coolhomepages.com/
Cure for designers block - Mundi Design Colorpicker
http://www.mundidesign.com/webct/webct.html - Color Toy
- QuickColor
- ColorMatch 5k
- 4096 Color Wheel
- ColorMatch Remix
- Color Schemer Online V2
- Color Palette Creator v1.5
- The Man In Blue Technicolor
Design/Font & Typography Sites
- What the Font!? by myfont.com
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
This is the coolest tool. It will analyze an image & tell you what font was used. Awesome!
- Flash Magazine
http://www.flashmagazine.com/ - actionsrcipts.org
http://www.actionscripts.org/
A resource for flash programming/action scripting - Flash Kit
http://www.flashkit.com/ - ActionScript [org]
http://www.actionscripts.org - DMX Zone
http://www.dmxzone.com
- Getty Images
http://www.gettyimages.com/
- Atomz
www.atomz.com
free in-site search, fee based site builder - Google
http://www.google.com/services/free.html
free in-site & general internet searching
- Adobe
I found a really helpful article on sending HTML email on the Adobe site at http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/htmlemail.htm
Some things I have found out on my own:- Eudora on the Mac is no good for sending or receiving HTML email.
- Background colors do not work consistently
- anchor links within HTML emails are problematic
- all links to files, pages & images need to be ABSOLUTE (contain the whole path: http://www.domainname.com/images/image.gif
- it is good to make an HTML page that you post online so that people who have trouble viewing the HTML page in their browser can find a webpage with the content
Online Communities / Bulletin Boards
- InvisionBoard
http://www.invisionboard.com - Infopop
http://www.infopop.com/products/ubb/ - EZBoard
http://www.ezboard.com/
- Topica
http://www.topica.com/
listserv provider - Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/
listserv provider - SparkLIST
http://www.sparklist.com/
listserv provider
- Fax Away
http://www.faxaway.com/
fax via email - eFax
http://www.efax.com
send & receive faxes online
- Web trends
http://www.webtrends.com
analyze web traffic - Webtrends - free online version
http://www.webtrendslive.com - Analog
http://www.analog.cx
analyze web traffic
- Survey Monkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/home.asp?bhcd2=1060957381 - Zoomerang
http://www.zoomerang.com/Login/index.zgi
- Tucows
http://www.tucows.com/ -
browsers & other cool tools - Download
http://www.download.com/
browsers & other cool tools
- W3Schools HTML Tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp - "Extras" Site for HTML Visual Quickstart Guide (recommended
HTML book)
http://www.cookwood.com/html/extras/ - Webmonkey Tutorial
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics/index.html - HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/
- W3C Link Checker
http://validator.w3.org/checklink - Any Browser Link Checker
http://www.anybrowser.com/linkchecker.html
- Code Belly
http://www.codebelly.com/
- Search Engine Optimization
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/index1a.html
Sending Search-Engine Traffic to Your Site
- Accessible Internet
http://www.accessibleinter.net/ - WC3 Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3c.org/WAI/ - W3C Checklist for Web Content Accessibility
http://www.w3.org//WCAG10/full-checklist.html
accessibility checklist - Section 508
http://www.section508.gov/ - Bobby Online Free Portal
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/
bobby compliance - A-prompt
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
web accessibility verifier - Cool Web Accessability Resources
http://www.malevolent.com/downloads/developerbookmarklets/ - Dive into accessibility
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
- Keyword Verifier
http://www.ranks.nl/
- Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver - for editing files in a graphical interface Fireworks - Fireworks
Adobe Fireworks - for creating/manipulating images & generating some HTML - Contribute
Adobe Contribute - for editing web pages as a non-techie (requires considerable set up by a techie first) - FTP Voyager
FTP Voyager - for uploading files (not free) - WS FTP
WS FTP - for uploading files (not free anymore) - Text Pad
TextPad - for editing files manually, no graphic interface - Web Zip
Web Zip - for capturing web sites to review offline - Capture Eze Pro
Capture Eze Pro - for taking screenshots and printing web pages
- Designing Web Graphics
<designing web graphics.4> by Lynda Weinman - Visual Quickstart Guides
Visual Quickstart Guides from Peachpit Press - Designing CSS Web Pages
http://www.christopherschmitt.com/books/cssbook/resources/css/index.php - Search Engine Visibility
http://www.newriders.com/ - Designing with Web Standards
http://www.newriders.com/
Description of Internet Industry Jobs/Roles
- Webmonkey job descriptions
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/41/index2a.html?tw=jobs
- W3Schools CSS Tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp - CSS Layout
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/ - CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - The Box Model Hack - Making Pages Layout Correctly with CSS
http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
CSS layout trick - http://glish.com/css/hacks.asp
- CSS Lists
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/ - The Noodle Incident
http://www.thenoodleincident.com
CSS tutorials & resources
- useit.com:
Jakob Nielsen's Website
Jakob Nielsen is the web's leading usabilty expert. Check out his website for helpul usabilty ideas! http://www.useit.com/ - Nielsen
Alertbox
This is a great mailing list filled with ideas about making your website more usable.
- Google Toolbar
Google Toolbar - Yahoo Toolbar
Yahoo Companion Toolbar - Sitemap generator
http://urlgreyhot.com/graphviz/ - What do I know?
http://www.whatdoiknow.org/
Articles on web design/development
- The eNonprofit:
A Guide to ASPs, Internet Services, and Online Software, by Michael Stein and John Kenyon
http://www.compasspoint.org/enonprofit/ - Network for Good
http://www.networkforgood.org/
donation processor - Greater Good
http://www.greatergood.com
charity mall - Kintera
http://www.kintera.com/
donor management& event fundraising - Convio
http://www.convio.com/
page builder - The Petition Site
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/
online petitions (project of http://www.care2.com/) - Get Active
http://www.getactive.com/
comprehensive tools for nonprofits - Tech Soup
http://techsoup.org/
resource list with asp evaluations - Nonprofit Matrix
http://www.nonprofitmatrix.com/
ASP & portal providers - Volunteer Match
http://www.volunteermatch.org
ASP & portal providers - Groundspring
https://www.groundspring.org/
formerly eGrants.org
- Google compiles statistics for the web
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html - Browsers
http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html
