web dev links

meta

Webmonkey all things web development
(site) (added 2000/02/18)

evolt.org - Workers of the Web, evolt! collaborative site by web devs, sort of a spin-off of Webmonkey
(site) (added 2000/02/18)

The World Wide Web Consortium the one and only; develops web standards
(site) (added 2000/08/06)

The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the WWW.
(article) (added 2000/08/01)

Tomalak's Realm : Daily Links to Strategic Web Design News daily source of web design links
(site) (added 2000/05/31)

design

5k Home The site for the 5K design contest. These sites are truly inspiring.
(site) (added 2000/05/16)

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide classic (?) web style guide
(site) (added 2000/06/07)

About our new look quickie Hotwired article about their redesign
(article) (added 2000/03/20)

color

Webmonkey | Reference: Color Codes webmonkey's palette of web-safe colors
(reference) (added 2000/04/22)

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator an old favorite -- picks the 15 colors that best complement one you've chosen
(tool) (updated 2004/10/19)

ColorMix dithers browser safe colors to make new browser safe colors
(tool) (added 2000/03/23)

E-Color - Providing accurate color on-screen and on-line - in True Internet Color not sure what this is -- some company specializing in web safe colors?
(site) (added 2000/06/14)

Palette Man very cool -- some preselected web-safe palettes for web site color schemes, testing other colors in schemes, etc.
(tool) (added 2000/08/03)

Web Color Visualizer nice color picker page
(tool) (added 2000/05/16)

graphics, animation, video

2112 F/X - Digital Video for the Web digital video primer by a freelancer seemingly in the movie biz
(article) (added 2000/04/18)

Webmonkey | Adam's Multimedia Tutorial - video video for the web
(article) (added 2000/03/20)

The Iconfactory: Quality Freeware Icons For Your Mac nicely designed site of icons and graphics
(site) (added 2000/06/08)

browsers

The evolt.org Browser Archive links to download old browsers
(reference) (added 2000/08/03)

Deja Vu: (re-)creating web history At last, a good emulator of the old browsers? At any rate, a nicely-designed site dedicated to the history of the web, including old browsers.
(site) (added 2000/08/01)

The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers Zeldman et. al.
(site) (added 2000/05/14)

A. Altena - The Browser Is Dead - page 1 recommended by Webmonkey
(article) (added 2000/07/10)

Browser Watch "The leading site for information about browsers, plug-ins and ActiveX controls."
(site) (added 2000/02/22)

JavaScript Tip of the Week for June 24, 1996: Too Many Browers? Wrong. | Source they do a good job of breaking down the code
(code) (added 2000/07/07)

BROWSERDAY 2000 the site for the May 2000 contest in Amsterdam. Browserday in NYC to be this fall.
(site) (added 2000/05/22)

Browserola a browser emulator, not great
(tool) (added 2000/02/22)

webmaster.info for AOL Aha -- about AOL's browser and how to "enhance your site for AOL members."
(reference) (added 2000/08/03)

Microsoft Dominating Browser War Statmarket article dated 8-99, includes stats on major browsers from IE5 to WebTV
(article) (added 2000/03/20)

StatMarket stats on browsers and OS's
(site) (added 2000/03/20)

WAP browser @ Gelon.net an emulator for WAP
(tool) (added 2000/08/01)

Webcoder.com JavaScript browser support chart of browser support for JS. Includes documentation of bugs.
(reference) (added 2000/03/13)

Browsing the Future about Browserday in Amsterdam
(news) (added 2000/05/22)

usability, accessibility, testing

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technology) site of the web usability guru
(site) (added 2000/03/04)

CAST - Bobby tests pages for accessibility for people with disabilities
(tool) (added 2000/03/22)

Color Deficient Vision interesting -- simulates red/green color blindness
(tool) (added 2000/05/17)

CSSCheck, a Cascading Style Sheets Lint very cool -- peruses your stylesheet and makes suggestions for more standards-compliant code
(tool) (added 2000/06/30)

evolt.org - 640 x 480 Isn't Dead Just Yet good article, includes links to several classic Jakob Nielson articles
(article) (added 2000/05/01)

Safe colours - Home a good article explaining color blindness, and how it affects web accessibility
(article) (added 2000/05/17)

Web Stuff various free web page testing utilities
(tool) (added 2000/06/16)

programming

database

The Everything Development Company site for the developers of Everything, offers free source code for the downloading
(site) (added 2000/07/20)

The Everything Development Company diagram of Everything system
(reference) (added 2000/07/20)

javascript, DHTML

W3C CSS-1 recommendations specs for CSS1
(reference) (added 2000/03/17)

Webmonkey | stylesheets menu of webmonkey stylesheet articles
(reference) (added 2000/02/18)

Webmonkey | Advanced JavaScript Tutorial - Optimizing Javascript for Speed how to code JS so it executes faster
(article) (added 2000/03/20)

IRT Javascript FAQ cut & paste code for common JS design effects
(code) (added 2000/03/15)

Webmonkey | javascript code library (wemonkey) javascript from the webmonkeys to cut, paste & enjoy
(code) (added 2000/02/22)

Netscape's known JS bugs & problems list ... compiled by the NN developers
(reference) (added 2000/03/13)

Webmonkey | Thau's Javascript Tutorial -- INDEX index of subjects covered in Thau's Javascript Tutorial
(reference) (added 2000/02/23)

Webcoder.com scriptorium cut & paste javascript from the Designing with Javascript guy. Handy stuff.
(code) (added 2000/03/13)

The Dynamic Duo - Cross-Browser DHTML looks promising; cross-browser code for various DHTML tricks (collapsing menus, etc.)
(site) (added 2000/08/04)

Hoover's Online - Kinetoscope Inc. At A Glance sample of invisible menu that becomes visible on mouseover
(code) (added 2000/06/19)

CollapseMenu Object Demo 1 example/code for collapsing menu
(code) (added 2000/08/04)

DHTML Lab: Scrollbars for Netscape Navigator Layers - dhtmlab.com pretty cool... how to create a scrollbar for NN. Includes images needed.
(code) (added 2000/07/06)

backend

servers, O/S

Netcraft - What's that site running? this is great -- type in a URL and it tells you what server platform it runs on (e.g. Apache on Linux), system uptime, etc.
(tool) (added 2000/08/02)

Netcraft Web Server Survey article on market share of various platforms (Apache/Unix, etc.)
(article) (added 2000/08/04)

Exploring Windows NT/Introducing the NT 4.0 Option Pack MSDN Library - Periodicals - 1998. Excerpt: Introducing the NT 4.0 Option Pack One of the many useful upgrades available for Windows NT Server 4.0
(article) (added 2000/06/22)

File Listing of Personal Web Server 4.0 for Windows 95 Microsoft's list of all the PWS files that should be on the hard drive
(reference) (added 2000/06/22)

How to Troubleshoot Setup for the Web AutoUpdate Feature from Microsoft site
(article) (added 2000/06/09)

Windows 2000 Magazine Online - Looking for Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Updates finally! Something that addresses the problem of Option Pack failing install with SP4 and later
(article) (added 2000/06/27)

Windows Update: Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack personal web server is part of option pack
(tool) (added 2000/06/22)

networking

Welcome to ROAD RUNNER site for our new cable internet line service
(site) (added 2000/08/22)

DSL - dslreports.com - the place for DSL, ADSL recommended by Webmonkey, good site all about DSL availability and DSL issues
(site) (added 2000/05/02)

Covad offering DSL service in our area soon
(business) (added 2000/05/02)