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This page contains links to information and tools on the web which may aid you in creating web pages.

Many of the web technologies referenced here may not adhere to the web accessibility requirements for official University at Albany web pages. University Web Builders must provide accessible content for all information being provided on their web pages. If you choose to use a web technology which is not accessible you must provide redundant content which is accessible. The non-accessible and accessible content must be updated concurrently. For example, you cannot update a Java or Flash based web site without updating the plain HTML version.

 

Topics

Guidelines

Research-Based Web Design and Guidelines

HTML

Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)
NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Joe Burns' HTML Primers
Joe Burns' HTML Tutorials
Web Style Manual -- Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
World Wide Web FAQ

Graphics Resources for Creating Web Pages

Free Graphics - Joe Burns
Free Graphics - Textures
The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective
Graphics Tools

Scripting on the client side

Java (aka NOT JavaScript)
Making sense of Java

Scripting/Programming on the Server side through the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

The Common Gateway Interface
Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
Web Statistics Rant: Why web usage statistics are (worse than) meaningless

Tools: Free

Xenu's Link Sleuth(TM)
Description: Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Description from: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Tools: Online and Free

Doctor HTML Single-Page Analysis
Description: Doctor HTML is a Web page analysis tool which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds. The primary focus of this tool is to provide a clear, easy-to-use report of information that is relevant for improving your Web page.
Description from: http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
Usage is limited without paying for the service.
NetMechanic Toolbox
Description: Performs link checking, spell checking, load time, HTML checking, Browser compatibility check. Usage is limited without paying for the service.
W3C® HTML Validation Service
Description: A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Description from: http://validator.w3.org/
W3C® Link Checker
Description: A limited use online link checker.
GIFWorks (Gif image editor)
Description: Allows creation and manipulation of GIF images.

Web Browsers

Surf the Web: Web Browsers
General information on Web Browsers.

Last Modified 08/25/2005 16:43:57