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Links for Resources on Web Standards, XHTML, CSS, and 508.

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Made In Youthtopia

Accessibility and 508

Blogging Resources

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Images, Digital Photography, and Color

PHP

Tools, Shareware, and Freeware

Usability and Information Architecture

Web Standards

Website-Making In General

XHTML

1. Made in Youthtopia

• Youthtopia.Net About Web Standards
• Youthtopia Blog Resources Page (You are Here)

2. Accessibility and 508

Our Accessibility Links are now located in two places: Here below; and at our Del.icio.us bookmarks page (the link to that page is the first link here). We hope that time -- O, fleeting time! -- will permit us to combine these into one location.

• Youthtopia's Accessibility Links at Del.icio.us
• W3C Acessibility Home Page
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (W3C)
• Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design (from the W3C)
• Computerworld Article: IT Accessibility: An Online Resource Guide
• Computerworld Article: One Site Fits All
• Bobby (Tool for testing Accessibility)
• ACM: Group on Computers and Physically Handicapped
• Microsoft on Accessibility
• Acessibility According to the Federal Government (508)
• Acessibility Requirements According to the Federal Government (508)
• Juicy Studio (Accessibility tutorials and more)
• Web Builder's Tool Kit
• W3C Checklist of Checkpoints for Accessibility
• Web Aim http://www.webaim.org
• Accessify.com -- Accessibility Blog
• Dive Into Accessibility http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org
• Bobby
• WAI — The W3C's Web Accessability Initiative
• Arachnoid -- www.arachnoid.com
• Building Accessible Websites. (Joe Clark; 2004.03.01)
• Building Accessible Websites. serialization
• Building in universal accessibility + checklist
• 508 Checklist
• About CAST: CAST
• Accessibility - Checklist
• Accessibility articles and tutorials: A List Apart
• Accessibility Checklist from Bunnyfoot
• Accessibility Checklist Resource List
• Accessible HTML -- Allowing Other Viewpoints
• Accessible on the Web
• Accessible Web Design
• Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft ® Office
• Amazon.com: Books: Building Accessible Websites (With CD-ROM)
• Amazon.com: Books: Constructing Accessible Web Sites
• Amazon.com: Books: Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Checklist - Web Accessibility
• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY
• CSE HTML Validator - Professional HTML Syntax Checker and HTML Editor
• Dive Into Accessibility
• Dive Into Accessibility
• Evaluating Web site accessibility
• Evaluation of Free Accessibility Evaluation Tools
• Fast Track to Web Accessibility
• HiSoftware WebSite Quality Testing Solutions Home
• HTML | XHTML articles and tutorials: A List Apart
• HTML-Kit - for more than editing HTML
• IBM Accessibility Center
• IBM Accessibility Center: Developer guidelines for Web accessibility
• Internet Links - Health Information
• Internet Society Disabilities Chapter Home Page
• Introduction to Web Accessibility
• IP Address Locator - Enter an IP address to find its location - Lookup Country Region City etc
• JFCS: Project Open Door: Accessibility Checklist For Jewish Events
• Joe Clark, Toronto: joeclark.org (2004.01.31)
• Midgard Project - OSCOM Kupu - New XHTML Editor (in Midgard Updates)
• Products and Tools
• Quick Web Accessibility Checklist -- George Mason University
• Section 508 Checklist
• Section 508:
• Section 508: 508 Law
• Section 508: 508 Tools and Resources
• Section 508: The Road to Accessibility
• Techniques and Concepts
• tsw - The SoftWare You Need - Welcome to TSW
• Usability and accessibility guidelines
• Using Opera to Check for Accessibility
• UW-Madison Web Accessibility Checklist
• Validating for Accessibility
• Validator at W3C
• Visicom Media Inc. - Home of AceHTML and AceFTP
• WAI Accessibility Guidelines:  Page Authoring
• WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator
• Web Accessibility - ADA Guidelines
• Web Accessibility Checklist
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• Web Page Accessibility Questionnaire for Component Web Contacts
• Web Site Accessibility - electronic class
• WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
• WebCT.com
• Welcome to Bobby WorldWide
• Welcome to the Cynthia Says Portal
• Welcome to the National Center on Accessibility
• Welcome to Xoology
• What do the Accessibility Guidelines Mean to Me?
• What is IP address? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
• What Is My IP Address?
• What Is Web Accessibility?: A List Apart
• XHTML 2.0 - What is It?
• XStandard - Documentation
• Your ip is 64.80.15.21 WhatIsMyIP.com
• Your Usability Resource - Accessibility Checklist
• Your Usability Resource - Accessibility Checklist

3. Blogging Resources

• Word Press http://www.wordpress.org
• Word Press Codex (information about WordPress)
• WordPress Template Tags
• Syndic8 RSS Content
• Technorati -- RSS Content
• Blogging Basics (on Technorati)
• Lektora Blog and RSS Reader: Free
• BlogWise (Source of Blogs)
• BlogLines (Source of Blogs and Blog Reader online)
• Weblog on WikiPedia
• Blogger http://www.blogger.com
• Live Journal http://www.livejournal.com
• Moveable Type http://www.moveabletype

4. CSS Sites

• CSS at Wikipedia
• CSS Discuss Wiki
• HTML Dog CSS Properties
• CSS Creator
• Holy CSS Zeldman
• Wendy Peck's No Crepe CSS Tutorial
• SelectORacle -- Select Oraclel
• West Civ Hands On CSS Tutorial
• CSS Resources at W3C School
• West Civ CSS Guide
• West Civ CSS Resources
• CSS Resources at Zen Garden
• Blue Robot (CSS layouts) http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts
• CSS Discuss http://www.css-discuss.org
• CSS FAQ http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-mFAQ.html
• CSS Validator (W3C) http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
• Glish.com (CSS Layouts) http://www.glish.com/css/
• W3C CSS Site http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
• Brain Jar CSS Tutorial
• CSShark CSS Resources
• CSS -- A Guide for The Unglued
• W3C CSS 2.1 Specification
• Zen Garden http://www.csszengarden.com
• Stylesheets Newsgroup FAQ
• Real World Style
• CSS browser compatibility
• W3C CSS Validator
• Cascading Style Sheets Complete
• CSS Properties Reference
• Anthony's Cascading Style Sheets 2 Tutorial
• HVCC CSS tutorial
• CSS Units of Measure
• CSS Positioning overview
• CSS Positioning bugs in different browsers
• Bugs and work-arounds for CSS Positioning
• How to center things on your page
• Eric Meyer http://www.meyerweb.com
• mezzoblue http://www.mezzoblue.com
• Molly.com http://www.molly.com
• Stop Design http://www.stopdesign.com
• Tantek http://tantek/log/
• What Do I Know? http://www.whatdoiknow.org/
• Asterisk http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/
• Simon Willison http://simon.incutio.com
• Brainstorms and Raves http://www.brainstormsandraves.com
• Living Can Kill You http://www.saila.com/columns/lcky/
• Superfluous Banter http://www.superfluousbanter.org

5. Images, Digital Photography, and Color

• Phototakers: Digital Photography Forum http://www.phototakers.com
• Free Stock Photos at freeimages.co.uk
• Stock.xchng (Free Photo Exchange Site
• Webmonkey guide to color codes
• Color Chooser java applet
• ColorPicker II
• Color number calculator
• Understanding Hexadecimal Numbers
• Color Scheme Generator with Color Wheel

6. PHP

• PHP Designer 2005 -- Free PHP Editor
• PHP Editors (assorted PHP resources)
• PHP Scripts
• PHP.net
• PHP Builder
• Form Data Processing in PHP

7. Tools, Shareware and Freeware

• HTML-Kit (XHTML editor)
• PSPad (text editor)
• Tree Pad (text editor and organizer)
• Firefox Browser
• Opera Browser -- Free Download
• Mozilla
• PuTTY Open Source SSH/SFTP client for Win-Mac-Uni-Lin

8. Usability and Information Architecture

• Youthtopia's 26 Principles of Usability
• AlertBox
• OK/Cancel
• Three Important Benefits of Personas



• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture
• http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial1.html
• http://www.jjg.net/ia/
• http://www.klariti.com/information-architecture/
• http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/architecture.html
• http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-inarch.html
• http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/clis748/webguidesf98/iageneralinfo.html
• http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/information_architecture.cfm
• http://www.aifia.org/
• One of the best articles about Information Architecture has vanished from the Internet: Thinking Outside the Linear Box by Rusty Foster. If anyone finds a copy of this on the OJR website, or anywhere else, please contact me by email.

9. Web Standards

• W3 Validator
• Web Standards Group Discussion List
• A List Apart http://www.alistapart.com
• WebStandards.org http://www.webstandards.org
• Weekly Standards http://www.weeklystandards.com
• Youthtopia.net Resources about Web Standards http://www.youthtopia.net/508sites.html

10. Website-Making In General

• Webmaster World Forums
• Babble List http://www.babblelist.com
• About.com Web Design http://webdesign.about.com
• Web Graphics http://www.web-graphics.com
• Digital Web Magazine http://www.digital-web.com
• Web Style Guide
• Webmonkey
• Web Design and Programming
• W3 Schools

11. XHTML

• Eric Meyer's XMTML Forms Tutorial

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