Moderated by Annette van Ommeren for the Danbury Area Computer Society Members
Web Design & Print Production: How-to design for both, software tutorials, interactive discussions and help...

DACS
Resource
Center

Ives Manor
(lower level)
198 Main Street Danbury.

For information contact:
Annette van Ommeren
(aka "Anna Collens")

Come to the meeting and/or join the newsletter to be notified of upcoming meetings.

 

 

Links to websites, tutorials and helpful information
(Updated 11/27/07)
http://www.dacs.org/
Danbury Area Computer Society
http://www.networksolutions.com
domain name registrations- one of many!
http://webhost.thelist.com/
Information about finding Hosts
To start: "Usability - The key to good website design". Excellent suggestions on the Adobe site.
Adobe Developer Center. Links to tutorials, including dynamic development using DW CS3.
Adobe tutorial on PHP development with DreamWeaver.
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/
Help to ensure a site works correctly in AOL
http://www.34sp.com/hosting-library/css-cascading-style-sheets-for-websites
Details & tutorials about CSS
http://www.dwfaq.com/tutorials/Tables/flexible_tables.asp
In-depth look at table construction
http://webforums.macromedia.com/dreamweaver....
Dreamweaver forum
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/index.htm
Dreamweaver tutorials
http://www.martindalecenter.com/AATimeCalc.html
Where you can see how long it takes to download a specified file size
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/default.asp
Both Fireworks and Dreamweaver tutorials
http://www.wise-women.org/tutorials/fwmx/
A Fireworks slicing tutorial

http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/PixelSmith/Default.html
Articles relating to various aspects of web design
http://www.basta.com/ProdReglo.htm
Handy "ruler" for the desktop
http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE
All about running multiple versions of IE on one system

http://validator.w3.org/
Does your site conform to the W3C standards for HTML and XHTML?
http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html
Test drive your site in other browsers - free for 24 hrs.
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
See how a text-only browser displays your site
Sites dealing with CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Good source for free code
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
The Master reference..
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/
Usefull references from the author of CSS - The definitive Guide, an O'Reilly book
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/131/131.css&page=0
Same HTML - totally different pages, all done in CSS
http://www.glish.com/css/
CSS layout techniques
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
Get rid of the tables and try CSS for layout
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/index.html#boxes
(Also known as "a guide for the unglued"! Follow the links to validate your work.)
http://style-sheet.info/?via=google461
Strange & weird examples of CSS!
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css_t/index.htm
Good CSS tutorial
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1#the-cascade
CSS explained in detail
http://www.webmonkey.com/
How-to and reference articles
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html
More CSS information
Sites dealing with SEO
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Good advice on optimising site design
http://www.wordtracker.com/
Check the free sample of their service, helps define effective keywords
http://searchenginewatch.com/
Up to date info on Search Engines
http://www.robotstxt.org/
All about the robots.txt file - guides the search engines and spiders
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Here's the place to add your site
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Yahoo again offers a free site submission
http://dmoz.org/
The big directory - just make sure to pick the best category for your site
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
Don't do the mass-submissions, but interesting info nevertheless
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
Check your page to make sure all your links are working
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a.html?tw=design
Article about page size and browser influence
http://www.bettersearchenginemarketing.com/..
Help on dealing with the search engines view of framed pages
http://www.coolhomepages.com/cda/10commandments/
Irreverant but true!

http://www.annagraphics.com/sigsite/CSS/Flyoutcode/DACScss5_15.htm
http://www.annagraphics.com/sigsite/CSS/Flyoutcode/inlinecssnav.html

If you come accross tutorials or sites you find helpfull, please contact me and they will be added to this list. Sites are checked for content, but no quarantees and browse at your own risk!

 

Google
www www.annagraphics.com