The World Wide Web Virtual Library

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. These are the W3C's official pages.

This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2). CSS2 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing, and aural cues) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications)

CSS2 builds on CSS1 (see [CSS1]) and, with very few exceptions, all valid CSS1 style sheets are valid CSS2 style sheets. CSS2 supports media-specific style sheets so that authors may tailor the presentation of their documents to visual browsers . .

Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets

This tutorial is designed to show you how to insert DHTML effects into a website to improve site appearance.

You may have viewed web pages that have movies or animations that display within a portion of a Web page rather than in a separate application. Animation, audio, video, or other media that is displayed within a Web page is known as embedded media..

Examples for embedding WMP video into your web page

Since his first attempt in 1996, Jakob Nielsen has compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design. (Updated 2007.)

How to increase your server speed and capacity by anywhere from 2 to 10 times. This article concentrates on important and poorly-documented ways of increasing capacity without additional hardware.

The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other operating systems. Apache is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

Simple step-by-step guide from "How Stuff Works"

Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better. Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo. Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine.

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The Content Management Comparison Tool

Usable Web is a collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.

Jakob Nielsen is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. Nielsen is a controversial leading authority on web usability.

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines - Current Research-Based Guidelines on Web Design and Usability Issues

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies World Wide Web Usability Special

This site will provide you with a DNS report for your domain (56 tests are run per DNSreport). A very large percentage of domains have DNS problems; this site will help you find those problems and fix them.

WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet.

An educational resource to instruction in standards based web design and development. It is a learning source for those engaged in projects that require construction of web sites. It also serves as an educational reference for advanced web designers.

Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability)

DO-IT serves to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation.

Designing a More Usable World is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable Web for all. At the present time, there are a number of interlocking and interrelated efforts.

Technology Of Writing Cyberculture at U.California, Santa Barbara

University of Essex UK mini-site on effective web design

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