Dr. Ice's Web Development Jumpsite

Links to Sites of Interest for Web Developers in Seattle, Washington, USA

Getting Started with Web Development	Resources for Eskimo North Subscribers
Intermediate & Advanced Web Devo	Sites to Get Web Devo Tools
Code and Site Evaluation Tools	Web Browsers
Miscellaneous Helpful Information	Some Interesting Example Sites
Learning Web Graphics Techniques	More of Dr. Ice's site

Places to Start Learning About Web site Development and Maintenance:

• Information Architecture Tutorial at Web Monkey. Information Architecture is where a web site begins!
• John December's Web Development Seminar
• NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Web Style Guide
• The 1994 Version of the Crash Course in HTML by Eamonn Sullivan. The place it all started for me and my Notepad. ::chuckle:: Old information can be helpful in understanding the evolution of our art. Plus, this page is a nice starter's guide. You can throw a simple page together in minutes with no fancy software, just an ASCII text editor like Notepad, SimpleText, or PICO.
• Tech update: Web Technology At ZD Net - includes the Site Development Toolkit, and nicely organized set of steps for creating a new presence on the WWW.
• WebHelp.org It has Crash Courses in HTML, Tables, JavaScript and imagemaps.
• HTML Quick Reference Recommended by my ISP, Eskimo North
• Simple Crash Course in HTML This one even has pop-quizzes at the end of each section... :-}
• Yet another HTML Crash Course by a professor at California State University, Long Beach
• Crash Course in Photoshop at WebMonkey. Beware of a few pop-up windows, easily killed.
• Crash Course in XML for ASCII-based data storage and exchange between dissimilar systems, XML so rocks.
• The World Wide Web Unleashed -- Chapter 33: Basic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• A Practical Guide to Developing World Wide Web Content Published by Seattle's Public Access Network (PAN). A very nice guide, written for content providers who wish to publish materials on the City of Seattle's PAN WWW Site. It's also a very handy overview for anyone who is thinking of developing WWW content elsewhere.

Resources for Eskimo North Subscribers:

• Eskimo North Home Page
• Your World Wide Web Site on Eskimo North
• CGI Authoring on Eskimo North
• Using a SQL database on Eskimo North
• Java Development Kit for Eskimo North
• SWISH for Eskimo Users - Indexing system & how to use it
• Unix Help for Eskimo North Users
• Virtual Domain Hosting on Eskimo North
• Link to Eskimo North

Places to Learn More About Writing HTML (and ASPs, CGI Scripts, etc.) and About WWW Sites:

• The Active Server Pages Site Companion to Active Server Pages Unleashed
• WebMastery Resource Lists
• Interactive Web Sites with W3Kit See also some scientific interactive sites: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/external/graphics.html
• Publishing on the Web at Carnegie Mellon
• The World Wide Web Unleashed -- Chapter 34: Advanced HTML Features
• The HTML Guru!
• Yahoo! 's HTML page
• WebCom Guide - HTML Guide - Creating Imagemaps (clickable images)
• Creating Transparent Background Images
• iHTML
• Learn by Learning What Not To Do
• Ariadne Web Design Hints
• Allaire's Web Developer Site Contains tons of sample code, and some training materials on Allaire products. Most training materials are in RealVideo, requiring a sound card on your machine.
• Web Learning Center
• WebReference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library

Places to Get Tools: HTML Editors, Graphics Programs, Helper Applications:

• Web Developer Solutions at CNet.com. Some cool, some not so much, but interesting site
• Allaire, makers of HomeSite and ColdFusion
• Adobe, makers of PhotoShop, Acrobat and PageMaker
• Microsoft's Download Page Microsoft's Browsers, Editing Tools, server components, etc.
• HTML Assistant at Brookline North Software
• RGB Color Chart Text Colours - Hexadecimal triplet reference and tutorial
• Tools for Aspiring Web Weavers at NASA
• Macromedia, makers of Dreamweaver
• LookSmart's List of Web Development links. An amazing jumpsite to all sorts of resources for people like us making web sites.
• Metacreations, makers of Painter 5.5 (Web Edition), MetaStream, Kai's Power Tools, and Ray Dream Studio
• Wacom, makers of the ArtZ II 12 X 12 tablet
• Graphic Workshop for Windows
• Galleries of downloadable images:
  • Texture Land Junction Texture graphics for backgrounds. (Most style guides recommend against using background graphics.)
  • Coder.com Home of the Free Online Banner Generator
  • Web Clip Art and Icons Page at the Mining Company
  • The Clipart Connection An enormous collection of art for web pages, and links to other sites like it.
  • Free Web Art At A Touch of Magic
• Transparent background Image Resources:
  • Transparent Background Images
  • How do I use Lview Pro to create transparent images on my PC?

Online Web site evaluators:

• SiteInspector at the LinkExchange
• Web Site Garage
• GIF Wizard Evaluate one page, your whole site, or use their gif compression utility
• Bobby Evaluates your site for accessibility to people with disabilities
• Jumpsite of Site evaluation Products at Elsop

WWW Browsers:

• Netscape Communications
• Yahoo's World Wide Web Browsers Page
• The WDVL: WWW Browsers
• Web Developer's Virtual Library: Browsers
• NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows Home Page
• NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh Home Page

Places to Find Miscellaneous Helpful Information:

• LinkExchange A Web Developer's Jumpsite devoted to simple solutions to grow online traffic and revenue
• HyperNews
• Web Collaboration Projects
• The World Wide Web Consortium
• TORNADO ePUBLISHING A Local Seattle Web Development Company
• Digital Art Services A Company Which Sells Digital Art and Offers Seminars
• An International Internet Providers List
• The List of internet access providers, by region, area code, etc.
• Eskimo North Includes instructions for Eskimo North Users on Setting Up a website , plus A Cool "Starter Home Page" section, plus links to other helpful info.
• Examples of Acceptable Use Policies
• Yahoo - Computers
• 911 Media Arts Center A local Seattle center that offers many classes in the media arts, including a lovely one on WWW Publishing
• Computer Education Workshop Catalog
• Micro Modeling, Inc.
• Seattle Webgrrls

Example Web Pages:

• Web Pages That Suck How to tell bad web design when you see it, and how to prevent and repair it on your own site.
• Paul Haas's Web Server A robotics interface to his hot tub, refrigerator, and robotic arm that waves to his cats...
• nj's visual home page Just a funky cool example page...
• Seattle Web's Maps
• Trojan Room Coffee Machine A current image of how much coffee is in the coffee machine at the University of Cambridge's Computer Science Department ::chuckle::
• Geek Code Generator A form that feeds into a program that spits out a string of text with all the proper formatting for inclusion in one's sig file
• The Nerdity Test An actually useful function for Java, an interactive online questionnaire
• UW Computer Science Department Follow the links under the SPOTLIGHT section to live colloquia and classes on the Web. Also of interest is the camera attached to the home page for the UW.
• Cool Site of the Day Sites that someone considers really cool today. Remember, taste is a wildcard variable in any artistic endeavour. ::chuckle::

Learning Web Graphics Techniques: