60-270: Links

News Outline Schedule Tutorials Project Tools Links

Miscellaneous Useful Links:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Important rules to follow when making your project. (Remember, you must have "Level A" Conformance to these guidelines for your project.)
- Another Good Reason to make sure your web sites follow the Accessibility Guidelines.
- Student Operated Computing Resources, which makes available space for students to create their own web pages. (An excellent place to practice course material until class web space becomes available.)
- 60-205's Tutorial Pages - for review on HTML construction
- The W3 Consortium, governing body over actual web standards and the like.
- A page on medieval heraldry, as discussed during the first lecture regarding rules of colour placement. (See the "Rule of Tincture" in the site.)
- Vincent Flanders' Web Pages That Suck - a site about all that is wrong with the web, very important things to consider when making your own web pages.
- Jacob Nielsen's usability web site contains a lot of information about how to improve the accessibility and usefulness of your web site.
- This Colour Contrast Analyser provides a more sophisticated version of the colour comparison tool on the Tools page of the class web site.
Text Editors and other useful software:
- Crimson Editor, a powerful text editor with syntax-highlighting for HTML, Javascript, and CSS
- Notepad++, another very good text editor, with syntax highlighting for HTML, Javascript, and CSS
- TextWrangler, a similar type of editor which runs on Mac OS X is also available for free, and also does syntax highlighting, and can check your spelling as well.
Style Sheet Links:
- W3.org's CSS Specification pages
- A slightly out of date chart listing browser compatibility of different selectors in CSS (Note: does not include current browser versions)
- In a similar way,, this chart from the same location shows browser compatibility for CSS Properties - again, no current browsers are included.
- Here is a set of reference paged for CSS Compatibility and work-arounds to common problems.
Useful JavaScript Links:
- A quick tutorial on popup windows in JavaScript For those who are interested.
- Here is a link to an article which explains the browser-dependency issues with JavaScript and Document Object Model in a fair amount of detail. This can be very useful in deciding which properties and methods you plan to use in your scripts, as compatibility is an important issue.
Browser Usage Statistics
- W3 Schools - a popular web page tutorials site
- WEB Counter - providers of web page counters and site usage stats
- Stat Counter - also provides site traffic monitoring and analysis
- Web Reference - another site with web related tutorials
XML
- XHTML is an XML-based subset of HTML designed specifically for small web clients like cell phones, smart watches, and pagers.
- Here is the W3 Consortium's pages on XML.
- MathML, the W3 Consortium's XML-based mathematical equation specification language.
- Amaya, the W3 Consortium's testbed web browser, which currently supports MathML.
- Even the U.S. Government uses XML (for bills and resolutions).