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The craft of building web sites that are functional, beautiful, usable and accessible is not a simple one. The new web professional needs to wear lots of hats!
Fortunately, help is at hand. Out of the thousands and thousands of web development sites online, here's some links to the most useful resources on best practices web development - web standards, (X)HTML and CSS, usability, accessibility, and related topics.
Why Use Web Standards?
- Ten Reasons from 456 Berea St
- Some of the most important reasons for spending the time to learn all about using web standards to design and develop websites.
- A Dao of Web Design
- New media. Old rituals? Using Taoism to think differently about web design. John Allsopp's seminal 2000 article is a must-read for all web developers.
- The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards
- There is no need for a Web site to reflect a printed brochure to smallest detail. One is paper and the other is electronic. By accepting this reality, you can expect savings of 5-10% in your HTML development phase.
Web Standards Resources
Reference sites, mailing lists, organisations
- The Web Standards Group
- The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).
- W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C's nearly 400 member organizations lead the World Wide Web to its full potential. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia.
- Web Directions 06
- Successor to the Web Essentials conferences held in 2004 and 2005, Web Directions will be held in Sydney, September 26-29, 2006 and promises to be even bigger and better!
