Contents

1. Introduction
2. History
3. Web Standards
4. Structure and presentation
5. (X)HTML
6. CSS
7. Accessibility
8. URLs
9. References
10. Glossary

9. References

A selection of recommended books, websites and mailing lists.

Books

• Eric Meyer on CSS: Eric Meyer, ISBN 0-73571-245-X

  A project based book that explains how to use CSS.

• More Eric Meyer on CSS: Eric Meyer, ISBN 0735714258

  The sequel to the first Eric Meyer on CSS.

• Cascading Style Sheets – The Definitive Guide: Eric Meyer, ISBN 0-596-00525-3

  A reference book that explains the CSS recommendations.

• Designing With Web Standards: Jeffrey Zeldman, ISBN 0735712018
  Real world standards based web design and development.
• Building Accessible Websites: Joe Clark, ISBN 073571150X

  A thorough book on accessibility and how to build accessible websites.

CSS

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Level 1

  The W3C’s official specification.

• CSS Level 2 revision 1

  The W3C’s official specification.

• CSS Level 3 (in development)
• css-discuss

  A mailing list devoted to talking about practical uses and applications of CSS.

• HTML Dog

  A website with a large collection of HTML and CSS tutorial, references, and articles.

• css Zen Garden

  A large amount of examples of how to use CSS to style the same HTML document in completely different ways.

• Max Design Presentations and articles

  Several very well-written articles on CSS.

• Position Is Everything

  Articles, demonstrations, browser bugs, and more.

General web development

• A List Apart

  A weekly online magazine with articles that explore the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

• webdesign-L

  A mailing list for those involved in creating the web. Most things related to web design and web development is discussed on the list.

HTML

• HTML 4.01 Specification

  The W3C’s official specification.

• HTML Dog

  A website with a large collection of HTML and CSS tutorial, references, and articles.

Accessibility

• Building Accessible Websites Serialization

  Joe Clark’s accessibility book in online format.

• Dive Into Accessibility

  Mark Pilgrim’s book on accessibility.

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

  The W3C’s official guidelines for accessible websites.

• Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility

  The W3C’s collection of information on tools to evaluate and improve the accessibility of websites.

Web standards

• The Web Standards Project

  “The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.”

• A Roadmap to Standards

  Dave Shea’s guide for anyone who wants to start using web standards.

XHTML

• XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language

  The W3C’s official specification.

• HTML Dog

  A website with a large collection of HTML and CSS tutorial, references, and articles.

10. Glossary

Accessibility

An accessible website is accessible and usable for everyone, regardless of any disabilities they might have and no matter what hardware and software they are using.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Rules that describe how an HTML document should be presented.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

Used to mark up the structure of a document.

Presentation

The look (or sound) of a website.

Structure

The mandatory parts of a document plus the logical markup of the document’s content.

Markup

By marking up a document you give the document and its content structure and meaning. On the web, HTML and XHTML is used for markup.

Validation

Validation is the process of controlling that a document obeys the rules of the language used in the document. You can compare it to checking a text for spelling and grammatical errors.

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

An organization that develops specifications, guidelines, and tools for the Web.

Web standards

Web standards are technologies, established by the W3C and other standards bodies, that are used to create and interpret web-based content. These technologies are designed to future-proof documents published on the Web and to make those documents accessible to as many as possible.

XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language)

HTML reformulated to follow the rules of XML.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

A markup language that looks like HTML, but allows the author to describe data by defining suitable elements.