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Page 486. Free Web Editors and Free Guides to Writing Website Code
From thefreecountry.com:
From About.com:
Web Editors Review: Review of Mozilla Composer (thesitewizard.com). Christopher Heng evaluates Mozilla to determine its usefulness for newcomers wishing to develop their own sites. Mozilla is a free Web browser that comes with a WYSIWYG web editor.
Introduction to HTML This site provides an introduction to HTML coding; it is both contextual and instructional.
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners (Dave Kristula) This site provides a step-by-step set of instructions for creating your own Web pages and sites; these instructions are in the form of interactive tutorials. There are other tutorials on additional relevant subjects making this a comprehensive site.
HTML Coding (University of Wisconsin Eau Claire) This site provides a series of instructions on various aspects of HTML coding.
Writing Blocks of Code (Yesterdayishere.com) This site offers instructions for creating and inserting blocks of code into existing web pages.
10 Tips on Writing Reusable Code This site examines how to write code which you can reuse.
Page 490. Copyright, Intellectual Property, and the Web
The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The digital millennium copyright act was passed in 1998; this site (maintained by Educause), however, maintains links to the continuing discussion of intellectual property and copyright.
The IP Mall - Pierce Law Center This page links to a diverse selection of sites on intellectual property.
Title 17—Copyrights (The US Code Collection) At this site, you may read the United States Copyright Law.
Intellectual Property in the Information Age: A Classroom Guide to Copyright This brief introduction to intellectual property rights serves as a good overview of the laws involved in using texts prepared by others.
Intellectual Property This introduction to intellectual property integrates an understanding of how the phenomenon of the Internet affects concepts of copyright and ownership.
Page 492. Grid Patterns for Web Pages
Page Grids (Yahoo). Conceptually based on print page design and learned reading patterns, Web pages must meet the needs of readers especially the need for consistency. Grid patterns facilitate consistency.
Grid Based Layout This site provides a brief explanation (with examples) of the usefulness of a grid system in designing web pages.
Layout Grid for Web Designers (Steve Ivy). This page includes links to various aspects of web design related to grids.
Page 502. Creating Websites for Readers with Disabilities
Designing More Usable Web Sites. The purpose of this site is "dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable web for all."
Accessible Design for Users with Disabilities (Jakob Nielsen) This brief and dated page provides a good overview of issues of design and disabilities.
Usability and Disabilities (Rhea Joyce Rubin) This article, written by a library consultant, discusses usability and the role of librarians.
An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties This conference presentation identifies, characterizes, and argues for the need to address the needs of the largest disability group, those with cognitive disabilities.
Page 502. Testing Usability of Web Pages for Readers with Disabilities
Usability Testing of World Wide Web Sites - This government site is supported by the U.S. Department of Labor.
WebXACT (a.k.a. Bobby) Bobby tests web pages using the guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Access Initiative as well as Section 508 guidelines from the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board of the U.S. Federal Government.
Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking This page reports research on where users actually look when they view web pages.
Planning Usability Testing for Accessibility This article provides a discussion of the concerns and issues of including people with disabilities in usability testing.
Accessibility in User-Centered Design: Usability Testing. This site provides an overview of testing usability with participants with disabilities.
How Many Users with Disabilities Should You Include When Conducting a Usability Test for Accessibility (Usability Professionals' Association). This site discusses the question of what percentage of test subjects should be those with disabilities.
Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation. This site provides a brief overview to the issues of testing web accessibility.
Page 502. Creating Websites for International and Multicultural Readers
Consider Your International Audience (NetMechanic, Inc.). This page discusses various aspects of cultural differences in designing web pages.
Are You Cultured? Global Web Design and the Dimensions of Culture (Dr. Dobb's Portal). This site provides an excellent, though somewhat general, analysis of the cultural dimension in designing web sites and pages.
Considerations for Connecting with a Global Audience (Red Keith Bradley). This site provides a contextual discussion of the concerns of making a web site accessible to an international or multicultural audience.
Page 503. Registration Pages of Internet Directories
Internet Subject Directories. This page analyzes and links to 6 subject directories.
Website Promotion (Open Directory Project). This page serves as a portal to other pages that provide access to registration pages.
Search Engine Registrations and Directory Submissions Pages. This page provides directions for registering your pages by hand.
Page 503. Including Keywords and Descriptions in Web Page Headings
HTML Header. This site provides information about what goes into the header of a web page.
Web Page Optimization. This site offers instructions for optimizing your search hits by selecting the right keyword phrases for each page of your site.
<META> is a Multipurpose Tag (The Cobb Group). This article discusses the use of <META> as a tag.
Simple Web Page Keyword Matching Tool. This article explains how to combine the use of an HTML form and JavaServer Pages to help readers process the text.
Web Page Title Tags for Search Engine Optimization & Web Usability (SEO Logic). This relatively detailed discussion provides the context for understanding how tags work.
Page 504. Free FTP Programs (for downloading)
The following provide links to pages with one or more free ftp downloads:
Links to Additional Resources Related to this Chapter
Web Page Design for Designers This site provides a portal to various links related to page design.
Learn Good Web Design by Looking at Bad Web Design This site approaches effective web page design by analyzing badly designed web pages.
Web Design Pages (Web Design Guide) This site provides a portal to various links related to page design.
Web Style Guide, Yale Style Manual This style guide addresses issues concerning page design in some depth.
Desktop Web Site Editors (About.com). This page lists more than 25 desktop Web site editors for those who wish to create Web sites on their computers and then upload them to the Internet.
STC Usability SIG Web Site - This site serves as a forum for sharing information and experiences on usability issues.
Usability.gov. This page serves as a portal to other pages with a diversity of information about usability.
Universal Design and the Grid (Trace Center).
Usability Resources Usability Professionals' Association. This page links to many other pages with information about usability. This is probably one of the most comprehensive sites on usability.
Web Accessibility Standards (Wright State University). This site provides an overview and details concerning usability standards.
Accessible Web Design - This site presents the latest news on web access via brief abstracts linked to full texts.
Accessible Web Page Design To make web pages truly accessible to all, designers must consider the full spectrum of users; this site's purpose is to provide resources to enable designers to consider all users.
Bad Human Factors Designs - This site shows consumer products (automobile speedometers, electric toothbrushes, etc.) that have been designed without considering the way people will use them.
Web Page Analysis (John December). This rather lengthy page serves as a guidelines for critically analyzing web pages and sites. It is a most useful site for checking your web design for its accessibility rhetorically, technically, and semantically.
Jakob Nielsen's Website. This page link to various other pages which address issues of design and usability.