Design Resources

Copyright

• 10 big myths about copyright explained. Article.

• BitLaw. Comprehensive Internet Resource on technology law: patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues.
  Beck and Tysuer Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN.

• Copyright and Fair Use. Stanford University Libraries

• Crash Course in Copyright. University of Texas.

• Fair Use of Copyrighted Works.

• United States Copyright Office.

HTML

• Guide to Creating a Website with HTML

• HTML Code Tutorial

• HTML Tutorial

• HTML Primer

• Frames are a Picnic

• Webmonkey Tutorials

Internet

• FreeWebs. Free personal web sites.

• The List. Listing of internet service providers searchable by several criteria, including area code.

• Internet Tourbus.

• Roadmap for the Information Superhighway Workshop.

Search Engines

• The Pandia Goal Getter: Search Engine Tutorial

• Google

• Yahoo

• Bing

• Webcrawler

• Dog Pile

• Altavista

Style

• Columbia Web Style Guidelines.

• Style Guide for Online Hypertext, Berner-Lee, T.

• The Style Guide. Formerly, the Yale Style Manual. Lynch, P. and Horton, S.

• Writing Well for the World Wide Web, Burns, Sr. K.

Tools

• Adobe Reader. Free software for reading PDF (portable document format) files.

• Bravenet.Com. Add CGI-type tools to your web page without having CGI access.

• Carrara Studio. Software for creating VR files. Available for Macintosh and Windows computers

• Cascading Style Sheets Resources.

• Clip Art Links.

• Extremely Lynx. Information about Lynx, a text browser.

• Fetch. Macintosh file transfer program (free for educational use).

• FireFTP. Mozilla Firefox extension for file transfer for Mac and PC (FTP) (free).

• Dreamweaver. Web design software . Available for 30-day free demo. Check out the Adobe Education Store for educational pricing.

• IconBazaar, Collection of .gif and .jpg images for use on web pages.

• Lynx Viewer. Service which allows users to enter URLs and renders the page as it would be seen in Lynx.

• MSN Maps and Directions. Customized maps and driving directions.

• MapQuest. Customized maps and driving directions.

• MapsOnUs. Customized maps and driving directions.

• Matt's Script Archive. Source for CGI scripts.

• NetMechanic. Link testing, HTML validation, load time tesing and spell checking service (limited free "try it" use).

• NVU. Open Source (free) HTML editor.

• PageSpinner. HTML tag editor for Macintosh computers. Available for 30-day free demo.

• Public-Access Lynx.

• Sample Editor. Sound recording/editing software for Macintosh (freeware).

• Scoptrax. Sound editing software for MS-DOS/Windows.

• SMART FTP . File transfer program for Windows computers. Free for educators and non-profits.

• Taylor Communications. Service which provides video and audio streaming services.

• W3C HTML Validation Service. Checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

• WebWhacker. This is a program that allows you to download web sites to your hard drive so that they can be accessed off line. You may download a 30-day trial from this site. The descripton linked to is for the Windows version, but if you check the product list in the sidebar, a Mac version is also available.

• WebXACT. A free service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

• Yahoo Groups -- Free Listserv hosting

Miscellaneous

• The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability. Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen available as e-newsletter.

• Directory of Open Access Journals .

• International Webmasters Association HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) . Professional association of webmasters.