Web Design Resources

Copyright

• 10 big myths about copyright explained. An essay about copyright myths.

• Copyright and Fair Use. Stanford University Libraries (including "Fairly Used" blog)

• United States Copyright Office.

HTML & CSS

• CSS Tutorial. W3Schools CSS tutorial will teach you how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple webpages all at once.

• Firebug. A wonderful Firefox add-on to let you refine your webpage. It lets you edit and change aspects of the page 'live', without having to reload. Great for debugging and testing.
  Recommended By: Mark  

• Markup Validation Service. The Markup Validator is a free service by W3C that helps check the validity of Web documents.

• The HTML Primer. Beginner - Advanced HTML & CSS

• Webmonkey Tutorials. HTML, CSS and other programming tutorials

Images & Photo Manipulation

• Gimp. Free photo editing program available to download.
  Recommended By: Sr. Kathleen  Mark  

• iPiccy. iPiccy is free, and makes your photos look great with many easy to use editing tools.
  Recommended By: Amy  

• iStockPhoto. Royalty-free images and photos for purchase.

• Pattern4U. Stylish repeating background patterns.
  Recommended By: Amy  

• Pixlr. Edit your photos online, no download necessary.
  Recommended By: Amy  

• Stock.XCHNG. Free stock photo site.

• The Noun Project. A collection of free symbols and icons organized into categories.
  Recommended By: Sr. Kathleen  

• Wikimedia Commons. Freely usable media files (images, audio, video, etc.) to which anyone can contribute.
  Recommended By: Amy  

• Wordle. Make your own word cloud and customize the design and colors!
  Recommended By: Amy  

Miscellaneous

• Directory of Open Access Journals.

• International Webmasters Association (IWA-HWG). Professional association of webmasters online courses

• Yahoo Groups. Free Listserv (mailing list) hosting

Style & Writing

• Marywood University Web Style Guidelines.

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

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

• Web Design is 95% Typography. Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance.
  Recommended By: Amy  Mark  

• Web Style Guide 3rd Edition, Online.

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

Tools & Software

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

• AVS4YOU. Software for video, audio, image editing and more.
  Recommended By: Amy  

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

• FTP: Cyberduck. Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows.

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

• FTP: FireFTP (for Firefox). Mozilla Firefox extension for file transfer for Mac and PC (free)
  Recommended By: Sr. Kathleen  Mark  

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

• Google Maps. Customized maps and driving directions that are easily embedded onto your website.

• Google Sites. Free websites and wikis.

• GPS Plotting Tool. Click on a point on the map to get the GPS coordinates.
  Recommended By: Mark  

• JR Screen Ruler. This screen ruler allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen in pixels, inches, picas or centimeters.
  Recommended By: Amy  

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

• NVU. Open Source (free) HTML editor, free alternative to Dreamweaver.
  Recommended By: Sr. Kathleen  

• Pixie. Allows you to find the color code of anything you highlight on your computer screen.
  Recommended By: Amy  

• SnackTools. Free apps, slideshows, podcasts, video players, polls, flip books, online presentation sharing, & notifications for your website.
  Recommended By: Sr. Kathleen  Amy  

• 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. Mac version is also available.

• YouTube. Host and share your videos.