Useful Web Resources Page.

During the construction of this portfolio, a number of external materials were used and have been listed below for your benefit.

World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.w3.org

This is the organisation that leads the Web and develops the standards that we all use today (or should).

Web Standard Solutions – The Markup and Style Handbook

Author: Dan Cederholm

This book is designed to give you ammunition, ammunition to bring web standards solutions to your own projects and the ability to make better choices with markup and style.
Through each chapter the book compares common web design methods, trying to answer why one way may be better than the other so that you will be able to apply the best tool for the job in your own projects.

The Noodle Incident

Little Boxes – CSS Templates

This website hosts numerous web development guides, the most beneficial being the open source CSS templates.

A List Apart Magazine

www.listapart.com

‘A List Apart Magazine’ was founded by Jeffery Zeldman and Brian Platz in 1998, and explores design, development, and the meaning of web content in simple, easy to understand articles.

Dive into Accessibility

www.diveintoaccessibility.org

This online book was published by Mark Pilgrim to help people better understand how easy accessibility features can be to implement and who they benefit.
Taking the perspective from five different people, each with a different disability, the information is incredibly easy to understand and a must have for any web designer.

The Web Standards Project

www.webstandards.org

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) launched in 1998 to persuade browsers to thoroughly support w3c standards. Some academics feel that interoperability via common standards is an absolute neccessity if the web is to move forward.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

www.w3schools.com

As the name suggests this website is an invaluable resource for all your Internet design needs. From starting out learning basic HTML to new technologies like XML, guides are presented in an easy to understand format and if that wasn’t enough there are quizzes available to test your new found knowledge.

Webopedia

www.webopedia.com

Quoted directly from their website:
the only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions. Enough said.