Training & Orientation information

Web Team policies and development guidelines

• General Policies

Online training resources

• Introduction to Web Development at MSU
  • Outline of introduction training
• Web Authoring Tools
  • (Nvu) Kompozer free web authoring software
  • Jessett Dreamweaver tutorial
• Web Building
  • W3C - web standards specifications and guidelines
  • Builder.com: resources, reviews, etc.
  • Cornell University Resources for Web Developers: list of references, tools, utilities (2001)
  • Design Site Resources: comprehensive list of web development and design links on most key categories.
  • Digital Web Magazine
  • HTML Help: reference guide on html/css topics; also some utilities.
  • Dreamweaver
    • Demand Seminars for Dreamweaver 8
    • Evaluation Guide: Discover the power of Dreamweaver 8
    • Jessett.com: creating a website – a step-by-step guide. This site is Dreamweaver-specific in its instructions.
  • Practical Web Design: Speed Up Your Site
  • Project Cool: web development overview, articles and tutorials
  • Web Developer's Channel: huge list of links to very useful web development sites such as:
    • Web Developer's Journal: current articles and concepts
    • Web Developer's Virtual Library: encyclopedia of web design tutorials, and discussions
  • Webmonkey: How-to/tutorial site. Note topics on style sheets, scripting/coding, database, design, etc.
  • Web Standards Checklist: Max Design
• Design / Graphics
  • ClickZ: Experience design
  • ClickZ: Site design
  • Color correction for the web
  • Dangers of using Flash (Jakob Nielson's influential article from 10/2000)
  • gif.com
  • Webmonkey Favicon article
  • Webdeveloper Design
  • Speak Up: Logo/identity design page
    • MSU's Graphic Identity Standards Manual
  • Thinking with Type: typography online learning site
• Information Design
• Project Management
  • Macromedia Production Managment Techniques
• Usability
  • useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's usable information technology site
  • IBM's Web Accessibility checklist
  • MSDN article: Improving Website Usability
  • MSDN article: good intro to usability
  • Other usability, information architecture, accessibility links
  • "90% of all usability testing is useless": Adaptive Path essay
• Validation
  • HTML/XHTML Validator from W3C
  • CSS Validator from W3C
  • HTML/XHTML Validator from WDG
• Writing for the Web
  • W3C Core Technologies for the Web: Comprehension
  • Writing Web Content (2.4MB PDF)
  • Gerry McGovern's Web Content Style Guide
  • WebsiteTips.com content resources page
  • Jakob Nielsen: Writing for the Web
  • Writing Well for the Web
  • Standards for online content authors
  • Content topic: Writing articles on A List Apart
• XHTML & CSS
  • A List Apart — outstanding website devoted to building standards-compliant sites
    • Better living through XHTML — an interesting article about XHTML
    • Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE — fixing your web site with DOCTYPES that work
  • NYPL Style Guide — XHTML, CSS and much much more
  • Tantek's presentation on CSS
  • Web Standards for Hard Times — Webmonkey.com article
• DEVELOPMENT/CODING
  • DevX: multiple language/technology categories
  • evolt: web developer site
  • Forms: usability issues
  • VB Script Center
• ASP/ Application Development
  • MSU Web Team ASP Web Policies
  • ASP101.com
  • w3schools
  • ASP.NET: Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tutorial site
  • Open Web Application Security Project
• SQL tutorial
• XML
  • IBM's intro to XML
  • Developer Shed XML resources
• ISRS Background documents