CSS Guides
Mar 04CSS: Style Sheet Guidelines Web applications should always adhere to W3C standards and validate correctly. Numerous excellent CSS style Guides are available that discuss the how-tos of achieving these objectives, below are a few: References: Miha Hribar Interface / CSS Coding Guidelines NYPL Style Guide Tutorial: Style Master CSS...
Online Guides
Mar 04Over the years we have come across numerous useful websites; sites that communicate useful information on web development, standards implementation and more. A few are listed here (we’ll update this list as time goes on…) Standards The following sites provide detailed information on web standards. Please remember that all of sites should adhere to applicable web standards! Use these...
Web Site Analysis
Mar 03Goals Establish an overall goal for your web site. Who will your audience be? What information do you want to convey to this audience? Targets Which of the following will your audience be using? Web browsers (FireFox, Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, lynx) browser versions (2.0+ 4.0+, 5.0+, 6.0+, 7.0) platforms (Windows, MAC, UNIX, Linux) screen resolution – The most...
Web Specifications
Mar 03For the future, to add presentational effects and Web page style, validate documents at the HTML 4.0 level (for the cleanest possible markup), so pages contain little or no HTML 3.2 presentational markup or proprietary stylistic hacks, and use the World Wide Web Consortium ‘ s Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language to add stylistic effects to your pages. W3C’s HTML Home...
Accessibility Requirements
Mar 03This web page provides links to resources which can be used to help web developers understand and implement web accessibility compliance requirements and guidelines. The World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org) has, through it Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), outlined several resources, which are referenced below. On December 21, 2000, the federal Access Board issued final standards for...
Accessibility Guidelines
Mar 03Accessibility Guidelines and Tools Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites ” Quick Tips ” introduce key concepts of accessible Web design. Please note that these are not complete guidelines. Web Accessibility Quick Reference A document created by AmbientWebs ‘ s Web Services to provide a summary of the items that must be done to accomplish web accessibility using the...