Useful Web Development Links

This page contains links to sites that you may find useful in creating or evaluating your web site:

• Web Hosting & Domain Registration
• Diagnostic Tools
• Inspiration
• Stock Photos & Animations
• Miscellaneous

Web Hosting & Domain Registration

The following companies are recommended for affordable web hosting and domain registration. Please contact us for more information on which company/hosting plan would be best for your needs.

• Lunar Pages — This is the hosting service that I have been using.
• www.GoDaddy.com — A great source for registering domain names.

Diagnostic Tools

• BrowserShots — See what your site looks like in various browsers.
• Vischeck — See how your site looks to someone who is colorblind.
• The W3C Markup Validation Service— See if the html/xhtml code for your site conforms to web standards.
• The W3C CSS Validation Service— Validate the cascading style sheet coding for your site.

Inspiration

• CSS Zen Garden—Demonstrates the flexibility of developing a web site using CSS. The various examples on this site contain the exact same content, with different “style sheets” applied to change the design.
• Web Sites That Suck—Examples of things to avoid in your web design.

Stock Photos & Animations

• iStockPhoto
• dreamstime
• Animation Factory
• GIF Animations

Miscellaneous

• W3Schools Browser Statistics—Shows trends in browser usage and other web usage statistics.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — Web Standards
• U.S. Government Section 508 web site— Federal standards for making information technology accessible to people with disabilities.