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Major websites for standards and specifications

Schedule of Doctypes
 
Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2; detailed descriptions of css elements
 
Cascading Style Sheets, Levels 2 and 3; snapshot of css elements
 
Cascading Style Sheets, Selectors Level 3
 
HTML Syntax
 
HTML 4 Specification
 
HTML 4.01; Detailed descriptions and codes for HTML elements
 
HTML5
 
XHTML 1.0; Definition of XHTML
 
HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 Tags Reference
 

Tutorials

HTML Dog - detailed, with beginners, intermediate and advanced sections
 
W3 Schools tutorials - detailed, with HTML and XHTML sections (useful as a general tutorial but beware of errors as listed in w3fools)
 
CSS HTML Tutorial.com - XHTML
 
CSS tutorial - basic*
 
Tutorial - Learn to code HTML & CSS
 
tizag.co - HTML tutorial - intermediate*
 

* The coding is generally HTML (not always correct for XHTML) but the sites are still useful for the basic coding principles.

Validators

XHTML markup validator
 
WDG HTML markup validator
 
CSS stylesheet validator
 
Accessibility validator
 
Readability Test
 
Broken links check
 
Broken links check
 
JavaScript Verifier
 
JavaScript Validator
 

Spam Detector

Searches for characteristics that search engines could consider spam

Character codes

Special HTML Characters (to eliminate validation errors with characters like £ and to show code as text to avoid browser activating symbol as code)
 
Code converter for special HTML Characters (to show code as text to avoid browser activating symbol as code)
 

Browser-safe fonts

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
 

Website Performance

Website Performance Tool and Web Page speed analysis
 

Browser Tester

See how your page looks on other browsers
 
See how your page looks on other browsers
 

Browser Statistics

Browsers statistics, popularity and screen resolution
 

Colors

HTML colors
 
Named HTML colors eg Azure
 
Color Converter; Hexadecimal<->RGB Dec
 
Color wheel; needs javascript or Active X with Binary and script behaviors enabled
 
Color Scheme Chooser
 
Color picker; copy colors from any site
 
Crops colors from any image
 

Photo software

Irfanview free image editing software
 

Forums for help with coding

The Web Design Forum (mainly UK members)
 
Killersites (mainly USA members)
 
Web Design Forums (USA & UK members)
 
Cyber Tech Help Support Forums (mainly USA members)
 
Web Design Forum (mainly UK members)
 

Notes

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