Web-spinner's Sites

My faves

You are the person to ask: "Why not a page counter?"

The WWW FAQ provides a reasoned, justified discussion on the (ab)use of counters on a web page. You are the person satisfied with this answer.

The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability

Bi-weekly column by Jakob Nielsen, Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer

The Web Design Group

Information on making non-browser specific web pages. Includes the HTML 3.2 Reference and the HTML 4.0 Reference.

Best Viewed With Any Browser

The headquarters for the campaign for a non-browser-specific Web. Includes good reasons for writing portable pages.

ServerWatch:

Their trademark is "The Central Spot for News, Reviews, and Server Downloads"

Viruses and Hoaxes

There have been many viruses, but increasingly, there are virus warnings that are hoaxes, and even get YOU to delete key files. Be sure that a virus is real before deleting any files. Some resources:

• http://www.symantec.com
• http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm
• http://www.truthorfiction.com

Comparisons

Netcraft's Server Survey

Summarizes software running on over 162 million servers. This monthly survey provides growth curves for types of servers. A form is available for finding out what any particular server is running.

Conferencing on the Web

"A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the Web" - Listings of commercial and free software for web forums, groupware, and virtual workgroups.

Testing

W3C HTML Validator

W3C CSS Validator

WDG HTML Validator

A comparison of the validators and a list of other validators.

Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer

What does a page look like without some of the newer tags?

Interactive Netscape color map

A Java-Script page to investigate the Netscape color map.

Unix Tools

• Apache Web server
• Analog Web analysis tool - Home page
• Squid Internet Object Cache

Spam

"A Plan for Spam"

An article by Paul Graham about using Bayesian statistics to identify the probability of a message being spam. The original implementation was in LISP, but others have implemented the algorithm as well:

• bogofilter - written in C and tuned for speed.
• bayespam - a qmail spam filter written in Perl.

Periodicals

• A list apart techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
• Dr. Dobbs
• HTML Dog HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, Articles and News.
• Web Page Design for Designers
• WIRED

Robot Information

• The Web Robots Database
• Robot Exclusion Standard Revisited
• A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines

Organizations

• HTML Writer's Guild
  This is the HTML Writers Guild's resource collection.
• The Internet Society
• The World Wide Web Consortium
• The Web Standards Project

Unclassified, but useful

• HTML Goodies
• CSS Pointers - links to useful pages about Cascading Style Sheets
• Address Allocation for Private Internets (RFC1918)
• Internet @ddress finder
• The Font Fairy - free fonts
• The Usenet Info Center
• PHOAKS - Usenet Web recommendations
• FAQ - Finding people's e-mail
• Guide to Publishing on the Web
• The Internet Web Text
• Maricopa Community College HTML Tutorial
• SGML - A Gentle Introduction
• UofT Instructional and Research Computing
• Stanford's People, Computers, and Design Project
• Web Wonk
• WWW Security FAQ
• IANA MIME media types - Official registry of MIME media types
• The Mining Company - Personal tours of the Internet by "over 500 passionate guides".
• glover.com - The home of the "Sucky to Savvy" Web guide
• Webreference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library
• FAQ: How To Announce Your New Web Site
• Lynx - text-mode browser
• Text-friendly authoring - A good collection of thoughts on how to make web pages useful without graphics - 30% of the visitors to one large site I work with.