Dynamic Drive is a great place for Web authors to find Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML) scripts and avoid reinventing the wheel with intricate Web site features. The scripts are available free of charge, and each comes with clear instructions about how to properly integrate them into existing code. From pop up menus and flashy animations to custom window displays, the resources available...
Although developed for American Medical Association Websites and their users, these recently released guidelines and principles may prove useful to other providers and users of online medical information. Available from the Journal of the American Medical Association in HTML or .pdf format, the guidelines address issues such as the development and posting of Website content, acquisition and...
This site, provided by Joe Burns, contains a veritable gold mine of HTML-related tutorials for both beginning and advanced web developers. The site is highlighted by HTML tutorials, which include basics, Java, Javascript, CGI, tables, forms, frames, and image maps, among many others. For the beginner, there is a seven step HTML tutorial. The site also contains over 450 submitted Javascripts, and a...
Since the advent of the World Wide Web, many professionals and library science specialists have devoted a great deal of thought and time to how museums might best create provocative and well designed Web sites in order to best highlight their various holdings and unique collections. The Archives and Museum Informatics group has recently released a number of papers from the recent Museums and the...
This resource is designed to help those who create and maintain Websites ensure that those sites are usable and stable. The site was put together by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), originally for use by NCI staff, but the Institute decided to make the site publicly accessible since many principles of good design and usability are generally applicable to most Websites. The resources here span...
The Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition, which is the online version of a book with the same name, demonstrates the step-by-step process involved in designing a Web site. Visitors are assumed to be familiar with whatever Web publishing tool they are using. The guide gives few technical details but instead focuses on the usability, layout, and attractiveness of a Web site, with the goal being to make it...