The following sections give you links to more information on specific topics. Many of these links take you outside the course web pages. If you discover a broken link or an error, please send feedback.
Contents
- Working on Beowulf
- Pair Programming Links
- Design Links
- Browser Downloads
- Other Software
- HTML Resources
- Javascript Resources
- CSS Resources
- DOM Resources
- Frames
- Multimedia
- Cookies
Working on Beowulf
The first three links below are to labs from the CSC 102 course. They guide you through the basic steps involved in setting up and using your account. Note that for this course, your account id will be of the form 105b-xx, rather than 102b-xx. These pages are password protected. Enter 102 as both the user and the password when prompted by the browser.
- All about your account on Beowulf
- Connecting to your account on Beowulf
- Setting up your account on Beowulf
- Transferring files to Beowulf
- Setting file permissions on Beowulf
Pair Programming
Browser Downloads
- Firefox browser
- Opera browser
- Avant browser
- iCab Browser (Macintosh)
- Design philosophy: the any browser campaign
Other Software
- First Page, a free HTML editor
- Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox or Mozilla
- Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer
- Web Developer Toolbar for Opera
- Ultimate Paint, a freeware image editor with easy tools for making transparent backgrounds.
Design Links
- A List Apart, weekly webzine covering style issues. Highly recommended!
- Design handout
- Jakob Nielson's Alertbox
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Current and Historic)
- Web Pages That Suck
- Eye Candy -- Sites with Distinctive Looks
HTML Resources
- An HTML Primer
- Another HTML Tutorial
- HTML Doctor : This can verify the correctness of your web pages and help maintain them
- HTML Tidy : Another HTML verification tool.
- Barebones HTML reference: A good "quick reference"
- Another Quick Reference
- HTML escape sequences
JavaScript Resources
- JavaScript 1.5 guide
- JavaScript 1.5 reference
- Microsoft JScript reference
- JavaScript Tip of the Week archive
- Webreference JavaScript
CSS Resources
- Validate your CSS pages with this handy tool from W3C.
- Another style sheet checker
- Full list of CSS properties
- Another list
- A tutorial on CSS
- More references on CSS
- CSS Zen Garden: a sampler of stunning CSS styles, all applied to the same content.
DOM Resources
- Table of Common DOM objects
- A DOM tutorial
Frames
Multimedia
- Multimedia Guidelines
- Cross-platform multimedia capabilities
- Javascript method for embedding Flash/Shockwave objects
- Javascript method for embedding Quicktime movies
- Tutorial on Javascript interaction with Flash/Shockwave objects
- Fully standards-compliant Flash embedding
- Create icon files to go with your web site