Notice most of these sites refer solely to HTML code. Remember to make adjustments so you're coding in XHTML!

• Instructions and Help
  • W3Schools.com. THE site for web tutorials, based on W3C Web standards. HTML AND XHTML tutorials available, among lots of others. Nominated for World's Best Web Site.
  • UConn's Guide to Setting up Web Pages on Your Mainframe Account
  • UConn's Web Development Center.
  • QVCTC's HTML lab. Yet another source for tutorials and other tools.
  • HTML Goodies. A very good, helpful, and useful site.
  • HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners (Dave's HTML Guide). According to Rick Portuguez, "The site instructs you in the basics and then allows you to try out what you learned. It's easy to use and interesting."
  • HTML Made Really Easy.
  • The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  • HTML Help by the Web Design Group
  • HTML with Style by WebReference.com
  • WebHelp. A sort of a cross between a search engine and a help desk, this site has real people on-line to help you with real questions.
  • Cedge's HTML Cheat Sheet. This is a very good resource for all kinds of HTML code (notice that this is HTML not XHTML--code properly). Check out the "Mythical" Vertical rule code.
• Trouble-shooting
  • W3Schools.com. This site has HTML and XHTML code validators. You're free to use these on your Web projects.
  • Mustapha Bengali's Trouble-shooting Web Pages: HTML When Things Don't Work.
  • Ask Dr. Website. This site contains an archive of questions and answers on HTML problems. There's also an e-mail link to ask a new question, if your problem hasn't been addressed before.
  • Dr. Watson. The HTML equivalent of a spell and grammar check, and it's free, unlike some other sites of this type. You are free to use this site's coding checker on your projects.

• Design Do's and Don't's
  • Web Page Design Flaws. This site was recommended by Kristen Joel and Jon Laughlin. It's a page of links and other resources that addresses many issues of web page design. Check it out!
  • Heidi Abbey's Web Design 101, a lecture she most kindly delivered to the Spring 2001 249S group personally!
  • Web Pages that Suck. Beware of the dangers of excessive HTML!
  • Bad Design: Things You Should Not Do by the North Texas Small Business Development Center.
  • Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design by Jakob Neilsen. Personally, I find many of these problematic, but you should read them anyway.
  • A Message to Web Designers: "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It," by Jeffrey Selingo.
  • Web Content Accessability Guidelines. Guidelines intended for all web content developers to promote Web accessability to people with disabilities (Section 508 Compliance).

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