Helpful Resources for Website Authoring


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The intent of this page is to provide you with a variety links to useful resources for the various tasks that are encountered for various summer program activities. Each set of links is categorized and described appropriately. Feel free to follow these links at your leisure, but take note that the pages listed here are only our suggestions for useful sites/resources.

**NOTE: the sites listed and linked to on this page are in no way an endorsement of the companies. These links are merely sites used by our staff and suggested to our readers. This page is in no way a reflection of the views of the University of Wisconsin system.


HTML Links

The following are links to sites that should be very useful for your website authoring needs.

Laune's Basic HTML Primer - Covers the basics of HTML tags. The things shown on this page is useful for the general understanding of how to write a web page. All you really need is a simple text editor like notepad.

W3 Schools Website - A very good reference site for many aspects of web authoring topics. (*this is a site highly recommended by your tech staff ;-D ). Not to be confused with the W3C (described below).

HTMLCenter - Another website to reference for various web authoring articles and tutorials

World Wide Web Consortium (also known as W3C) - Known my most as THE site for all web related standards. This site is the official reference site for anything related to web-pages: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, and the like. This is not the site to start from, but for the brave souls out there this can prove very helpful for advanced authoring reference.

Dreamweaver Tutorials:
Site setup and structure

Site Design Links

Here are some additional sites to use for reference purposes for such topics as good site design and color theory.

Useful Site Design "Guidelines" :
http://webdesign.about.com/ - a good start is this website. The articles are pretty well written and should help you enough to get going on your own.

http://www.mardiros.net/design-guidelines.html - A professional site with helpful hints.

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html - A straightforward web page concerning guidelines for web site design.

Color Theory/ Color Combination Links:
http://www.colorcombo.com/ - this particular website should be a good start in your quest to find good color combinations.

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/colorcharts/index.htm - we suggest you look at the various other articles and links listed on the site as they may also prove very beneficial.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/library/color/blweb.htm