Sanctum — Rock Solid Web Development

I am presently not available for contract work as my schedule is full for early 2012. If you are looking for development work, I recommend Professional Development, for design work Terry Mahy, and for networking and systems work my employer Inspire Net.

Resources

  • A List Apart — Web development magazine with superb articles on every imaginable facet of making websites.
  • The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web — This document is a guide to managing text stylistically on the web, based on principles set out in a classic designers’ typography reference.
  • Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and Search Engine Optimisation — If you’re looking for high-quality information on search engine optimisation, you’ll find Google software engineer Matt Cutts’ blog very interesting.
  • Position is Everything — In the voodoo world of cross-browser compatible CSS, this is as close as you’re going to get to a bible.
  • Useit.com — Jakob Nielsen is a usability guru who bases his conclusions on experimental evidence. It’s refreshing to find the occasional scientist challenging the religion of attractive but frustratingly unusable designs.
  • World Wide Web Consortium — W3C set standards for compatibility, usability, and accessibility for web technologies. Their standards for markup languages ought to be compulsory reading for any web developer.