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 SEO — 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. Tom thinks that their standards for markup languages ought to be compulsory reading for any web developer.
• W3Schools — The World Wide Web Consortium’s site for tutorials on web technologies. We recommend this site to beginners a lot because the tutorials are easy to follow but still teach good practice.