BBM Designs: links and resources
Some informational and inspirational sites, articles, and resources for the web designer.
- CSS Zen Garden
- A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design.
http://www.csszengarden.com
- Douglas Bowman's “Pushing Your Limits”
- Douglas Bowman presents here an inspiring and educational foray into the design tools, secrets, and tricks of CSS.
http://stopdesign.com/present/2004/sydney/limits/
- Firefox Extension: Firebug
- Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
- Firefox Extension: Web Developer
- Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
- HTML Tidy Online
- HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more.
http://infohound.net/tidy/
- IE NetRenderer
- IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out - it's free!
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php
- Intro to Web Standards Presentation
- This presentation addresses: What are web standards? Why use them? Why haven't we been using them all along? What are Microformats? How can you use the URL as a UI?
http://www.slideshare.net/adarowski/newbcamp08-intro-to-web-st
- The Web Standards Project
- The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
http://www.webstandards.org
- W3C CSS Validation Service
- a CSS validator for Cascading Style Sheets, level 2.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
- W3C HTML/XHTML Markup Validation Service
- This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML etc.
http://validator.w3.org/
- Why tables for layout is stupid
- A humorous, very informative resource on converting pages constructed with tables to all or mostly CSS-based layout.
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold
