Adventures in Information - Web Resources

General

If you're just getting started, these guides will really help you out:

• Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition - updated version of the venerable Yale Style Manual; a thorough introduction to creating web pages
• jjg.net information architecture resources - includes an excellent list of resources
• Usable Web - web usability clearing house
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing - Intro to DB-backed / dynamically generated websites, part of Philip Greenspun's Web Tools Review (slightly dated but still very useful)
• USCweb Authoring Help - this page is slightly dated (will be updated soon), but still contains a wealth of useful information, both USC specific and general

HTML/CSS Coding

This list more or less goes from more basic to more advanced/involved.

• Dave Ragget's Guides - These very short guides (~10-20 minutes each) by one of the author's of HTML will quickly get yout started:
  • Introduction to HTML
  • More advanced Features
  • Adding a touch of style
• HTML 4.0 Online - a simple guide of the elements that make up HTML
• NYPL Style Guide - Learn about XHTML and CSS basics
• Webmonkey - quick references, all kinds of articles, blah blah blah
• Webreference.com: HTML with Style Tutorials - extensive set of tutorials (they start assuming zero HTML/CSS knowledge and are successive)
• The House of Style - collection of CSS resources
• W3C References
  • HTML - currently XHTML 1.0, based off of HTML 4.01
  • CSS2 - very useful

Tools

• W3C HTML Validator - validate your HTML
• W3C CSS Validator - validate your CSS
• HTML Tidy - a tool to help clean up your HTML
• Bobby - check your site accessibility
• Vischeck - check your site against common forms of color blindness
• Lynx Viewer - see how your page looks in a text-based browser
• Mozilla/Netscape 7 Sidebars, Addons, more sidebars

Accessibility

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• WebAIM
• Dartmouth Teaching: Accessible Design Guidelines

Security

• Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
• W3C Security Resources, including the World Wide Web Security FAQ
• OWASP: A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications
• Princeton University: Secure Internet Programming Laboratory Publications
• WhiteHat Security: Security Presentations

Web, Server, Network Architecture

• W3C Design Issues - overall design overview of the WWW
• ISOC: History of the Internet, W3C Web History, WWW History, Ragett on HTML4: Introduction to the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee Press FAQ
• CMU SEI: Client/Server Software Architectures—An Overview
• Linux Clustering Information Center - chock full of links on Linux (server) clustering
• The Network Book - introduction to networking and distributed computing technologies
• ISO/OSI Network Model
• The Conceptual Architecture of the Apache Web Server

Performance Tuning / Scaling

• Web Performance Tuning - first half of Patrick Killelea's O'Reilly book of the same name
• Extreme HTML Optimization
• Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
• Brian D. Davison's Web Caching and Content Delivery Resources
• Study and optimization of a Web server
• Unix Web Application Architectures
• Advanced PHP (Performance) - covers a number of performance/scaling issues
• A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP
• Enterprise PHP
• Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix
• mod_perl: Performance Tuning
• ASJ: ArsDigita Scalability Testing, Building Scalable eBusiness Solutions with ArsDigita, Scaling Site X
• Lessons from Giant Scale Servers (PDF)
• Brent Laminack Scalability and Configuration of Web Servers White Paper
• Web caching architecture
• Edge Side Includes
• Content-Encoding with mod_gzip
• Apache Performance Notes
• Cisco - Scaling the Internet Web Servers
• Hardware: NetScaler, Redline Networks T|X Web I/O Acceleration Apps, Packeteer AppCelera, Foundry ServerIron