• Web Standards:
  • (Benefits and ROI,
  • Browsers,
  • Case Studies and Examples,
  • Comprehensive Sites,
  • Definitions and Overviews,
  • Education and Professionalism,
  • Semantics,
  • Separation,
  • Structure,
  • Tag Soup,
  • Validation,
  • Related Standards Info. )
• Guidelines and Best Practices
• Microformats
• Patterns

Standards

Benefits and ROI (Why Standards?)

• 10 Reasons for Web Standards - Simon Jessey.
• 3.2 Create documents that validate to published formal grammars.
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.2.
• 5 questions to ask your web development team - John Allsopp.
• 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete - Jeffrey Zeldman.
• Benefits of CSS - Cameron Olthuis.
• Better Control and Cost Savings with Style Sheets - Robert Nyman.
• Built Like a House - Mike Cherim.
• The Business Benefits of Web Standards - Paul Boag.
• Buy standards compliant web sites - Dominique Hazael-Massieux.
• Code to standards for cross platform compatibility - Jim Byrne.
• Client Guide to Web Standards: What they are and why they are important - Andy Budd.
• CSS Based Design - Jeremy Keith.
• CSS - Why Use Modern Design Techniques? - Andrew Faulkner.
• Do Interface Standards Stifle Design Creativity? - Jakob Nielsen.
• Do Web Standards Have a Future? - John Allsopp.
• Forward compatibility and web standards - Peter-Paul Koch.
• Guess What? Your Clients Have Learned About Web Standards - D. Keith Robinson.
• HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother? - Alan Richmond.
• In Search Engines, Web Standards and Semantics Rule - Straight Up Search.
• More Than a Set of Rules: Consider Human and Social Factors Alongside Technical Guidelines - Glenda Watson Hyatt.
• My Web site is standard! And yours? - Karl Dubost.
• Non-Standard Code Hurts The Bottom Line - D. Keith Robinson.
• Real life savings through Web standards - Richard Rutter.
• Web Blandards - John Allsopp.
• Standard Practice: Weighing the Risks And Rewards of Standards - Aaron Walsh.
• Standards Savings - Eric A. Meyer.
• Standing up for standards - Adrian Holovaty.
• Supporting Web Standards - Heidi Voltmer.
• Whatever For…So, why bother? - Owen Briggs.
• SxSW Notes: How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards - Stuart Colville.
• Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards - Roger Johansson.
• The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients, and you! - Russ Weakley.
• The Business Value of Web Standards - Jeffrey Veen.
• The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards - Alan K’necht .
• The Importance of Web Standards - Denis Boudreau.
• The Need for Web Design Standards - Jakob Nielsen.
• The Real Reason You Should Care About Web Standards - Andrei Herasimchuk.
• The Train Track Gauge of the Future: Solving Usability Problems with Web Standards Today - Tara Cleveland and Stephanie Troeth.
• The Web Standards War is Far From Over - Robert Nyman.
• Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS - Christopher Schmitt.
• Turning the Tables, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Standards - Drew McLellan.
• Usability and Standards - Who Cares? - Stephanie Sullivan .
• Using XHTML/ CSS For an Effective SEO Campaign - Brandon Olejniczak.
• Using standard markup to increase accessibility - an introduction - Jim Byrne.
• W3C Compliance and SEO - Dave Davies.
• Web Pages Aren’t Printed on Paper - John Allsopp.
• Web Standards: A Business Perspective - Patrick Griffiths.
• Web standards can save, and make you money - Steven Champeon.
• Web Standards for Business - Francois Nonnenmacher.
• Web Standards for Hard Times - Paul Boutin.
• Web Standards ROI - D. Keith Robinson.
• Web Standards. Should my Business Website be Compliant? - Thomas Ashworth.
• Web Standards: User Interface Makeovers.
• What are the advantages of using web standards? - Web Standards Project.
• What Makes CSS So Great? - Eric Meyer.
• Why Adopt Web Standards? - Christian Vinten-Johansen.
• Why Don’t You Code for Netscape? - Jeffery Zeldman.
• Why Adopt W3C Web Standards?.
• Why CSS - css-discuss Wiki.
• Why Size Doesn’t Matter in Setting Web Standards - Daniel Champion.
• Why Standards? - Jim Waldo.
• Why Standards-Compliant HTML Matters - Raphael Mazoyer.
• Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered - Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt.
• Why Web Standards Matter - Carrie Bickner.
• Why Standards Still Matter - Roger Johansson.
• Why You Need Coding Standards - David Mytton.

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Browsers

• Acid2 Supported in Opera One Year Later - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x - Jeff Atwood.
• Beyond the Browser Upgrade Campaign - The Web Standards Project.
• Browser bug swatting - Craig Saila.
• Browse Happy - A WaSP Initiative.
• Browse Happy Now Part of WordPress as WaSP Refocuses Mission - webstandards.org.
• Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues - Peter-Paul Koch.
• Can Your Site Survive Firefox? - Brian Livingston.
• Change in Internet Browsers Recommended - Penn State University.
• CNet Discovers Browser Incompatibilities - Chris Kaminski.
• Criticisms of Internet Explorer - Wikipedia.
• Dear one-browser Web designers: Don’t say I didn’t warn you - Robin ‘roblimo’ Miller.
• Developers gripe about IE standards inaction - Paul Festa.
• !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Unrestricted - Cameron Adams.
• Got Browser Woes? Think Again. - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Graded Browser Support - Nate Koechley.
• Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test - Rob Malda.
• Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates - Hakon Lie.
• The End of Free not the end of Web Standards - The Web Standards Project.
• Ending the upgrades - Craig Saila.
• Firefox Investigation - Robert Nyman.
• IBM Backs Firefox In-House - Martin LaMonica.
• IE 7

  • A Standards Truce in the Browser War? - Paul Festa.
    • Apologizing When You Aren’t Wrong - Joe Clark.
  • Don’t Be a Beta Hater - Jeffery Zeldman.
  • Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview - Al Billings.
  • IE and CSS ‘Compliance’ - Chris Wilson.
  • IE7 Beta 1 - A Few Details… - Chris Wilson.
  • IE 7 Beta 2 - A First Test Drive - Robert Nyman.
  • IE7: Details - Dave Shea.
  • IE7 Not CSS Compliant - Argh, Here We Go Again! - Richard MacManus.
  • IE 7 Preview - Eric Tribou.
  • IE7: Were They Ready? - Simon Griffin.
  • IE7 Wicked Clearing House - Shaun Inman.
  • IE7 Will Not Support W3 Standards - Bynet4now.
  • Installing and Uninstalling IE 7 Beta 2 - Peter-Paul Koch.
  • Just What Has Microsoft Been Doing for IE 7? - Slashdot thread.
  • Microsoft and Internet Explorer vs. Web Standards - Roger Johansson.
  • Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project - Chris Wilson.
  • Microsoft IE7 Progress: Sneak Preview of MIX06 Release - Molly E. Holzschlag.
  • Microsoft Throws IE7 Standards Bone to Developers - Paul Festa.
  • Please Test Your Sites With IE7 - Chris Wilson.
  • Molly Holzschlag, Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? - Vitamin.
  • Why XHTML Can Save Internet Explorer - Kurt Cagle.
• Internet Explorer and Standards - Chris Wilson.
• Internet Explorer Has Now Lost 30% of Browser Market - Robin Good.
• Internet Explorer Too Risky - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Internet Explorer - Where are Users Going? - Shirley Kaiser.
• New Firefox Browser Bulks Up on 508 Compliance - Joab Jackson.
• Opera’s Acid 2 challenge to Microsoft - Hakon Wium Lie.
  • That Acid Buzz - Eric A. Meyer.
• Safari Extensions - Anders Pearson.
  • What’s in a namspace? - Chris Kaminski.
  • Extending HTML - Ian Hickson.
  • Dashboard Again - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Acid2 Browser Test - WaSP.
• The Cost of Supporting Non-Standards - Mike Davies (Isolani).
• The Fallout of Netscape’s demise - Mike Davies (Isolani).
• The Door Is Ajar - Tim Bray.
• The Great Microsoft Blunder - John C. Dvorak.
• WHAT about Internet Explorer? - Mike Davies (Isolani).
• Will Microsoft’s browser engine backfire? - Munir Kotadia.
• Web Browser Standards, 2005 - Taran Rampersad.
• Web Browser Standards Support - David Hammond.
• Why Mozilla Shouldn’t Implement SVG (or at least not too much of it), and What We Should Do Instead - David Baron.

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Case Studies and Examples

• A Comparative Investigation of the Accessibility Levels of Irish Websites - Vivienne Trulock.
• A Look at Internet Banking Accessibility in Australia - Sofia Celic, Steven Faulkner, Andrew Arch.
• ABC News Redesigns - Mike Davidson.
• All Music Guide: A Web Standards case study - Simon Willison.
• Another Failed Redesign: IEEE - Kimberly Blessing.
• AT&T: One Full Year With Web Standards - Joe D’Andrea.
• The New Path - Douglas Bowman.
• Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test - Joe Clark.
• CSS, Markup and Standards: Back to the Future - Mark Newhouse.
• Design sites do Web standards. Or rather, they don’t do Web standards, either - Joe Clark.
• Dutch government site in XHTML 1.1 - Sjoerd Visscher.
• eGovernment Site Credibility: Comparing Speed, Accessibility, Typos, and Validity - Andrew B. King.
• ESPN redesigns with web standards - Jeffery Zeldman.
• Failed Redesigns - Joe Clark.
  • Failed Redesigns Update - Joe Clark.
  • Professional vs. Unprofessional Web Development Practices - Virginia DeBolt.
  • Failed Redesigns III - Joe Clark.
• FEMA Locks Mac Users from Hurricane Relief - Jonny Evans.
• From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey - Jeffrey Zeldman.
• Google Strict vs Google Deprecated - Philipp Lenssen.
  • Google Valid and Strict - Roger Johansson.
• Government Web Standards Usage: People’s Republic of China - Peter Krantz.
• Government Web Standards Usage: New Zealand - Peter Krantz.
• Government Web Standards Usage: U.S.A. - Peter Krantz.
• KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan) Goes Web Standards - Emil Stenstrom.
• Making News with Web Standards - Jim Ramsey.
• MSN goes CSS - Douglas Bowman.
• MSN’s Standards Compliant Layout Revisited - James Jackson.
• ONOFF: Another Failed Redesign - Roger Johansson and Robert Nyman.
• Party like it’s 1997: Microsoft has redesigned. - Jeffrey Zeldman.
• Rebuilding a Site With Standards - Eric A. Meyer.
• Redesign Watch - Eric A. Meyer.
• Searching for Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Survey Reveals Only 14 Percent Of America’s Best Colleges Compliant With Web Standards - Enterprise Content Management Connection.
  • Accessibility at Educational Institutions - Matt Bailey.
• The Changing Face of University Websites - Maish Nichani.
• The State of the Art in Australian Web Development - John Allsopp.
• Throwing Tables Out the Window - Douglas Bowman.
• W3C Members: Do As We Say, Not As We Do - Paul Festa.
• WaSP Interviews Todd Dominey on the redesign of PGA.com.
• Web standards improve 2theadvocate.com navigation - Adrian Holovaty.
• Web Standards in Action - D. Keith Robinson.
• Web Standards, XHTML and CSS - Lessons Learned From A Redesign - D. Keith Robinson.
• Webby Award Validation Woes - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Worst Redesign of the Year - Joe Clark.
• Why Web Standards Matter (Case Study) - Jesper Ronn-Jensen.

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Comprehensive Sites

• MACCAWS (Making a Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards).
• The Access Board - This is the official home of Section 508 provisions of the standards. The full set of their requirements is available at this site in the document Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22).
• The Web Standards Project.
• W3C - THE place to go for official web information. It is the authoritative source for web standards.

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Definitions and Overviews

• 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards - Philipp Lenssen.
• A Beginners Introduction to Standard Markup and Accessibility - Jim Byrne.
• A Roadmap to Standards - Dave Shea.
• A Three-legged Stool - Mark Newhouse.
• ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer’s journey to standards and accessibility - Randal Rust.
• Information technology - Document description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language - ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission).
• Introduction to W3C - W3C Schools.
• Living in a Dream House: Or How to Bring Web Standards to Your Web Sites - Sheri German.
• Notes: an introduction to standard HTML and accessibility - Jim Byrne.
• Raise Your Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Spelling and Grammar not the Same - Jeffery Zeldman.
• Streamlining with Web Standards - Greg Penhaligon.
• The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design - Jason Foss.
• The Meaning of Web Standards - Derek Featherstone.
• Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages - Simon Paquet, Marcio Galli, Ian Oeschger, Jim Ley, Daniel Ulrich, Mike Cowperthwaite.
• W3C Web Standards - Justin Cook.
• What are Web standards and why should I use them? - Web Standards Project.
• What is a good standard? An essay on W3C’s design principles - Bert Bos.
• What is a ‘Web Standard?’ - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• What is the W3C? - Jennifer Kyrnin.

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Education and Professionalism

• Accessibility First! A New Approach to Web Design - Brian Rosmaita.
• Become a Better Standardista - Stuart Colville.
• Being Professionals - Eric A Meyer.
• Beyond New Professionalism - Holly Marie Koltz.
• Computer Science Majors Get Tools To Build Accessibility Into Software - K. C. Jones.
• Educated - Dan Cederholm.
• Educating the Educators - Vicki Berry.
• Encouraging Web Standards - Vicki Berry.
• Go Out, Be Loud, Be Positive. Build a Profession - Cameron Adams.
• How to Sniff Out a Rotten Standardista - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Joe Dizon on Starting Your Web Standards Journey - Andrew Faulkner.
• Knowing Our Craft - Mike Davies.
• Learning and Teaching Web Standards - Julian Rickards.
• Levels of CSS Knowledge - Emil Stenstrom.
• Oh That Elitist Smell - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• On Quality Education - Holly Marie Koltz.
• Professional Body for the Web Design Industry? - Mark Boulton.
• Professionalism and Best Practice in Web Design and Development - John Allsopp.
• Real Hackers Don’t Use CSS - Emil Stenstrom.
• Teaching Web Design, Part 2 - Christian Montoya.
• The Learning Curve of Web Standards - Bobby van der Sluis.
• The New Amateurs - Peter-Paul Koch.
  • The New Amateurs - part 2 - Peter-Paul Koch.
• The Standards of Standards - Ben Buchanan.
• WaSP Interviews Blake Elshire - Rob Dickerson.
• Web Professional’s Code of Ethics - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Web Professionals Code of Ethics Wiki - Launched by Meri Williams.
• Web Standards and the Educations - Faruk Ates.
• Web Standards and The New Professionalism - Molly E. Holzschlag.

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Semantics

• But It Validates! - Jon Christopher.
• Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark.
• Emergent Semantics - Eric A. Meyer.
• HTML: More structural than semantic - Simon Willison:
• HTML, XHTML, semantics and the future of the web - John Allsopp.
• Markup, Namespaces, and Meaning - Tim Bray.
• On Standards and Semantics - Douglas Bowman.
• Semantics By Robert Nyman.
• Semantic Data Extractor - W3C.
• Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure - Shirley Kaiser.
• Semantic Markup and Templates - Kevin Leitch.
• Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML Gap - Mark Boulton.
• Semantics and Bad Code - Dave Shea.
• Semantics, Standards, Accessibility… - Bruce Lawson.
• Semantics: The Red-Headed Step-Child of Markup - Garrett Dimon.
• Spiffy Markup? - Ian Lloyd.
• Standards Don’t Necessarily Have Anything to do with Being Semantically Correct - Jason Kottke.
• Standards, Semantic Markup, Distributed Authorship and Knowledge Management - D. Keith Robinson.
• The Elements of Meaningful XHTML - Tantek Celik.
• The Meaning of Semantics (Take I) - Molly Holzschlag.
• The Semantic Code - Abhijit Nadgouda.
• WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp.
• Web Patterns: Q & A with John Allsopp - Luke Wroblewski.
• What Does Markup Mean? - Sam Ruby.
• What is Semantic Markup and Why Should You Care? - Virginia DeBolt.
• Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Gerbils? - Mark Pilgrim.

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Separation

• Really Separated? - Doug Bowman.
• Gotta Keep ‘em Separated - Jeremy Keith.
• More Seriously: Why CSS Doesn’t Define Behaviour - Mark Wubben.
• On Separating Style and Behavior - Faruk Ates.
• Separating Behavior and Presentation - Peter-Paul Koch.
• Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma - Michael Cohen.
• The Document Triangle: The interdependence of the structure, information and presentation dimensions- Peter J. Bogaards.
• The Incomplete Divorce - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Web Is Ruined and I ruined it - David Siegel.
• Three Separated Layers, Capisce? - Robert Nyman.

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Structure

• 3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.5.
• 1.2.1 Section headings.
• Design for machines first, people second! - Jim Byrne.
• General Mark-up - Peter Rainge.
• Get Down With Markup - Dan Cederholm.
• Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.
• SimpleQuizzes - Dan Cederholm.
• Semantic Structure - Paul Bohman.
• Use Structural Markup - Andrew B. King.
• The Structure of Accessible Pages - Joe Clark.
• Use
  

  for top-level heading - W3C .

• Use headings to structure your document - W3C .
• Using real headers - Mark Pilgrim.
• Using Structural Markup - The University of Durham.
• Basic (X)HTML Structure - Elizabeth Castro.
• The Marriage of Presentation and Structure - Molly E. Holzschlag & Ethan Marcotte.
• The Marriage of Presentation and Structure (Video) - Ethan Marcotte and Molly Holzschlag.
• Visual Vs. Structural - Tommy Olsson.
• Web Design World Cool-down - Molly E. Holzschlag.

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Tag Soup

• Emergent Semantics - Eric A. Meyer.
• HTML, XHTML, semantics and the future of the web - John Allsopp.
• Semantics By Robert Nyman.
• Semantic Data Extractor - W3C.
• Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure - Shirley Kaiser.
• Semantic Markup and Templates - Kevin Leitch.
• Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML Gap - Mark Boulton.
• Semantics, Standards, Accessibility… - Bruce Lawson.
• Semantics: The Red-Headed Step-Child of Markup - Garrett Dimon.
• Standards, Semantic Markup, Distributed Authorship and Knowledge Management - D. Keith Robinson.
• The Elements of Meaningful XHTML - Tantek Celik.
• The Meaning of Semantics (Take I) - Molly Holzschlag.
• WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp.

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Validation

• 3.2 - Create documents that validate to published formal grammars.
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.2.
• A Principled Argument - Matt May.
• All That Glitters - Ethan Marcotte.
  • Web Standards = 100% Validation? - D. Keith Robinson.
  • Who Cares About Validation? - Cameron Adams.
• Ampersands and Validation - Roger Johansson.
• Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML - David Dorward.
• Accessibility, Validity, Guidelines and Law - Chris Kaminski.
• Clean Compliant HTML Code vs Cost of Non Compliant HTML Code - S. R. Emerson.
• Committed to Sincere Progress, Not Perfection - WaSP.
• CSS Reboot as Web Standards Validation Indicator - Sean Fraser.
• CSS Validator Colour Warnings are not Errors - Roger Johansson.
• Help! My CSS Isn’t Working! - Eric A. Meyer.
• HTML and CSS Validation: Should You Validate Your Web Page? - Christopher Heng.
• HTML validation is a good tool, but just a tool - Jukka Korpela.
• In Search of Validation… - Ben Henick.
• Is Standards Compliant HTML Really Necessary? - Adam Osborne.
• Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark.
• Invalid HTML Interfering with Accessibility - Alastair Campbell.
• Making it Legal: Validating Your (X)HTML and CSS - Zoe Gillenwater.
• On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May.
• Scripting away Validation Concerns - Gez Lemon.
• State of the Validation 2002 - Marko Karppinen.
• The Importance Of Standards Compliance and The Process of Validation - Karl L. Groves.
• Valid garbage in, valid garbage out - Ian Hickson.
  • The Quiz- Ian Hickson.
• Validating an Entire Site - Peter Krantz.
• Validation By Andybudd.
• Validation By James Craig.
• Validation: CSS and HTML (Quick Tutorial) - Maxine Sherrin.
• Validation: Does It Matter? - Owen Briggs.
• Validation Funnies - Lisa Sabin.
• Validation, Moderation, Constipation - Dave Shea.
• Validating accessibility - W3C.
• Validity and Accessibility - Gez Lemon.
• Validity and Accessibility - Web Accessibility Initative.
• Validity Does not Equal Best Practices - Roger Johansson.
• Seven Benefits of HTML Validation - Herman Drost.
• Slashdot’s Validity - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Advantages of Using Valid HTML - Jim Byrne.
• The Importance of Code Validation - John Foliot.
• The Importance Of Standards Compliance and The Process of Validation - Karl L. Groves.
• Why You Should Validate Your HTML - Christine Churchill.
• Why Validate?
• Why Validate a Web Site’s Pages? - Raymond Sonoff.

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Related Standards Info

• A Love Song About Web Standards - Paul Boag.
• A Standardista’s Alphabet - Jack Pickard.
• Acting locally (Draft): Challenges in Web Standards Evangelism - Tristan Nitot.
• An Angry Fix - Jeffery Zeldman.
  • A Peaceful Ear - Karl Dubost.
  • Angry Indeed - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Angry, Not: Zeldman, Meyer, and Fair Concerns About the W3C - Molly E. Holzschlag.
  • Misplaced Anger: A Rebuttal to Zeldman’s Criticism of the W3C - Molly E. Holzschlag.
  • More W3C Controversy - David Baron.
  • W3C and the Broken Process + Two Shining Examples of Committee-based Specification Development Done Right - M. David Peterson.
  • W3C and the Overton Window - Mark Pilgrim.
  • W3C Change: Introduction - Eric A. Meyer.
    • W3C Change: Outreach - Eric A. Meyer.
    • W3C Change: Working Groups - Eric A. Meyer.
    • W3C Change Full Independence - Eric A. Meyer.
• An interview with Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) - Meryl K. Evans.
• An Open Letter to WaSP - Robert Nyman and Vlad Alexander.
• Bad Tags - Patrick Griffiths.
• Basic Webstandards Workshop - Russ Weakley and the folks at maxdesign.
• Between excess and temperance - Craig Saila.
• Bloody Web Standards AGAIN - Kay Smoljak.
• Bluffers’ Guide To ISO 9241 - David Travis.
• Breaking News: W3C Specs Are Not the Word of God - Bruce Lawson.
• Breaking the Web Wide Open! - Marc Canter.
• Building with Rusted Nails - Nick Finck and Peter Fielding.
• Catching Web Standards - John Allsopp’s girlfriend.
• Commentary: Web Standards - Paul Ford.
• Comments to U.S. Copyright Office - Holly Marie Koltz.
• Design Rant - Owen Briggs.
• Design Sites and Web Standards - Roger Johansson.
• Designing With Web Standards Keynote - Jeffery Zeldman.
• Examining the Role of De Facto Standards on the Web - Heidi Adkisson.
• Golden’s Rules: The Real Story Behind the Massachusetts ODF Flap - Bernard Golden.
• Google Page Creator - Drew McLellan.
• Google Page Creator: When It’s All Just Too Hard - Kevin Yank.
• Growing Up With Web Standards - Derek Featherstone.
• How to Include Web Standards in an RFP - Jeffrey Zeldman.
• HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate - Henri Sivonen.
• Interface Design Issues #02: Consistency and standards - Andrei Michael Herasimchuk.
• International standards for HCI and usability.
• Is HTML on Its Way Out? - Mike Martin.
• It’s Time To Kill Off Transitional DOCTYPES - Jack Pickard.
• Internetworld Gets Web Standards All Wrong - Robert Nyman.
• Leaving W3C QA Dev - Bjoern Hoehrmann.
• Macworld Expo and Web Standards: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Dori Smith.
• May The Source be with You - Andy Rutledge.
• Michigan Virtual University: A Promising Practice in Developing Standards for Online Courses.
• Minnesota Standards Bill Could Affect Microsoft Word, Adobe - W. David Gardner.
• Neutrality of the Net - Tim Berners-Lee.
• Reinventing HTML - Tim Berners-Lee.
  • Fixing HTML - Lachlan Hunt.
  • How Not to Fix HTML - Joe Clark.
  • Reinventing HTML: Discuss - W3C Quality Assurance.
  • The W3C and WCAG - Jack Pickard.
  • Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong - Elliotte Rusty Harold.
  • Have Your Say about the Future of HTML - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Standards By Anne Van Kesteren.
• Standards for distributed information architecture - Jeff Lash.
• Standards: Optional Features or Law? - Dimitris Dimitriadis.
• Standards Vs. Sensible Design - Christian Heilmann.
• The Matrix of W3C specifications.
• The Problem with Standards - Dave Polaschek.
• The Standards War - Kevin Wu.
• The Zen of Disinformation - Tommy Olsson.
• Things to Take into Account When Moving to Standards-Compliant HTML and CSS Authoring - Henri Sivonen.
• To Hell With Bad Editors - Adrian Roselli.
• Three Separated Layers of Web Development? Think Again. - Chris Heilmann.
• Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages - Ian Oeschger and Jim Ley.
• Web Standards and Microsoft

  • Does Microsoft Care About Web Standards? - Kirk Biglione.
  • How Microsoft can support CSS2 without breaking the Web - Tristan Nitot.
    • Unbreaking the Web - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Is Microsoft’s XML Format About Openness or Control? - tadelste.
  • Microsoft breaks with standards effort - Martin LaMonica.
  • Party like it’s 1997: Microsoft has redesigned. - Jeffrey Zeldman.
  • Web Standards, Microsoft and You - Dean Edwards.
    • Agenda Microsoft: Is it a Sellout when the Prostitute’s Paying? - Molly E. Holzschlag.
    • Meeting Microsoft - Molly E. Holzschlag.
  • WaSP: Blah - Anne Van Kesteren.
  • WaSP to Collaborate with Microsoft to Promote Web Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag and Microsoft.
  • WaSP Microsoft Task Force Update: Upcoming Products, XAML, Acid2, SXSW, and IE7 Revealed - Molly E. Holzschlag.
  • Why Won’t Microsoft Join Existing Standards Efforts? - Peter Korn.
• University of Minnesota Standards.

  • University of Minnesota Web Accessibility Standards.
• Unpractical Specifications - Anne van Kesteren.
• W3C May Push Wireless Web Specs - Paul Festa.
• Web Application Formats Working Group - W3C.
• Web APIs Working Group - W3C.
• Web Development Mistakes - Roger Johansson.
• Web Standards Blindness - D. Keith Robinson.
• Web Standards in Education and Government - Dean Jackson.
• Web Standards Project Announces the DOM Scripting Task Force - WaSP.
• Web Standards Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of CSS, XHTML, AJAX… - khmerang.
• Web Standards Switch or how to improve your Web site easily - W3C.
• Web Standards vs. Search Friendly Sites: Can You Have Both? - Bill Hunt.
• Web Usability: A New International Standard - David Travis.
• We’re all banking on a better trip - macedition.com.
• Wish You Were Here: postcard style tips for website designers or owners - Matt Robinson.
• Why Colleges Should Stop Using Fireworks as a Primary Web Design Tool - Virginia DeBolt.
• Why Do We Have To Fight? - Robert Nyman.
• Why eBay Needs Standards-Oriented Design: An Interview With Eric A. Meyer - David Poteet.
• World Grows Small: Open Standards for the Global Web - Molly E. Holzschlag.
• WSG Meeting PodCasts - Web Standards Group.
• WYSIWYG Editors and Standards.

  • Accessible WYSIWYG Editors, Part 1 - The Problem - Alastair Campbell.
  • Big Red Angry Text - Marco Battilana.
  • Evaluation of WYSIWYG-Editors - Peter Krantz.
  • iWeb, The New Tag Soup Generator - Roger Johansson.
  • Web design tools are skeuomorphs of print design tools, and this is a bad thing - Matt Patterson.
  • WYSIWYG Editor Accessibility Test Results - Nicole Sullivan.
  • WYSIWYG Editors And Bad Markup - XStandard.
  • WYSIWYG Text Editors Reviewed - Laurence Veale.
• You Said the ‘S’ Word! - Chris Kaminski.
• Zeldman’s Video Web 2004 Essentials Conference Keynote - Jeffery Zeldman. Directed By Eric Etheridge.
  • Captioned QuickTime SMIL 1.0 Version by Patrick Lauke .

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Guidelines and Best Practices

• ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers - Erin Lynch.
  • The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners - Erin Lynch and ALA Staff.
• A Message to Clueless Website Authors - Tim Seifert.
• A Web Standards Checklist - Russ Weakley.
• Accessibility Guidelines are Harmful - Mike Davies.
• Best Practices - Webcontent.gov.
• Best Practices for PBS Member Station Websites - PBS.
• Best Practices for User Centered Web Design - Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
• Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup - Tommy Olsson.
• Constitution of a New Website - Bruce Lawson.
• Developing With Web Standards Recommendations and Best Practices - Roger Johansson.
• Diary of a Webmaster Part 1 - My Site Design Checklist - Mitchell Harper.
• Eight Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started - Cameron Moll.
• Embracing Best Practice - Simon Willison.
• Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines - Jared M. Spool.
• First Principles - Bruce Tognazzini.
• Foundations of Web Design - Jeffrey Veen.
• Fundamental Web Design Principles? - Margaret Turner.
• General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines - The Trace Center.
• Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web - Luca Passani.
• Guidelines for authoring - W3C.
• Guidelines for Developing Distance Education Web Sites - Pennsylvania State University.
• Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte’s Principles - University of Washington.
• Guidelines for authoring - W3C.
• Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web - Jakob Nielsen.
• How to Build Lame Web Sites - Charlie Morris.
• How to Create a Standardized Web Site Development Workflow - Smiley Cat.
• Intranet Usability Guidelines - Tim Fidgeon.
• IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications - Instructional Management Systems.
• Keep it simple, stupid! - Par Almqvist.
• KISS: Keep It Simple …Why? - Wendy Peck.
• Learn how to implement an effective web style guide - Gerry McGovern.
• Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy - Cyndi Rowland.
• Microsoft’s Accessible Web Guidelines - including tips and a testing checklist.
• My Experiences with Web Standards - Rob Dickerson.
• New York Public Library Style Guide - Jeffery Zeldman and Carrie Bickner.
• Quality Tips for Webmasters - W3C.
• Research Based Web Design and Usability Guidleines - Usability.gov.
• Seven Deadly Web Site Sins (And Why You Must Avoid Them at All Costs) - Jesse Berst.
• Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility - webcredibility.org.
• Status of ISO 9241 - User Focus.
• Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - Jakob Nielsen.
• The Big Web Design Details List - D. Keith Robinson.
• The Evolution of Brand Strategy - Vic Zauderer and Marc Escobosa.
• The Matrix of W3C Specifications - W3C.
• The Rules (Ten things every Web author knows — or should know!) - ATW.
• UI Guidelines vs. Usability Testing - Microsoft Corporation.
• UCD for different project types, part 1 - Jack Scanlon and Lynn Percival.
• Usability Guidelines by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
• University of Minnesota Guidelines and Policy.

  • University of Minnesota World Wide Web Publishing Guidelines.
  • University of Minnesota Web policy.
• W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - The guidelines on which the Section 508 regulations are based.
    • List of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
    • Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
    • Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
      • Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
      • HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
      • CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
        • Accessibility Features of CSS
    • Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
  • Summary of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
    • Checklist of Checkpoints for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
    • Understanding WCAG 2.0
    • HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
    • WCAG 2: The Difference Between a Level and a Priority - Gez Lemon.
  • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines “Wombat” - Working Draft 21 December 2001.
  • WAI Printable Glossary.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft: 24 August 2001.
  • XML Accessibility Guidelines - Working Draft: 29 August 2001.
• Web Page Development: Best Practices - Apple.
• Website Checklist - Stephen Poley.
• Yale Web Style Guide, 2nd edition - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.

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Microformats, GRDDL

• Add Microformats Magic to Your Site - John Allsopp.
• An Introduction To Microformat - Brian Kelly.
• Current Issues with Microformats - Emil Stenstrom.
• Following the WSG Microformats Event - Stuart Colville.
• GRDDL
  • GRDDL Primer - W3C.
  • Semantic Web Data Integration with hCalendar and GRDDL - Dan Connolly.
• hCalendar - microformats wiki.
• hCard - microformats wiki.
• Intro to Microformats - Nick Nettleton.
• Introduction to Microformats 2 - Andy Mitchell.
• Microformatique
• Microformats.org
• Microformats and Web 2.0 - Micah Dubinko.
• Microformats Cheat Sheet - Brian Suda.
• Microformats Cheat Sheet by Dave Child.
• Microformats in Context - Uche Ogbuji.
• Microformats in Education Wiki - Initiated by Jesse Rodgers.
• So Address Tags are Rubbish for Microformat hCards? - Chris Heilmann.
• The Big Picture on Microformats - John Allsopp.
• The Zen of Microformats - Ryan Tomayko.
• What Are Microformats - Micah Dubinko.
• What are Microformats? - Tantek Celik.
• Where Microformats will Take Us - Andy Mitchell.

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Patterns

• A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee.
• An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design - Ryan Singer.
• Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents - Kyle Downey.
• Design Patterns: Part 1 - Luke Wroblewski.
  • Design Patterns: Part 2 - Luke Wroblewski.
  • Design Patterns: Part 3 - Luke Wroblewski.
  • Design Patterns: Part 4 - Luke Wroblewski.
• Design Patterns in Web Programming - Nathan Wallace.
• Design Pattern Library - Yahoo.
• Designing with Patterns - Bill Scott.
• Don’t Write Guidelines - Write Patterns! - Richard N Griffiths and Lyn Pemberton.
• Experiences - A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee.
• Formulas and Confusion - Michael Andrews.
• Hypermedia Design Pattern Repository - Italian University of Switzerland.
• IBM Patterns for E-Business - IBM.
• Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study - Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler.
• Interaction Design Patterns - Martijn van Welie.
• Interaction Pattern - Tom Erickson.
• Improving Web Information Systems with Navigational Patterns - Gustavo Rossi, Daniel Schwabe and Fernando Lyardet.
• Patterns of Hypertext - Mark Bernstein.
• Patterns for Personal Web Sites - Mark L. Irons.
• Patterns home page - hillside.net.
• Revisitation Patterns in World Wide Web Navigation - Linda Tauscher and Saul Greenberg.
• Seven Habits of Successful Pattern Writers - John Vlissides.
• Some Notes on Christopher Alexander - Nikos A. Salingaros.
• Teaching Usability Design Through Pattern Language - Griffiths and Pemberton.
• The Elements of a Design Pattern - Jared M. Spool.
• The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, And Processes For Crafting A Customer-Centered Web Experience - By Douglas Van Duyne et al.Douglas K. Van Duyne.
• The Interaction Design Patterns Page - Tom Erickson.
• The Pattern Gallery - Sally Fincher.
• These web sites are identical-or are they? - Francois Briatte.
• UI Patterns and Techniques - Jenifer Tidwell.
• Web Authoring Statistics - Google.
  • Inaccessible Google Web Authoring Statistics - Peter-Paul Koch.
  • The State of the Web Standards - Bruce Lawson.
• WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp.
  • Pattern Quiz I - Site Patterns - John Allsopp.
• Web Presentation Patterns - Jonathan Snook.
• Website Patterns - Information Architecture Wiki.
• Website Patterns By Portland Pattern Repository.
• XML Patterns.

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