• 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
  

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• 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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