Cheryl Lambert
Web Designer / Web Team Lead
Office of College Advancement
Ohlone College
Resources
Higher Education
- collegewebeditor.com - blog
- Syndication for Higher Ed - blog
- UThink - blogs at University of Minnesota (uses Movable Type)
- Confessions of a Community College Dean - blog
- All Things Park: The sort-of official blog of the Park School at Ithaca College - blog
- University Web Developers <uwebd />: listserv, blog, survey/wiki?
Training
- High Tech Center Training Unit - Manuals and Tutorials - Foothill DeAnza College
- W3Schools - CSS
Regular Reads
Occasional Reads
- A List Apart
- Boxes and Arrows
- Brainstorms & Raves
- Digital Web Magazine
- Elegant Hack
- etc.
- evolt.org
- InfoDesign
- Mandarin Design
- mezzoblue
- Scott Berkun
- SimpleBits
- Stopdesign
- Web Standards Project
CSS
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Panic Guide
- CSS, Standards and Accessibility Links
- css-discuss Wiki
- Position is Everything
Online Tools
- Eurekster Swickie Blog
- Cynthia Says - HiSoftware - web accessibility validator
- RSS Validator
- W3C CSS Validation Service - CSS Validator
- W3C Markup Validation Service - (X)HTML Validator (page by page)
- WAVE Accessibility Tool - WebAIM (web accessibility validator)
- WDG HTML Validator - batch (X)HTML validator (multiple pages)
- Web Page Analyzer - web page optimization
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer - delorie.com
- Calendar
- Dictionary
- Google Translate
- OldVersion.com - download old versions of software
- OurMedia.org - "[F]ree storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches."
Software Toolbox
- Copernic Agent Basic (free)
- FastStone Image Viewer (free) - image organizer
- FastStone Screen Capture (free) - screenshot capture
- FeedReeder (free) - RSS feed reader
- FeedSpring (free) - RSS feed writer
- MailWasher (free) - stop email spam and viruses before messages are downloaded
- Microsoft Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 (free)
- PuTTY (free) - Telnet/SSH client (not WYSIWYG)
- ScreenTaker (no longer being developed)
- Spybot - Search & Destroy (free) (Windows) - "detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer"
- SSH Secure Shell File Transfer (free for educational institutions)
- Web Album Generator (free) (Windows) - online photo album generator (generates clean XHTML and CSS)
- Xenu's Link Sleuth (free) (Windows) - validate your website's links
Web Accessibility
- Accessibility Tools & Wizards - Accessify.com
- WebAIM
- WebAIM Monthly (online magazine starting January 2006)
MT and WordPress Resources
- Movable Type
- Learning Movable Type
- Movable Type Support Forums
- Movable Type User Manual
- MT Support
- MT Plugin Directory
- Tips from Girlie (MT) (clear; not recent)
- ScriptyGoddess
- WordPress.org
- WordPress Codex (documentation)
- WordPress Styles - alexking.org
- WordPress Themes - alexking.org
- WordPress Theme Viewer
- WordPress MU (multiuser)
- WordPress.com - get a free blog
Blogging Resources
- Free / hosted
- Blogger, WordPress.com, EduBlogs
- For educators: EduBlogs (uses WordPress MU)
- Personal blogging/community: Vox, LiveJournal, Blogger
- Low cost
- Install on your own domain
- Movable Type - personal (free), enterprise (licensed)
- WordPress.org
Wiki Resources
- Free / hosted
- PBwiki - “Make a free wiki as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.”
- Wetpaint - “free click-and-type wikis you can share with like-minded people.”
- Wikispaces - “Create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.”
Inspiration!
Photography
- New York Institute of Photography - great tutorials!
- Photojojo
Photologs
Photo Projects
Browsers
- Firefox (Windows)
- Lynx Viewer - delorie.com
Forums / Message Boards
- phpBB
- UBB Central - UBBClassic, UBBThreads
