Guides & Standards - Style - WSU-Specific Style Guidelines

Documents to be posted on the Wright State University's main web server must be in proper HTML (hyper-text markup language) format. If you are unfamiliar with creating HTML documents, check out the following web resources:

Create Web pages using University Templates
Create Web pages using Microsoft FrontPage
Create Web pages using Contribute 2
Create forms that put form results into a text file using cgifile
Create Personal Web Pages

Organizing a Web Site
Web Page Development
Clip Art & Graphics
Colors
Scripting Resources
Software
Testing Your Web Pages
Miscellaneous Internet Resource Pages

Organizing a Web Site

Site Design and Organization Do's and Don'ts - http://www.gooddocuments.com/techniques/techniqueshome_m.htm

Web Page Development

WSU Web Style Guide - http://www.wright.edu/web/style/index.html
Instructions for using Server Side Includes
HTML Extended Characters Chart - http://www.wright.edu/web/resources/characters.html
Barebones Guide to HTML - http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html
A Beginner's Guide to HTML - http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
Hot Wired Web Monkey Teaching Tool - http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool
Builder.com : Default your HTML attributes - http://www.builder.com/Authoring/HtmlDiet/ss02.html
Web Developers' Virtual Library: Cascading Style Sheets - The WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets

Accessibility Tools

WSU Web Accessibility Information
Bobby - The accessibility, on-line utility - http://www.cast.org/bobby/

Clip Art & Graphics

Barry's Clip Art Server - http://www.barrysclipart.com/
The Icon Bank - http://www.iconbank.com/index2.htm
Andy's Art: Photoshop and HTML Tips - http://www.andyart.com/

Colors

Demonstration of RGB colors - http://www.netheaven.com/~wlarmon/fontcl.htm
Color and graphics for web pages - http://www.homepage.co.uk/webcolour/
Browser Safe Color - http://www.dotparagon.com/resources/color.html
Background Color Selector - http://www.imagitek.com/bcs.html

Scripting Resources

Matt's Script Archive - http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

Software

Create Web Pages using Microsoft FrontPage
CaTS Documentation Library help with using telnet & ftp software - http://www.cats.wright.edu/catsweb/docs/
HTML editors - http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Editors/
WS_FTP(ftp client for Windows) - http://www.ipswitch.com/
CuteFTP (ftp client for Windows) - http://www.cuteftp.com/
Net Term (telnet for Windows) - http://www.netterm.com/
Fetch (ftp client for Mac) - http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/

Testing Your Web Pages

Backward compatibility utility - http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
Doctor HTML's Report - http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
W3C Validator - http://validator.w3.org/

Miscellaneous Internet Resource Pages

NetscapeWorld - http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/
Yahoo Index of Web Resources and Help - http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/
Fixing and Preventing Web Pages that Suck - http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
HTML 4.0 Specifications from W3C - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
Privacy and anonymity on the Internet from Center for Democracy and Technology - http://www.cdt.org/
NetscapeWorld Article on Cookies - http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-cookiehowto.html
Switchboard Telephone directory (see if you're included) - http://www.switchboard.com/
ypameritech: Learning University - http://www2.stlu.com/fd/ypameritech.asp

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