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Brian Fitzgerald

Cambridge Followup

This morning I worked with two students from Cambridge, Nebraska on web development topics. Here are the links and other resources that I mentioned during that time.

h3. Downloadable Files

  • "Completed _America_ Project":[www.brianfitz.net/america_f...](http://www.brianfitz.net/america_finished.zip)

h3. Web Sites

  • "CSS Zen Garden":[www.csszengarden.com](http://www.csszengarden.com/) This site show what's possible with CSS by inviting CSS designers to contribute stylesheets to style a common html file.
  • "CSS Vault":[www.cssvault.com](http://www.cssvault.com/) A showcase of CSS sites
  • "Stylegala":[www.stylegala.com](http://www.stylegala.com/) Another showcase/magazine covering css
  • "Layout-o-matic":[www.inknoise.com/experimen...](http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php) Have the basics of a css layout built for you.
  • "List-o-matic":[www.accessify.com/tools-and...](http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/list-o-matic/) Have a css-based navigation created with a list built for you
  • "Glish":[glish.com/css/](http://glish.com/css/) A source for solid, basic css layouts.
  • "Digital-Web Magazine":[www.digital-web.com](http://www.digital-web.com/) IMHO, One of the best standards-based web design magazines
  • "A List Apart":[www.alistapart.com](http://www.alistapart.com/) What some may consider the center of the standards universe, this is where you will find some of the best articles and information about standards-based design.

h3. Books

  • "Designing with Web Standards (Jeffrey Zeldman)":[www.amazon.com/exec/obid...](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735712018/qid=1114802761/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-1101931-0476668?v=glance&s=books&n=507846&id=1114802761/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-1101931-0476668?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) If you are serious about learning standards based design, this book is a great place to start. It won't teach you any particular skills, but it will give you all of the background you need to know why you are doing what you are doing?
  • "Eric Meyer on CSS":[www.amazon.com/gp/produc...](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073571245X/102-4391777-8320103?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance) This is a good book for a beginning CSS developer as it takes web page elements that everyone builds like navigations and teaches how to build them with CSS using solid techniques.
  • "More Eric Meyer on CSS":[www.amazon.com/gp/produc...](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735714258/102-4391777-8320103?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance) An extension of the previous book.
  • "CSS Pocket Reference":href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007779/102-4391777-8320103?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance The other books are too large to carry everywhere you go. This one is small enough to bring with you and will remind you that you change font with font-family, not text-family.
  • "Bulletproof Web Design":[www.amazon.com/gp/produc...](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321346939/102-4391777-8320103?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance) A recent publication that, like the Eric Meyer books talks about how to create web pages using cascading style sheets that will be compatible with all browsers.