#26320
When you build websites that rely on cookies and they are expected to work with privacy settings other than default, you’ll have to deal with P3P. Read on to find out about the cornerstones of the Platform for Privacy Preferences, and get your hands dirty with an example guiding you from empty hands to a complete basic implementation.
Willerich, Matthias. Content with Style. Articles>Web Design>Privacy>Standards
#13545
Accessibility, Web Standards, and Authoring Tools
It's been a long trip, but we’re almost out of the dark. We finally have browsers that offer substantial support for several technologies established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards bodies. Designers and developers can use many core features of XHTML and CSS and sometimes DHTML without worrying about the hazards of cross–browser chicanery. As browsers have evolved, it’s become easier to comply with the W3C’s Web Accessibility initiative (WAI) and, in the United States, with the amendments to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 (commonly called “Section 508”).
Schmitt, Christopher. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Standards
#21052
Are Standards-Compliant Websites Better?
The adhoc way in which much of the web was developed has created a dilemma for web designers: should websites comply with standards, ensuring accessibility, or break the rules and work with older browsers? At this moment, the answer is simple: Websites should work with older browsers.
Baker, Adam. Merges.net (2001). Design>Web Design>Standards>Usability
#30133
A Beginner's Guide to HTML and Web Design 
The best place to learn about HTML is on the Web itself. A few of the best resources for exploring HTML design are listed here.
Quesenbery, Whitney. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Web Design>Standards>HTML
#21219
One of the biggest pains about making Web pages is having to keep track of which browsers support what features. Wouldn't it be nice if there were some way to keep track of it all? Well, we've whipped up a few articles and charts to make things easier for you.
#25718
The Business Value of Web Standards
Industry accolades aside, how important is standardization to an individual business like ours? Do Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes.
Veen, Jeffrey. Adaptive Path (2003). Design>Web Design>Standards>Business Case
#25252
CSS oder Cascading Stylesheets zeigt auf, was alles möglich ist im Bereich dieser Formatierung. Es werden Befehle für CSS 1 und CSS 2 behandelt und mit Beispielen erklärt.
Schwarz, René. Talky.de (2001). (German) Resources>Web Design>Standards>CSS
#21580
A collection of almost two hundred online resources about cascading style sheets.
#28951
Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines
A remarkable 80% of findings from the Web usability studies in the 1990s continue to hold today.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2007). Articles>Web Design>Usability>Standards
#21536
Character Entities in HTML and XHTML
This area includes a variety of references and tools such as: reference charts; important articles; and helpful tools.
#27012
Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part I
This article is Part I of a quick reference on color theory for digital displays. It is the first in a series of articles about the use of color in application program user interfaces and on Web sites.
Gabriel-Petit, Pabini. UXmatters (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>Color
#27013
Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part II
This article is Part II of a quick reference on color theory for digital displays. It is the second in a series of articles about the use of color in application program user interfaces and on Web sites.
Gabriel-Petit, Pabini. UXmatters (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>Color
#26849
Communication Challenges in the WC3's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 
In the first part of this article, we analyze a number of communication challenges and relate them to problems in conveying the November draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Based on our analysis, the second part of our article offers a number of recommendations for improving the comprehensibility of the WCAG 2.0 for its various intended audiences. Although our discussion has the November draft as its focal point, the recommendations are more widely applicable to other complex documents with diverse audiences. In the final part, we propose a new vision for the WCAG.
Brys, Catherine M. and Wim Vanderbauwhede. Technical Communication Online (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Standards
#23815
A quick reference table for the css properties!
PageResource.com (2003). Reference>Web Design>Standards>CSS
#20860
Web data (mainly in the form of pages) should live much longer than Web hardware and software. Even though most users go to the newer pages, older pages will still be of interest to some users.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1997). Articles>Web Design>Standards
#22944
Review: Designing With Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman shows us how we should be doing things, plain and simple.
Accessify (2003). Articles>Reviews>Web Design>Standards
#29329
Download our Site Template and Make the Leap to XHTML and CSS2
If you face a Web site redesign or need a head start on your development efforts, our free Dreamweaver MX XHTML and CSS2 template may come in handy. Download the template and see how XHTML and CSS2 can reduce coding time and increase site accessibility.
Morton, Shawn. TechRepublic (2003). Design>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
#26131
Draft 2 of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
It's time to take a look at the working draft of WCAG 2.0. You'll see a fresh approach to a formidable challenge.
McAlpine, Rachel. Quality Web Content (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Standards
#21526
The WaSP Dreamweaver Task Force was created in 2001 to accomplish two tasks of vital importance: To work with Macromedia’s engineers to improve the standards compliance and accessibility of web pages produced with Macromedia Dreamweaver, the market-leading professional visual web editor and development tool. Detailed objectives are listed below. This part of the group’s mission was largely fulfilled with the release in May 2002 of Dreamweaver MX, though the Task Force will continue to work with Macromedia as the company fine-tunes subsequent versions of its product. To communicate effectively within the online Dreamweaver community, raising awareness of web standards and helping others discover how their tools can be used to create standards-compliant, accessible sites. This work will continue indefinitely and is a key component of WaSP’s developer education outreach program.
Web Standards Project. Organizations>Web Design>Standards>Dreamweaver
#27297
Dynamic Content with DOM-2 (Part I)
The relatively recent emergence of peer-to-peer distributed computing and the renewed interest in real-time data exchange have stoked the embers of a hot topic: displaying dynamic content over the Web. Unfortunately, the statelessness of HTTP and the limitations of the rendering components of different browsers present significant challenges to web developers wishing to get fresh information to the client without sending additional requests to a server.
Apple Inc. (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards
#27298
Dynamic Content with DOM-2 (Part II)
This article dives into the JavaScript node interface and examines the different ways of altering the visible properties of an element or text node. You’ll first learn how to alter element attributes with DOM element methods, then you’ll see how to change an element’s style properties through the DOM Level 2 (DOM2) Style specification interface.
Apple Inc. (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards
#28819
Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies
Contrary to popular belief, designers and developers at many big companies use web standards in their work every day. They just don't talk about it. For standards awareness to reach the next level, they'll have to start talking.
Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2007). Design>Web Design>Standards
#28095
Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines
'Use a Search Box instead of a link to a Search page.' This is one guideline from the plethora of recently created usability guidelines to help designers produce more usable web sites. It makes sense. After all, there are more than 42 million web sites on the Internet. It should be simple to study these sites and put together a list of 'do's' and 'don'ts' that, when followed, will produce easy-to-use sites. But...
Spool, Jared M. uiGarden (2006). Articles>Usability>Standards>Web Design
#20896
Examining the Role of De Facto Standards on the Web
Just what are the design practices on the web that have the highest frequency? And are there design practices that all (or nearly all) sites employ?
Adkisson, Heidi P. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Standards>E Commerce
#20256
Experience Strangeglobe: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the W3C
Can the mysterious Dr Strangeglobe save the WWWorld from a conspiracy to contaminate our precious liquid layouts? Erika Meyer takes a non-standard look at the W3C in this charming yet educational spoof of the Kubrick classic.
Meyer, Erika. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Standards
