This site should become your primary source of up-to-date standards. It might initially seem quite ´nerdy´ but it remains the most accurate information source available.

NOTE: you can check your code in 3 different ways: via the URL of an online file, via uploading the file to be checked - or by inserting the actual code itself.

NOTE: you can check your code in 3 different ways: via the URL of an online file, via uploading the file to be checked - or by inserting the actual code itself.

NOTE: your pages need to be online, ideally within their own domain.

NOTE: your pages need to be online, ideally within their own domain.

"GAWDS is a world-wide association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers - designed to both promote and protect standards - not technical standards - but accessible design standards."
quoted from the site

"AccessibleNet.org is one of the most popular Web Accessility portals containing around 503 links about accessibility. "
quoted from the site

"AccessibleNet.org is one of the most popular Web Accessility portals containing around 503 links about accessibility. "
quoted from the site

"For people who make websites"
A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

design elements, trends and problems in webdesign

"Why do you surf, create, argue, love, attack, defend this medium called the World Wide Web?"
Scott Jason Cohen, quoted from article

"The Internet is the single greatest collaborative effort ever in the history of mankind. It is a funhouse mirror of our collective imagination..."
Scott Jason Cohen, quoted from article

"Insights into the purpose and effect of physical elements, design, and layout of web pages ...and why clients should let designers handle design."
Andy Rutledge, quoted from article

"... finally it means actually collaborating with a mutual respect, and understanding there are competing needs, and the art of good design is making the appropriate tradeoffs."
George Olsen, quoted from article

"... Finally there´s the most important way that a design method can be liberating: it gives you rules to break."
George Olsen, quoted from article

"... primary goal of communication design: to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read. To use design to communicate."
Dean Allen, quoted from article

"The web has (almost) always been about people....You see, geeks that we are, we often put technology before people in our work...I worry that we spend way too much time learning tools and technologies and not enough trying to develop empathy and understanding for the people who benefit most from our work. "
D. Keith Robinson, quoted from article

the neverending browser compatibility issue...

why use XHTML? Making the transition....

discusses the issue of separating content from structure