Software Development Resources
The author makes no assertions about the benefits or usefulness of any of the links below. They were just included to make it easier to find them again!
General
Accessibility Evaluation and Repair
STEP508, developed by GSA, prioritizes repair of accessibility errors on agency Web sites.
ASP.Net
.NET Banana, Geoff Snowman's Blog about ASP happenings
Blogs
I haven't gotten around to trying the bloggin' software, yet.
Blogger, free blog hosting.
eBloggy, free blog hosting.
LiveJournal, free blog hosting.
MoveableType, 30-day free trial.
myspace, free blog hosting.
TypePad, blogging for a monthly fee.
Browsers
Browser Hawk (Cyscape)
Browser Sniffer (Webreference.com)
DeLorie's Lynx Viewer, simulates what Lynx might do to your Web site.
evolt.org Browser Archive, where you can find downloads to older browsers.
iCapture, Daniel Vine's simulation of a Mac/Safari browser's view of a site
WebAIM Using Opera to Check for Accessibility
CSS
Web Sites
css-discuss, CSS technical discussion list. This is the place to go to if you want to talk about browser compatibility issues, or have the readers check out your site's CSS problems.
Eric Meyer, a CSS guru who wrote the reference book I'm using (see next section).
Floatutorial, everything you wanted to know about floating
Containing Floats, from Complex Spiral Consulting
Simple CSS, a free CSS editor to download.
TopStyle, a CSS editor. The "lite" version comes with Macromedia Studio MX.
Wiki, the "long-term memory" of the css-discuss list. Example solution pages.
The Opal Group's selectORracle. Cut and paste your CSS code in the form and the oracle will explain what the selectors mean.
Books
Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference. Eric A. Meyer. ISBN 0-07-213178-0.
Cold Fusion
House of Fusion, "Home of the ColdFusion Community".
CGI/Perl
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Extropia, Perl and Java resources for web application development.
Content Management Systems
The CMS Matrix. This site allows you to select up to 10 CMS at a time to compare their features.
opensourceCMS, a site created by an individual to allow one to demo PHP/MySQL applications.
I haven't had the time to delve into these, but here's a link from someone else who has listed them: Clueful Consulting.
Defect Tracking
Favicons
FTP
Slacksite.com, active vs. passive FTP
Graphics
GifWorks, a site that will allow you to play with an existing GIF file and manipulate it on-line. I don't use it, but someone else without good graphics software might find it useful.
Mapedit, image map editing software
The W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics main page
Hebrew Calendars
HTML
HTML Goodies. Hard to tell who owns the site, but might have some useful tips.
Java
Sun's New To Java Programming Center
Journals
Mail/Spam/Spyware
My SQL
Outlook, Outlook Express
PDFs, Acrobat
Create Adobe, Adobe's on-line PDF converter. Convert 5 documents free, then pay for future conversions.
CutePDF, a variety of PDF generation tools, some free to try.
Enfocus, vendor of PitStop, InstantPDF
PDF Online, has a free on-line conversion program that converts to PDF.
PDF995, PDF driver to generate PDF without Adobe
Deque Undoc, PDF to HTML/XML Converter
GhostScript, freeware that allows one to decompose PostScript, and also PDF files.
PGP
PGP, encryption software
Photoshop
PHP
SQL Server
Search Engines
Practical Search Engine Optimization
Poodle Predictor source page from Evolt.org. Poodle Predictor is an application you can use to enter your URL and the PP will spew out what a spider might see.
Site Solutions free site analysis tool
Software Development Methodologies
Bitpipe, sometimes has white papers on different topics. Their motto is "IT research white papers, product information, webcasts, and case studies".
Center for Technology in Government, has some white papers on software development methodologies and other things.
Web Stats
Hitbox (WebSideStory)
NetTracker (Sane Solutions)
Windows
Answers That Work's Window's Tasks Information
Win Guides, Windows documentation sources
Miscellaneous
Cover Pages: Articles on the Web (OASIS)
new.architect, Internet Strategies for Technology Leaders