Links

Westciv Self-paced courses and learning resources

Westciv provides excellent self-paced courses that teach the appropriate use html markup and how to style it using CSS. They always have one free teaser course running at a gradual weekly pace.

ALA: A List Apart

This is one of the better sites for practical articles discussing web standards and how to use them.

Street Level: Editors vs. Authoring Tools

Anyone who has taught HTML and web development has heard the question: "Why bother learning all these tags and attributes if you can use a WYSIWYG editor?" It's a fair question, so we asked some web developers who hand-code HTML why they do it.

Chunky Soup

This is a nice blog/web-design repository.

MACCAWS: Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards

MACCAWS' mission is to provide Web authors with the resources necessary to promote Web standards as a commercially desirable choice for clients.

Blue Robot

This is another handy repository for CSS layout tips and techniques

HTML Tidy

When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.

CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?

This article talks about the use and misuse of CSS as it pertains to accessibility

Accessibility Features of CSS

CSS benefits accessibility primarily by separating document structure from presentation. Style sheets were designed to allow precise control - outside of markup - of character spacing, text alignment, object position on the page, audio and speech output, font characteristics, etc. By separating style from markup, authors can simplify and clean up the HTML in their documents, making the documents more accessible at the same time.

glish.com – CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit

If you are looking for help making the transition to CSS layout (that's Cascading Style Sheets), you've come to the right place. I am cataloging here as many useful cross-browser CSS layout techniques as I can find....

Book: Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation

Suitable for Web designers and developers alike, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation provides an extremely approachable guide to some of the latest thinking on cascading style sheets for separating out content from presentation.