General introductions and help
The advice to look at existing pages for ideas is a good one, but often they don't say how. In Netscape, at least, you can view "Document Source" from the "View" menu. Then it's a matter of learning to interpret what you see. Luckily, there are some sites that give at least an overview.For starters, here are a few good sites:
I got these out of IDG Books' Hip Pocket Guide to HTML 3.2, by Ed Tittle and James Stewart. At $15 it's the best guide I could find to HTML coding. The on-line stuff is good for ideas, but it's nice to have a reference book beside the keyboard while you're coding.
A few more helpful links:
Examples of Interesting Ideas
- Cool effect The Christian Scientists have a web page using a one-celled table with borders for a fun effect, used in these pages a few times.
- Two-column text The London Rainbow Tribe has adopted an approach that makes it fairly easy to read chunks of text on screen. Requires short paragraphs, though...
- Refreshing Corporate Watch's site gives you a look at their logo, before moving you on to their main page.
Graphics
Miscelaneous links:
- Mediarama's Color Page Builder
- Through the 6x6x6 Color Cube: An Interactive Voyage
- The Color Specifier For Netscape
- Free Graphics!
- The Online Bonsai Icon Collection - you'll see one or two of these in our pages.
And here's a .GIF graphic I picked up somewhere. You can include it with backgrounds to see what contrasts you'll get with different colors of text, links, etc.:
Getting Connected
- The Activist's Web-Starters Kit
- The Information Systems Working Group has an excellent set of resources included at their site at: (ISWG)