Creating a Website: The Missing Manual

Chapter 1. Creating Your First Page

http://tinyurl.com/stats-browsers	Browser usage statistics
www.google.com/chrome	Google Chrome
www.microsoft.com/ie	Internet Explorer
www.mozilla.org/firefox	Mozilla Firefox
www.apple.com/safari	Safari
www.opera.com	Opera
http://validator.w3.org	W3C Validator

Chapter 2. Becoming Fluent in HTML

http://tinyurl.com/special-chrs	A list of special characters
http://tinyurl.com	The TinyURL address-shortening service

Chapter 3. Building a Style Sheet

http://caniuse.com	Browser compatibility information for CSS3 features
www.cssportal.com/css3-color-names	List of CSS color names
www.colorpicker.com www.colorschemer.com/online.html	Fancy color-picking tools
http://tinyurl.com/cr9oyx http://tinyurl.com/325f9qs	Fonts that you can safely use with no extra configuration
http://tinyurl.com/font-face-guide	How to use do-it-yourself embedded fonts
www.google.com/fonts	Google-supplied web fonts

Chapter 4. Adding Graphics

http://tinyurl.com/2gy2vyg	Ways to use SVG graphics
http://tinyurl.com/FileOptimizer http://imageoptim.com	Image file shrinkers
http://tinyurl.com/ypf78g	How to create transparent PNG images with Photoshop
www.gimp.org	Free GIMP image editor
www.getpaint.net	Free Paint.NET image editor
www.grsites.com/textures www.backgroundsarchive.com	Free background background textures
http://images.google.com	Google image search
http://sxc.hu	Free images at Stock.XCHNG (now freeimages)
www.flickr.com/search/advanced	Advanced Flickr search (helps to find free images)
www.istockphoto.com www.fotolia.com www.dreamstime.com	Commercial stock photo sites
http://tinyurl.com/49yquv3	Tips for finding free images

Chapter 5. Working with a Web Editor

https://creative.adobe.com/plans	Adobe Creative Cloud plans
http://tiny.cc/creativecloud	Sign up for the Creative Cloud 30-day trial
http://tinyurl.com/freeEW	Expression Web (download)
www.asp.net/vwd	VIsual Studio Express for Web
http://brackets.io	Brackets
www.youtube.com/user/CodeBrackets	Brackets tutorials
http://blog.brackets.io	News on the brackets blog
http://notepad-plus-plus.org www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler www.sublimetext.com	Advanced text editors

Chapter 6. Linking Pages

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder	Make text safe for a URL
http://validator.w3.org/checklink	W3C link checker

Chapter 7. Designing Better Style Sheets

http://paletton.com	Color-picking tool
http://tinyurl.com/css-specific	CSS precedence (for when rules conflict)

Chapter 8. Page Layout

http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer	Web Developer extension for Chrome and Firefox
http://tinyurl.com/mq-for-mobile	Using media queries to switch layouts
www.csszengarden.com	CSS Zen Garden style sheet examples
http://tinyurl.com/php-in-html	Giving .htm or .html files the ability to run PHP code

Chapter 9. Getting Your Site Online

http://tinyurl.com/rnlmf	Top-level domains for specific countries
www.instantdomainsearch.com	One of many domain-searching tools
www.dreamhost.com www.hawkhost.com www.hostgo.com www.insiderhosting.com www.mddhosting.com www.ocssolutions.com www.pair.com http://speedysparrow.com www.stablehost.com	A few of the many reputable web hosts you can use for your site
http://tinyurl.com/5zffwp	WebHostingTalk discussion board
www.free-webhosts.com.	A catalog of free web hosts (but don't use them unless you understand the risks described on page 297)
http://cyberduck.io http://filezilla-project.org	Free FTP programs

Chapter 10. Introducing Your Site to the World

www.google.com/addurl	Add your site to Google
www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url	Add your site to Bing
www.markhorrell.com/seo/pagerank.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank	How Google's PageRank algorithm works
http://dmoz.org	Open Directory Project (ODP)
http://dmoz.org/add.html http://dmoz.org/guidelines/	Rules for adding a site to the ODP
www.google.com/toolbar http://tinyurl.com/64bjmtd	Google Toolbar (for studying PageRank on your pages)
www.prchecker.info	Online tool to check your PageRank
www.webmasterworld.com www.searchengineland.com	News sites for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
www.robotstxt.org	How to use the robots.txt file
www.google.com/webmasters/tools	The Google Webmaster Tools
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals	Request that Google removes your site from its catalog
www.archive.org	The Wayback Machine (archived content of old sites)
www.google.com/analytics	Google Analytics

Chapter 11. Website Promotion

http://moz.com/researchtools/ose	Open Site Explorer (to find out who links to you)
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion	Reddit (and the rules for promoting yourself there)
http://places.google.com/business	Create a Google Places listing
http://adwords.google.com	Google AdWords
www.iterature.com/adwords	The story of an attempt to create AdWords-hosted poems
www.freecontactform.com/free.php	The basic script for a submission form
www.emailmeform.com www.123contactform.com	Form submission services
http://twitter.com	Twitter
https://twitter.com/settings/account	Twitter account settings page
www.facebook.com/pages/create.php	Create a Facebook Page
www.facebook.com/badges http://tinyurl.com/get-like-button http://tinyurl.com/get-like-box	Get a Facebook badge, Like button, or Like box for your site
http://plus.google.com	Google+

Chapter 12. Adding a Blog

http://feedly.com http://theoldreader.com http://newsblur.com	Popular feed readers
http://tinyurl.com/chromefeeds	Feed-reading plug-in for Chrome
http://wordpress.org	WordPress (for self-hosters who want to install the software)
http://wordpress.com	WordPress (the free hosted version)
www.blogger.com	Blogger
www.typepad.com	TypePad
http://mostpopularwebsites.net/1-50	The top 50 most popular websites
http://drupal.org www.joomla.org	Content-management systems
http://help.blogger.com	Blogger help
http://productforums.google.com/d/forum/blogger	Blogger discussion forms
http://tinyurl.com/295vg5	Blogger’s template codes
http://tinyurl.com/n2zsbl	Giving your blog a custom domain
http://tinyurl.com/3n4hvu	BlogThis tool for blogging links

Chapter 13. Making Money with Your Site

www.google.com/adsense www.google.com/adsense/taxinfo www.google.com/adsense/policies	Google AdSense
www.google.com/services/adsense_tour	An introductory AdSense walkthrough
http://affiliate-program.amazon.com	Amazon Associate program
www.cafepress.com www.zazzle.com	Marketplace for printing and selling personalized goods
www.paypal.com	PayPal (for shopping cart buttons)
www.paypal.com/fees www.paypal.com/chargeback www.paypal.com/SellerProtection	Information about PayPal's fees, buyer charbacks, and PayPal’s Seller Protection program

Chapter 14. JavaScript: Adding Interactivity

http://tinyurl.com/undef-js	How to check for undefined variables
www.w3schools.com/jsref	A JavaScript reference that details the properties and events of every element
www.dynamicdrive.com	Dynamic Drive (sample scripts)
www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/slashdot.htm	The Slashdot menu script
http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2	The Lightbox script for pictures
http://tinyurl.com/webmonkey-js	The Web Monkey JavaScript tutorial
http://jquery.com	jQuery (JavaScript library)
http://mootools.net	MooTools (JavaScript library)
http://dojotoolkit.org	Dojo (JavaScript library)

Chapter 15. Dynamic Buttons and Menus

www.buttongenerator.com www.grsites.com/button	Tools for making button images
http://css-tricks.com/examples/ButtonMaker	Tool for making CSS3-styled buttons
http://tiny.cc/ihover	An animated button library that use JavaScript and CSS3
http://learn.jquery.com	jQuery learning center

Chapter 16. Audio and Video

http://audacity.sourceforge.net www.goldwave.com	Sound editors
http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar	MP3 encoder support for the Audacity sound editor
http://incompetech.com/music www.bensound.com http://musopen.org/music	Find free music to use on your site
http://tinyurl.com/custom-player	How to build a custom media player
www.flashkit.com/loops	Free loops for background music
http://tinyurl.com/vid-for-ev	Using fallbacks to provide video in multiple formats
http://handbrake.fr www.mirovideoconverter.com	Tools to convert video files to different formats
http://www.jwplayer.com http://flash.flowplayer.org	Flash media players (a fallback for browsers that don't support the HTML5 media elements)
www.YouTube.com	YouTube
http://tinyurl.com/66onkub	YouTube help for video uploading
http://tinyurl.com/2kxnv3	Customizing the YouTube video box

Appendix A. Where to Go from Here

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The Mobile Web Handbook (a book from Smashing Magazine)