The Engineering Web Page Guide

These documents can be found in the directory "/usr/local/info/eng/webguide" on Confucius.

How-To Documents

• Document Structure
• Fancy Bullet Lists
• Fonts!
• Icons and Images
• Creating CDE Icons
• Random Little Notes
• Server Side Includes (SSI)

Web Page Validation Tools:

• W3C HTML Validation Service
• W3C CSS Validation Service
• W3C Link Checker
• Bobby, an Accessibility Checker

Web Authoring Resources:

Resources from W3C, The World Wide Web Consortium

• The W3C Home Page
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page
  • HTML 4.01 Specification
    • Character entity references in HTML 4
  • XHTML 1.0 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Home Page
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 Specification
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Specification
    • Section 15: Fonts

Other Reference Sources:

• Netscape JavaScript Documentation
• Mozilla.org Web developer documentation
• MSDN HTML and Dynamic HTML Reference
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Color Table
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site

Tutorials and Examples:

• The CSShark Answers FAQs
• Adding a Touch of Style (Intro to CSS)
• Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial from Webmonkey
• Photoshop Crash Course from Webmonkey
• CSS1 and the Decorative HR
• Sample Perl CGI scripts from Chapter 9 of How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site

Some Interesting UB Web Sites:

These web sites are provided here as they are either sites you might want to provide links for, or which might contain useful information for your web site.

• Visual Identity Manual (includes downloadable multi-resolution UB logos): http://www.buffalo.edu/toolbox/visualidentity
• Events Calendar:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/calendar
• Facts about UB:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/facts/
• Campus Maps and Visitor Information Quick Links
  http://www.buffalo.edu/home/maps.shtml
• UB Postcards (send a postcard to a friend):
  http://www.buffalo.edu/explorer/postcards
• UB Today:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/