Links on Web design

• The HTML 4.01 standard (not always easy reading, but definitive on what is legal and illegal HTML).

• Tutorials and Style Recommendations for writing Web pages

• WebMonkey, a widely-used source of information for Web developers, including handy HTML references

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  ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international, independent organization that provides a rating system for Web pages. The author of the page fills out a form rating the page for nudity, sexual activity, language, violence, etc. and parents can set the Web browsers on their home computers to allow or deny access to sites based on the sites' ratings and the parents' standards and preferences.

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  NetParents was founded to give parents easy access to information and tools for controlling their children's access to the Net. It does not advocate any particular standards, nor any particular filtering software, but only the general notion that the power to limit content belongs with parents, enforced at the receiving end, rather than with government, enforced at the publishing end.

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  The "Any Browser Campaign" is not about Net privacy at all, but rather about Net accessibility: to wit, it opposes the construction of Web sites and pages that can be used only with Netscape 7.0, or only with Internet Explorer 9.3, or only on Windows machines with a screen size of 1280x1024, or whatever. Most of my pages have been designed using less than cutting-edge HTML, and in such a way that people with slow connections, and even people using text-only browsers like lynx, can see all but the inherently multi-media content on the page. Where I have used frames, I've been careful to include a <noframes> tag to tell lynx users how to get at the content. And so on.

  

  On a related topic, Bobby is a Web-based program that checks your Web page for accessibility -- to the blind, the deaf, or just those with slow Net connections -- and produces a report pointing out common problems in your page and how to correct them. The "Bobby Approved" icon indicates that this page has passed the test with "four stars".