[Web4lib] Resources? -- Web Standards and Semantic Markup

Chris Gray cpgray at library.uwaterloo.ca
Tue May 1 17:00:11 EDT 2007


I suppose a link might help, eh?  
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/02/42/index4a.html?tw=design

Chris

Chris Gray wrote:
> Another article worth reading is Steve Champeon's "The Secret Life of 
> Markup".  He is another co-author of the book glasshaus book I 
> mentioned in connection with Owen Briggs.
>
> "The idea of presentation, and its separation from content and the 
> rest, is perhaps the most widely misunderstood but one of the most 
> important ideas in Web and document design."
>
> Chris
>
> Andrew Darby wrote:
>> There's oodles of information out there, but you could look at the Web
>> Standards site, and specifically the "Learn" section:
>>
>> http://www.webstandards.org/learn/
>>
>> It's not as fleshed out as one might like, but there's a set of FAQs
>> and numerous links under "External Resources."
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Jonathan Blackburn <jblackbu at mailer.fsu.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Everybody,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a library web developer looking for suggestions for some solid
>>> "introductory" resources for learning about the importance AND use 
>>> of web
>>> standards -- and specifically "semantic markup" --  in web design.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am providing a GA here in the library w/ a list of resources to begin
>>> reading related to a project he will be working on this summer.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (E.G. maybe, a set of intro sources he can review over about 8-12 
>>> hours -
>>> along w/ some more permanent reference materials he can refer to 
>>> over the
>>> course of the project.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have some nice (preferably web-based) resources you would 
>>> like to
>>> recommend, I would greatly appreciate it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jon :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Blackburn
>>>
>>> Web Development Librarian
>>>
>>> Florida State University Libraries
>>>
>>> AIM/E-mail: jblackbu at mailer.fsu.edu
>>>
>>> Phone: 850.645.6986
>>>
>>>
>>>
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