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

Chris Gray cpgray at library.uwaterloo.ca
Tue May 1 16:37:50 EDT 2007


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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