Doherty Web Class

This is the resources page for the Doherty High School (Worcester, MA) Computer classes, including the HTML class.

Projects

• The Doherty High School Wiki.
• Notes on Basic Web Design principles.

HTML Resources

• An HTML Reference.
• W3C Validation Service.
• WebReference.com. Reference material for web development.
• Charachter entities. Comprehensive, but a bit hard to read. There is another site that is probably more useful, if not as complete. This site is even simpler to use as a reference.

General Information on the Internet

• An Internet Timeline.
• The Internet Consortium which has statistics on the size of the internet.
• The Internet Society which has information on the history and workings of the internet. The about the internet page has links to histories, statistics, etc.
• Online internet surveys.
• Information on Top Level Domains, for example, ie, us, com

Examples & Templates

• Example 1 html file.
• Doherty Style Sheet

Example sites

• UseIt.com has lots of great advice for web site design. The site itself is a great example of simple design. The Alert Box columns are an excellent source of web design advice.
• Web Pages That Suck. Learn from bad examples.
• Worst of the Web.

Misc

• The powerpoint presentation. (The link may be deleted at some point)

© 2002 Steve Berczuk