Standards, Guidelines, & Patterns
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Standards
Benefits and ROI (Why Standards?)
- 10 Reasons for Web Standards - Simon Jessey
- 3.2 Create documents that validate to published formal grammars
- 5 questions to ask your web development team - John Allsopp
- 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Better Control and Cost Savings with Style Sheets - Robert Nyman
- Built Like a House - Mike Cherim
- Business Case for Web Standards Wiki - Created By Chris Heilmann
- Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites - Dominique Hazael-Massieux
- CSS Based Design - Jeremy Keith
- Do Web Standards Have a Future? - John Allsopp
- Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Big Companies - Peter-Paul Koch
- My Web site is standard! And yours? - Karl Dubost
- Standards Savings - Eric A. Meyer
- Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards - Roger Johansson
- The Benefits of Web Standards to Your Visitors, Your Clients, and You! - Russ Weakley
- The Business Case for Web Standards Wiki - Christian Heilmann
- The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards - Alan K'necht
- The Need for Web Design Standards - Jakob Nielsen
- Turning the Tables, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Standards - Drew McLellan
- Web Blandards - John Allsopp
- Web Pages Aren't Printed on Paper - John Allsopp
- Web Standards for Skeptics - Michael Montgomery
- Web Standards For Business - Francois Nonnenmacher
- Whatever For...So, why bother? - Owen Briggs
- Why Standards? - Jim Waldo
Case Studies and Examples
- A Look at Internet Banking Accessibility in Australia - Sofia Celic, Steven Faulkner, Andrew Arch
- ABC News Redesigns - Mike Davidson
- Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test - Joe Clark
- Corporate Web Standards - Scott Gledhill
- Design sites do Web standards. Or rather, they don't do Web standards, either - Joe Clark
- ESPN redesigns with web standards - Jeffery Zeldman
- From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer's Journey - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Making News with Web Standards - Jim Ramsey
- Party like it's 1997: Microsoft has redesigned - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Rebuilding a Site With Standards - Eric A. Meyer
- Redesign Watch - Eric A. Meyer
- The State of the Art in Australian Web Development - John Allsopp
- WaSP Interviews Todd Dominey on the redesign of PGA.com
- Webby Award Validation Woes - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Worst Redesign of the Year - Joe Clark
Comprehensive Sites
- The Access Board - This is the official home of Section 508 provisions of the standards. The full set of their requirements is available at this site in the document
- W3C - It is the authoritative source for web standards.
Definitions and Overviews
- A Roadmap to Standards - Dave Shea
- A Three-legged Stool - Mark Newhouse
- ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer's journey to standards and accessibility - Randal Rust
- How to Grok Web Standards - Craig Cook
- Information Technology - Document description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language - ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission)
- Raise Your Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Spelling and Grammar not the Same - Jeffery Zeldman
- The Meaning of Web Standards - Derek Featherstone
- W3C Web Standards - Justin Cook
- Web Misunderstandards - Andy Rutledge
- What Are Web Standards? (Video) - Jeffrey Zeldman
- What is a Good Standard? An essay on W3C's design principles - Bert Bos
- What is a 'Web Standard?' - Molly E. Holzschlag
Education and Professionalism
- A Call for Education: How Do We Educate the Web Standards Kids? - Chris Mills
- A Proper Web Standards Education: Part 1 - Chris Mills
- Accessibility First! A New Approach to Web Design - Brian Rosmaita
- Acting locally (Draft): Challenges in Web Standards Evangelism - Tristan Nitot
- Beyond New Professionalism - Holly Marie Koltz
- Educating the Educators - Vicki Berry
- Encouraging Web Standards - Vicki Berry
- Go Out, Be Loud, Be Positive. Build a Profession - Cameron Adams
- Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group Charter - W3C
- Web Standards Curriculum - W3C Wiki.
Semantics
- About HTML Semantics and Front-end Architecture - Nicolas Gallagher
- Borderline Semantics/Crossing the Line - Niels Matthijs
- Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark
- Emergent Semantics - Eric A. Meyer
- Fake HTML is Always Semantic - Virginia DeBolt
- How Important Is Semantic HTML? - Steven Bradley
- HTML, XHTML, Semantics and the Future of the Web - Johsn Allsopp
- HTML5 Semantics - Bruce Lawson
- HTML5 Semantics and Accessibility - Steve Faulkner
- In Defense of Semantic Value - Niels Matthijs
- It's OK to Use Tables - Adrian Roselli
- Let's Talk about Semantics - Mike Robinson
- Lynx Would Not be Impressed - on Semantics and HTML - Christian Heilmann
- Markup, Namespaces, and Meaning - Tim Bray
- My Thing About the Thing That Thing Wrote About Thing - John Foliot
- Pursuing Semantic Value - Jeremy Keith
- On Semantics in HTML - Jens O. Meiert
- On Standards and Semantics - Douglas Bowman
- Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics - John Allsopp
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- Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies - John Allsopp
- Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics - John Allsopp
- POSH - Plain Old Semantic HTML - Roger Johansson
- Pursuing Semantic Value - Jeremy Keith
- Semantics and Bad Code - Dave Shea
- Semantic Brevity - Jeremy Keith
- Semantics By Robert Nyman
- Semantic Data Extractor - W3C
- Semantic Formatting for Interviews - Joe Dolson
- Semantics in
HTML Part I - Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics -
John Allsopp
- Semantics in HTML Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies - John Allsopp
- Semantics in Practice and Mapping Semantic Value to its Consumers - Paul Irish
- Semantic Mark-Up - BBC
- Semantic Mark-up - Rakesh Paladugula
- Semantics, Standards, Accessibility.. - Bruce Lawson
- Semantics - Why Bother? - Mel Pedley
- Standards Don’t Necessarily Have Anything to do with Being Semantically Correct - Jason Kottke
- The Value of Meaning - Kyle Weems
- WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp
- What Does Markup Mean? - Sam Ruby
- Why Use Semantic HTML? - Joe Dolson
Separation
- Really Separated? - Doug Bowman
- Gotta Keep 'em Separated - Jeremy Keith
- Separating Behavior and Presentation - Peter-Paul Koch
- Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma - Michael Cohen
- The Document Triangle - Peter J. Bogaards
- The Incomplete Divorce - Eric A. Meyer
- The Web Is Ruined and I ruined it - David Siegel
- Three Separated Layers, Capisce? - Robert Nyman
Structure
- 3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
- 1.2.1 Section headings
- Browser Support for New HTML5 Structural Elements - Virginia DeBolt
- Semantic Structure - Paul R. Bohman
- Structure First. Content Always. - Mark Boulton
- The Cost of Performance, Part 2 Tag Cutting - Niels Matthijs
- The Harsh Truth About HTML5's Structural Semantics, Part 1 - Luke Stevens
- The Harsh Truth About HTML5's Structural Semantics, Part 2 - Luke Stevens
- The Harsh Truth About HTML5's Structural Semantics, Part 3 - Luke Stevens
- The Marriage of Presentation and Structure (Video) - Ethan Marcotte and Molly Holzschlag
- The Structure of Accessible Pages - Joe Clark
- The Truth About Structuring an HTML5 Page - Luke Stevens
- Thoughts About HTML5 Structural Elements - Steven Bradley
- Use <h1> for top-level heading - W3C
- Use headings to structure your document - W3C
- Use Structural Markup - Andrew B. King
- Visual Vs. Structural - Tommy Olsson
Tag Soup
- 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean - Chris Coyier
- Keep it Clean - Your Blog and Clean HTML - Virginia DeBolt
- No Good Can Come of Bad Code - Jeffery Zeldman
- Stop Writing Garbage Code, Please - Mike Cherim
- Redefining Tag Soup - Faruk Ates
- The Elements of Meaningful XHTML - Tantek Celik
Validation
- 10 Common Validation Errors and How To Fix Them - Chris Spooner
- 3.2 - Create documents that validate to published formal grammars
- A Principled Argument - Matt May
- All That Glitters - Ethan Marcotte
- Who Cares About Validation? - Cameron Adams
- Ampersands and Validation - Roger Johansson
- Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML - David Dorward
- Accessibility, Validity, Guidelines and Law - Chris Kaminski
- ARIA and Validation - Henny Swan
- Authoring Invalid HTML - A key Factor in the Web's Success? - Vlad Alexander
- Beyond Validation - Joe Dolson
- Clean Compliant HTML Code vs Cost of Non Compliant HTML Code - S. R. Emerson
- Comments on W3C TAG EME - Henri Sivonen
- Committed to Sincere Progress, Not Perfection - WaSP
- CSS Validator Colour Warnings are not Errors - Roger Johansson
- Help! My CSS Isn't Working! - Eric A. Meyer
- HTML Validation is a Good Tool, But Just a Tool - Jukka Korpela
- HTML5 - Check it Before you Wreck it with Mike[tm] Smith - Steve Faulkner
- How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? - Steve Faulkner
- In Search of Validation.. - Ben Henick
- Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
- Invalid HTML Interfering with Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
- Knowing When to Break the Rules - Derek Featherstone
- On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May
- Scripting Away Validation Concerns - Gez Lemon
- Short Note on HTML Conformance Checking - Steve Faulkner
- The Fuji CSS Validator Release - Karl Dubost
- Understanding HTML5 Validation - Louis Lazaris
- Valid
garbage in, valid garbage out - Ian Hickson
- The Quiz- Ian Hickson
- Validated Ampersands in HTML Links - Christopher Schmitt
- Validation: CSS and HTML (Quick Tutorial) - Maxine Sherrin
- Validation: Does It Matter? - Owen Briggs
- Validation Matters - Roger Johansson
- Validation, Moderation, Constipation - Dave Shea
- Validity and Accessibility - Gez Lemon
- Validity and Accessibility - Web Accessibility Initative
- HTML Validation with ARIA - Michael Cooper
- Sweetness Follows? - David Sloan
- Web Standards Test: Top 100 Sites - Jeffrey Zeldman
- When Validation Becomes Unimportant - Jens Meiert
- Where Our Standards Went Wrong - Ethan Marcotte
- Will HTML 5 Validation be Worth the Candle? - Stackoverflow Question
- Who Needs Valid ID ATTRIBUTES or One HTML Tag Anyways? - Robert B. Yonaitis
- Why is Valid HTML Important to Everyone? - Vlad Alexander
- Why Validate? - W3C
- Why Validate a Web Site's Pages? - Raymond Sonoff
- Why Validate Your Pages? - Tom Babinszki
Related Standards Info
- An Essay on W3C's Design Principles - Bert Bos, March 6, 2003
- Application Foundations for the Open Web Platform - Jeff Jaffe
- All of This Has Happened Before and Will Happen Again - Adrian Roselli
- Bluffers' Guide To ISO 9241 - David Travis
- Complementing Standards by Demonstrating Commitment and Progress - Sarah Horton, David Sloan, and Henny Swan
- Designing Ebooks with Web Standards - Kristofer Layon
- Of Patterns and Power - Web Standards Then and Now - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Opening Standards - Doug Schepers
- Standards Matter - Kyle Weems
- The Web is not Poor Man's Native - Chris Wilson
- The (Other) Web We Lost - John Allsopp
- The Web Stack - Eric Meyer
- Tim's Dream for the Web - Timothy Chien
- Tour of the Sausage Factory (Video) - Bruce Lawson
- U.S. Web Design Standards - 18F o GSA and US Design Services
- U.S Web Design Standards - Rakesh Paladugula
- Web Inventor Berners-Lee Warns Forces Are 'Trying to Take Control' - James Hurley
Guidelines and Best Practices
- A National Direction for International Standards - Rick Jelliffe
- A Web Standards Checklist - Russ Weakley
- Developing With Web Standards Recommendations and Best Practices - Roger Johansson
- Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines - Jared M. Spool
- First Principles - Bruce Tognazzini
- General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines - The Trace Center
- Guidelines for Authoring - W3C
- How to Create a Standardized Web Site Development Workflow - Christian Watson
- iPhone-Specific Web Development Misguided - Christopher Schmitt
- Poor Man's Styleguide - Bryan Braun
- Quality Tips for Webmasters - W3C
- Research Based Web Design and Usability Guidleines - Usability.gov
- Report: Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile - W3C
- Status of ISO 9241 - User Focus
- Style Guide Best Practices - Brad Frost
- The Matrix of W3C Specifications - W3C
- Web Accessibility Principles - WebAIM
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- When Guidelines Should Be Descriptive or Prescriptive - Jens Meiert
- Yale Web Style Guide, 2nd edition - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
Patterns
- 12 Standard Screen Patterns - Luke Wroblewski
- A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee
- An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design - Ryan Singer
- Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents - Kyle Downey
- Can Object Oriented Principles Be Applied To Web Design? - Steven Bradley
- Design Pattern Library - Yahoo
- Experiences - A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee
- Getting Your Website Right - Uses and Misuses of Web Design Patterns - Nathan Langley
- Information Design Patterns - Niceone
- Interaction Design Patterns - Martijn van Welie
- Interaction Pattern - Tom Erickson
- Improving Web Information Systems with Navigational Patterns - Gustavo Rossi, Daniel Schwabe and Fernando Lyardet
- Patterns of Hypertext - Mark Bernstein
- Patterns for Personal Web Sites - Mark L. Irons
- Patterns Home Page - hillside.net
- The Elements of a Design Pattern - Jared M. Spool
- The Interaction Design Patterns Page - Tom Erickson
- UI Patterns and Techniques - Jenifer Tidwell
- Webpatterns
- WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp
- Pattern Quiz I - Site Patterns - John Allsopp
- Website Patterns By Portland Pattern Repository
- Web Patterns: Q & A with John Allsopp - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Presentation Patterns - Jonathan Snook
- WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp
- What's a Pattern? - Yahoo Design Pattern Library