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Now that you know how to use standards to improve your website, remember that learning never ends. Methods and techniques are constantly being adapted, improved, and updated, even as I write the final words of this book It hasn't stopped either.
What better way to lead than by standing on the shoulders of Internet giants? There are already thousands of people exploring standards-compliant development, and the design approach is amazing. Where to go next?
Before the end of this book, I have collected some of my favorite resources, and I strongly recommend that you visit these websites from time to time to keep up with the latest developments in the standards world. Organizations and publications
W3C
http://www.w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium is the place where all standards originate. This is the organization that guides the Web and formulates the standards we use every day. This website contains the technical details of any standard. Although it is somewhat difficult to browse and digest, it is indeed a standard. The decisive source of data.
Particularly helpful is the W3C's validator tool (http://validator.w3.org). Use this tool frequently to ensure that your markup syntax is completely correct, you can validate a URL, or upload a local edit documentation.
Web Standards Project
http://www.webstandards.org
Founded in 1998, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) promotes Web standards to the public, and provides teaching resources for web designers and developers to teach how to implement standards-compliant practices. WaSP also works with browsers and software manufacturers Cooperate and encourage them to follow the standards promoted.
The Web Standards Project website contains all standards-related resources.
A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com
Founded in 1998 by Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz, A List Apart magazine explores the meaning of web content, the design and development process, while focusing on the technology and benefits of following web standards.
This indispensable online magazine publishes excellent tips and tricks on standard design, development, and business topics. It's a must-read for website builders.
CSS Zen Garden
http://www.csszengarden.com
Grown and cared for by WaSP member Dave Shea, the CSS Zen Garden demonstrates what visual effects can be achieved with CSS-based design. Designers refer to the same markup structure and submit their own CSS designs, and the result is a continuously updated A showcase for advanced CSS design.
This is a great source of inspiration, and also suitable to throw to CSS naysayers (I mean those who believe that CSS cannot achieve great design, ha! Maybe it reminds you of some people?)
Dive into Accessibility
http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org
Mark Pilgrim has released this e-book to help people understand how easy it is to achieve usability and who can benefit from it.
Taken from the perspective of five different people, each with different disabilities, the information provided here is easy to understand. After reading Mark's explanation, you will know how to make your website better.
CSS-discuss
http://www.css-discuss.org
css-discuss is a mailing group dedicated to discussing CSS and how to apply it in real life. This is a good place to explore CSS, ask questions, and get answers. There are many helpful friends here. Sufficient knowledge will lead you to solve almost any problem.
Web-Graphics
http://web-graphics.com
Web-Graphics is a collection of hypertext design resources, links and comments. A group of well-known editors provide design and development news that conforms to web standards. It is a good place to get new information from the team.
Digital Web Magazine
http://www.digital-web.com
Published by Nick Finck, Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine for web designers full of columns, news and instruction.
The Weekly Standards
http://weeklystandards.com
As its name suggests, The Weekly Standards is updated every week and is dedicated to websites that adhere to standards and are carefully designed with the future in mind. Here you can find many websites that are designed according to standards and updated frequently. A diary of influence and inspiration
Many of the most talented designers and developers in the standard community will publish logs on their personal websites. As long as you read these logs regularly, you can learn a lot from the masters imparting knowledge.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com
Jeffrey Zeldman, can be said to be the godfather of Web standards, has been publishing web design news and related information since 1995. Zeldman is one of the founders of the Web Standards Group mentioned earlier and is also the publisher of A List Apart magazine , with the author of Designing With Web Standards. Without this guy's efforts, this book wouldn't be here.
This website is a source of information designed in compliance with standards. It is also one of the websites that must be visited regularly in your favorites.
Stopdesign
http://www.stopdesign.com
Douglas Bowman, best known for his work on redesigning Wired News (http://www.wired.com) and Adaptive Path (http://www.adaptivepath.com) based on standards methods, publishes many useful tutorials, reviews, He also influenced the thinking of many designers in the world of web standards. The techniques he used at Wired News had a profound impact on me when I redesigned the website for Fast Company, and no one paid more attention to detail than him.
mezzoblue
http://www.mezzoblue.com
No one cares more about every move in the standardization community than Dave Shea, who is also the maintainer of CSS Zen Garden. At mezzoblue, Dave often handles the latest issues in standards-compliant design and often leads the community to deal with existing issues. This The website is an interesting resource library.
meyerweb.com
http://www.meyerweb.com
Eric Meyer is considered an expert on anything about CSS, he has written several great books on the subject, while working as a consultant, speaking engagements with Netscape and is a constant advocate for web standardization. His website has great CSS comments , as well as some great demonstrations and experiments.
Tantek Celik
http://tantek.com/log/
The website of the author of the Box Model Hack mentioned earlier. He is also an employee of Microsoft and a member of the W3C CSS and HTML working groups.
What Do I Know?
http://www.whatdoiknow.org
The personal website of designer Todd Dominey, who is the driving force behind many great designs that meet the standards, including the wonderful website for the "PGA Championship" (http://www.pgachampionship.com/)
Asterisk*
http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/
Web designer and developer D. Keith Robinson's personal website. He often provides ideas and issues related to standard design and development issues.
superfluousbanter
www.superfluousbanter.org
Dan Rubin and Didier Hilhorst not only create beautiful websites, but also provide relevant information here.
Simon Willison's Weblog
http://simon.incutio.com
Simon Willison is a developer and a member of the Web Standards Project. He writes here about "PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development". He always stands on web standards and examines how they relate to other web development Work makes connections.
Brainstorms and Raves
http://www.brainstormsandraves.com
Shirley E. Kaiser is a member of the steering committee of the Web Standards Project, where she "records news about web design, development, standards, typography, music, etc. almost every day."
Living Can Kill You
http://www.saila.com/columns/lcky/
In addition to "Life in Canadian New Media, from Online News to Building Websites", Craig Saila's blog often contains priceless information about Web standards. Plus, his name is cool!

Reference books
I would also like to mention a few books. These excellent books are inaccessible reference materials for working designers.
Designing with Web Standards
By Jeffrey Zeldman(New Riders,2003)
This book basically "guides the destiny" of web designers. Jeffrey Zeldman carefully explains web standards specifications, their benefits and why to use them, so that we are all on the same level. You must read it.
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
By Eric Meyer (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000)
This is the authoritative reference for CSS. Learn all CSS properties and how they work.
Speed ​​up Your Site: Web Site Optimization
By Andrew B. King (New Riders, 2003)
This book will teach you how to use standard markup syntax and CSS to improve the speed, viewability and indexing of your website by search engines. parting words
We are about to reach the end. I hope that after taking you through the entire book, you will have a new understanding of the standard website construction method. After reading several methods that can achieve the same effect, you can start Make better choices in your own projects, and be prepared to transform lengthy, archaic markup syntax into flexible, structured XHTML and CSS designs. Thanks for reading, it should be fun!