Contents

Introduction

This is a continuation of the Basic Web Features document, and shows some advanced techniques for building web pages. It also contains links to reference documents and tutorials.

How-To Documents

• Document Structure
• Fancy Bullet Lists
• Icons and Images
• Server Side Includes (SSI)
• Perl SSI
• PHP 4
• Miscellaneous Notes

Web Page Validation Tools

• W3C HTML Validation Service
• W3C CSS Validation Service
• W3C Link Checker
• Bobby, an Accessibility Checker
• HTML Tidy, available on SENS Solaris/UBiquity systems

Local On-Line Manuals

SENS provides the following on-line manuals for the convenience of advanced web programmers:

• The Apache 1.3.27 HTTPD Server Manual
• The Perl 5.8 Manual
• The PHP 4.3.2 Manual
• The wwwcount 2.6 Manual
• The Analog 5.24 Manual

Web Authoring Resources

Resources from W3C, The World Wide Web Consortium

• The W3C Home Page
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page
  • HTML 4.01 Specification
    • Character entity references in HTML 4
  • XHTML 1.0 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Home Page
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 Specification
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Specification
    • Section 15: Fonts

Other Reference Sources

• Netscape JavaScript Documentation
• Mozilla.org Web developer documentation
• MSDN HTML and Dynamic HTML Reference
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Color Table
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site

Tutorials and Examples

• The CSShark Answers FAQs
• Adding a Touch of Style (Intro to CSS)
• Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial from Webmonkey
• Photoshop Crash Course from Webmonkey
• CSS1 and the Decorative HR
• Sample Perl CGI scripts from Chapter 9 of How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site

Some Interesting UB Web Sites

These web sites are provided here as they are either sites you might want to provide links for, or which might contain useful information for your web site.

• Visual Identity Manual (includes downloadable multi-resolution UB logos): http://www.buffalo.edu/toolbox/visualidentity
• Events Calendar:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/calendar
• Facts about UB:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/facts/
• Campus Maps and Visitor Information Quick Links
  http://www.buffalo.edu/home/maps.shtml
• UB Postcards (send a postcard to a friend):
  http://www.buffalo.edu/explorer/postcards
• UB Today:
  http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/