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Now that you know how to use standards to improve your website, remember that learning is endless. Methods and techniques are constantly adjusting, improving and updating, and even when I was writing the last few words of the book.

Is there any way to lead better than standing on the shoulders of a network giant? There are now thousands of people discussing the wonderful design method that meets the standards. Where should we move forward next?

Before the end of this book, I have collected some of my favorite resources and I strongly recommend that you visit these sites from time to time in order to keep up with the latest developments in the Standard World. Organizations and Publications

http://www.w3.org

World Wide Web Consortium is where all standards originate, which is the organization that guides the Web and develops standards for our daily use. This website contains technical details of any standard. Although it is a bit difficult to browse and digest, it is indeed the decisive source of standard information.

Particularly helpful is the W3C verification tool (http://validator.w3.org). This tool is often used to ensure that your tag syntax is completely correct, that you can verify a certain URL, or upload a document being edited locally.

http://www.webstandards.org

Founded in 1998, Web Standards Project (WaSP) advocates Web standards to the public, and provides teaching resources to web designers and developers to teach how to implement practices that meet the standards. WaSP also cooperates with browser and software manufacturers and encourages them to follow the recommended standards.

The Web Standards Project website contains all the resources related to standards.

http://www.alistapart.com

Founded in 1998 by Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz, A List Apart magazine explores the significance, design and development process of web content, while focusing on the benefits of technology and following web standards.

This indispensable online magazine publishes many excellent tips and techniques in standard-compliant design, development and commercial topics. For website builders, this is a must-read.

http://www.csszengarden.com

CSS Zen Garden, a member of WaSP, demonstrates what visual effects can be achieved by CSS-based design. The designers refer to the same marking structure and submit their own CSS design, which results in an increasingly updated advanced CSS design display site.

This is a great source of inspiration and is also suitable for throwing it to opponents of CSS (I mean those who believe that CSS doesn't do big designs, ha! Maybe it will remind you of some people?)

http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org

Mark Pilgrim released this e-book to help people understand how easy it is to implement ease of use and how those people can benefit from it.

From the perspective of five different people, each has a different disability, and the information provided here is very easy to understand. After reading Mark's explanation, you will know how to make the website better.

http://www.css-discuss.org

css-discuss is an email group that specializes in discussing CSS and how to apply it in reality. It is a good place to explore CSS, ask questions, and get answers. There are many helpful friends here, who have sufficient knowledge to lead you to solve almost all problems.

http://web-graphics.com

Web-Graphics is a collection of hypertext design resources, links and comments. A group of famous editors provide web-standard design and development news. It is a great place to learn new information from the team.

http://www.digital-web.com

Published by Nick Finck, Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine full of columns, news and teaching written to web designers.

http://weeklystandards.com

Like its name, The Weekly Standards is updated weekly, and dedicated to websites that adhere to standards and consider the future carefully designed. Here you can find many websites designed according to standards, frequently updated. Logs with influence and inspiration

Many of the most talented designers and developers in the standard community will publish logs on their own websites. As long as you read these logs frequently, you will learn a lot when the master teaches knowledge.

http://www.zeldman.com

Jeffrey Zeldman, who can be said to be the godfather of the Web Standards, has been publishing web design news and related information since 1995. Zeldman is one of the initiators of the Web Standards Group mentioned earlier, the publisher of A List Apart magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards. Without this guy's efforts, this book would not have appeared.

This website is a source of information that complies with standard design and is also one of the websites that must be visited regularly in favorites.

http://www.stopdesign.com

Douglas Bowman, most famous for his redesign of Wired News (http://www.wired.com) and Adaptive Path (http://www.adaptivepath.com), publishes many useful teaching, commentary, and influences the ideas of many designers in the world of web standards. His skills in using Wired News were very influential in my redesign of websites for Fast Company, and no one pays more attention to details than he did.

http://www.mezzoblue.com

No one cares more about the every move of the standardized community than Dave Shea, who is also the maintainer of CSS Zen Garden. In mezzoblue, Dave often deals with the latest issues of standard-compliant designs and often leads the community to deal with existing issues. This website is an interesting resource library.

http://www.meyerweb.com

Eric Meyer is regarded as an expert in any aspect of CSS, and he has written several great books on this topic, while working on consultants, speeches and Netscape is constantly advocating for web standardization. His website has great CSS annotations, as well as some great presentations and experiments.

http://tantek.com/log/

The author of the box model Hack mentioned earlier. He is also a Microsoft employee, a member of the CSS and HTML work group of W3C.

http://www.whatdoiknow.org

Designer Todd Dominey is the personal site of many great designs that meet the standards, including the wonderful website of PGA Championship (http://www.pgachampionship.com/)

http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/

Web designer and developer D. Keith Robinson, who often provides ideas and questions related to standard design and development issues.

www.superfluousbanter.org

Dan Rubin and Didier Hilhorst not only make beautiful websites, but also provide relevant information here.

http://simon.incutio.com

Simon Willison is a developer and a member of the Web Standards Project. Here he writes information about PHP, Python, CSS, XML and ordinary network development. He always stands above network standards and checks how they are related to other network development work.

http://www.brainstormsandraves.com

Shirley E. Kaiser is a member of the Steering Committee of Web Standards Project, and records news about web design, development, standards, typesetting, music and more almost every day.

http://www.saila.com/columns/lcky/

In addition to the life of new media in Canada, from online news to building websites, Craig Saila's log often publishes some priceless information about web standards. Plus, his name is cool!

Reference books

I would like to mention a few books, which are unavailable reference materials for working designers.

Designing with Web Standards

By Jeffrey Zeldman (New Riders, 2003)

This book basically guides the fate of web designers. Jeffrey Zeldman carefully explains the web standards specifications, their benefits and why they are used, so we are all on the same level, you must read them.

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

By Eric Meyer (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000)

This is an authoritative reference for this CSS. You can 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 speed up your website with standard tag grammar and CSS, see size and auxiliary search engine indexing.

We are about to reach the end point. I hope that after leading you to read the whole book, you will have a new understanding of the standards-compliant website construction method. After reading several ways to achieve the same effect, you will be able to start making better choices in your own projects. At the same time, I believe you are also ready to convert the lengthy and ancient markup grammar into flexible structured XHTML and CSS design. Thank you for reading, this process should be very interesting!