Assignment: Search, Evaluate, and Record Coding Assets for Beginners

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Sites With Basic XHTML Info

HTML(5) Tutorial & HTML Element Reference

W3Schools gives tutorials on an array of all things XHTML. Things like Basics, Elements, Links, Tables, Symbols, and Forms hardly cover the topics of these simple and clear tutorials. Then, once one has become more comfortable with the process of writing XHTML code, W3Schools also includes a section in which the tags are listed and described in brief. Further, the list shows when HTML5 will no longer support certain tags and which ones are new in HTML5.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

HTML Goodies

Quinstreet Enterprise's HTML Goodies website has many tutorials, from the early theoretical stage when planning one's future website to incorporating graphics and videos. Michaels Rohde's article, "How To Build a Website: Develop a Project Outline," covers material similar to Jesse James Garrett's strategy plane in The Elements of User Experience. The article, like most on the site, are easy to comprehend even for users with no technical background.
Created November of 1996
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

Sites With Basic CSS Info

CSS: An Overview

Codeacademy.com offers free coding instruction to its users. Their HTML/CSS section explains the function of CSS, reasoning behind separating content from appearance, CSS syntax, and things like backup values.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

CSS Accessibility

The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) explains and lists the most desirable accessibility features to be offered through the use of CSS. Further, TSBVI lists many other web resources that can help developers implement accessibility features, such as user-controlled stylesheets, relative rather than fixed units, and changing the size and/or color of input form controls.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

CSS2 tutorial

RichInStyle.com covers many important topics in their CSS2 tutorials: colors, fonts, padding, positioning, etc. These tutorials explain the reasoning behind a developer's use of them and then shows the reader how to implement them.
Created in 2000
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

Sites That Help With Color & Design Issues

ColorHexa

ColorHexa is a good website for help with design because it allows users to formulate their own colors through a number of techniques: blending, subtracting, and forming gradients. Also, each color's webpage shows useful color information, combinations, and a simulation of how one with color blindness would see those color combinations.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

CSS Color Codes

Quackit.com also allows the user to design a specific color and be given its hexadecimal number. Or the user can find the 17 official CSS color names and the X11 colors.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

Sites With Copy-Right Free Images For Non-Commercial Sites

Pixabay

Pixabay offers a copyright-free image search engine full of image results that can be used, modified, and distributed according to the user's whims. Further, these images are also approved for commercial use.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015

Flickr

When using the Flicker search engine to look for photos, a user has the option to limit their search to images with a Creative Commons License. Some can even be modified or used commercially.
Last Accessed February 09^th, 2015