Useful Links

**HTML**
XHTML 1.0 Reference W3 Schools HTML tutorials. Allows you to try small changes to HTML and see immediate results. XHTML Information from W3 Schools www.htmldog.com- good tutorials on HTML and CSS Lots of HTML Information

**Color Information**
Web Safe Colors. This shows the 215 web safe colors all together. To see the hex value for that color, simply place the mouse over the color you want and look at left hand side of the status bar of your browser Color Picker. Another fun site which allows you to look at web safe colors and find their hex value Drag and Drop. This site allows you to place colors next to each other to see how they look. Also has a feature where you can look at the colors of the different types of text on a white backgroung Color Combo Gallery. User-submitted color combinations for some inspiration. *Note: not all of these are good combinations

**Text and Graphics**
Lorem Ipsum Generator will generate lorem ipsum text for your layout needs howstuffworks: How Bits and Bytes Work ASCII table ISO 8859-1 character set overview. ISO-8859-1 is the default character set for HTML documents. The HTML Document Character Set, a description of common characters used in HTML. Unicode Code Charts Unicode character example, a table of the fifrst 768 Unicode characters in HTML. Unicode fonts for Windows computers, where to get and how to use Unicode fonts in Windows. Vector vs. Bitmap Graphics Web Graphics, a great comparison of the GIF, JPEG and PNG. Graphics/File Formats FAQ, more than you ever wanted to know. Graphics Formats Explained

**CSS**
CSS1 Reference (SFU mirror of CSS1 Reference) CSS Guide, a CSS2 tutorial. It's a bit old. CSS 2 Reference with examples CSS Browser Support, a comparison of the CSS features that are supported by various browsers. Layout examples with HTML, XHTML, and CSS: You may look at these sites for ideas. Do NOT copy these as is. The Layout Reservoir Little Boxes CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit Open Directory: CSS Layout Examples More advanced CSS articles and sites: CSS/edge, experiments that push the limits of what CSS can do. Most work only in Netscape 7/Mozilla. The Noodle Incident discussions of CSS design principles. css.maxdesign, good information and examples with lists and floats. Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages, straight from Mozilla's mouth. CSS validator, validates style sheets. CSS1 specification, formal specification of CSS1. CSS2.1 specification, formal specification of CSS2.

**XML**
Introduction to XML XML Tutorial from W3Schools XSLT Tutorial from W3Schools Adobe's SVG plugin XML well-formedness checker and validator OpenOffice MathML demonstration

**Python**
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. Python Documentation Tutorial - sort of Built-in Functions that do not require importing a module Module Index- list of all the modules in Python IDLE Toying, a tour of the IDLE environment for Windows. Learning to Program, another introduction to Python. CGI programming with many Python links Python cgi module reference Python urllib module Python string module String formatting Python style guide good to check out so you don't lose points when writing code for not following conventions