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Sites of Interest to Web Developers/Designers

Note the W3C and Microsoft appear more than one because I've linked directly to the relevant areas.

Validation

• W3C HTML/XHTML Validator
• W3C CSS Validator
• Viewable With Any Browser Campaign
• DJ Delorie's Web Tools - (including Lynx text browser tool)
• Cynthia Says - (accessibility checker)
• Watchfire webxact - formally Bobby accessibility checker, very in depth but seems to have a few bugs remaining.

HTML/XHTML/XML

• W3 Schools - Also javascript, ASP and some SQL. Great beginners site.
• HTML Help - Also CSS and some other things.
• W3C HTML 4 Ref
• W3C XTML 1.1 Ref
• XML 1.0/1.1 Refs - (See under Publications)
• W3C DOM Ref

Design

• The CSS Zen Garden
• Eric Meyer
• Jeffrey Zeldman - (wrote 'Designing with web standards')
• W3C CSS 2.1 Ref
• W3C AAI Refs
• US 508 Accessability Guidelines - (Many similarities with W3C AAI)
• Dublin Core Meta Data Initative - (Heavy going :)

Scripting

• 4 Guys from Rolla - (ASP/ASP.Net)
• MSDN VB Script Ref
• MSDN Dot Net Framwork Docs

Databases

• Mysql (Opensource)
• Postgre (Opensource)
• MS SQL (Online Docs)

DNS/Tools

• www.DNSstuff.com - WHOIS, DNS lookup, Reverse Lookup, GeoIP Lookup.
• Demon Networks Internet Tools - WHOIS, DNS Lookup
• Nominet - The .UK registry
• Apache - Software inclinding an opensource webserver
• Microsoft IIS - Documentation