Handy Links for Webgrrls

See our members' web sites for other great resources.

Women and Technology

Wise-Women a website put together by the members of the wise-women mailing lists - an international mailing list for women who work with the web

Women in Technology offers women involved in all levels of the technology industry a wide range of professional development and network opportunities.

Guidelines

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Home of all things HTML and related

XHTML specifications in full detail

CSS specifications in full detail

Accessibility Guidelines keep your pages working for all.

New Zealand Government Web Guidelines

W3 Schools Tutorials on nearly everything

Validators

Validators check your code for accuracy, correctness and completeness. Help iron out those "weird" errors which crop up.

W3C's HTML validator Enter an URL or upload a page.

W3C's CSS Validator Enter an URL or upload a Stylesheet.

Watchfire WebXACT validator (was Bobby) checks Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities and offers alerts and advice.

Browsers

We all need a heap of browsers. Get them here.

evolt browser archive ofers an astonishing array of old and new browsers.

Safari for Mac.

Opera for Windows, Linux and Mac. Many powerful features for viewing Web pages. Highly recommended.

Firefox for Windows or Mac or other platforms.

Lynx text-only browser runs on a wide variety of platforms.

JAWS screen reader (Windows) is very popular with blind computer users. Also supports Braille.

FTP Software

Interarchy for Mac. Heaps of features and power.

WS_FTP for Windows.

Miscellaneous

HTML Tidy tidies up sloppy coding.

Big Brother checks links.

VersionTracker keeps track of Mac updates and upgrades.

WindowsTracker keeps track of Windows updates and upgrades.

Web Standards NZ is passionate about improving NZ websites.