Colophon
Need to update for my new site, but here is the old one:
Other members of the development community and general public have contributed to this site (or the new version I'm developing) with the various tools, standards and guides they have created:
Accessibility
- Environment Canada's Adaptive Computer Technology Program
- ISO/FDIS 9241-151: Ergonomics of human-system interaction -- Part 151: Guidance on World Wide Web user interfaces
- JuicyStudio's Collection of Analysers
- Matt's Colour blind Web Page Filter
- Vischeck's Vision Tests
- W3C's Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices
- W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA): defines a way to make dynamic content more accessible.
- W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
- W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML) Accessibility Guidelines.
Publication Standards
- Creative Common's plain language content licenses: all publicly accessible content for this site protected under the Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's metadata tags: used in the XHTML pages to describe the content of this site.
- Google's Site Map standard and validator
- Friend of a Friend (FOAF): my Friend of a Friend file: describes myself, and the links between me, other people and things they create and do.
- Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative:
will be linked to each of my pages is an ODRL XML file explaining usage rights for the content of the page,
the file is a restatement of the Creative Common's License in a machine readable form. - Hixie's pingback standard: I'm planning to include pingback support on my new site.
- ICRA's PICS labeling standard and validator: all text entries, photos, movies and other downloadable files on this site are described with the appropriate PICS label to allow users to pre-filter my site based on their morality of choice.
- RORweb's Resources of a Resource (ROR) Site map: all text entries, photos, movies and other downloadable files on this site will be described and listed within my site's ROR site map.
- Talis's: proposed standard for Rdf In Html
- W3C's P3P standard.
- XML Sitemap's ROR site map validator
- XHTML Friends Network: a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
- Robots.txt / META Robots: directories and files that can be ignored by search engines have been indicated in my robots.txt file, and by using the appropriate meta tags within these documents.
- UK e-Government's Metadata Standards
- W3C's Link Tester
- W3C's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed standard and feed validator: the last 10 text entries added to this site will be described and listed in a RSS 2.0 feed.
- W3C's CSS 3.0 standard and validator: style sheets are used for all visual formatting.
- W3C's XHTML 1.0 strict standard and validator
: all pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 strict, and supporting browsers are sent the "application/xhtml+xml" content-type header.
Testing and Security
- Browser Shots: test your web design in different browsers
- CFUnit: a unit testing framework for Coldfusion.
- ColdFire ColdFusion Debugger
- ColdFusion 8 developer security guidelines
- Firebug: A firefox plugin for debuging CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
- Jens Meiert's Collection of Validators, mainly the site check page
- JsUnit: a unit testing framework for JavaScript
- Netscape's Browser Archive: so I can run and test in multiple versions of Netscape.
- Open Web Application Security Project
- Selenium: a functional testing tool for web applications (simulates a user's actions)
- TredoSoft's installer so I can run and test in multiple versions of Internet Explorer
Concepts and code
- Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden: many, many examples of creating layouts using CSS.
- Peter-Paul Koch's QuirksMode website: A collection of known issues and solutions with JavaScript and CSS on many browsers.
- ReCaptcha: I plan to use this for my login screen.
- Roger Johansson's Developing with Web Standards article: A very thorough introductary guide for anyone interested in developing with web standards.
- Seth Duffey's description of how to search images based on colour
- Steven Witten's jQuery color picker plugin
- Stefan Richter's 'Streaming' flv video via PHP, based on his work I was able to create code for 'Streaming' flv video via Coldfusion.
Other Tools
- Adobe's FREE Coldfusion Developer's Edition
- Adobe (Allaire/Macromedia) Homesite+: Luckily updated to support Coldfusion 8.0
- Adobe PhotoShop: used for layout graphics.
- Adobe Flash: used for video.