Ever want to wear XRAY specs?

What would you see if you looked at your web page? Its skeleton? In this case, its CSS backbone.

If you edit or create your own style sheet, study other style sheets, or just wish you had started knowing what that was all about already, you must check this out.

XRAY

There's info about browser compatibility, but I can tell you it's seamless on today's Safari for the Mac.

See that XRAY button in the middle of the page? Drag it into your Bookmarks Bar. Yeah. Really. Then go to a page you want to XRAY. Pick any page, it really doesn't matter. Then click on that Bookmark Bar XRAY link.

A window appears. Follow the instructions. Suddenly you're in a world where code talks to you while showing you what it does.

Click the x in the upper right hand corner of the dialog box to come back to the world of the living.

Wrangle Type Design for a Style Sheet

Found a handy dynamic interactive type renderer to help you see what those various standard OS typefaces are capable of if given the right leading, tracking, word space and decoration treatments.

Visit Typetester to quickly see and compare on screen.

Neat-o.

Standards-based design with CSS

via a handout from the March 20, 2007 Webnet presentation
by Caroline Boyden, a member of the LSCR Web Team

HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq

W3C Recommended list of DTDs
www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

W3C HTML Validator
validator.w3.org

W3C CSS Validator
jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator

Web Standards Switch: or how to improve your Web site easily
www.w3.org/QA/2003/03/web-kit

Google Webmaster Guidelines
www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Where Our Standards Went Wrong
alistapart.com/articles/whereourstandardswentwrong

12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
alistapart.com/articles/12lessonsCSSandstandards

How to Grok Web Standards
alistapart.com/articles/grokwebstandards

The Way Forward with Web Standards
www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward

CSS Zen Garden
www.csszengarden.com

Layout Gala: 40 CSS layouts
blog.html.it/layoutgala

Still throwing tables
www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/07/27/still-throwing-tables.html