Trusted services, tested tools, and educational web sites
Services
Copywriting
GlobalWrites
Trust JoAnn Takasaki for the writing and editing of your web site, case studies, e-mail newsletters, and interactive multimedia. In addition she also provides advertising copy, promotional copy, marketing collateral, business letter writing, brochure copy, and editorial writing services for travel, food, and restaurants..
Words By Joy
Joy Underhill has been writing for corporations for more than 20 years. Her writing services include brochures, web content, white papers, feature and trade articles, press releases, newsletters, TV spots, technical writing, etc.
Programming
SpinVisible
Ricardo Emans is one of the very few programmers who has an intuitive understanding of good usability design and can correctly implement a graphic designer’s look and feel into a functional dynamic web site.
Creative Multimedia Communication
Do you live in Europe and are looking for a seasoned programmer to build complex dynamic web sites and interactive CD-ROMs? Working from Brussels, Patrick Marioné is your answer.
Service directory
The AdHub
Browse the AdHub online directory to find advertising agencies and marketing resources in Upstate New York. And if you are a writer, programmer, Flash expert, online marketing/SEO consultant, public relation specialist, or offering other online creative services, add your name to this directory so that we can find you! (And contact me too!)
Tools
Interface design
Project Seven
Extraordinary, well-thought out, cross-browser extensions to Dreamweaver will help you build CSS-based dynamic navigation systems, tab panels, accordion panels, and slide shows.
Flash slide show builder
DWUser.com
If you are a graphic designer looking for tools that will let you customize almost everyting in pre-set templates, the XML Flash Slideshow is for you. It combines the power of XML with Flash to create elegant and powerful image galleries at any size and with audio. This is a Dreamweaver extension. No Flash knowledge is needed.
Web site traffic analysis
Google Analytics
Open a free Google Analytics account, add a piece of code on each page of your web pages, and know exactly how many people visited your site, what pages they visited, how they found you, etc. Google’s solution only tracks real people-visits—not the ones from search robots that can inflate your numbers.
Education
Cascading style sheets
- What are style sheets? (World Wide Web Consortium (W3C))
- CSS Tutorial (W3 Schools)
- CSS layout techniques, tips, and tricks (A List Apart)
- CSS coding demonstrations (CSSPlay)
HTML/XHTML
- Getting started with HTML (W3C)
- HTML 4.01 specification (W3C)
- XHTML 1.0 specification (W3C)
- XHTML tutorial (W3 Schools)
Internet and disability
- What is web accessibility? (A List Apart)
- Articles on HTML and rich-media accessibility, testing tools, standards, policies, and more (WebAim)
- Creating accessible forms (WebAim)
- Section 508 web site

