Themes: Other Resources

This topic includes links to other information about technologies related to themes.

Theming

• Upgrading Themes from 1.x to 2.x

Related Technologies

• Freemarker
  

HTML and CSS Resources

Books

• Designing With Web Standards
  
• Don't make me think
  

Web sites/articles

• 37 steps to bulletproof HTML : some of this will seem pedestrian to some of you, to others it might be a revelation.
• CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Zen Garden
• class="clearfix" : What the hell is that?
  
• Explorer Exposed
• • Many of Explorers bugs can be source to hasLayout: On having layout.
• CSS hack filters/support (used with many caveats)

Blogs about web standards, CSS bleeding-edge techniques, and accessibility.

• A List Apart
• 456 Berea Street
• Green Beast
• W3Schools is a great online CSS/HTML/JS/etc. reference. By no means perfect or complete, but a great quick reference.
• Sitepoint also has a good CSS and HTML reference guide.
• PPK's (Quirksmode) compatibility tables are a great reference for which browsers support what specs.

Developer Tools

Firefox Extensions:

• Firebug (note different versions for FF 2 and 3).
• Web Developer was the Firebug before there was a Firebug, it still does some things Firebug can't.
• View Source Chart is a great tool to quickly visualize rendered structure of page. Great for comparing two pages that rendering consistently.

IE Developer Toolbar:

• Developer Toolbar is nowhere near as nice as Firebug, but take what you can get. Works for IE6 or IE7 but will not work properly on stand-alone versions of the browser.
• Validators. Many of these are built in to Web Developer (see FF extensions) that make it easier to validate local code.
• • CSS
  • Others