Useful links
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- Usability
- Accessibility
- Accessibility toolkit
- HTML and CSS
- XML and related technologies
- JavaScript and dynamic HTML
- Shareware
- Environment
- Paganism
- Gardnerian Wicca
- Archaeology and anthropology
- Graphics
- Left-handedness
- Psychology
- Inclusionality
- Sustainability
- Science and the history of science
- Friends' websites
- Sci-fi and other literature
- Sci-fi magazines
- Weird & wacky stuff
Usability
- Jakob Nielsen's web site - guidelines on usability from the guy who started it all
- Ask Tog homepage - a useful collection of articles on usability
- Usability Matters
- Macromedia article on usability testing
- How to make an annoying web page - this is an excellent guide to how not to do it
- Usability First - an online guide to usability - includes an excellent definition of what usability is.
- Glass Dog on Web Design - advocates making image subservient to content
- Usability.gov (US National Cancer Institute's pages on usability)
- Guardian article on usability - Jack Schofield, 21 March 2002
- Inclusionality and usability
- Usability for Pagan sites - some tips for specifically Pagan sites
- Visibone web design resources - guides, how-to, safe html colours, etc.
- Heal your church website - righteous web design. Mainly aimed at churches and charities, but some good usability tips. Humorously presented as well.
- harpold.com home page templates
- Elated.com page kits
- Why "Click here" is bad linking practice
About Accessibility
- Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
- MakingTextLegible: Designing for People with Partial Sight
- digital media access group resources
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
- Accessible web design
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Macromedia Accessibility resources
- University of Bath accessibility resources
- A-Prompt Toolkit - a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs.
Accessibility toolkit
- Test your web page for accessibility
- Bobby - Web-based tool that analyzes Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities
- TASI toolbox
- World Wide Web Consortium toolbox
- CSS validator
- Lynx simulator (text-only browser)
- IBM toolbox
HTML and CSS
- Wise-Women: a website for women web designers
- W3schools.com - HTML, CSS etc tutorials and examples
- the house of style complete CSS guide
- css Zen Garden - the beauty of CSS design
- Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1
- A List Apart - for people who make websites
- The Little Shop of CSS Horrors - all the glitches in CSS and how to fix them
- Web Standards - some guidelines on web page building
- Meta tag builder
- Browser chart
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- Under construction - why it's a really naff thing to put on your web page
- Unleashing the Power of mailto URLs
- Visibone Webmaster's Colour Lab
- Zope stuff
- MySQL documentation
- Netskills Internet training
- Google directory of HTML links
- Virtual Salt - Robert Harris's web pages
XML and related technologies
- XSLT expressions syntax
- Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
- W3C SMIL page - Synchronized Multimedia
- RealText Authoring Guide (part of SMIL)
- Mozilla and SVG
- Entities and XSLT
- XSL-FO tutorial
- Apache FOP FAQ
- Dublin Core Metadata
- QAML - FAQ mark-up language
- Inclusionality and usability
Java Script and dynamic HTML
- HTML Guru (dynamic HTML)
- The JavaScript Source
- PageResource.com - Beginning JavaScript Tutorials
- JavaScript City - A guide to free scripts, tutorials, and resources
- JavaScript.com
Shareware
Environment
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace index of GM foods
- Soil Association
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Centre for Sustainable Design
- Organic Centre Wales
- The Organic Supermarket
- Andy Goldsworthy - environmental artist
- Environment week projects - some really great Andy Goldsworthy-style sculptures by year 6 at Milking Bank, Dudley
- Pagan Cluster - a loose affiliation of individuals and affinity groups who bring an earth-based spirituality to actions for global justice and peace.
- Starhawk - eco-feminist, writer, witch, and activist
- 100Fires.com - thousands of titles on creating an ecologically sustainable, socially just and democratic world
- The Tree - dedicated to sharing information about the many different facets of knowledge about trees and forests: Trees and the Environment, British Trees, Cultivation, Tree Medicine, Permaculture and Agroforestry, Woodcrafts, Myths and Folklore, Philosophy, Customs and Culture inspired by trees, Forest news from around the world, Campaigns and lots more
Paganism
- I am Pagan by Selena Fox
- A beginner's guide to Paganism by Yvonne Aburrow
- Paganism & Polytheism by Yvonne Aburrow
- Paganism & food by Yvonne Aburrow
- Magical attunement to a new home by Yvonne Aburrow (updated 2002)
- Archaeology and Paganism by Yvonne Aburrow
- A Pagan perspective on death and dying by Yvonne Aburrow
- Amazon Listmania list: novels for Pagans
- Amazon Listmania list: Understanding the Craft
- Pagan Federation
- OBOD - the Order of Bards, Ovates, & Druids
- A Native American Worldview by Paula Underwood. "Hawk and Eagle: Both are Singing" - A Comparison Between Western and Indigenous Science - in which the author attempts to share the relevance of her shamanic training to Western science.
- The Three Worlds - Irish shamanism website - a well-designed and very informative site.
- Pagan Link - Paganlink is a network for all who honour and celebrate the spirit of the Earth. It aims to make Pagan and magickal ways accessible to anyone who is seeking them.
- The Dance introduction to Wicca. Some really good information for beginners and beyond.
- Pagan Cluster - a loose affiliation of individuals and affinity groups who bring an earth-based spirituality to actions for global justice and peace.
- Starhawk - eco-feminist, writer, witch, and activist
- Witch Vox - a proactive educational network providing news, information services and resources for and about Pagans, Heathens, Witches and Wiccans.
- University Pagan Societies
- Reclaiming - a Community of people, a Tradition of Witchcraft, and a religious organization working to unify spirit and politics
- Pagan Path - general Pagan links & resources; plus post office, forums, etc.
- Ginnungagap - a northern path site
- Ancient Latvian Paganism and Mythology - history, deities, festivals, and structure of Latvian Paganism
- Bobbins and Broomsticks - bespoke Pagan dressmaking service
- Poetry by Wabipenache - Under an Appalachian Moon
Gardnerian Wicca
- The Stone and Mirror Library (collection of resources)
- Beaufort House
- Doreen Valiente (site dedicated to her memory)
- Gerald Gardner.com (biography and readings)
- Notes on Gardnerian Witchcraft in England
- Gardnerian chronology
- Snazzdragon's Wiccan links
Archaeology and anthropology
- Time Team
- Archaeology: An Introduction The Online Companion (Kevin Greene)
- Athena Review Guide to Archaeology on the Internet
- History, Society, and the Land
- Roman Baths in Britain
- National Geographic: People and Cultures
- The Mani (in the Pelopponese)
- Historical archaeology
- Romans
Graphics
- Visual Arts Data Service
- PsychArt - public domain graphics of famous psychologists
Left-handedness
- Anything Left-Handed
- Left-Hander
- Famous Left-handers
- Google directory of left-handedness sites
- Handedness & Brain Lateralisation research
- Left Handers in Society
Psychology resources
- Internet Psychologist - a tutorial on Internet information skills for psychologists
- Psychology resources (Google web directory)
- Transpersonal Psychology resources: Jungians, Joseph Campbell etc (Google web directory)
- What about Jung? - a plea for the (re)introduction of Jung to undergraduate teaching, plus some interesting Jungian exercises.
- Tears of Llorona - a site about alchemy, psychology, spirituality, and much more
- CG Jung resources (Google web directory)
- Mythology (Google web directory)
- Psychology humour - includes such gems as "why I became a social psychologist" and "Psychotherapy Hotline"
- David Smail - Social Power and Psychological Distress
- Michel Foucault resources (Google web directory)
- A Foucauldian analysis of the Net
- Foucault resources at theory.org.uk
- Other resources at theory.org.uk - theory, gender & identity
- Valerie Walkerdine - a co-founder of critical psychology
- Critical Psychology Network: conceptual critique of the philosophical underpinnings and assumptions of psychology; its normalising practices and role prescriptions and the reproduction of oppressive practices of power.
- Radical Psychology Network: working for social change and social justice in the field of psychology; reexamining its ties to the status quo; aims to create a society capable of meeting human needs and social justice.
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men experiment
Inclusionality
- Ted Lumley
- Alan Rayner
- Resonance - haiku on inclusionality
- More haiku on inclusionality
- Inclusionality and usability
- my thoughts on, and images of, inclusionality
- Zen Circle, Yin-Yang, Heyiya-if, Mu
Sustainability
- Co-operative Intelligence - exploring a space that's opening up in society - a space for cooperation, for inclusion and negotiating power away from traditional structures and institutions, and challenging traditional orthodoxies.
- The Web of Hope - by seeking out solutions from around the world, The Web of Hope highlights all the projects, mechanisms and technologies which can help us make the shift to a sustainable world.
- Authentic Business - bringing authenticity and trust back into business
Science and the history of science
- F David Peat
- Strobel's astronomy notes - includes the Theory of Relativity, characteristics of life, and other useful stuff
- The Periodic Table on the Web
- The 100 nearest star systems
- MIThenge
- Development of Philosophical Thought and Scientific Method in Ancient India
- Eurocentrism in the history of science
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Who burnt the Great Library of Alexandria?
Friends' websites
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Sci-fi and other literature
- Scifaiku
- Liz Williams' Empire of Bones
- Liz Williams' The Ghost Sister
- Neil Gaiman (author of The Sandman, Stardust, Smoke and Mirrors, American Gods; co-author of Good Omens)
- Ursula Le Guin
- Robert Holdstock (author of Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Bone Forest, etc.)
- Akua Lezli Hope - poetry, art, sci-fi (published in Dark Matter, the first anthology of SF/F by African Americans
- Asimov's
- Interzone
- The Third Alternative
- Realms of Fantasy
- Visionary Tongue
- Albedo One
- Scheherezade
- GENREzone
- Unhinged
- 3SF
Science fiction magazines
Weird & wacky stuff
- Cyborg Barbie
- Download the entire Internet
- Bottle Museum
- The Museum of Hoaxes
- Feline reactions to bearded men
- Massive Corporation's feline division
- Computer error haiku
- Langton's Ant applet
- Langton's Ant software
- Langton's Ant links
- The Toaster Museum
- Human Clock
- Report on Resistentialism
- Bruce's Lego Site
- TV test cards around the world
- Manhole covers
- Ukrainian bus shelters
- Dull men.com
- Genetic Expressions - genetically mutated symbolic expression trees used to create different sorts of art-like pictures and models.
- Etch-a-Sketch online (requires Java)
- Online bubblewrap (requires Flash)