Are you a Communications Director or Campaign Manager who has just been asked to take care of getting your organization a new website? Never done this before and not sure why it's part of your job? You're not alone! At least once each week I talk to someone in your position who seems lost and not sure where to start. So here's your guide, glossary and reading list to get started.

The web development world is a big place with lots of terms not used in other areas of the advocacy world. (And then there are words like "development," which has nothing to do with fundraising here in the Advomatic office.)

This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.

For the past two years, Go2web20 has been one of the biggest web2.0 directories out there. We built this application to enable people to stay up to date with all the new & hot services that are born daily into the web. In many cases, Go2web20 has been the first to report the existence of a new application.

As the number of people using mobile devices increases, so too does the pressure to ensure that our websites look good and are legible on a mobile device. The ideal, and unrealistic situation, would be to test on real handsets, but obviously this would be impossible for most designers. Fortunately, there are number of tools available online, allowing you to put your site through its mobile paces.

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As a producer of social documentary projects—viewed on digital platforms—Brian Storm talks about the excitement of doing journalism in this way, at this time.

For each of the 5 big topical trends described below, I've assembled some resources I think will be useful for anyone who wants to keep up with cutting edge developments in these fields in the next year.

Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.

Commentful is a service that tracks blog posts and more and notifies you whenever a new comment has been added.

Web site cl1p.net lets you copy and paste text between any number of computers.

notes for a tutorial on designing web pages

If you want to validate your website, you have to get rid of embed. In this article, I’ll show you how.