Links

Organizations

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Rhetoric Society of America
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Conferences

• Computers and Writing 2005
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
• GEA New Voices Conference

Listservs

• H-Rhetor
• WPA-L
• TechRhet

Websites

• RhetComp.com - Matthew Levy's RhetComp portal
• Silva Rhetoricae - An Online Database of Rhetoric

Journals

• College Composition and Communication
• College English
• Computers and Composition
• JAC Online
• KAIROS: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
• Philosophy and Rhetoric
• Rhetorica
• Technical Communication Quarterly
• Writing Center Journal

Blogs

• Free Weblog Software
• Dr. Pullman's Blog
• Kairosnews

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HTML

• Web Site Tips
• Index of Tags - An index of html tags.
• W3C Style Sheets Page - The official home of Cascading Style Sheets.
• Color Picker - Displays colors by appearance and hex code. If you're looking for a good background color, look here.
• Style Sheet's Tutorial - Tutorial on creating cascading style sheets.
• Web Reference Site - Everything you need to know about web site creation and maintenance.

Electronic Writing

• Electronic Writing - more practice than theory.
• Hypertext Resources - An online journal for hypertext writers.
• Electronic vs Print Media - How do you decide to go to the printer or the webster?

Usability

• MS's Usability Guidelines - Advice based on market and usability studies.
• Collecting Data From Users - Methods for creating Usable Sites
• Page Layout Analysis - Two Methods: greek text and category cards
• Page Layout Analysis - Goal: To determine how effectively a page design uses the space on the screen.
• Usability Dot Gov - More about usable user interfaces.
• Usable Web - Hundres of links to topics and issues in usability.
• Usability Methods and Tools - An encyclopedia of techniques and practices used in the usability industry.
• Jakob Nielson - Jakob Nielson, Usability Guru, offers advise and commentary on designing usable information technology.

Javascript

• Javascript - examples - Very thorough collection of js examples. CSS also.
• Javascript Source - Lots of cut and paste scripts.
• Javascript How Do I - How to create various javascripts. Copy and paste codes.

CGI / Perl

• 1 Perl Street - Claims to be the largest repository of cgi/Perl scripts.
• CGI Resources - Scripts for your website.
• Hot Scripts - whole lot more!

Unix

• Unix Guide - Unix Commands and links to other reference sites.

Typography

• Typography Explained - Thorough explanation of what fonts are and how they are used.

• Refdesk - Looking for a fact?
• Bartleby - Repository of Online dictionaries, thesauri, and general reference texts.

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