Realitystorm.com

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This site is written in XHTML Strict with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), meets WAI-AA guidelines, and is being re-developed to use a custom Content Management System (CMS) running under Coldfusion 8.0, and MySQL, hosted by HostMySite.com

The Realitystorm.com website was designed, developed and primarily authored by Steve Savage.

Other members of the development community and general public have contributed to this site (or the new version I'm developing) with the various tools, standards and guides they have created:

Accessibility

• Environment Canada's Adaptive Computer Technology Program
• ISO/FDIS 9241-151: Ergonomics of human-system interaction -- Part 151: Guidance on World Wide Web user interfaces
• JuicyStudio's Collection of Analysers
• Matt's Colour blind Web Page Filter
• Vischeck's Vision Tests
• W3C's Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices
• W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA): defines a way to make dynamic content more accessible.
• W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
• W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML) Accessibility Guidelines.

Publication Standards

• Creative Common's plain language content licenses: all publicly accessible content for this site protected under the Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's metadata tags: used in the XHTML pages to describe the content of this site.
• Google's Site Map standard and validator
• Friend of a Friend (FOAF): my Friend of a Friend file: describes myself, and the links between me, other people and things they create and do.
• Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative: will be linked to each of my pages is an ODRL XML file explaining usage rights for the content of the page, the file is a restatement of the Creative Common's License in a machine readable form.
• Hixie's pingback standard: I'm planning to include pingback support on my new site.
• ICRA's PICS labeling standard and validator: all text entries, photos, movies and other downloadable files on this site are described with the appropriate PICS label to allow users to pre-filter my site based on their morality of choice.
• RORweb's Resources of a Resource (ROR) Site map: all text entries, photos, movies and other downloadable files on this site will be described and listed within my site's ROR site map.
• Talis's: proposed standard for Rdf In Html
• W3C's P3P standard.
• XML Sitemap's ROR site map validator
• XHTML Friends Network: a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
• Robots.txt / META Robots: directories and files that can be ignored by search engines have been indicated in my robots.txt file, and by using the appropriate meta tags within these documents.
• UK e-Government's Metadata Standards
• W3C's Link Tester
• W3C's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed standard and feed validator: the last 10 text entries added to this site will be described and listed in a RSS 2.0 feed.
• W3C's CSS 3.0 standard and validator: style sheets are used for all visual formatting.
• W3C's XHTML 1.0 strict standard and validator : all pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 strict, and supporting browsers are sent the "application/xhtml+xml" content-type header.

Testing and Security

• Browser Shots: test your web design in different browsers
• CFUnit: a unit testing framework for Coldfusion.
• ColdFire ColdFusion Debugger
• ColdFusion 8 developer security guidelines
• Firebug: A firefox plugin for debuging CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
• Jens Meiert's Collection of Validators, mainly the site check page
• JsUnit: a unit testing framework for JavaScript
• Netscape's Browser Archive: so I can run and test in multiple versions of Netscape.
• Open Web Application Security Project
• Selenium: a functional testing tool for web applications (simulates a user's actions)
• TredoSoft's installer so I can run and test in multiple versions of Internet Explorer

Concepts and code

• Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden: many, many examples of creating layouts using CSS.
• Peter-Paul Koch's QuirksMode website: A collection of known issues and solutions with JavaScript and CSS on many browsers.
• ReCaptcha: I plan to use this for my login screen.
• Roger Johansson's Developing with Web Standards article: A very thorough introductary guide for anyone interested in developing with web standards.
• Seth Duffey's description of how to search images based on colour
• Steven Witten's jQuery color picker plugin
• Stefan Richter's 'Streaming' flv video via PHP, based on his work I was able to create code for 'Streaming' flv video via Coldfusion.

Other Tools

• Adobe's FREE Coldfusion Developer's Edition
• Adobe (Allaire/Macromedia) Homesite+: Luckily updated to support Coldfusion 8.0
• Adobe PhotoShop: used for layout graphics.
• Adobe Flash: used for video.

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