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Where are the DoD, DA, etc. policies for Web?|
DoD Policy
http://www.defenselink.mil/webmasters/policy/dod_web_policy_12071998_with_amendments_and_corrections.html 

A comprehensive DoD policy list is available at: http://www.defenselink.mil/webmasters
Federal Government Policies and practices  http://www.firstgov.gov/webcontent/index.shtml
 

Where can I find  a basic HTML tutorial?
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/   
Army CBT classes:  https://www.atrrs.army.mil/channels/eLearning/smartforce/  
 
Navy CBT classes: http://www.navylearning.navy.mil/  
Barebones Guide to HTML http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html
http://www.trainingsupersite.com/ittrain/productreviews1.htm  
http://www.trainingmag.com/  
http://www.w3schools.com/  
 
What other training is available?
http://www.dau.mil/catalog/default.asp    
http://www.dinfos.osd.mil    
http://www.grad.usda.gov/  
OPSEC- http://www.ioss.gov
Accessibility Training - Online http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=5    
Records Management - http://www.archives.gov/records_management/training/training.html    
Gov Online Learning Center    
Usability http://www.usability.gov/usabilityuniversity/training.html
http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/index.html
How do I check the validity of my HTML?
http://validator.w3.org    
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator    
http://www.anybrowser.com/
   
http://watson.addy.com/
   
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
 
Validator List  http://www.htmlhelp.com/links/validators.htm    
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ Code Cleaner   
 
Where can I find a script to do ??? ?
http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City/    
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/    
http://www.projectcool.com/developer/   
http://www.websitegoodies.com/mouseover.shtml  
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/  
http://hotscripts.com/  
http://www.aspin.com/home/webapps  
http://javascript.internet.com/  
 

Where can I find a style guide?
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html  
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/572
 
 
Where should I go for information about viruses, security patches, hoaxes, etc.?

CERT http://www.cert.org  
Scambusters http://www.scambusters.org/index.html  
BUGTRAQ  http://www.securityfocus.com  
http://www.boran.com/security/  
CIAC http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com/   
Symantec http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html  
CyberCrime (DOJ) http://www.cybercrime.gov/  
Computer Security Research Center http://csrc.nist.gov/   
Purportal http://www.purportal.com/  

 
Where can I find a log analyzer?
http://analog.sourceforge.net/
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools/tech.html
http://quest.com/funnel_web/analyzer/
http://www.reportmagic.com/
http://loganalysis.org/
http://www.urchin.com/
http://www.deepmetrix.com/  
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
http://www.sawmill.net/
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.iwebtrack.com/

Where can I find a list of webmaster position descriptions?
http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf15/index.cfm  
OPM Position Classification standards http://www.opm.gov/fedclass/gs2200a.pdf  
 
 
How do I use the robots.txt file to exclude robots/spiders from certain directories
http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robots-txt.html Search Indexing Robots and Robots.txt 

How can I get my site listed by search engines?
http://www.laisha.com/search/  
http://searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi  
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html  

Where can I get information about putting a search engine on my site?
http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html  
First Gov  
 
 
How can I check my site for broken links?
Xenu's link sleuth http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html
Alert Link Runner http://www.alertbookmarks.com/lr/  
Link Prover http://www.tafweb.com/linkprover.html  
 
 
How can I create a site map for my site?
http://www.html-indexer.com/  
http://www.xtreeme.com/sitexpert/index.php  
http://www.brie.com/coinduperl/  
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/web_sites.html    

Where can I find an offline site crawler?
Web Reaper - http://www.webreaper.net/    
Wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html    
Offline Explorer http://www.metaproducts.com/OE.html  
HTTrack http://www.httrack.com/
           
Where can I find copies of old browsers?
Evolt http://browsers.evolt.org/    

Where can I find an ASCII Codes list?
http://www.asciitable.com/  

What other references should I be familiar with as a webmaster?
The HTML Specifications:  http://www.w3.org
The Internet RFCs: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html
Computer Dictionary / File extensions: http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/
http://www.pcwebopaedia.com
http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html
  http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/noframes/index.html
http://www.filext.com/
HTML Writers Guild: http://www.hwg.org  
Advanced HTML Resource http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html  
General Site for Tools, etc. http://www.htmlhelp.com/  
NIC for WHOIS information: http://www.nic.mil  
Plain Language: http://www.plainlanguage.gov  
Network tools: http://network-tools.com  
FIPS Standards: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/  
Web Security FAQ: http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/  
Port Numbers: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers  
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/std/std2.txt  

 

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