Web Development Resources for Sea Scout Webmasters

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Internet Policies of the Boy Scouts of America
- Standards and Guidelines for Internet Publishing and Maintaining Local Council Web Sites
- Sea Scout link disclaimer - Recommented for all Sea Scout websites
- Explanation for how to make a link disclaimer
- Guide to Safe Scouting, #34416B
- Privacy Policy
- Youth Protection, #AC-09V001A

Scouting magazine articles
- Scoutmaster to Webmaster (October 1998)
- Web safety a serious concern (March-April 1999)
- www.scouting (November-December 2000)

Sea Scout downloads
- Images
- Web site files

Other Scouting resource sites
- BSA Public Service Announcements
- Information for Scout leaders (Troop 24, Berkeley CA)
- Let's Go Scouting: Spirit in action (WOSM)
- The InterNETional Scouting and Guiding Pages (Scouting de Van Wassenaer Van Obdam, Wassenaar, Netherlands)
- U.S. Scouting Program

Webmaster training Section 508 Accessibility

Online training resources
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)
- HTML Tutorial (W3Schools)
- HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners (DaveSite)
- Introduction to HTML (Case Western Reserve University)
- Writing HTML (Mericopa Center for Training & Instruction)
- Demonstration of Basic and Advanced HTML Tags (University of California, San Diego)
- HTML Primer: HTML tutorial (HTMLPrimer.com)
- Authoring HTML Basics (Webmonkey)

Questions? - contact Christopher Sokolov (webmaster@seascout.org)

Section 508 Page (The Access Board)
- Guidelines for Webpages

Federal IT Accessibility Initiative (section508.gov)
- Webmaster Section 508 Online Tutorial
- Section 508 Standards

Section 508 checklist (WebAIM)

* Although the Boy Scouts of America is not required to comply with Section 508 internet requirements, the BSA is committed to making its websites as Section 508 compliant as possible. All Sea Scout Webmasters should become familiar with these requirements and apply them to all new and updated webpages.

HyperText Markup Language Editors, Validation, Link Checking

HTML and Related Specifications from W3C:
- HTML, version 4.01
- HTML, version 3.2
- Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
- Cascading Style Sheets, level 2
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0

HTML Online Training Course Notes:
- HyperText Markup Language (Library of Congress)
- HTML: What's New in 3.2? (Library of Congress)
- Glossary of selected HTML tags (by category) (Library of Congress)

Editors:
- Dreamweaver / HomeSite

HTML validation:
- W3C MarkUp Validation Service

Section 508 compliance checking:
- Bobby Scan (Watchfire)

Writing for Search Engines Usability and User-Centered Design

Writing tips:
- Collecting, Writing, and Revising Content (Usability.gov)
- Good Documents: How to write for the INTRAnet (Trellix Corp.)
- Website tales: Writing for the Web (ELDIS)
- Search Engine Watch (Internet.com)

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- Using Dublin Core

Meta-crawler indexing services:
- Google
- AltaVista
- Yahoo!

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (Usability.gov)

useit.com (Jakob Nielson)

Web Usability links (Design Technologies)

Human Factors International
- HFI Newsletter

Other Usability resources:
- Usability.gov
- Denim prototyping tool (Berkeley University)
- How users read on the Web (Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability)

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