# Web Development - webcentive

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Web development and publishing: start with the standards (W3C, WHATWG, MDN) and check your pages with a validator and an accessibility checker. Then the best free places to learn, code tools and communities, fonts, and web law, privacy and search tools.  

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Each site has quick lookups: who owns it (whois), its history (Wayback Machine), a safety check, and one-tap questions to AI helpers. Grok asks you to tap Send first.  
Links last checked Oct 19, 2026.  

- **Web standards and accessibility (start here)**
- [caniuse.com](https://caniuse.com/) - Can I use: browser support | X: none found
- [developer.mozilla.org](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development) - MDN: learn web development | [X: @MozDevNet](https://x.com/MozDevNet)
- [section508.gov](https://www.section508.gov/) - Section508.gov: federal accessibility rules | X: none found
- [validator.w3.org](https://validator.w3.org/) - W3C Markup Validator (may block automated checks) | X: none found
- [w3.org](https://www.w3.org/) - W3C: web standards (may block automated checks) | X: none found
- [wave.webaim.org](https://wave.webaim.org/) - WAVE accessibility checker | X: none found
- [web.dev](https://web.dev/) - web.dev: modern web guidance | X: none found
- [webaim.org](https://webaim.org/) - WebAIM: web accessibility | [X: @webaim](https://x.com/webaim)
- [whatwg.org](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/) - WHATWG: the HTML Living Standard | X: none found
- **Learn web development**
- [alistapart.com](https://alistapart.com/) - A List Apart | X: none found
- [css-tricks.com](https://css-tricks.com/) - CSS-Tricks | [X: @css](https://x.com/css)
- [freecodecamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org/) - freeCodeCamp: free coding lessons | [X: @freeCodeCamp](https://x.com/freeCodeCamp)
- [smashingmagazine.com](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/) - Smashing Magazine | [X: @smashingmag](https://x.com/smashingmag)
- [theodinproject.com](https://www.theodinproject.com/) - The Odin Project | X: none found
- [w3schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/) - W3Schools tutorials (HTML entities page on the old page) (on the old page) | X: none found
- **Code, tools and communities**
- [activestate.com](https://www.activestate.com/) - ActiveState: Perl, Python and Tcl builds (on the old page) | [X: @ActiveState](https://x.com/ActiveState)
- [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - Visual Studio Code | [X: @code](https://x.com/code)
- [github.com](https://github.com/) - GitHub | [X: @github](https://x.com/github)
- [nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/) - Node.js | [X: @nodejs](https://x.com/nodejs)
- [perl.com](https://www.perl.com/) - Perl.com (on the old page) | X: none found
- [php.net](https://www.php.net/) - PHP | X: none found
- [python.org](https://www.python.org/) - Python | X: none found
- [scripting.com](http://scripting.com/) - Scripting News: Dave Winer's blog (could not be checked automatically) (on the old page) | X: none found
- [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/) - Stack Overflow (may block automated checks) | [X: @StackOverflow](https://x.com/StackOverflow)
- [surveymonkey.com](https://www.surveymonkey.com/) - SurveyMonkey: online surveys (on the old page) | [X: @SurveyMonkey](https://x.com/SurveyMonkey)
- [webmasterworld.com](https://www.webmasterworld.com/) - WebmasterWorld forums (on the old page) | X: none found
- **Fonts and type**
- [fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com/) - Google Fonts: free web fonts | X: none found
- [fontsquirrel.com](https://www.fontsquirrel.com/) - Font Squirrel: free fonts for commercial use | X: none found
- [learn.microsoft.com](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/) - Microsoft Typography (microsoft.com fontpack on the old page) | X: none found
- [monotype.com](https://www.monotype.com/) - Monotype (bitstream.com on the old page) | [X: @Monotype](https://x.com/Monotype)
- [myfonts.com](https://www.myfonts.com/) - MyFonts (on the old page) | [X: @MyFonts](https://x.com/MyFonts)
- **Web law, privacy and search**
- [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=web+development+books&tag=webcentive0d-20) - Amazon: web development books (on the old page) | [X: @amazon](https://x.com/amazon)
- [bing.com](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about) - Bing Webmaster Tools | [X: @bing](https://x.com/bing)
- [copyright.gov](https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/) - U.S. Copyright Office: DMCA agent directory | X: none found
- [eff.org](https://www.eff.org/) - EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation | [X: @EFF](https://x.com/EFF)
- [epic.org](https://epic.org/) - EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center (on the old page) | X: none found
- [lumendatabase.org](https://lumendatabase.org/) - Lumen: takedown notices (chillingeffects.org on the old page; may block automated checks) | X: none found
- [search.google.com](https://search.google.com/search-console/about) - Google Search Console | X: none found

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