We've used these resources when clients have asked us to do something new. The list is not exhaustive. There are more involved lists on the internet, but a large lists is almost as bad as a straight search. Think of this list as a starting point. Many of the pages offer their own recommendations for additional information which you can follow or not.
Hope you find something useful.
Business and Misc have been moved off to their own pages:
Business Information (business information, marketing, web site optimization, etc.)
Miscellaneous Information (tools information, free photos, etc.)
Dita Resources
- DITA Open Toolkit Project Home download the free toolkit to get started
- DITA pre-processing architecture
- JoAnn Hackos on Moving Legacy Documentation into DITA: An Interview an article at Data Conversion Laboratory
- Yahoo dita-users mailing list
- Yahoo framemaker-dita mailing list
XSL Resources - which you need to do much of anything in DITA
- XSL Mailing List Archives a very active list to help you figure out how to change OT stuff
- Transforming XML collection of articles for starters (more available on xml.com in general
- XSL FAQ site
Help Authoring
- Don Lammer's Site help implementation info for devs
Web Authoring Information
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) includes complete references for html, xml, css, and more
- Webmonkey web development information, primers, tutorials, etc. All archived.
- A List Apart css and web development
- CSS Zen Garden enormous collection of css examples based on the same html file (source of design inspriation)
- O'Reilly Color Names
Writing Resources
- Web Style Guide full process for developing a style guide
- Chicago Manual of Style Site Style information from the Chicago Manual of Style
- Strunk's Elements of Style grammar and usage on-line
- Technical Writing brief on-line style guide
- WWWeb Hypertext Style
- WDG - Style guide for online hypertext
