Organizations

Chicago Creative Coalition
C3 is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the professional growth of its members - creatives in the communication arts field.
http://creative-chicago.org/

Good News Web Designers Association
Group advocating professionalism and Christian principles in web design work. Membership privileges include a free online course for improving your web site.
http://gnwda.org/

Independent Web Designers Portal
Web development promotion site offering independent web designers, programmers and scripters. Includes profiles of work, contact details, and articles.
http://www.iwdp.co.uk/

Inteactive Advertising Bureau
Global nonprofit group open to companies actively engaged in the sale of interactive advertising and marketing. Membership features IAB events, research tools, industry news, and a newsletter.
http://www.iab.net/

International Council of Online Professionals
Members build customer trust and credibility by placing an iCop seal of membership on their site.
http://www.i-cop.org/

Purdue Web Development Organization
Student Organization at Purdue University, dedicated to furthering the interest and knowledge of our members in all aspects of web development.
http://webdev.purdue.org/

UK Web Design Association
Promotes industry standards within the UK new media sector. Features free membership, a searchable directory, use of the UKWDA logo, a monthly newsletter, and dispute resolution service.
http://www.ukwda.org/

W3C Members
List of current members of the World Wide Web Consortium.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

Web Design and Developers Association
Features industry news and web hosting packages.
http://www.wdda.org/

Web Programmers Association
Not-for-profit organization dedicated to showcasing new and innovative Web based applications.
http://www.webprogrammer.org/

Web Standards Group
For web designers and developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).
http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Web Standards Project
Promoting standards compliance on the Web.
http://www.webstandards.org/

Wise-Women
Resource for female (and male) web designers, developers and programmers, featuring tips and tutorials on a variety of web related subjects. Features several mailing lists including one for Java script.
http://www.wise-women.org/