Web Development

Useful Links

Information

Web Development: About the Profession

• Founded in Australia in 2004, Web Directions investigated the field of web develoment and produces a State of Web Development Report
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

Documentation

• The Official PHP web site is a good place to begin to learn about the history and the current status of this open source web programming language.
• The PHP Manual is online.
• What is AJAX?

Tutorials

• Object Oriented PHP for Beginners
• The PHP Resource Index will lead you to thousands of PHP resources on the web.
• EchoEcho.com has many excellent tutorials, references and articles for web developers.
• Webmonkey is a free, public resource for web developers. Builders, designers and programmers like you — the people who know best — write the articles, tutorials, code snippets and other contributions.
• A List Apart is a beautiful website full of information for people who make websites. They have a wonderful conference: An Event Apart.
• The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings.

References

• Need to have a certain symbol on your website? Check out web entities.
• The Elements of User Experience Sample Chapter by Jesse James Garrett is an excellent book. His diagram is fascinating.
• Basic CSS Box Model Demo

Accessibility

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

Utilities and Applications

• W3C Validation Services provide a mechanism for checking your XHTML code for errors. You should also validate the CSS on your pages.
• Link Checker
• HTMLIPSUM is a wonderful generator for text fill in a variety of html formats.
• A typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
• This littel em calculator is useful when coding CSS.
• Set up Apache, PHP, MySQL on Windows using WampServer.
• Nattyware's Pixie is a utility made especially for webmasters and designers. It is a color picker that tells you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color.
• FileZilla is a free FTP program for windows.
• Formally called crimson editor, Emerald Editor is a free open-source multi-purpose text editor you can download from sourceforge.
• ConTEXT is also a free text editor for the PC.
• Xenu's Link Sleuth helps you find broken links on websites.
• 7-Zip for unpacking tar, tar.gz and tar.zip files
• Free CAPTCHA from reCAPTCHA This site includes instructions on how to install the reCAPTCHA PHP library and how to configure CAPTCHA for your forms.