Web Technology Resources

• Web Technologies Overview ppt
• Web Services Introduction ppt
• List of Quality Tips from The W3C
• W3Schools provide excellent tutorials on web technologies
• The Web Standards Project - loose cannons?
• Dyn Developer Center - lots of really helpful stuff from Dyn the DynDNS people
• Web Developers Notes and more - tutorials, useful tips, tricks and software
• Open Online Courses in Web Design from onlinecourses.com
• DevGuru - more tutorials
• Developer Shed - and even more tutorials
• A List Apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content
• SitePoint - empowering web developers
• Caching Tutorial - essential reading for Web developers and Webmasters
• 3D Buzz - What do you want to learn today?
  • including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and C# Web programming tutorials
• AI Horizon - links to resources on computer science and AI programming
• Free software from the UK academic mirror
• Unicode - explained and tested in your browser
• My big list of character references - expect browser variation
• Unix guide from the Greenwich Unix system team
• Brief Unix primer from Harvard
• Unix Command Summary - from Southampton University
• vi primer - one of many out there
• VMware - Virtual Machine Software
• article: Hypertext Transfer Protocol from Wikipedia
• article: Key Differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
• article: Web development mistakes by Roger Johansson

• Mozilla simply the best... for developers
• Chrome brilliant... for regular users, especially netbooks, and pretty damn hot for developers too
• Opera faster than something very fast indeed
• Amaya W3C's Editor/Browser
• Lynx text browser
• Mosaic the original NCSA browser
• Alternative Web Browsing browsers designed for people with disabilities
• Web developer extensions for Mozilla from Chris Pederick

• The Apache Software Foundation why bother with anything else?
  • Configuring Apache for Windoze
  • XAMPP Apache plus MySQL, PHP, Perl and more bundle
• Jigsaw from the W3C
• Xitami multi-platfrom open source
• AOLserver open source from AOL!
• Netcraft web server survey
• No-IP.com dynamic DNS service

• Mozilla Firefox far more than just a browser
  • use with the HTML Validator
  • and QuickJava addons in addition to the comprehensive builtin developer tools
• Dyn Developer Center - lots of really helpful stuff from Dyn the DynDNS people
• HTML editors are listed under XHTML
• Adobe Dreamweaver - excellent WYSIWYG but way too expensive
• Web Sniffer - View HTTP Request and Response Headers
• DebugBar IEtester a little help when you face the pain that is IE
• Spoon - Browser Sandbox
• WAVE - accessibility testing from WebAIM
• FAE - Functional Accessibility Evaluator
• BrowserShots - Cross platform browser compatibility testing
• W3C HTML markup validation service
• W3C CSS validation service
• W3C link testing service
• W3C RSS and Atom feed testing service
• UITest - bundles several of the above and more into a single page

• Usability and Accessibility teaching material
• W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
  • WCAG 1.0
  • WCAG 2.0
  • Exploring Usability Enhancements in W3C Process - slideshow from Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Matt May
• Section 508 The US government road to accessibility
• ISO 9241 Ergonomics of Human-System Interaction
  • ISO 9241-210:2010 Ergonomics of human-system interaction -- Part 210: Human-centred design for interactive systems
  • ISO 9241: Introduction from Userfocus
• Usability information from the US government
  • Evidence based web site design and usability guidelines
• Section 508: What it is and how to achieve compliance from StudyWeb
• Ability Net Championing IT for People With Disabilities
• Website Law helping developers ensure compliance with English laws
• TechDis JISC-funded educational advisory service
• WebAIM Web Accessibility in Mind
  • WAVE Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator
  • Creating Accessible JavaScript excellent interactive tutorial
• FAE - Functional Accessibility Evaluator
• CAST: Centre for Applied Special Technology
• My Web My Way from the BBC
• Accessify - Home of the Accessibility Toolset
• useit.com Jakob Nielsen's famous usability site
  • article: Papers and Essays by Jakob Nielsen
  • article: The Difference Between Web Design and GUI Design
• Nielsen Norman Group Strategies to enhance the user experience
• UsableNet Tools for website usability and access
• Usability First information and resources
• Color Scheme Designer with tools for colour blind scheme design
• Joe Clark Accessibility, design and writing
  • Building Accessible Websites online book
• IBM Accessibility Center
• Freedom Scientific hardware and software for blind and low vision users
  • JAWS screen reader
• Synapse empowering individuals with disabilities
• Sean's webdesign help pages
• Web Design patterns from Martijn van Welie
• Writing Well for the Web
• The Paciello Group evaluating web accessibility
  • article: Collection of resources
• article: Tesco launches visionary website
• article: Considering the Color Blind
• article: Color Deficient Vision
• article: What is Color Blindness
• article: Bruce Maguire sues the Sydney Olympics Organising Committee
• article: National Federation of the Blind and Target Agree to Class Action Settlement

• XHTML teaching material
• The World Wide Web Consortium's HTML home page home of the HTML standards
  • HTML/XHTML validation service - although now somewhat redundant as the Firefox HML Validator add-on is much faster, flagging errors as you make them
  • Quality Tips for Webmasters
• W3School's excellent tutorials
  • W3School HTML tutorial
  • W3School XHTML tutorial
• An Introduction to HTML Code from Novastor with a handy list of further HTML resources
• A Detailed HTML Overview from IT Hare
• The Web Design Group's HTML 4.0 Reference
• HTML Resource List from BarcodesInc
• Shoreline's Guide to SGML
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML by the NCSA - a comprehensive HTML tutorial
• WHATWG the misguided individuals who bear some responsibility for starting HTML5
• W3C HTML5 cleaning up the diabolical mess created by WHATWG
  • HTML5.1 Nightly
• Dive into HTML5 from Mark Pilgrim
• PC-Wholesale.com's Guide To HTML from Kelly Friedman
• XHTML editors providing syntax highlighting, an FTP client and XHTML toolbar
  • EditPlus - excellent, not free, windoze only
  • Notepad++ - free, cross platform, feature packed but no HTML toolbar
  • Bluefish - excellent free cross platform
  • Arachnophilia - excellent free Java cross platform
  • HTMLPad - excellent, not free, windoze only
  • HTMLKit - feature packed, not free windoze only
  • PSPad - freeware code editor, windoze only
• article: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! from A List Apart

• CSS teaching material
• The W3C Cascading Style Sheets home page
  • CSS level 1 specification
  • CSS level 2 revision 1 specification
  • W3C's CSS validation service
• W3School CSS tutorial
• Color Scheme Designer with tools for colour blind scheme design
• Baseline a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com
• CSS-Tricks
  • Different Stylesheets for Differently Sized Browser Windows
• Western Civilisation home of Style Master CSS Editor and tutorials, guides & articles
• css/edge exploring creativity with CSS
• sitepoint CSS tutorials
• the import design library
• article: Internet Explorer box model bug from Wikipedia
• article: From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer's Journey - A List Apart
• article: Article archive CSS hacks from wellstyled.com

• JavaScript teaching material
• JavaScript Documentation hosted by Mozilla Develper Network
  • JavaScript 1.3 client reference available from Oracle and Netscape DevEdge
• JSFIDDLE a tool to fiddle about with JavaSript
• Udemy JavaScript Tutorial Learn the Basics
• JavaScript Source the place to borrow scripts
• jQuery The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
• Mozilla's definitive browser sniffer
• Creating Accessible JavaScript from WebAIM
• SAJAX the Simple Ajax toolkit by ModernMethod
• article: JavaScript: Why You Don't Know More About It by Steve Champeon
• article: Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett

• AJAX teaching material is buried in my XML material
• have a look at my asynchronous shockwave example which predates AJAX
• SAJAX the simple AJAX toolkit from modernmethod
• jQuery arguably the best JavaScript toolkit
• The DOM is a Mess lecture from John Resig

• Web 2.0 teaching material
• Wikipedia on Web 2.0
• Google Maps API
• W3Schools on Google Maps
• article: What Is Web 2.0Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software from Tim O'Reilly

• XML teaching material
• The World Wide Web Consortium's XML page
  • the XML standard
  • the SVG working group
  • W3C MathML Home
  • Conversion Tool from DTD to XML Schema
• xml.com O'Reilly's XML from the inside out
• xml.apache.org the Apache XML Project - home of the Xerces validating parser
• xml.org The XML Industry Portal
• ZVON - Provide some XML tutorials and references
• XML Spy was the only comprehensive XML IDE but now there is also...
  • Stylus Studio
  • Liquid XML Studio
  • oXygen
  • Sysonyx Inc. Purveyors of XML tools including xmlHack
  • XmlPad for XML docs on iPad
• Ginger Alliance has moved but you can still find...
  • Sablotron XSLT, DOM and XPath processor
• DTDGenerator spin off from the Saxon XSLT processor
• Multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG
• www.flatland.com 3DML
• article: Manipulating XML with Sablotron, PHP and MySQL Olivier Elemento, June 2001
• article: Spotlight on XML - Extending Your Markup: An XML Tutorial, IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2000
• article: Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
• article: Neward and Trenaman consider REST, or The Great and Complete SOAP vs POX Debate

• PHP teaching material
• PHP net the home of PHP
• Zend - the PHP company professional PHP tools
• PHPBuilder the resource for PHP developers
• PHP Freaks get addicted
• The PHP Resource Index a bigger list of good stuff
• Configuring PHP for Apache on Windoze
• article: 9 of the Best Free PHP Books
• SQL Injection

• Perl teaching material
• CPAN the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Perl.org The source for Perl
  • perldoc documentation
• ActiveState applied open source - the place to get Perl for Windoze
  • Configuring Perl for Apache on Windoze
• PerlMongers the Perl advocacy people
• Perl Reference Guide from Rex Swain
• Perl Resources and Reviews a big list of good stuff
• The Perl Resource Index a bigger list of good stuff
• the Apache Xerces XML parser
• article: Building a simple module by hand

• SOA teaching material
• OASIS Advancing open standards for the information society

• ASP.NET teaching material
• ASP.NET - The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site
• Microsoft .NET
• Codeplex - Microsoft open source project hosting web site
• MSDN - Microsoft demonstrate their web skills
  • XML and Microsoft Office - getting XML in and out of Access
  • XMLHTTP - Exchanging Data Over the Internet Using XML
• Mono CLR
• Master C# the easy way
  • Creating your first code behind page - without VisualStudio .NET
• article: Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell'
• article: More .NET Passport security doubts raised

• ColdFusion teaching material
• Adobe ColdFusion
  • ColdFusion developer centre
• Activ Software
• House of Fusion
• Easycfm
• Tutorial from WebMonkey - old but amusing intro
• article: XML and XSLT with ColdFusion

• Streaming teaching material
• W3C Synchronized Multimedia
• SMIL Developer Resources from Who Is Hosting This
• Adobe
• Real Systems
  • service and support
• streamingmedia.com all manner of streaming related goodstuff including...
  • tutorials
• Real Systems Production Guide
• RealPix

• MySQL - simple, fast, reliable
  • MySQL Reference Manual
• MySQL Reference all there is to know
• Configuring MySQL for Apache on Windoze
• phpMyAdmin web based administration tool for MySQL
• SQL tutorial from WebDevelopersNotes

• linux.com Linux and Open Source news and information
• linux.org a voice for the promotion and advocacy of Linux
• linux.co.uk home of the Greater London Linux User Group
• article: Linux desktop begins shipping to UK police force

• Open Source teaching material
• Open Source Initiative
• GNU's not Unix - original and genuine
• Open Source Design Network
• SourceForge
• O'Reilly Open Source Center
• UK academic open source not exactly kicking

• legislation.gov.uk provide a search engine for UK acts
• Equality Act 2010 from the Home Office
• Information Comissioner's Office the UK's independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest
• Section 508 An Official Website of The United States Government
• Legal issues concerning websites from Epsilis
• article: Why computing students should learn about law from Geoffrey Sampson
• article: Thousands of websites in breach of new cookie law from BBC News
• article: Criminal liability - recent prosecutions for offensive material uploaded and disseminated via social media sites from Lavan Legal

• W3C SVG Working Group
• Raphaël JavaScript Library
  • modified demo
• SVG-edit JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor
  • demo

• WAP teaching material
• WAP Forum

• Flash teaching material
• Creative Suite 5.5 Download
• Getting Started with Flash Samples and Tutorials
• Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource
• Interesting Flash link
• article: Flash: 99% Bad from Jakob Nielsen
• article: Flash: is Evil from dack.com

• under construction, please be patient
• article: Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better? from Kathryn Whitenton

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