Web Developer Resources

Resource Index

HTML and Web Pages

• HTML 4.0 Reference at the Web Design Group.
• The developing XML, Extensible Markup Language---draft specification
• HTML Homepage at W3C
• XHTML Difference with HTML 4
• XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
• URL Encoding
• XHTML 1.0 Namespace
• XHTML 2.0 (Working Draft)
• Table of XHTML Elements linking to documentation of each element
• XHTML Attribute List (with deprecation information)
• Free HTML Checker
• XHTML/HTML4 Deprecated Elements
• Download Coffeecup
• HTML Kit Editor
• W3C Image Map Specification
• ISO Latin-1 Character Codes
• HTML Entities
• HTML Entities Quick Reference Tables
• Dr. HTML
• HTML 4 Reference at WDG
• UNICODE
• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
• UTF-8 Standard
• Robot Link
• HTML Validator at W3C

Page Checking and Validation

• Free from W3C HTML Tidy
• WDG HTML Validator
• List of free HTML checkers
• Free on-web site checking servic - link verification, spell check, and HTML syntax analysis, all in one nice little hyperlinked analysis.
• Linklint A free hyperlink checker.
• NetMechanic - a free online service. Our robot will search your Web site and find broken links, spot bad HTML tags, and rate your server's response time.
• Free HTML and Link Validation Service
• CSS validation and HTML 4.0 validation from the Web Design Group.
• What Server Software is running at the site and other information?

Design and Graphics

• Good Web Development Practices
• Sun Micro System's Writing for the Web
• The Yale Web Style Guide
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide

Cascading Style Sheets

• Style Sheet Reference from Web Design Group.
• Style Sheet Examples offered by htmlgoodies.com
• W3C CSS main page
• Browser Support of Style Sheets
• CSS1 Reference
• CSS Syntax and Selectors
• W3C Specification CSS1
• CSS2 List of Properties
• W3C Specification CSS2
• W3C Introduction to CSS3
• W3C CSS Current Work
• W3C CSS3 Selectors Recommendation
• WDG Guide to CSS
• CSS Chart
• Introduction to CSS
• CSS Visual Formatting Model
• CSS Validation at W3C
• CSSCheck at Web Design Group

Javascript and DHTML

• Javascript examples, tutorials, and references
• JavaScript Language Standardized, the ECMAScript Standard
• JavaScript Explained at Wikipedia.
• Javascript Object Model How to write constructors and understanding prototype inheritance
• JavaScript Complete Tutorial
  
• OOP in JavaScript
• Standard ECMA-262 (JavaScript Standard)
• JavaScript 1.5 Reference
• ECMAScript Reference
• Javascript Reference
• Javascript Quick Reference
• Good Javascript Basic and Advanced Info
• Events in Javascript
• Javascript Tutorials
• Javascript 2.0 (proposal)

Images, Animation, and Multimedia

• Common Graphical File Formats.
• LWZ and GIF Explained, Lempel-Ziv Welch compression algorithm, and the implementation that GIF uses.
• GIF License Questionnaire From Unisys
• GIF Controversy
• CompuServe/Unisys Patent on GIF
• PNG, homepage for Portable Network Graphics, a GIF replacement: basics, features, sample images, technical documentation, tools, and resources for PNG.
• GIF Clean remove comments etc. from GIF files to make them smaller.
• Web Graphics and Clip Art Collections
• Shockwave raster graphics animation.
• Flash vector graphics animation.
• Flash Resources
• Guide for Web Color
• Additional resources from Chapter 12
• Javascript Object Model How to write constructors and understanding prototype inheritance
• JavaScript Complete Tutorial
• OOP in JavaScript
• Standard ECMA-262 (JavaScript Standard)
• JavaScript 1.5 Reference
• ECMAScript Reference
• Javascript Reference
• Javascript Quick Reference
• Good Javascript Basic and Advanced Info
• Events in Javascript
• Javascript Tutorials
• Javascript 2.0 (proposal)

Server-side Include (SSI)

• Apache SSI
• Server-side Include Tutorial from, Questar Microsystems Inc.

CGI Programming in Perl

• Wondering what the Web server to CGI program interface is really all about? Wanting to know the meanings of the various environment variables supplied by the Web server to a CGI program? Look at the CGI 1.1 Specification from NCSA.
• A Perl Tutorial
• Perl Script Collections
• Perl is freely available for downloading from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Perl5 Library for CGI programming CGI.pm
• Perl Modules
• Download Perl
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network the Perl information center
• Perl Manual
• Perl Functions
• CGI FAQ
• List of Perl FAQs
• Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Perl Mongers - The Perl advocacy people
• The Perl Source at O'Reilly
• Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism
• Perl Tutorial
• Perl Tutorial Book
• Introduction to Perl

HTTP documentation

• HTTP1.0 (RFC1945)
• HTTP1.1 (RFC2068)
• Cookie: HTTP State Management Mechanism (RFC 2019) (February 1997)
• Web and Internet Terms Dictionary
• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• List of URL (URI) Schemes
• Registered Media Types
• Popular Search Engines: Google, Yahoo!
• Domain name registration: Verisign,
• Webtong
• Whois searches: Verisign
• Webtong
• Domain name availability: Verisign
• Webtong
• Apache Web Server
  

Web Development Tools

• Download nslookup for Windows (freeware)
• Download whois for Windows (freeware)
• Download CSS editor for Windows or Mac (demo)
• Web Tools from W3C
• Microsoft Frontpage --- a commericial page/site creation and management tool.
• Cold Fusion --- a way to integrate web pages to databases on NT/Windows servers. Cold Fusion suports a markup language to access ODBC databases.
• ECMA Script Language Binding
• DOM Homepage at W3C
• Gecko DOM Reference
• Mozilla's DOM Sample Project
• DOM Link
• Introduction to DHTML
• Intro to the Document Object Model
• Document Object Model Level 3 Specifications
• Document Object Model Level 3 Core Specification
• Document Object Model HTML list of HTML interfaces
• DOM Level-2 Events
• Mozilla DOM Documentation
• DOM compliance test suites
• DOM Node-Type Constants