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Web development tutorials and information
Tutorials
- W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials
- At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, XSL, Multimedia and WAP.
- HTML Source
- HTML tutorials
- Juicy Studio Tutorials
- Tutorials in web development (HTML, XML, XHTML, WML, ASP, Java, PHP, MySQL) and standalone programming (C, C++, VB, OOAD).
- Webmonkey
- Web development tutorials and reference.
- How to use HTML meta tags
- An account of how useful HTML meta tags are(n't) when it comes to search engine rankings.
- ASP Tutorial
- Basic tutorial on ASP (if you must develop for IIS!)
- CSS Zen Garden
- A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
Reference
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Definitive source for web standards and information.
- RFC1149
- A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
- Port Knowledgebase
- List of frequently seen TCP and UDP ports and what they mean. The goal of this port table is to point to further resources for more information.
- Root-Zone Whois Information
- Index by TLD Code
Security
- Prevent a cross-site scripting attack
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) occurs when an attacker introduces malicious scripts to a dynamic form that allows the attacker to capture the private session information. In this article, Anand K. Sharma casts light on the areas vulnerable to XSS exploitation, explains how the user can protect himself, and details what the webmaster can do to secure a site from this type of malicious intrusion.
- Mail relay testing
- Online test for mail servers to ensure they don't accept relayed mail.
- Shields Up!
- Online firewall tester from Gibson Research
Usability & web design
- Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines.
- This site is designed to provide over 50 of the top Web design and usability guidelines based on emerging research and supporting information in the field.
- Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
- As the Web grows, websites continue to come up with ways to annoy users. This site gives ten design mistakes that were particularly good at punishing users and costing site owners business in 2002.
- Web Style Guide
- The aim of this site is to offer basic design principles that you can use to make your content as easy to understand as possible.
- Why tables for layout is stupid
- A rant against use of tables for site layout, and in favour of CSS.
Perl
- libwww-perl cookbook
- This document contain some examples that show typical usage of the libwww-perl library.
- GD
- Documentation for the PD graphics library for Perl
Hosting
- Freeparking.co.uk
- UK based domain name registration and DNS hosting firm.
- Gandi.net
- Paris-based domain name registration and DNS hosting firm.
- InterNIC UK
- Domain registration.
Miscellaneous
- Search Engine Submission Tips
- This page covers search engine submission, placement and marketing issues. It explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.
- DNS Oversimplified
- The goal of this page is to help you make sure that your DNS is set up properly, and help you many common errors that may exist.
- Microsoft learning
- Training & certification from Microsoft
- Paul's Clipart Jumplist
- Links page for clip art resources. Not all the links are still live.
- PC Mechanic
- Hardware & software news & adverts.
- British Computer Society
- Industry body for IT professionals
- Favicon
- Getting a custom icon into IE bookmarks
- export-a-crypto-system
- This is a perl program which implements RSA encryption and decryption, and is small enough to use as a signature file. Peter Junger, a law professor in the US, obtained from the US Commerce department a written statement ruling that this program must not be exported from the US.
- DMOZ Documentation Project
- The DMOZ Documentation Project is an unofficial collection of resources, tutorials, and advice for editors at the Open Directory Project.
- London Charities
- ODP Category
- Lavasoft - Adaware
- Lavasoft are the authors of Adaware, a free spyware detection and removal tool. Recommended.
- Textpad
- A great text editor for Windows. This is what I use for editing HTML, XML and Perl scripts etc.
- Download.com
- Software downloads from CNET.
- Shareware.com
- Another software downloads site from CNET.
- Nonags.com
- Freeware download site.
- FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
- The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems - particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
- NeverExpires.com
- Freeware, Shareware & Demos That Never Stop Running.
- AltaVista Babelfish
- Automated text translation
- Cyber-Geography Research
- Exploring the geographies of the Internet, the Web and other emerging Cyberspaces.
- Eliza
- ELIZA - a friend you could never have before.
- Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery
- 1999-vintage project to map the Internet. Nice graphics.
- The WWW Virtual Library
- The oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee. Run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert.
- Spamassassin
- SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam.
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