Web Programming

Useful XHTML Tutorial Site...

Here is a site that may be useful to our class when trying to find ideas and sample css style sheets to help with building our own sites. There are examples of a variety of layouts including two and three columns.

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This is a free HTML tutorial site that requires "no prior knowledge of programming." It is a step by step, 15 lesson tutorial that is short with photo examples. It also promises to equip you with information that will have you creating a website within an hour. Simple. Quick. Easy to understand.

A review of the NearlyFreeSpeech server, and general explanation of the fee structure. All servers are NOT alike in how they handle fees and services, so this may be of interest to you.

Type "html basics" into Google. This site, last updated by North Carolinia State University in 1998, is the top search result. The web page provides unadorned, useful information.

Webdesignwall.com is a tutorial page for using CSS. It also offers tutorials on many web design software tools, as well as common design mistakes.

A group of ten nice PHP instructional articles. The first is a friendly Introduction to PHP tutorial. The entire site (AllSyntax.com) looks like a good resource for ICM 505.

I found this site to be helpful when learning the HTML process. It gives a brief overview of adding color when creating a web page.

Tutorials, code snippets. on all kinds of helpful things!

This site also helped me out last semester. The biggest problem I had just simply understanding the concepts behind HTML. Once I got the patterns down, it was just a matter of learning the tags, etc.

This site is from w3schools. It is detailed instructions and examples of how to change your fonts in CSS. Its important because it carefully explains how to change fonts in different parts of your body.

This is a simple document that explains how to add an API. It breaks down the different types and the pros and cons of each. As I searched for API info this one seemed the easiest to digest.

I read through this site and the tutorials. It was a little on the wordy side, but for me, it's almost a bit easier to understand. For those of you who are still teetering on CSS, this might help, it's working for me. (I'm not getting paid to say that either :-P)

I was browsing through the web and found that there is a "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign. Has anyone heard of such a campaign? It really stresses the importance of designing text and images that do not require the "this page is best viewed with Browser X" message.

This is a clear and simple introduction for newbies like me. I'm willing to learn from any source possible. So the more intros I get, the better.

I came across this site dealing with HTML through Google. Browsing through, I found it to be great, even for myself, a stone cold beginner to this stuff. It's pretty much a complete tutorial regarding HTML starting from the most basic parts all the way to the advanced material and know-how. In the page itself you will see [Previous] and [Next] buttons which walk you to the next level of the tutorial, down the left side of the page is each part of the tutorial. Hope this helps!

Here is a link to an article about the differences between java versus javascript.

Offers CSS templates to use for website building.

About.com is always a good place to start because it provides a general overview with links to other resources. The MySQL article on About.com explains the basics you need to learn SQL code to use with your MySQL database.

This page has a number of assorted questions and answers regarding php and MySQL. Good to browse through should you find yourself stuck on something.