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The Web is growing everyday. And there are so many reference sources,
it can be confusing. Here are a list of links:
Resources and References on HTML
HTML Home Page with
references to HTML 4.0
, HTML 3.2 and HTML
2.0 at www.w3c.org home of the
Web Specification. There is also XHTML coming round the corner: NYPL Style Guide
Why so many versions? See
The two browser brands with the biggest market shares are of course,
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape.
Due to the differences between the browsers, we need cross refs:
Colours are at least standardised:
The Basics
Making Tables
Making HTML Forms
Making Frames
Various
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References on Browser (Client Side) Scripting
References on XML
References on Server Side Scripting
php -
PHPBuilder.com - The Resource
for PHP Developers
Microsoft Active Server Pages -DevGuru Home Page
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References on SQL / Database Manipulations
Authoring Content for the Web
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Tools
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Which browser should you use?
Depends.
If you run an intranet, and fully control your SOE (Standard Operating
Environment), you would set one browser and one browser version.
If you are authoring for the Internet and your work is reliant on
Add-In technologies like Flash, ActiveX controls and so on, MSIE is the
way to go.
If you need to welcome all visitors, then hey, it's a tough life.
- You obviously cater for MSIE 5.5 because that is a big market share.
- You need to cater for MSIE 6.0 because it has some differences and
will be the taking over from MSIE 5.5
- You should cater for Netscape 4.7x because a small community still
uses it and it is corporate browser for some people
- You need to cater for Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla based Netscape builds
like Netscape 6.x and Netscape 7 PRx
- You may want to cater for Opera.
- You may want to cater for Lynx if your visitors use reading aids
- You may need to get an Apple Mac because whatever runs on the Mac
uses different font sizes.
Authoring Tools:
Microsoft
FrontPage
Most of this website was authored in FrontPage 2000. This is a
relatively low cost product, allowing WYSIWYG authoring of web pages and
was one of the first to provide visual site management tools (link
management, navigation bars). FP2K shields you from the sheer work of
producing a web site if you just want to put text, links, navigation bars
and illustrative images.
The list below direct you to some Viewlets
on screen tutorials. You will need a compatible
browser to view them.
The Microsoft Knowledgebase FP articles have been indexed at here
Newsgroups that you can participate in are:
Books you can read are:
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Microsoft Visual Interdev 6
VI is not so much a web authoring tool as a web development tool. For
further information, see here
Instead of the traditional web page authoring tools have a look at
these:
Other Tools
- Hot
Potato "The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six
applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice,
short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and
gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web"
- Paj's Home Web
Tools Pipp
Pipp is a powerful and flexible tool to assist in the development and
maintenance of web sites. It is ideal for advanced users and
businesses, as it enables a consistent look and feel to be rapidly
built into a website.
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