links - web development

"Web Development" is the code (html and css); the pages, images, videos, and other files; the methods we use to put it all together.

“The only thing in web development that remains constant is the perpetual need to continue learning!”
— Smashing Magazine

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Basics

Cheatsheets for colors, fonts, usability, SEO, browser compatiblity http://spyrestudios.com/mega-collection-of-cheatsheets-for-designer-developers/#colorfontsseo Links to useful online cheatsheets and references, with screenshots. Spyre Studios : June 2010
Glossary of web tech http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=A useful summaries sitepoint : 2006
How web pages work http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm Basic HTML Formatting Tags, Getting Your Page Online, Promoting Your Site, Lots More Information, Compare Prices for Web Pages Marshall Brain : 2006
SitePoint http://www.sitepoint.com/ coding - from html to java SitePoint : 2006
The Open Web http://www.drumbeat.org/open-web The open web is freedom, decentralization and collaboration. DrumBeat : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - HTML Basics and Web Standards Concepts http://interact.webstandards.org/curriculum/front-end-development/web-design-1?modules Course syllabus for HTML Basics and Web Standards WaSP Interact : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - The Internet http://interact.webstandards.org/curriculum/foundation/internet-fundamentals?comp Course syllabus for Internet Fundamentals WaSP Interact : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - Web Development 101 http://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/courses/webdev101 Course syllabus for Web Development Mozilla : 2010
Web Words and Concepts http://www.webmonkey.com/glossary/ What is a "pixel"? What does "protocol" mean? Useful explanations. WebMonkey : 2010
WebMonkey http://webmonkey.com/ how-tos about everything related to web WebMonkey : 2010

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends http://24ways.org/ Good articles on web development: CSS, jQuery, building websites, and more. Somewhat advanced 24 Ways : 2010
Building Scalable Websites http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/26/1357210&from=rss "the closest thing available to a nuts-and-bolts look at managing the technical aspects of doing a Web-based startup." "nearly all of the code snippets are in PHP. MySQL 4.1 is the basis for most of the database-centered material." "Technically, I think that Building Scalable Web Sites is 100%." "Chapter four is the most readable introduction to internationalization, localization, and Unicode that I've seen up to this point." (Brian Donovan on slashdot) "Chapter five ("Data Integrity and Security") is available as a PDF on the O'Reilly catalog page for the book and Henderson has also put some articles online (all PDFs, not much overlap with the material in BSWS) at his website." Cal Henderson : 2006
Do Web Technologies Need a Complete Overhaul? http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=685098 Very interesting, long, discussion about html/css/js, the big picture, the techie details, the pros and the cons. For leisurely reading. Sitepoint forum : June 2010
DocType Q and A http://doctype.com/ "a free question and answer site for web designers. You can ask questions about CSS, HTML, web design and email design." Also WordPress, CMSs, JQuery, MySQL, ... DocTYPe : 2010
How web servers work http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm The Basic Process, Behind the Scenes, The Internet, Clients and Servers, IP Addresses, Domain Names, Name Servers, Ports, Protocols, Putting It All Together, Security, More Marshall Brain : 2006
If Architects Had to Work like Web Designers http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/000455.php Funny, and also too true: "Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. ... " and like that! Unknown : January 2002
Netcraft site surveys http://www.netcraft.com lots of good info; network security, net research Netcraft : 2006
Progressive Disclosure: Presenting Information On A Need To Know Basis http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/progressive-discolosure/ "... find the balance between all the things you want to include without overwhelming the space and your visitors. Most people use at most 20% of any given complex system. The problem is everyone uses a different 20%. What’s a designer to do?" Steven Bradley - VanSEODesign.com : June 2010
The Good-Quick-Cheap Project Rule http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/06/21/the-good-quick-cheap-project-rule/ "There are 3 ideal outcomes when delivering a web project or any other type of project ... It's good, It's delivered quickly, It's cheap." We get two, never three. SitePoint.com : June 2010
Top ten rules for designing for low bandwidth http://www.aptivate.org/webguidelines/TopTen.html An excellent site. These are good tips for making any website, low bandwidth or high! Aptivate : July 2009
Web Design from Scratch http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/ Excellent organised introduction to web design: site architecture, html, css, javascript, usability, design, ... Ben Hunt : 2006
Web-safe font cheatsheet - intro http://www.mightymeta.co.uk/introducing-the-web-safe-font-cheat-sheet/ The methods for displaying dfferent fonts on your web page; why boring old web-safe fonts are good. MightyMeta : April 2010
Web-safe font cheatsheet - version 2 http://www.mightymeta.co.uk/web-safe-font-cheat-sheet-v-2-including-google-font-api/ Version 2 of the Web-safe Font Cheatsheat, with info about the Google API for getting pretty fonts on your web pages. MightyMeta : June 2010
Website Redesign: Big Bang, Gradual or Evolutionary Approach? http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/001973.php "Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider them in reference to a large, content-rich website." Tobias Wright - SmileyCat : June 2010
Website Roadblocks http://www.zurb.com/article/377/6-tips-for-avoiding-website-roadblocks "How do you push your website projects forward without getting stuck along the way? We've discussed different personality types and soliciting feedback, but how do we deal with the bigger issues designers face when launching a web project?" Zurb.com : June 2010

Video tutorials

Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/17/seven-must-see-videos-and-presentatio ns-for-web-app-developers/ "seven videos that we think would be of great interest to web app developers in particular, with less focus on design and standards. ... a little more technically heavy than ones we’ve featured in the past ..." SitePoint : 2010
SitePoint Video tutorials and how-tos http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/ "SitePoint's video tutorials cover a wide range of topics, including CSS, Ajax, Photoshop, Ruby, PHP, and more ... " View online, or buy to download. SitePoint : 2010
Web development videos http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/ Screencasts on many subjects. CSS Tricks : 2008

backup

How to make remote offsite backups http://www.mozdex.com/offsite-webserver-backup/ This requires knowledge of unix commands and shell scripts. JD Rumm - MozDex : 2009

certification

HTML Certification from W3Schools http://www.w3schools.com/cert/cert_html.asp "The HTML Certification requires skills in HTML, XHTML and CSS. Before you apply you must have a fundamental knowledge of: * The Hypertext Markup Language - HTML 4.01 * The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language - XHTML 1.0 * Cascading Style Sheets - CSS1 and CSS2 W3Schools : 2007

newsfeeds

RSS 2.0 Specification http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "What is RSS?, Sample files, About this document, Required channel elements, Optional channel elements, Elements of <item>, Comments, Extending RSS, Roadmap" Dave Winer - Berkman Center : January 2005
RSS has moved to background http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/10/11/death-of-rss/ "The technology [of RSS] is beneath the surface powering inter-website communication and interactions. Most of the social networks provide or consume RSS. Mash-ups often use feeds to combine data. Google devours RSS data to power website and product searches." Craig Buckler - SitePoint : October 2010

testing - info

Testing your Website: Accessibility http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ultimate-testing-checklist/2 Use text-only and voice browsers; proofread all content; have users try the site; check navigation, site without css. Shirley Kaiser : July 2006
Testing your Website: General http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ultimate-testing-checklist Test html, css, different browsers, different monitors, links, scripts, downloads, online applications Shirley Kaiser : July 2006
Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ Considerations, resources, and great links for cross-browser testing Shirley E. Kaiser : August 2005

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