Web design links and resources

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by That » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:25 pm

Below I list tutorials from W3Schools, an excellent, no-bullshit resource for learning from the bottom up how to develop a website. They cover several fields, so I've grouped together their tutorials into areas of development in the rough chronological order that I suggest learning them.

Obviously you don't have to go literally from start to end, so I've included rough difficulty ratings so you can skip over things and return to them at a later date with more knowledge in your brain. Key: Easy Reasonable Advanced

Feel free to add more and discuss in this thread... I've copied this post from a topic I made on another forum, and I guess it might be useful as an ATF sticky or something.


Basic introductory tutorials

HTML Tutorial webpage structure, and the tags and what they do
XHTML Tutorial to standardise your HTML
CSS Tutorial to style your XHTML

Making webpages more dynamic (client-side)

Javascript Tutorial to make your pages more interactive
AJAX Tutorial to grab data dynamically while browsing

Making webpages more dynamic with... PHP
You need to run a web server to work with PHP/SQL; see downloads at bottom.

W3C PHP Tutorial to write dynamic scripts

Making webpages more dynamic with... Ruby on Rails
You need Ruby installed on your system to run Ruby scripts; see downloads at bottom.

Ruby on Rails guides to help you build a web application

Databases
You need a MySQL server — or SQLite if you prefer — to work with a MySQL database; see downloads at bottom.

SQL Tutorial to use a database to manage content

Content management

XML Tutorial to store pure content in a standard format
RSS Tutorial (based on XML) to notify subscribers of updates
XSLT Tutorial to present your XML in a browser-readable format

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References

PHP.net literally the best open code reference in the entire Internet

Further reading

A ton of Flash tutorials
Another ton of Flash tutorials

A List Apart: articles on web design and standards not just about coding properly!

Design/web galleries and resources

Computerlove
CSS Zen Garden
DarkEye colour-sorted galleries

Web Developer's Handbook a massive, massive resource. Don't approach as a beginner, you'll be overwhelmed

Books

PHP 5 for Dummies
PHP & MySQL for Dummies
Mastering Regular Expressions - it's important to know how to use regex properly if you're doing complex stuff in processing, but consider this super-advanced!

Downloads

PHP server for Windows [WAMP]
PHP server for Windows and other platforms [XAMPP]
MySQL server (standalone)
Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by jiggles » Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:43 pm

Sweet post. Bookmarked.

I'll add, just like in the other topic, that if anyone is using PHP and wants a great flexible framework to get fast results with a tidy MVC architecture: Codeigniter is for you. There's a ton of additional libraries that let you do just about anything in a flash. Stuff like Tank Auth is handly to implement a solid authorisation system on your site in 5 minutes, while this bastard has a bunch of social networking libraries that will add Facebook, Vimeo, Filkr, Twitter and lastFM integration to your site in a couple of lines of easy code.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by jiggles » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:28 pm

Bracing for jQuery love...

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by Schrodinger's Postman » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:54 pm

Any reason to use WAMP over XAMPP on Windows? Or is it just a preference thing?

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by Alpha eX » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:16 pm

I used XAMPP for a project two years ago, served it's purpose well, can't say I had any problems with it.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by abcd » Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:59 pm

Great set of links. :D

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by ~Earl Grey~ » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:34 am

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Full of great bits of code for all kinds of things. I used it for a nice pop-out side menu.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by Andrew Mills » Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:30 pm

Q: What kind of gooseberry fool can you do with CSS these days? I'm still using tables to layout my iPhone guides in a WebView (it works :shifty: :oops: ), but I get the feeling that using CSS (and perhaps getting to grips with XML) would be 'advantageous' to my business.

So just how funky is CSS?

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by jay2010 » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:27 pm

Handy links, getting into web design now myself. cheers.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by SEP » Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:15 pm

I've started learning web design recently, so this thread is very useful to me.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by NBK » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:45 am

Some great links there, thanks!

I'm currently looking to develop my SQL knowledge so will defintely get use out of those. Are there any similar (free) sites out there for developing SAS knowledge?

Going for a job that requires some knowledge and understanding around both of these so I'd like to prepare myself as best I can.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by That » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:45 pm

pyxl-8 wrote:Sweet post.


Thanks.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by Alpha eX » Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:39 pm

My host (that you suggested KP) are shutting down, now I have to find a new host and fast. Such a strawberry floating headache, no idea what to do now, especially with my domains.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by That » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:52 pm

Alpha eX wrote:My host (that you suggested KP) are shutting down


Umm... err? I'm sorry, are you implying that it's my fault that a small business I happened to quite like got hit hard by the global recession and ended up going bankrupt?

It's unfortunate, and I'm sympathetic (though I did jump ship a while ago when it became apparant that they were hitting difficulties), but trying to call me out over it won't change your situation. And since you have until the 31st of September to back up your gooseberry fool and get a different host, anyway, it's not quite life-or-death yet.

In any case, they sent a quite comprehensive email on what to do; I can forward this to you if you didn't receive it. You will need a new registrar (take your pick, Winckle uses 123reg) and a new host (Apis or Register1).

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by Alpha eX » Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:44 am

Karlprof wrote:
Alpha eX wrote:My host (that you suggested KP) are shutting down


Umm... err? I'm sorry, are you implying that it's my fault that a small business I happened to quite like got hit hard by the global recession and ended up going bankrupt?

It's unfortunate, and I'm sympathetic (though I did jump ship a while ago when it became apparant that they were hitting difficulties), but trying to call me out over it won't change your situation. And since you have until the 31st of September to back up your gooseberry fool and get a different host, anyway, it's not quite life-or-death yet.

In any case, they sent a quite comprehensive email on what to do; I can forward this to you if you didn't receive it. You will need a new registrar (take your pick, Winckle uses 123reg) and a new host (Apis or Register1).


Was just letting you know because I thought you already changed host, not saying it's your fault, just thought you wouldn't have known.

But yeah, they did the good thing and gave lots of notice which i'm happy about, I wanted to change anyway but now I have a motive for doing it.

How is Winkle finding 123reg, had some serious problems with them and Google, they wouldn't submit sites to it unless you paid them additional charges so had to move hosts and then they was stalling things.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by That » Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:37 am

Ahhh right, sorry about that, bit defensive in retrospect!

Winckle just uses 123-reg for his domain, he uses Apis for his actual hosting. 123-reg have nothing to do with if he gets on Google or not (though neither do Apis really, that's a weird one that). As far as I know he likes them as a registrar though.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by Andrew Mills » Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:22 pm

Just started learning CSS (finally :oops: ), and it's nice to work through the tutorials in the CSS books that I bought off Amazon. Always handy having something to pick up as they're kept beside my PC/mac mini. :D

Looking forward to using CSS to create one specific guide template that'll work properly on a variety of devices (desktop and mobile). Will make porting them across so much easier! :wub:

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by souljahsstory » Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:49 pm

Is there anyone on here, able & willing to help me on developing a website? My background is in design & so i'm not good at the nitty gritty stuff. I was wondering if there's someone on here who might be able to help a fella out.

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PostRe: Web design links and resources
by Rightey » Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:00 am

Does anyone know any good tutorials for Dreamweaver?


A class project that I have is going to be to build a webmap using Google maps API 3 and the site the map will be hosted on will be constructed in Dreamweaver. I plan to use the W3Schools tutorials but is there anything else I will need to know?

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