IT 320 Bookmarks
General Tools
Tools for Many IT320
Topics
- Webmonkey:The Web Developer's Resource
- Large and useful site on site design for professionals - from beginner to master- many links; Includes info on PERL etc
- DevEdge Netscape
Sidebar Tabs
- Sidebars for HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.
you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.
DevEdge was a wonderful site, now archived here.
The sidebar tabs, which work in later Netscapes and in Firefox, are professional tools for developers. For example, there are sidebars for JavaScript, CSS, DOM and XSLT.
- WebDeveloper.com ®: Where Web Developers
and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and
More!
- Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.
- HotScripts
- Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
- Web Developer's Virtual Library
- Tutorials on authoring, including intermediate level ones; JavaScript, CSS, XML, etc.
- w3schools
- On-line tutorials for many subjects - including CSS, XML, etc.
Usually a very clear survey of the issues, features, syntax.
Read before you get into the grubby details for an excellent overview.
- ASPN
- Resource for programmers in PERL,PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
- Kira's Web Toolbox
- Builder.com - Beyond the code
- Web services, Java, Database,UNIX, XHTML etc.
Some articles more obscure than useful.
Newsletters
- The Digital Divas - A
Network of Digitally Gifted Women
- Links to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.
- Survey of browser
usage
- But beware that Netscape and Mozilla may be confounded;
See also description of
Mozilla
- Many scripts in many languages
- Includes HTML, RSS, Perl
- The Experts
- Links to Dmitry's Design lab (a favorite), articles on XML, DHTML
- w3.org
- All the specs on all the web standards and some (difficult) primers
- Goodies To Go! Newsletter
Archive
- Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines
- Web Monkey
- Tutorials on a variety of topics
- Mozilla’s Developer Center
- Links to articles and reference material on
every topic
in the course and then some.
- A List Apart (calls itself
ALA)
- Mainly articles on CSS code, but also some on JavaScript,
XML,
layout and
web site design
I particularly like the article on
lists in CSS.
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IT in general - not course specific
FTP Utilities
- CoreFTPLite
- This is my favorite free FTP client;
It supports SFTP/SSH.
It is easy to use and robust.
Please note that on some LINUX machines (e.g. those requiring
SFTP, such as Anita) you must use SFTP; on others
you may not be able to upload files if you use SFTP.
- SSH Communications Security : Home
- Site for another secure FTP utility.
- FTP server
- Another secure FTP utility - 30 day free trial
- Choosing an FTP utility
- FTP for various OS's.
- Download WS_FTP LE
- License for current edition of Ipswitch FTP Home Edition (low cost)
- FTPplanet.com - A community site
for users of FTP
- Ipswitch's site, including guide on their FTP utility
- Setting up your FTP utility
- SmartFTP
- A free FTP utility; I find CoreFTP easier to use.
- Filezilla
- Free FTP and SFTP (Secure FTP) utility (from Source Forge)
- CyberDuck
- Another free FTP and SFTP utility- this one for Macs
- Fugu
- SFTP for Macs with a graphical front-end
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UNIX/LINUX
- While you are on a UNIX/LINUX machine:
- man commandName gives the manual’s sections on that command.
- A tutorial which starts with
the basic but goes to more topics –
- great resource
- UNIX
Systems Admin
- Very detailed course
- There are many LINUX
(and UNIX) groups on Google
- The following tutorials are all very, very basic:
- BigNoseBird Introduction and
tutorials
- Quick, barely large enough to be useful introduction to LINUX and file permissions with link
to good vi tutorial and cgi scripts
- Linux Primer from Clark
University
- Good
introductory primer
- Another basic
intro –
- from Bridgewater College
- A tutorial which starts with
the basic but goes to more topics –
- Great resource
- Linux Links
- Includes a place for newbies, but most of the searches link to books at Amazon
- To
edit all scripts with one line of Perl
- LinuxPlanet
- has a lot of info – perhaps more than you want
- There are elementary tutorials
on shell programming etc – starting basic
- Shell programming
- Part 1 talks about basics – copying, moving files etc.;
Part 2 talks about pipes, redirection and I/O.
- vi and vim documentation and tutorials
- There is a tutorial on most UNIX/LINUX machines.
Type vimtutorial (Vim is an update of vi.)
- BigNoseBird Tutorial
- Very useful cheat sheet of editing commands
- UNIX/LINUX guide
from Web Monkey
- Two dozen of the most frequently used commands
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Search Engines and Getting Found
- SearchEngines.com - search engine rankings
and search engine optimization tips.
- Largest site on search engines; newsletters etc. How to get found and where you want to be found
- Search Engines:
What's the Difference?
- Google vs. Yahoo vs. Ask Jeeves /
Teoma
- Goodies to Go! Newsletter
#281
- Search engines- met-tags and general intro
- Goodies to Go! Newsletter
#282
- Which search engine do you wish to optimize your site for?
- Goodies to Go! Newsletter
#286
- On getting found - belongs in Search Engines
- How Search
Engines Work
- Several pages, including good information you’ll want to know on how they rank pages
- Major Search
Engines and Directories
- Major search engines and how to
get listed
- Before You Write
Meta Tags
- Uses for meta-tags, including general and internal search engines
- The impact of
links and link text on search engine placement
- Getting found
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Other IT Tools
- Builder.com - Beyond the code
- Web services, Java, Database, Unix, XHTML etc.
- Reviews and
free downloads at Download.com
Free FTP utility from Ipswitch - may
be older version, in case can't find current version from Ipswitch
- https://techrepublic-secure.com.com/5106-6242-24-15872.html?part=tr&subj=15872
- CD on how to manage a small office network
- PDFConverterX,
PDF to Text Component for Conversion
- Tool to convert PDF documents to text or HTML. Maybe old
- Choosing a CMS
- What you Need to Know
- Choosing a CMS (Content Management System)
- TIOBE Community Bulletin Board
- Lists frequency of queries about various languages
- DDJ
- Dr. Dobbs Journal has links on many programming languages and platforms
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Tech News Sources
- ACM
- Current news; you should also get their newsletter with weekly updates.
If you are a student, you should join; student memberships are a bargain.
- Â IEEE
- This site has more news about the IEEE than about technology.
Local societies and local computer societies also frequently have newsletters
- Zdnet
- Reviews of software, hardware and tech toys; good place to find free utilities (e.g.
for FTP)
as well as to comparison shop for new computers, digital cameras, etc.
- Â CNET Tech News
-  TechWeb – catering to IT folk
- Â Tech News World
- Â SlashDot
- Slashdot likes to describe itself as ‘news for nerds’
- Â Wired.com
- Â And, of course, all the general news outlets from the
N Y Times to
Yahoo!
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Tools for Accessibility - e.g. for color-blind and low-vision users
- Web Accessibility Initiative
- W3c's links to everything you could need to know about accessibility problems
on-line and how to address them.
This site links to EVERYTHING.
- Color Deficient Vision
- See how your site looks to someone who
is color-blind with links (at bottom) to transforming tools.
- Rules so your
site will be accessible for the color-blind
- CSS for
aural style sheets
- For pages which are read aloud
- Web documentation for
aural style sheets
- From w3.org
- Web Standards
- Webstandards.org is devoted to affordable accessibility for all.
Through their site you may obtain the British
guide to accessible sites
- Creating
accessible tables from the w3c.org
- How to create tables (for tabular information, not for layout) which work for
Braille readers, cell phones, etc.
- Accessibility
and the Web - Designing Web Pages that are Color-Blind Friendly
- Rules so your site will be accessible for the color-blind
- Web Exact
- This is a free service which validates for conformance to accessibility rules.
- Lynx Viewer
- Lynx is a text-only browser.
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Other IT Tools and Resources
- Client and server
-
- Introduction to terms
-
- Newsletters on CSS, XHTML, JavaScript etc.
- Builder.com : Architect : Web Services
- Newsletters on web services
- Goodies To Go! Newsletter Archive
- Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines.
Some are dated.
- The Digital Divas - A
Network of Digitally Gifted Women
- Links to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.
- Sun Microsystems
- Sun's developer site - information on Java, Web Services, etc.
- WebDeveloper.com ®: Where Web Developers
and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and
More!
- Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.
- Amaya Home Page
- Editor which includes extensions to MathML;
Amaya is a w3c.org tool for editing on the web
- Webmonkey
| Reference: Special Characters
- Another list of all the special codes.
Note: You may need to type the URL into your browser and then use the
back button if the browser quickly goes to another page.
The URL is
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/
- Apache
- A very large, major open source organization with many projects.
Apache is a web server; there are links to Xerces, Apache’s XML editing tool,
other XML projects, and many other projects and products.
- Source Forge
- Another large source for open source projects
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Miscellaneous Tools- not IT related
- VisiBone Touch-Typing Tutor
- Typing tutor - in case you need it or know someone who does
- WinSite: Graph paper printer
Print your own graph paper
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HTML and XHTML, including CSS
XHTML/HTML
Please note that a large number of resources, including information
about web page and web site design may be found at www.simmons.edu/~menzin/CS101_Site/bookmarks.html
the bookmarks for CS101, my introductory web design class. Most of these links are not duplicated on this page,
and you should be sure to visit
the CS101 bookmarks.
Documentation for HTML and XHTML
- HTML Codes - Special
Characters - ASCII Table from About.com
- Codes for <
, accented letters and other special characters
- HTML Special Entities
from w3schools
- Another easy to use list
- Webmonkey
| Reference: Special Characters
- Another list of all the special codes
- Note: You may need to type the URL into your browser and then use the back button if the browser quickly goes
to another page.
- The URL is http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/
- Special
Characters for HTML from w3c.org
- Includes mathematical characters
- XHTML Elements
Library - HTML Tag Libraryfrom
About.com
- Links to summary of tags for
HTML/XHTML by function (at bottom) and alphabetically (to right of sponsored
links box) and links to summary of modules (major chunks by function) for XHTML
- HTML
elements from w3c.org
- HTML
attributes from w3c.org
- Includes information on what is deprecated
- Quick reference on all XHTML tags from DevGuru.com
- Very easy to use and helpful, but doesn't warn you about usage dropped in going from transitional to strict Doctype.
- Modularization
of XHTML from About.com
- Good intro to modularization of XHTML
- Modularization of XHTML1.1 from w3c
- Includes information on changes from XHTML1.0
- You Already Write
for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic
- Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDA’s,
cell phones, etc. Also see link above this.
- XHTML Basic description and
documentation
- XHTML Basic is a minimal subset for 'small user agents' (cell phones, smart watches,
TVs)
- VisiBone HTML and CSS
Products
- Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript syntax (to buy)
- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible
HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
- Turning HTML into XHTML from w3.org
- HTML Working Group Roadmap
- What modules and versions will be coming your way and when
- The DOM model
- Also check out the Tutorials and Articles section directly below
and the information on the DOM in the JavaScript section.
- This reference is from the JavaScript Kit.
- HTML 4.01 Specification
- Of course, by now you are writing XHTML.
- You can also find the
Forms specifications here.
- IDocs References on HTML
- This is from 2003 - before the days when XHTML was a must.
- Still, it has useful basic information and some tutorials.
- Setting the character set encoding
- More information on character set encodings is in the Tutorials section.
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Tutorials and Articles for HTML and XHTML
Tutorials and Elementary Articles
- Introduction to HTML
- From w3.org; but by now you should be writing XHTML
- Why switch to XHTML?
- The
Transition from HTML to XHTML
- From About.com
- Making the
switch to XHTML
- Why you should switch from HTML to XHTML - from Builder.com
- XHTML 101 - Free XHTML Course
- Good but basic introduction to XHTML.
- There is also a free HTML class here (see links at the left.)
- XHTML Tutorial from w3schools.com
- w3schools tutorials are always a good place to begin.
- Dave Ragett's Tutorials on HTML
- Even though you should start with XHTML, this is such a clear, concise tutorial it's a classic.
- There are also links to his advanced tutorial
- And to his tutorial on CSS
- And to his invaluable HTMLTidy
- XHTML
tutorials
- You can also change the 1-1 in the URL to 2-1, 3-1, etc. to step thru the tutorials
- This is from About.com
- WDVL: Introduction to
XHTML, with eXamples
- XHTML tutorial from WDVL
- HTML Tutorial from EchoEcho.com
- Another clear HTML tutorial - but, of course, you'll write XHTML
- This tutorial does haesome more advanced features - e.g. meta tags refresh, etc.
- The navigation is so clear that you can quickly zoom to any details you need.
- HTML Tutorial from HTML.net
- Although this is an HTML tutorial it looks towards XHTML - e.g. close all tags, put tags in lower case, etc.
- Wilbur is an older HTML tutorial
- It has a useful alphabetical idex of tags.
- Excellent at it's time, the author, Eric Meyer, has since become the guru of CSS
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Attributes and XML
- Introduction to attributes and values
- Tutorials from w3c,org
- This includes links to some advanced tutorials.
- The span and div Tags
- Clear summary of the similarities and differences
- And how to use div appropriately
- What's in a Title
- What the title tag does for you and how to find it.
- Writing HTML Code that is Human-Readable
- Why you should do this, and how to do it
- The trouble with
using ems and percents for font sizing
- Pitfalls of relative sizing for fonts
- Are keywords the
answer for font sizing?
- Keywords work better than absolute or relative sizes for fonts
- Properly
using CSS and Scripts with XHTML - please also see section below on CSS
- From Mozilla; with
examples
- Using an HTML
Validator
- Please also see section
below on HTMLTidy
- Quirks
Mode - Using the DOCTYPE Tag
- Why you need the DOCTYPE
- Rise of the
Underdog Browser
- Why you need to design for all
browsers
- Please also refer to the sections on Site Design
and Browsers
- Font Families: How to
Decide Which Font Family to Use -- Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace, Script,
Fantasy
- Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML
- More information on dynamic HTML and DOM may be found in the section on
DOM - advanced articles on JavaScript
- Guidelines for formatting lists
- Attributes for the Image tag
- Checklist for your web page
- Good checklist oneverything from correct spelling to making sure your image files are small enough to download rapidly (12Kb)
- Unordered lists - how to change the shape of the bullets or get none
- Beginning with XHTML1.0 strict this must be done through styling.
- This also works on mobile devices
- Ordered lists - how to change the enumeration (e.g. Roman, Arabic numerals, letters, etc.)
- Beginning with XHTML1.0 strict this must be done through styling.
- This also works on mobile devices
- The starting point of the numbering/lettering may also be specified
Forms, Post and Get - see also section on CGI
- A Useability checklist for forms
- Excellent article
- WDVL:
Server-side Scripting
- Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.
- WDVL:
The GET Method
- How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated
and CGI can isolate the search parameters and their values
- WDVL:
Problems With the GET Method
- WDVL:
Request Headers
- What's in an http header
WDVL: The
POST Method
- How POST assembles a request etc.
- WDVL: The
<Form> Tag
- Specifying POST and to what CGI script
- Focus
on forms
- The focus() and blur() methods
- Checkboxes vs Radio Buttons
- From Jakob Nielsen, the great guru on useability
- The Disabled attribute in forms
- This allows you to fill in a field and prevent the suer from changing it
- HTML Forms from w3c.org
- Includes some advanced methods - e.g. fieldset for grouping related elements and control elements
- Additions to
forms in XHTML are also available.
- XForms for HTML Authors
- The w3c.org explains how to convert Forms to Xforms
- Emailing Forms Data
- Scripts to send form data by email, if you don't want to use the preferred CGI script
More Advanced Articles
- Using Web Pages
with Excel
- How to set up your web page so that it may be downloaded into Excel
- Coming
eventually: XHTML2.0
- What to expect
- Modularization
of XHTML
- Good introduction to modularization of XHTML for XHTML
- Also discusses the Transitional, Strict, and Frameset subsets of XHTML
- Description of all the modules in XHTML 1.1
- And the changes from the modularization of XHTML 1.0
- Also links to the description of
moularization in XHTML1.0
- If you scroll down to the FULL table of contents you will find
- which elements are part of which modules in XHTML 2.0
- The description for XHTML 1.1 makes it easier to see where the w3c is heading, before
- you go to the more complicated XHTML 2.0
- The List Module in XHTML 2.0
- A new type of list is added for navigation lists.
- Open and recently resolved issues are at the bottom of the page.
- You Already Write
for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic
- Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDA's, cell phones, etc.
Also see links about modularization.
- Tutorial on writing for mobile devices
- Should you abandon table-based layouts in favor of CSS?
- Yes- almost always! And this articles explains why
- The document character set (Unicode)
- What are chasets all about?
-
How do I use them - a tutorial
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Links and Resources for HTML and XHTML
HTML Tidy is the standard for XHTML validation.
Originally developed at the w3c, it is now under the aegis of Source
Forge, the huge open source organization.
- HTML tidy service - this is the place I recommend going!!
- HTML Tidy on-line (interactive). Fast and easy to use.
- You don't need to learn all the details of HTML Tidy to use this page.
- General information about HTMLTidy and its capabilities
- Clean up your Web pages with HTML
TIDY
- Link to HTMLTidy - turns your HTML into XHTML.
- Although this page describes itself as 'somewhat dated', it has a lot of excellent information as well as a
Link to Source Forge and current versions of HTML Tidy.
- HTML Tidy Project Page
- The actual HTML Tidy programs
- You may download the programs if you wish to 'Tidy' your pages off-line.
- HTML Tidy - Frequently Asked
Questions
- HTML Tidy Configuration
Options Quick Reference
- Options you may set for HTML Tidy at SourceForge.
- This is a huge site, with a library of Tidy that you can call in various
languages, and tools for version management.
- Explains how to download your own copy of HTML Tidy and set the options
- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible
HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
- How to write HTML which is XHTML compatible so there is less to 'Tidy' up
- Tidy Online
- Another place to check your HTML and VALIDATE it!
- This is another version of HTML Tidy
- W3c Validator
- W3C Markup Validation Service:
Upload Files
- Validate your XHTML
- There are other validators
- CSE
HTML Validator Online Check
- On-line HTML Validator
- There is a free version.
- Mozilla's DevEdge has links to several validators.
- HTML Kit
- Customizable HTL editor with HTML Tidy and beyond for validation; free for personal use.
- HTML Validator
- From the Web Design Group at www.htmlhelp.com - much
of this is dated.
- Note that this HTML site validates HTML, not XHTML!
- They also offer a CSS
checker (again for CSS1, not CSS2)
- And a very useful Link
Valet, to check all the links on your page
- Validator advice and common 'gotchas'
- From AListApart
- Advice on validation and links to validators
- Many useful links, but some links do not work in Netscape Navigator
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- Links to 14 free XHTML editors
- Brief description of each editor
- Large parts of this were composed on Evrsoft's excellent
1st page
- NoteTab Lite is also popular.
- Amaya is the w3c's browser/editor and it is designed to work with mathematical expressions and Math ML.
- WYSISYG Editors - a few of which are free
- The list includes the usual commercial products - Dreamweaver, Adobe, etc. and links to them
- More links on editorsfrom About.com
- HTML-Kit - free, standards-compliant editor and validator
-
ZD Net's Download site is another source of editors.
- Some reviews. Editors range from free to expensive.
- Many have a free trial - or a free less fancy version
- Check ZD Net's general download site for site management and design tools.
- SourceForge, the huge open source software foundation
- Also maintains a list of editor projects.
- This includes editors for other languages too
- Of course, everything is free.
- HyperText Builder 2006
- Earlier versions of this freeware editor were highly reviewed.
- Includes tools for developing server-side PHP scripts
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- Link Valet
- Free and easy to use. Color coded report makes it easy to find broken links, although some fancy 'error pages' don't get picked up as broken.
- w3c link checker
- ZDNet also has a list of link checkers.
- List is updated and includes prices, release date, and some reviews.
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Browsers including issues on standards compliance
- Why standards are important
- Rise of the
Underdog Browser
- Why you need to design for all browsers
- Survey of browser
usage
- But beware that Netscape and Mozilla may be confounded;
See also description of
Mozilla
- Most recent version of Firefox
- With acess to other Mozilla products including Firefox for all browsers
- Archive of old broswers so you can test your site
- This is really a one-stop place and is the eaasiest way to find old versions of Firefox.
- Also has Bobby (for low vision viewers), Safari for Macs, Flock (social broswer).
- Of course, all version of IE, including for handhelds are here.
- SillyDog
- Archive of old (and curent)Netscape browsers for pc's, Macs, Linux, etc.
- Current Opera browser
- Mobile version of browser also available here
- Netscape archive of its browsers
- Doctype switch and the difference between Quirks and Standard mode
- Also has useful table on how older browsers handle various doctypes and articles on same.
- Quirks mode for Mozilla browsers
- Clear description of why Quirks mode is needed and how it works
- How your page looks in Lynx, a text-only broswer
- Major browsers with brief decriptions
- and their bugs. Useful.
- PNG and cross-broswer problems
- PNG is a graphics format which is not supported in all browsers. This article tells you how to work around that
- AListApart articles on browsers
- Many of these articles are on CSS and site design issues.
- Design for Firefox first and then IE
- to make pages look good in both browsers.
- Don't tell them what browser to use
- And use the standards!
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- Please also check the section on accessibility
rules and tools.
- The more general resources come before the specific ones.
- In general, www.w3c.org
- has all the detailed documentation, and the sites below have easier
introductions
- Still,it's hard to undersestimate the importance of the w3c site for documentation, status reports,
and even some tutorials.
- About.com covers many, many topics
- http://webdesign.about.com/
- You know w3schools for their excellent introductory to intermediate
tutorials
- www.w3schools.com
- This is always a great place to startwhen you arae learning something new.
- Web Developer’s Virtual Library has excellent introductory to
intermediate tutorials
- http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Scripting/
- Webmonkey's material, once cutting
edge, looks more dated now
- http://www.webmonkey.com/
- WebReference tends to be more for experienced developers
- http://www.webreference.com/tools/
- Their Experts page has many good
links, including Dmitry's labs,
with great design advice.
- The Mozilla Development Center has a variety of HTML tools
- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Category:HTML:Tools
- Older Dev Edge tools, including those for JavaScript, are available.
- So are the useful DevEdge Netscape
Sidebar Tabs
- These are sidebars for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.
- Other sidebars are add-ins for Firefox
- Web Developer Extension has a toolbar for Firefox, Flock, etc.
- Zvon also has sidebars for Opera and IE
- Also tutorials, including on XML and CSS
- CSS & XHTML Bookmarks
- is an enormous list of galleries of CSS styles, CSS tutorials (including
10 favorites),
and articles. Mostly on CSS, but some on AJAX and other topics.
- HTML Help
- Various tools and references, some dated
- The New York Public Library Style Guide
- Written for people writing in the branch libraries. Good, basic information.
- HTML Writers' Guild links
- Site is not updated frequently. Formerly free tutorials are now tuition-base e-classes
-
About.com:
http://watson.addy.com/
- Tool to verify syntax, links, download speed etc for HTML pages
- XHTML Frequently Answered
Questions
- DevEdge Netscape
Sidebar Tabs
- Sidebars for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.
- Sidebars are available at this archived site.
- HTML Editors and Software
for Web Development
- Editors, image map tools, etc.
- Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed
- Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc
- Tend to be more advanced and often looking for less main-stream effects.
- The impact of
links and link text on search engine placement
- Getting found
- DHTML Code Samples
- and get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials
- Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML
- DevEdge
Tune-Up Wizard
- Tests pages in Netscape and Firefox
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Issue in Site and Page Design
Information on Color and Graphics
- Color and Graphics
- Good explanation of everything you might want to know about graphics - including bit depth, dithering,
anti-aliasing etc.
- The RGB Monitors
- WDVL explains how colors are specified in XHTML and why
- The 6x6x6 Color Cube
- What colors you can specify using that cube
- Browser safe, or non-dithering, colors
- This is the most famous site for browser safe colors.
- You should always use browser safe colors to avoid dithering
- You may view the colors arranged by hue or by value.
- Colors of similar value have similar intensity or impact.
- Other pages with browser-safe colors may be found at
- Primeline - nifty interactive tool
- The Visual QuickStart
Guide on XHTML and CSS
- WDVL has a site on graphics
- Links to free graphics, tools, resources etc. near the bottom of the page
- Also some more advancedarticles on
graphics
- About.com
- Cloford.com - Charts on colors, special characters,
country codes
- Dmitry's Color Lab
- Excellent advice and information about color and design
- Several pages
- Optimizing Web Graphics
- A bit dated, but many wonderful tools and links, and no one minds a fast download
- Understanding Color and Accessibility
- From evolt.org
- Color Wheel and color theory
- Many useful links to tools and other resources
- Production Graphics
- For the Graphics Professional
- Tools for re-sizing images
- Sources of free images and icons
- HTML Writers' Guild -Links to several libraries of
buttons,rules, etc.
- Realm Graphics - 150 icons by type; Good
source
- Clip-art.com- Enormous collection of free clip art
- Graphic Element samples - Large collection of
basic but useful icons
- Yahoo
's list of icon collections- Always a good place to start
- ShockZone Animated GIFs - Use sparingly, but if
you must, this is an easy place to find what you want; Also has non-animated clip art
- Laura McCanna's Free Art Page- - Images with a
similar feel
- Icon Bazaar - Icons by category, so easier to find wht you
want
- Index of bullets - Useful site for colored
bullets
- Free Stuff Center - Leads to several
collections
- Webshots Photos - Enormous collection of photos,
very well categorized; has several of everything you can think of; may also use it them as screen
savers
- GraphixKingdom - Large collection of clip
art by category
- Icon Browser - Large collection of icons, but not
categorized, so time-consuming to use
- Barry's Clip Art - Another huge, categorized source
- Search for more free clipart
- Search for more free photos
Page Design - Including Usability
- The Basics of Page Layout
- Basic - which is a good place to strt. Links at the bottom to other information
- Useability checklist for forms
- Good advice!
- Useable forms for an international audienece
- From evolt.org
- Checkboxes vs. Radio Button
- Article by Jakob Nielsen, the great guru of usability.
- His web site has many articles on useability,
including
- The Top 10 mistakes of web design and
- the all-important Usability 101.
- Also annual lists of best and worst web sites.
- Articles on writing for the web
- From AListApart
- On-line writing style
- From Lynch and Horton's book
- Tips for
fast-loading pages
- Useful for large pages/sites.
- From Mozilla
- Slash - getting URLS right
- The F-shaped pattern for reading on the
web
- From Jakob Nielsen
-
Checklist for creating web pages
-
The all important back button
- Links near the bottom lead to more articles about navigation
- Writing Effective Links
- Screen resolution and page
layout
- Usability.gov
- Many articles, templates and lots of good advice about usability.
- Includes information about the process of developing
a site
- as well as on planning, writing, programming and usability testing.
- A treasure trove of information.
- There are many tools and pages on acessibility issues in the
general IT Tools section.
- The w3c.org also has a
Content Accessiblity Curriculum
Site Design
- Art and the Zen of Web Sites
- Humorous but very on-target advice.
- Dmitry's Design Lab
- Great advice on site design, navigation, etc. Great place to start
- Web Style Guide
- On-line version of Horton and Lynch's classic book
- Good advice on everything from typography to navigation and on to site design
- A complete course!
- Further references may be found here.
- Navigation advice
- From evolt.org
- Where Am I?
- Good advice on naviagation
- What makes for a good site?
-
How to drive your readers away
- Articles on site design, layout and graphic
design
- From AListApart
to Table of Contents
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets
Documentation for CSS etc.
Please note that many sites are a combination of tutorials, articles, doumentation, examples
and information about tools. All these are found in the Links and Resouces for CSS
section, so be sure to check out tht section too.
- W3C HTML Home Page
- I find myself also using these w3c pages:
- w3c on the Cascade
- w3c on assigning color values
- w3c on Selectors
- Style Activity Statement
- Status of various projects on style sheets - including CSS and XSL
- CSS Validator from w3c.org
- So you know your code is valid
- Cascading Style Sheets,
Level 2
- Includes what values may be assigned to what attributes, etc.
- Fonts
- w3c's definitions of the characteristics of fonts which you may specify, and how to do it.
- Property index
- Chart with all possible properties, possible value and default values.
- Media types
- The @import rule
- Descriptor index
- Highly technical reference on CSS descriptors, mostly related to fonts. Advanced and not normally useful.
- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible
HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
- Guidelines so your XHTML will work in existing HTML browsers
- VisiBone HTML and CSS Products
- Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript syntax (to buy)
- CSS Reference Table
- Very useful table of attributes and values; from Bulder.com
- CSS Reference
table
- Only CSS1, but a good clear place for a beginner to start, as is the guide to
- CSS structure and
rules
- From htmlhelp.com
- Other links from that site are
available, including CSSCheckup,
to check/validate for CSS (1),
- A short tutorial on how to link
style designations to your html page and
- other web authoring tools
(some dated – e.g. validate HTML but not XHTML).
- Learning CSS
- Books and articles on learning CSS (from w3c.org)
- Web Style Sheets
- w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL
- CSS for
aural style sheets
- For pages which are read aloud
- Web documentation for aural
style sheets
- From w3.org
-
CSS Documentation and articles
- Many topics and useful resources.
- Covers CSS1 and CSS2.
- CSS2 Reference from w3schools
- Their tutorials are very useful, and so are their references.
- CSS: The Definitive Guide - 1st editition by Eric Meyer
- This is indeed the definitive guide.
- The on-line version, which has less explanatory material than the print version, is also available through Safari Books at the ACM
- Discusses CSS1 thoroughly and looks ahead to CSS2
- HTML Goodies' Reference
- May cover only CSS1, but easy to use and fine until all common browsers implement CSS2 or you use CSS2's features
- Older (2001) documentation
- Avaliable in other languages
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Tutorials & Articles for CSS
- Learning CSS
- Books,tutorials, etc. on CSS from w3c.org
- Starting with
HTML + CSS
- First look at CSS from w3c.org.
- Good place to start.
CSS Tutorial
- From w3schools.com
- Another excellent introduction.
- Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
- from Dave Raggett at w3c.org
- RichInStyle.com CSS2
tutorial
- CSS How to
- Usual excellent introduction from w3schools.com
- Linking your style
sheets to your html page
- Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) By Example: CSS Resources
- Fine set of tutorials and links
- Webmonkey’s
Guide to CSS
- More an overview than a tutorial
- Tutorial from Alsacreations
- Very elegant!
- Tutorial from EchoEcho.com
- Basic, clear.Many links on site.
-
Tutorial from HTML Goodies
- Starts basic, but goes far enough;
- Links to tools and other tutorials at the bottom
- Primer on CSS from HTML Goodies
- Beginner's tutorial
from html.net
- Useful index on the left side.
- May be dated, as also has tutorial from HTML, rather than XHTML.
- MaxDesign's tutorials
- On lists, floats, etc.
- Start with the SelectTutorial
- These tutorials are intermediate level.
- Quick Tutorial
on CSS –
- From WDG and htmlhelp.com.
- May not include CSS2, but a fast start
- Article on how to link, classes vs id etc basic but very clear
- WestCiv’s
tutorials
- From beginning to advanced.
- Another tutorial;
this one is from CommunityMX
- All sections are indexed
in part 6
- This site also has tutorials on Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.
- The next block of tutorials is from About.com.They are good
introductions:
- Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorial
- About.com 's CSS tutorials,including table of contents to various lessons.
- CSS
Lesson 1: What are Cascading Style Sheets &# [ ]
- Intro to CSS with links to many tutorials
- CSS
Lesson 2: Inline Styles &# [ ]
- Where to put your styling - inline, external, etc.
- CSS
Lesson 3: <font> CSS &# [ ]
- Text and font attributes
- CSS
Lesson 4: CSS Backgrounds &# [ ]
- Backgrounds, boxes (can we live without tables?)
and positioning
- CSS
Lesson 5: Tips and Tricks with CSS &# [ ]
- DHTML and other tricks
- CSS2 Generated Content
- How to get CSS2 to manage your
bullets, numbering etc.
- Unfortunately IE has not yet implemented the :before
and :after pseudo-elements
- CSS Selectors
- CSS
Positioning
- CSS Boxes
- and dressing up your borders
- CSS
Specificity
- What rules take precedence over which
- CSS3 – what’s
coming and also How
It’s Implemented
- Advanced articles on CSS
-
Media types (printer friendly pages)
- What browsers
support in CSS and how to Display Stylesheets Dynamically
- What browsers support what features and links on work-arounds for older browsers
- Tutorial from Zvon.com
- Also has links to tutorials on XML etc
- The next set of articles is from Peachpit, publishers of books for graphic designers:
- Styling forms attarctively
- Print versions of web pages, paginations etc.
- 10 Favorite
CSS tutorials, with brief descriptions.
- None is elementary.
- Tutorial on
internationalization and CSS3
- From w3c.org
- CSS Structure and
rules
- Tutorial from htmlhelp.com
- Includes rules for cascading
- HTML Goodies - Explorer
Tutorials
- Well written tutorials, very clear, but maybe dated (e.g. CSS1 instead of CSS2, and doesn't appear to know
that Navigator supports CSS too)
- There are other
tutorials on CSS here too – with useful links to tools and more tutorials
at the bottom
- The next set of articles is from WDVL:
- WDVL.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/Tutorial.html
- Link from About.com, but part of WDVL
- WDVL:
Introduction to Style Sheets
- Same tutorial on WDVL’s site.
- Tutorial on CSS - good top-dow approach;
- Be sure to also look at their pages on Designing CSS Web Pages in the
- "Links and Resources for CSS" section below.
- Layers in CSS
- WDVL: Linking
Styles to Documents
- How to link a style sheet to your page
- The Brain Jar on Positioning with
CSS
- There are other tutorials here too - e.g. on DOM
- There is also a tutorial on using CSS
- Dealing with
differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape
- Advanced article; also relevant to next article.
- Rearrange page
code to raise text relevance
- How to move the important terms nearer the top of the page so your page gets found by
search engines.
- Change rollover
effects by changing the order of CSS styles
- Rollovers and the order of CSS styles
- Why CSS styling is
for tables too
- Using CSS for tables
- Integrated Web
Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management
- How to keep your solutions to the CSS foibles of different browsers
under control over time
- Add clickable icons
to your links
- Use CSS to get pretty pictures as bullets in you lists
- Top 10 CSS Tips for
Creating and Using Cascading Style Sheets
- WebDeveloper.com's
Guide to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- CSS2 Generated Content
- :before and :after; does not work in IE
- Positioning
with CSS , Centering
with CSS – fixed width , Centering with
CSS – liquid width
- Beginning CSS –
from About
- CSS and XSL: When to use which
- The w3c says 'Use CSS when you can, use XSL when you must.'
-
Should you abandon tables for layout?
- Almost always and here's why
-
Why you shouldn’t use in-line CSS with a strict DOCTYPE
- Friendlybit.com also has many articles on CSS, HTML and JavaScript,
- Including a
Beginner’s Guide to CSS, and some
simple templates.
-
CSS, PDFs, LaTeX and PrinceXML
- Advanced.
- Tutorials and FAQs from AlsaCreations
- Good place to start - e.g. sections on tabless layout and on menus
- In-line styling in CSS2
- By Eric Meyer. Advanced
-
Case study of how Mozilla used CSS to redesign its DevEdge site
- Case study of using CSS and
JavaScript to design a menu bar
- The CSS Anarchist
- Older article on how to use CSS to wreck poorly coded sites and turn off blinking ads
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Links and Resources for CSS - Including Sample Layout Sources and Browser-Specific Hacks
- W3C HTML Home Page
- w3c.org - can't link to it too often
- W3C home page on CSS
- Links to articles, tutorials,
documentation, roadmaps of what's coming, news, etc.
- Another version of this, styled differently, is
here.
- Learning CSS
- Books and articles on learning CSS
- W3C Core Styles
- 8 style sheets on w3c's server which you can link to from your pages.
- Many references on CSS
- From Web design Group a htmlhelp.com
- There is also a link to further
references
- U. of Minnesota - Duluth organizes everything
- This well-organized site has tutorials on CSS, information on (literally) everything from headers to footers and everything in between
- They also have links to their sites on JavaScript, XML etc.
- CSS & XHTML Bookmarks
- An enormous list of galleries of CSS styles, CSS tutorials
- (including 10 favorites)
and articles.
- EchoEcho.com
- Many links, including to tutorials, articles and FAQs.
- This is another huge list of resources and tools.
- While most of this site includes CSS1 and CSS2, some of the links are dated
- (e.g. tools developed before Windows XP).
- Open Directory
- Computers: Data Formats: Style Sheets: CSS
- Many links for HTML, XHTML and CSS
- WestCiv's links
- Links to many articles, tutorials, tools etc.
- CSS Pointers
- Another large compendium of articles, FAQs, tools, etc. For the Pros.
- VisiBone Style Sheet Examples
- Examples of style sheets; they all sell crib sheets for codes etc.
- More Eric Meyer on CSS
- More books and articles by Eric Meyer on CSS
- He also has a cutting edge site
- Beginning CSS Articles
- Links to many CSS tutorials and articles
- WDVL:
Designing CSS Web Pages
- Interesting series of pages on knowing who your audience is etc. and how
to design for them. Recommended
- WDVL: House Style
Sheet
- Style sheet for all the WDVL pages
- WDVL:
Cascading Style Sheets Resources
- Various on-line resources
- WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets
- Links to tutorials, design articles, and resources
- CSS links from About.com
- Large collection of links to
articles (beginning and advanced), validators, tutorials, etc
- Worth browsing!
- Includes link to CSS2
properties.
- Sidebars on CSS etc. for developers
- These tools disappeared from Netscape's DevEdge site, and Mozilla has brought them back into its archives
- The archives also have their CSS Central
- CSS Validator
- From w3c
- SelectOracle
- Tells you what a complex selector does
- Site for Eric Meyer, the great guru of CSS
- He wrote the books on CSS (or at least two of the best).
- You can also subscribe to the CSS-discuss
mailing list. (Click on the 'Subscribe' tag.)
- CSS Zen Garden
- This is the most amazing site of examples of what you can do with CSS.
- One page is transformed by over 900 style sheets. (Check the archives.)
- These are all done by professional graphic artists – but we can all admire them.
- They also have an excellent list of resources.
- Daily Fun is similar to
Zen Garden – i.e. many stylesheets for one page,
- but I like the ZenGarden better.
- Another amazing list of CSS
resources is at Holy CSS Zeldman!
- In addition to many CSS links, there are also links on JavaScript and AJAX.
- It seems to be that you can find everything here – tutorials, books, sites,
- Galleries at other sites (e.g. CSS Zen Garden, hints, etc.
- CSS Princess
- Sites about or designed by women.Some are less than fascinating.
- CSS Reference
table from www.htmlhelp.com
- Only CSS1, but a good clear place for a beginner to start
- From htmlhelp.com
- Other links from that site are
available, including CSSCheckup,
to check four CSS (1),
- A short tutorial on
how to link style designations to your html page and
- other web
authoring tools (some dated – e.g. validate HTML but not XHTML),
- and links to specs and FAQs.
- www.friendlybit.com
- has many articles on CSS, HTML and JavaScript,
- including a
Beginner's Guide to CSS, and some
simple templates .
- Advanced CSS Resources
- Lots of good information, including properties, a clear explanation of the cascade, and tables on browser support.
- You made need toclick thru lots of pages to get to what you want.
- CSS Vista
- Tool to edit your CSS in IE and Firefox at the same time.
- Demo tool is free.
- CSS Tools
- Links to a variety of CSS tools and galleries
- Since 6/06 this has been put on a wiki, with many
CSS items tagged.
-
CSS Documentation and articles
- Many topics and useful resources. Covers CSS1 and CSS2.
-
A trick/tool for debugging CSS
- Examples of well-designed sites and CSS Resources
- Many classic resources are here - e.g. CSS Zen Garden, w3c, etc. and many template galleries
- New York Public Library Style Guide
- CSS Pointers Authoring Tools
- Also has information about browsers and XSL tools.
- Codestyle.org
- A site for developers.
- Be sure to check out their XHTML page too, as its FAQs include CSS questions.
Sample layouts:
- Layouts for 1, 2, 3, or 4
columns using CSS
- Over 50 layouts. Choose the number of columns you want, then the partcular layout, and then download the code.
- Templates for lists from Max Designs
- Builds the layouts step-bt-step, tutorial style
- Layouts from Eric Costello at glish.com
- A half dozen classic layouts with code, and links to articles
- Layout Gala
- 40 different layouts you can dowload individually or all zipped together.
- Also links to articles on using negative margins and other techniques.
- Free templates
- A dozen elegant designs you can dowload
- Simple templates from
Friendlybit
- Well, maybe not so simple
- CSS Layouts
- On-going blog about types of layouts, problems and hacks. Not elementary.
- A few basic layouts with explanations
- From the always elegant CSS Play
- Searchable repository of layouts
- Fill in form on number of columns you want, if you want a header or not etc. and template is returned.
- Very useful
- pMachines templates
- Half a dozen basic templates. Display un-styled in older browsers
- CSS Showcase
- Gallery of very professional looking menus, tabs and layouts; also articles
- CSS Drive
- Reviewed and unreviewed designs. You need to work a bit to ge to the code.
CSS in Different Browsers:
- Table showing which browser
support which CSS features
- Very useful
- What browsers
support in CSS and how to Displaying Stylesheets Dynamically
- What browsers support what
features and links on work-arounds for older browsers
-
Hacks for various browsers
and CSS
- This enormous list of hacks also has (near the top of the page) links to sites which
summarize hacks.
- It also lists various specific (recent) hacks with their effects and the browsers
they target.
- This wiki is maintained by CSS-discuss.
- The Box Model Hack
- One of the oldest and most famous hacks.
- Links to Brain Jar's
clear explanation, and others.
- IE7 and CSS2
- Of course, Microsoft didn't go with the standard immediately.
- CSS in Differet Browsers
- Long article (current as of 2006) discussing the issue.
- No tabular summary, but links to those for current browsers at Webdevout
and for 2003 and older browsers at Blooberry
- Devout.net
- Browser support for CSS and CSS hacks
- Fonts commonly found in various browser
- Useful chart - so your choices are more likely to not defualt to the browser's choices
- Survey of font usage by broswer
- Another useful source
- See also their summary.
- Equivalent fonts for PCs and Macs
- Nice chart makes it easy to choose
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JavaScript
JavaScript
Documentation for JavaScript
- Mozilla's
resources for JavaScript
- Not for beginners.
- Mozilla's
Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide
- Description of the language (if you already know it.)
- Mozilla's
Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference
- Contains information about what is implemented in various versions.
- Also contains information about LiveConnect, the way to link Java and
JavaScript code.
- Changes
from JavaScript 1.5 to 1.6
- Access
page for all Mozilla's documentation, forums and articles on JavaScript
- The w3c documentation for the DOM
- The DOM model
- From JavaScript Kit
- Reference on
JavaScript
- From JavaScript Kit
- w3c on
DOM
- Documentation for ECMA (basis for JavaScript)
For older versions of JavaScript
- Documentation
(Guides and References for 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5)
- Documentation for JavaScript 1.3 - 1.5 with information on changes from earlier versions.
- Links to both the Guide and the Reference Manual
- Date
object
- Documentation on the date object, including constructors and methods.
- From here you may actually reach all the documentation on JS
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Tutorials and Articles for JavaScript
General Tutorials:
- HTML Goodies' series of
tutorials on JavaScript
- First the $#39;Primers' and then the 'Basics' (which go thru AJAX)
- Mozilla's
“Reintroduction to JavaScript
- Friendlier than Mozilla's documentation
- Articles on
JavaScript
- From Mozilla's forums
- Javascript tutorial from w3school.com
- Always a good place to start
- Tutorials
and articles from WebReference
- Many tutorials from 'JavaScript for non-programmers' to
AJAX.(Columns
12-15 inclusive)
- Excellent resource; includes links to Mozilla pages just above and other collections.
- Be sure to check out the collections and the archives.
- Some tutorials older - e.g.
JavaScript for Programmers from WDVL
- Short
Description of JavaScript for students who have programmed in C++ or Java
- Older, but very useful and to the point
- Tutorials and
scripts from JavaScript Weenie;
- Intermediate level and useful
- Tutorials and references from U. Minn- Duluth
- Enormous list of tutorials and articles from the generl to the specific.
- Includes some links to book excerpts
- Regretably, no description of the links
- Tutorials from WebMonkey
- Clear but somewhat dated. (Browser detection is now usually not needed.)
- Tutorial
on Functions and Classes
- Other tutorials on this site too.
- Tutorials from WebKnowHow
- About 20 tutorials, mostly for the beginner
- Builder's
JavaScript QuickStart Tool
- Tutorial
- Navigation and JavaScript
- Fancy footwork for lists of links
- Programmer How-To's
Short introductory tutorials from TUCOWs
Articles on Specific Topics (not
advanced)
- Focus on forms
- The focus() and blur() methods
- Local vs. Global
Variables
- Clearly described; from mredkj.com
- Other interesting examples
- e.g. to change tables, validate forms, etc.; also from mredjk.com
Special
characters, escaping them and Unicode
- From Mozilla's Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide
JavaScript Variable
Passing
- Passing variables between pages in JavaScript
- Beginning HTML at HTML
Goodies
- Tutorial and code (next URL) for creating a ticker tape in JavaScript
- Global and
Local
- Global and local variables - from Tucows; elementary but reliable
- JavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts,
Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources,
- This site has tutorials, public scripts, book reviews, etc.
- JavaScript.com - The Definitive JavaScript
Resource: JavaScript Tutorials and Free Java Scripts
- Tutorials and fancy scripts. Pretty good.
- Programmer:
JavaScript Intermediate Tutorial: Image Swapping
- Tutorial on image swapping with links to related (and less related) topics.
- JavaScriptWeenie
- An older site with many articles, tutorials, most of which are relevant for older browsers.
- Time in JavaScript
- Goodies to Go newsletter show you how to set timeouts, etc.
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Articles on Specific Topics (Advanced)
DOM, DHTML, the Event Model, Cookies, etc.
- The JavaScript Event Model
- advanced
- From WebMonkey. Tells you all you could ever want to know (and maybe more)
about event handler models.
- Although the article is from Jan 2005, there is a lot of time devoted to
Netscape Navigator 4 and IE 4 - hopefully for only a little while longer.
- Exception
Handling in JavaScript
- Advanced. Includes information about browser incompatibilities
- The w3c documentation for the DOM
- What is the DOM?
- Clear explanation from Mozilla
- Fetching
Remote Data (in XML) from a Server with DOM - advanced
-
Preloading
Images with DOM - advanced
- Articles on JavaScript from
Builder.com - many advanced
- Properly
using CSS and Scripts with XHTML
- With ex
amples
- The DOM
- From DHTML to DOM,
- Why you should switch. There is also
Part 2
- Dynamic Drive
DHTML Scripts- Preload Image (with progress bar) Script
- Pre-loading images for swapping
- Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic
html) & JavaScript code library!
- Huge site with DHTML scripts for dazzling effects
- Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic
html) & JavaScript code library!
DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML
Tutorials
- Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML. Searchable but not organized.
- Dynamic HTML...Are
You Ready to Step Up to the Plate? Part I
- The JavaScritp Event Model -
part 1 and part 2
- 2004 articles from WebMonkey. Stick to the w3c Event Model
- Cookies: What they are
and how to set them
- From the Department of Energy
- What Cookies are and
how they work
- From HowStuffWorks; Be sure to see next page too.
- DevGuru tutorials
- Very advanced - e.g. interfacing JavaScript with .ASP
- Case Study of how Mozilla redisigned its site
- Shows both pure CSS and hybrid CSS/JavaScrtp approaches
- Older and sophisticated but still worthwhile
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Links and Resources for JavaScript
Debugging
- Description of JavaScript
debugging tools
- For all browsers
- Mozilla's tools
- Including:
- Mozilla site to get Venkman
add-on
- News and further information
- Also, updates on the Venkman
project are available.
- Using the JavaScript Console
- Good introduction from WebMonkey.
- Tutorial on
Venkman from WebReference
- Tutorial on Venkman and
list of resources on it
- Looks very valuable.
- Another
tutorial on Venkman
- A freeware debugger from
Hot Scripts
- The Freshmeat
debugger
- Microsoft's
Script Debugger
- JavaScript
Trace Window (uses GreaseMonkey in Firefox)
- JSLint
- Looks for problems in JavaScript pages
- Check out the documentation first. This is from 2002.
Other - especially sources of scripts
These sites have many useful tools and scripts
- SiteExperts.com - Your Community
of Site Experts
- Another community of web developers
- Experts
Exchange - another community
- Code
Library of JavaScript functions from WebMonkey
- Dev articles on JavaScript
- Enormous compendium of articles, many advanced
- Scripts may be found here too,
by category.
- How
to Embed a JavaScript Engine in Your Applications
- This is SpiderMonkey and it is available from Mozilla
- JavaScript.com
- Free scripts - some a bit cutesy; free newsletter
- Mozilla's tools
- Mozilla has a large amount of information and
tools, including the debuggers, etc.
- Their DOM Central links to many tutorials, reference guides, demos,
tools etc.
- (Even the old DOM Sidebar tabs)
- Also Sidebars for CSS, JavaScript and XSLT
- Mozilla's DOM Inspector
- SourceForge Projects on Text Editors
- SourceForge material is all open source. FCKEditor is here, for example
- BrainJar
- This is the site that brought you their DOM viewer; tutorials and tools
. Small but worthwhile
- The DOM Viewer
- View the DOM of a page with this utility from BrainJar.com
- DevGuru Reference
- Bore down through the menus to get a clear explanation of various elements of JavaScript
- DoJo - Open Source JavaScript toolkit
- For web developers - supports animation, AJAX and other high end technologies.
- MochKit
- Library of functions for working with the DOM and AJAX
- There is a Google Group on Mochikit
- comp.lang.javascript
- Google group still going strong
- DynamicDrive
- Tools and scripts and links; focus on DHTML
- Threads and posts on their forums number in the thousands
- Good place to look for answers when nothing else helps
- JavaScriptKit
- Tools, tutorials, scripts; quite up-to-date, including material on AJAX etc.
- JavaScript.internet.com
- Large repository of scritps, tutorials, etc. Check out the FAQs first
- Links to Web Reference, XML.files, and WDVL (Web Developer's Virtual Library)
- Now includes an AJAX tutorial
- Scripts.com's JavaScript scripts repository
- Enormous repository of JavaScrpts scripts organizaed by type, also searchable.
- Scripts are rated by users. Most are free.
- DHTMLShock
- scripts with a focus on DHTML
- Cross-browser
- Scripts and articles on cross-broswer JS and DHTML using the DOM
- Builder.com articles on JavaScript
- Not organized, but is searchable. Many quite advanced
- Web Reference on JavaScript
- Searchable archive of articles and tutorials from elementary to advanced intermediate
- AListApart articles on scripting
- Focus is on implementing a smooth professional appearance
- Moo.fx for
special effects in JavaScript
- Graph-it
from raw data in JavaScript
- Protoype library
of JS, including AJAX functions
- The
overview is a good place to start.
- The latest version
is also open source
- An
introduction is also helpful
- Protoype Documentation
is also available at script.aculo.us
- The
site for the Moncur JavaScript text.
- WebStandards.org
- A self-described grass-roots organization trying to advocate for Web standards
which ensure accessibility
- WebDeveloper
- Hosts many forums, including one on
JavaScript
- Also has a searchable archive of articles on JavaScript
which returns too many irrelevant articles
- JavaScriptCity
- Tutorials, references etc. Appears to be geared toward the novice
-
Sitepoint has a forum with many useful links, as do the
publishers WROX (programmer
2programmer)
- and APress,
- CodingForum,
- and Tek-Tips.
- Evolt
- Also maintains a list.
- Yahoo maintains links
to similar sites
- and a Developer
Network.
- My experience is that similar Yahoo lists have a goodly part of the top resources.
- The FAQts on JavaScript
- Huge site with answers to many JS questions, by subject.
- Site does not work in Netscape, but does in Firefox and IE
- DevShed
- Large collection of articles, scripts for web developers
- Selections for Python, PHP etc. are more recent than the few on JavaScript
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CGI and Server-Side Scriptting
General - Including Information on HTTP and TCP/IP
- HTTP
- Older (1996) but very useful explanation; well organized and probably has all you need to know and then some.
- TCP/IP Resources
- Great list of FAQs, tutorials, and books. Kept up to date.
- Overview of TCP/IP and the Internet
- Current description. Starts with the history (OK to skip) but gives all the details you need if you are not a network administrator.
- Primer on TCP/IP
- Older (1997), but a good place to start
- Another older (1998) Primer on Internet technology
- Daryl's TCP/IP Primer
- Goes deeper than a primer; kept up to date.
- Older (1998) course on managing servers
- Classic references; good description of client-server model, http, mime types etc.
- IANA
- Who owns what domain name, which port is what, and what the language abbreviations are
- ASPN
- Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
- HotScripts
- Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
- WDVL: Table of
Contents on Web Programming
- Tutorial on server-side
programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent introduction.
- Definitely the place to start
- WDVL:
Request Headers
- What's in an http header
- The
Problem of Statelessness
- Validating user sessions in PHP
- Good introduction to the problem of statelessness; php implementation of solutions
- Matt's HTTP Cookie Library
- And his CGI resource of thousands of CGI scripts - mostly in Perl
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CGI, including Regular Expressions - see also Perl folder
- What is CGI?
- Elementary introduction
- CGI Scripts - Writing and Using CGI
- CGI tutorial
- The Common
Gateway Interface (CGI)
- What is CGI?
- CGI Tutorial
- Good introduction to CGI, environment variables, etc.
- Easy introduction to CGI
- WDVL: What the
heck is server-side scripting anyway?
- Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.
- This is part of the WDVL site on Web Programming
- WDVL: Table of
Contents
- Excellent introductory tutorial on server-side scripting. Includes:
- WDVL:
The GET Method
- How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated and CGI can
isolate the search parameters and their values
- WDVL:
Problems With the GET Method
- WDVL:
Request Headers
- What's in an http header
- WDVL:
Sending Text to the Web Browser
- The content-type line
- The Post Method
- Specifying POST and to what CGI script
- WDVL:
The <Form> Tag and its elements
- WDVL:
File Upload Widget
- What happens when you click on
"submit"
- Web Development Primer
- Elementary introduction to the technologies you find server-side (ASP, Perl, PHP etc.)
- When mailto: doesn't work, such as in I.E. 6+
- Presents work-arounds, but it is easier to 'post' or 'get' to a script
- You can also find out what used to work
- The next set of papers is from About.com's site:
- Table of Contents on CGI articles
- Using Forms and
CGI
- And a sample PERL script to parse the data and send a thank you
- Installing a
Guestbook
- HTML Forms
Tutorial - Method, Mailto Forms, and Multiple Pages
- GET - About Perl & PHP
Glossary
- POST - About Perl & PHP
Glossary
- Reading CGI Data From
Perl Scripts
- Using GET and POST
methods with Perl scripts
- Decoding CGI form
data in Perl scripts
Free CGIs
- About.com:
http://www.cgi-resources.com/
- Links to very many CGI, PERL and
CGI scripts
- CGI Tutorials from HTML Goodies
- Very well written tutorials, but maybe dated.
- WebKnowHow's Tutorials, articles, scripts and books on CGI
- Many (unsorted) links, many to old sites.
- Webliography on CGI, Perl, etc.
- Great list of links, even though many are to older articles
- Gentle Introduction to CGI
- Also has many links to books and on-line resources. Updated in 2004
- w3c.org Introduction to CGI (older)
- Other information from w3c about standards also available.
- Form validation - Goodies to
Go! Newsletter #290
- Validating a form before sending it to a cgi script - mainly to be sure all fields are filled in.
Reminder on how to change permissions on
UNIX/LINUX (chmod)
- Tutorial on chmod, in case you've forgotten
- There are many sources of tutorials on regular expressions. Although some lean towards one language, regular expressions are pretty much the same from one lanugage to another.
- Tutorial
on regular expressions
- Library of Regular Expressions
- Regular expressions in JavaScript
- Has a regular expression finder
- Regular expressions tutorial
- From a Python book;rather telegraphic
- How to use regular expressions
- The Perl 30-minute Regulr Expressions Tutorial
- Regex tutorial
and its continutation using Perl.
- Advanced (Perl) Regex tutorials - Part I
and Part 2
- and documentation
- PHP and regex tutorial
- How to do Regex in Python
- Regular-expressions
- Language neutral, but not elementary. Links to books.
- Regular expressions and .Net
- Regular expressions syntac summary
- Any subtle differences among languages and Unix variants.
- Tutorial on Regular
Expressions in Perl
- Looks very complete. From PerlDoc
- Documentation on
Regular Expressions in Perl
- Regular Expressions
- Fast and dirty reminder about regular expressions
- Goes with the above tutorial.
- Why learn CGI?
- From the people (O'Reilly) who
publish a book on the subject - includes kind words about their own (excellent)
book
- CGI-LIB.pl
homepage
- Library of CGI scripts in Perl; Also directly
accesible at Berkely
- Includes documentation, source files, examples, etc.
- CGI Library in Perl: documentation
- Older version also also avaible
- Tutorial on Server-side includes
- Older (1995 article, last updated in 2002)but author says basic principles still apply
- Links
to many resources of Server-side includes
- Including tutorials
- More links to article and tutorials
on server-side includes
- CGI articles from HTML Goodies
- Includes codes for a guest book and for counters
- cg-eye
- Diagnostic tool for CGI scripts from WDG
- Which Scripting and Programming Languages are People Searching about?
- Monthly survey on queries about Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Java etc.
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Perl - see also CGI folder
Downloading PERL - ActivePerl (free )and mod_perl
You want to write your scripts in Active Perl; mod_perl is the Perl interpreter which comes free with your Apache web server
- ActiveState - ActiveState
products open source programming languages tools
- Download site for ActivePerl
- ActivePerl User Guide
- In table of contents, look for "Getting Started"
to see how run example.pl
- Also open it in Notepad
- ActivePerl
Help - Online Docs : Getting Started
- ActivePerl
Help - Online Docs : ActivePerl FAQ
- ActiveState also has PHP, Python and XSLT products
- mod_perl: everything you need to know
- Sourceforge.net also has Perl IDEs etc.
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PERL Documentation, Tutorials and Resources
- Perl.com:
The Source for Perl - perl development, perl conferences
- Articles etc for serious PERL programmers from the O'Reilly book folk
- CPAN
- Where to find MODULES to add many useful functions to your Perl - e.g. the standard module, oraperl (for
Oracle databases) etc.
- Installing CPAN Modules
- About.com's info on
building and installing Perl modules
- Tutorial on Using Modules
- Google groups on Perl
- This site includes several very useful groups (se links in upper left): one for Perl beginners, another
on Perl modules, and another for miscellaneous Perl questions.
- Can not be recommended enough. Search for key words in the Perl beginners group, for
example, and then follow the whole thread (link in the upper
right).
- Perldoc.com - Perl Documentation
- Site for documentation on core Perl
- The table of contents for the manual is here too.
- There is also a useful cheat sheet on Perl syntax.
- CGI and Perl FAQs
- In addition to the FAQs, has a great list of books and other resources.
- Perl.com is maintained by O'Reilly
- It has articles, case studies, and links to documentation and tutorials.
- Perl 4 Manual from CMU
- CGI Reources
- Links to many tutorials, references, soruces of scripts
- Picking up Perl
- Easy to use reference. More complete than elementary tutorials.
- CGI and Perl Tutroial
- Another easy place to start, especially if you want all the facts quickly.
- HotScripts
- Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
- learn.perl.org:
The site for people learning Perl.
- Good listing of current books at all levels
- ASPN
- Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
- ActiveState
-
- Build a custom installation of Perl and check system requirements - see warning on RedHat Linux v8
- Picking up Perl
- A free tutorial. Elementary to intermediate.
- 'The weekend crash course' is available through Books 24x7
- e.g. at many university libraries or if you are a memeber of
ACM.
- Beginning Perl Tutorial
- Great place to start. From pageresource
- Perl tutorial
- Older, but still a good introduction.
- http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/perl/
- Perl primers from HTML Goodies
- Tizag Tutorial on Perl
- Another fine place to begin learning Perl, even though they think that decimals aren't 'real numbers'.
- Has information on interfacing with databases, too, and chomp
- Webmonkey tutorials on Perl, CGI, etc.
- Google Help Group
on Perl etc
Beginners
Group on Perl in Google
- Excellent resource
- Perl Tutorial from Perl.com, the O'Reilly site
- DevShed Perl Tutorials, Scripts, etc.
- HotScripts
- Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
- Perl Monks has many tutorials
- These range from the elementary to the advanced.
- The useful site is very large, and, newbies will find it be easier to start with one of the places above (e.g. from pagereource.com).
- Fetching
parameters in Perl
- or try here.
- For tutorials on regular expressions please see the CGI section.
- Everything you ever
wanted to know about perl's module cgi.pm
- From Lincoln Stein, who wrote the cgi module
- CGI Module for Perl documentation
- New site for this!
- About.com reources on Perl
- Downloading and installing additional Perl modules
- This is the Mother of Perl site - some quite advanced
- Database programming with Perl
- Perl and MySQL
- Interfacing MySQL with Perl
- O'Reilly book chapter
- Down the Perl/DBI module to interface with MySQL
-
Perl libraries for www interactions - e.g. HTTP etc.
- FreeBSD on accessing a database from Perl
- Tutorial on Perl MySQL functions
- This is from thscripts.com, where you may also post questions to the developer community for various scripting
languages and databases.
- Scripts for Perl and RSS
- Also Perl tutorials
- Parsing XML
documents with Perl's XML::Simple
- PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)
- Tutorial on Using Perl etc. to write software for genome research
- Includes such topics as subroutines and @_ and
interfacing with databases as well as a good list of books
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Perl Examples, Scripts, Hints
- Matt's HTTP Cookie Library
- And his CGI resource of thousands of CGI scripts - mostly in Perl
- Read me on using archives.
- Decoding CGI form
data in Perl scripts
- Reading CGI Data From
Perl Scripts
- A Perl script that
reads and parses CGI data
- Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl
CGI Scripts
- Links for free scripts
- Scripts.com has many Perl, PHP, ASP and JavaScript scripts
- Open The Crypt / Joe's Free CGI
Scripts From The Crypt / www.getcruising.com
- More free scripts
- Perl Meets Bio-informatics
- From O'Reilly - perhaps because they've published a book on this topic
- Perl Scripts and Modules
- From About.com. Not as complete as CPAN
- Scripts for Perl and RSS
- Also Perl tutorials
- This is the Mother of Perl site - some quite advanced
- Template Toolkit for template procesing
- Perl and XML
- How to embed XML in an HTML Page
- To
edit all scripts with one line of Perl
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PHP
- Implementing
Patterns within PHP
- PHP -Entry Point - Lesson One
- Elementary tutorial on PHP, with some info on pro's and con's; links to to various PHP
sites
- What can PHP do?
- Commentary from the PHP folks
- PHP Tutorial
- From About - a start
- PHP: Introduction - Manual
- PHP Tutorial -
from its makers
- PHP tutorial from w3schools
How to handle forms
in PHP
- Extract XML
document statistics with PHP
- Using PHP to extract stats about XML documents.
- HTML
Goodies: Free HTML, CSS, PHP tutorials and help, images, color codes and more
for the web developer
- PHP Tutorial
- Google
help group on PHP installation etc.
- Apache guide to installing and configuring PHP with Apache
- Zend makes PHP interpreters, etc
- The main PHP site
- Home site for php, including documentation, download of php processor, and tutorial
- Firepages
- Large site with downloads for PHP development, forums, etc.
- Working with PHP datatypes
- Short tutorial
- Validating user sessions in PHP
- Tips of Debugging in PHP
- Implementing Design Patterns in PHP
- PHP Projects at SourceForege
- DevX Resources and Script in PHP
- Well categorized, but many have very few scripts
- DevPlug is a PHP Developer's Forum
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Python
- Whetting Your Appetite
- Python tutorial
- What
is Python
- Also follow the links on the right hand side
- More
on why Python
- From the horse's mouth
- Tutorial on Python from Developer.com
- How to do regular
expressions in Python
- Be sure to also check the general references on regular expressions in the CGI section.
And More
- ASP Tutorial
- from w3schools - usually excellent introduction
- ASP Tutorial
- from HTML Goodies - usually excellent intro; may be dated
- Implement a
flexible shopping cart with XML and ASP
- DevEdge Netscape Sidebar
Tabs
- ASPN
- Resource for programmers in
PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
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XML, Web Services, and Related Technologies
XML
XML Articles, documentation and tutorials
Documentation
- W3C HTML Home Page
- XML homepage from the w3c
- Includes description of the many working groups and links to them, to various languages
specifications and versions, and to many other resources.
- XML Schemas
- What are the components of an XML Schema
- And here they are as a DTD
- Chart of Built-In DataTypes
- XML Recommendations
- Homepage
- XML Specs
- From w3c.org
- XML Namespaces
- from w3c.org
- Cover Pages: Extensible Markup
Language (XML) at OASIS
- Important resource - specs, articles at various levels, etc.
- DTD's attributes
Tutorials and Articles
- Note: Tutorials on SOAP and WSDL are under the 'Web Services' heading, but information on SAX, DOM, JDOM etc. is here
- XML Tutorial from w3schools
- Great introductory tutorial.
- See also their description of XML syntax
- TopXML: XML Tools, XML Articles and XML Learning Tutorials
- Many tutorials - XML, SOAP,XSLT, etc and also links to XML parsers. Great site.
- Another very basic tutorial
- So you don't get scared away.
- Good
basic tutorial from WDVL
- More in-depth than some of the other elementary tutorials, but doesn't get to schemas
- Links to very many
tutorials
- From IBM, Microsoft, etc. at various levels and on sub-topics (e.g. security). A great resource
- Wonderful set of
links to tools, tutorials, and many resources for XML
- Also has info on links to databases and server-side uses of XML
- Tutorials
on everything from HTML to XML
- Some in many languages (e.g. Czech)
- XML.com:
XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
- What is XML?From HTMLGoodies.com
- XML Terms
- What the basic terms mean
- Tutorials on XML from
About.com
- Very basic
- XML and DOM
- Usual excellent introduction from w3schools.com
- XML Namespaces
- Introductory tutorial from the About.com site
- There are gazillions of
other free tutorials on-line thru a Google search
- XML Schema Primer from w3.org --
- Very good, especially if you know a little bit. Three pieces:
- Primer,
Structures
and DataTypes
- TECFA’s huge set of links
on XML
- Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers, XML, XSL etc,
tutorials and news about XML languages.
- XFront has links to many great tutorials -
- including ones on XML Schema, Canonical XML,
Best
Practices etc. and also XSDs for all countries, all currencies, etc. Great source!
This is from Roger Costello (one of the authors of the w3c.org Primer) and is a great resource.
- Tutorial
from Roger Costello on Best Practices for XML Schema
- Another link to
the same tutorial
- Cover Pages: Extensible Markup
Language (XML) at OASIS
- Important resource - specs, articles at various levels, etc.
- Tutorials
from the ACM
- There are several
- The next group of tutorials is from IBM:
- Tutorial on
understanding SAX
- Tutorial on
DOM
- Manipulating
XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM) Tutorial looks
at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP
- More tutorials
from IBM Many are quite advanced
- Betwixt
- Introspection for XML data to map it to Java Beans; from Jakarta Commons. Advanced.
- Reading and Writing XML in .Net
- .NET and XML: XSD
Schemas
- Tutorial on schemas
Other resources
- The w3c has links to all its working groups
- For example, the Schema Working Group homepage
- You can also find new Technical Reportss by date, title, etc.
- xml.apache.org
- Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc.
- A very important site
- XML Developer Center Home
- Microsoft's XML developer center, including articles, from intro to high level, and links
- Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed
- Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc.
- Developer.com articles on XML and related technologies
- Current and clear articles
- Links from Moller and Schwartzbach book
- Useful links for everything to do with XML and Web Technologies, tho' it looks like most are not for newbies
- XML
Rich Client Technology Strengthens Java - Computerworld
- More jargon than light
- JARS Automatic
Resource Listing
- Java class to automate the encoding of properties from Java into XML
- .NET and XML: XSD
Schemas
- Tutorial on schemas
- Everything you
always wanted to know about SAX (and XmlReader)
- When to use SAX and when to use DOM
- Application
Design: Use DOM to create data-driven HTML documents
- Using DOM to get conditional XML
- XML Namespaces
- Namespaces and how to avoid naming conflicts
- XML.com:XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
- O'Reilly's XML site - many links
- JARS Automatic
Resource Listing
- Class to encode from Java to XML
- Java and JDOM
tutorial
- Database Configuration,
the XML Alternative
- Configuring / designing your database with XML
- XML-Dev
- An open unmoderated discussion list on development of various XML languages;
- Now managed by OASIS. For the knowledgeable.
- The Cover Pages
- Important collection of on-line reference material on SGML/XML languages and various
standards, now hosted by OASIS
- You may want to start at
About XML Cover Pages
- Site is for the knowledgeable (except possibly the news stories on front page).
- TECFA's huge set of links
on XML
- Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers, XML, XSL etc, and,
tutorials and news about XML languages.
- Perl and XML
- How to embed XML in an HTML Page
- XML Tools
- Long and wonderful list from w3.org
- Free XML Tools
- By platform, or vendor or name etc.
- Alphaworks is IBM's site
- This is the link for xml; many links to subtopics and tutorial on newer technologies (e.g. AJAX)
- Summary
of schema topics
- XML takes over
the user interface
- With, we hope better solutions to accessibility issues
- XML
as architecture
- Interesting view of the ubiquity and power of XML
- XML and Java
and the Document Object Model
- This IBM site has many links to tutorials, information and documentation on using Java to
manipulate XML files, etc. Very valuable.
- XML and DOM
- Usual excellent introduction from w3school.com
- Zvon tutorials on many XML related topics
- Tutorials on XML, Schemas, Namespaces, XPath and XSLT, RDF, XInclude, XUL etc.
- Tutorial on
understanding SAX
- From IBM
- DevGuru tutorials
- Tutorials tend to be oriented towards using Microsoft technology rather thans standards based
- XML meets JavaScript in Firefox
- Series of articles on using JavaScript to maninpulate XML; many Firefox1.5 issues
- Tutorial on
DOM
- From IBM
- Manipulating
XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM)
- Tutorial looks at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP
- XML files tend
to get very large
- Which can cause problems – which some companies have worked on
- See also Business Communications Review and
ZDNet on this topic
- Microsoft's DOM validator
from XML
- Courtesy of w3schools.
- Checklist for
well-formed XML
- XML
Canonical Form
- Canonical form standardizes possible equivalent renditions of XML to one
(canonical) form; this is important for checking digital signatures, etc.
- In addition to the subject in the title, there is a link to Ogbuji's Thinking
XML columns on IBM’s developerWorks
site.
- Canonical XML
- Very clear tutorial from Roger Costello at xfront.com
- Xforms Working Draft from w3c.org
- More powerful handling of data and events than with HTML forms
- See also their
XForms for HTML AUthors
- XForms tutorial from w3schools
- Will XForms Matter?
- Fight over XForms clouds future of Net
- See also links on XUL at Mozilla.org and on Flash MX in the Miscellaneous section below
- w3c addresses addressing in XML
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XML discusses XHTML
- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible
HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
- Discussion of XHTML1.0 as a re-formulation of HTML
- XHTML Frequently Answered
Questions
- FAQs about why bother going to XHTML
- XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML
- XHTML1.1 which is now a strict reformulation of HTML in XML
- XHTML Modularization Overview
- DTDs for XHTML
- See how HTML (XHTML) is formulated in an XML DTD
- There are several DTDs (depending on the version of XHTML you want
- XHTML tag index
- See also the section on XHTML
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XMLSpy and Other Parsers
- Download Trial Edition of
XMLSpy Tools
- XMLSpy is a wonderful tool, and you may try their tools for 30 days free.
- Altova also makes tools for XSL (Stylevision) and for RDF editing (Semantic Works) .
- There are free academic licenses available, and there is excellent
documentation and a brief tutorial.
- xml.apache.org
- Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc. at Apache
- A very important site
- Xerces Java Parser Readme
- Xerces is the free XML parser from
Apache; because standards keep evolving you should be sure to see what is now supported.
- TopXML: Learn about XML
Parsers
- XML parsers including Microsoft's
- more on Microsoft's
- Other Parsers
with
links and brief descriptions for many XML parsers.
- StylusStudio offers a free trial of their parser
- Like Altova (XMLSpy) they also have XL and XQuirey engines, etc.
- JXMLPad
- ZDNet Downloads
- Module (in Java) to edit XML and XHTML
- JARS Automatic
Resource Listing
- XML/XSLT editor (java based)
- Parsing XML
documents with Perl's XML::Simple
- PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)
- Scholarly Validator
- Free on-line validator from Brown University for small files
- Simple parser at w3schools
- Parser Validator in Perl from SourceForge site
- Parser in PHP
- This parser does not validate; php.,net also has tools to create your own parser.
- Many XML Tools
- ZDNet has a listing of many XML tools for Windows, often with free trials.
- css.nu maintains a list of validating browsers
- XSmiles is an XML borwserfor exotic devices
- StAX, an alternative to SAX for Java programmers
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XSL / XSLT including XPath
XSL/XSLT and XPath - Articles, documentation and
tutorials
- Why both CSS and XSL - which should I use?
- From w3c - who brought you both standards
- When to use CSS (whenever you
can) and when to us XSL (when you must)
- XSL from the w3c
- What are the components of XSL (XSLT, XPath, etc.)?
- Very useful page with many good links
-
Introduction and Overview of XSL is also helpful
- Of course, there are XSL Specs
- XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- w3.org documentation on XSLT
- Web Style Sheets
- w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL
- The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family
(XSL)
- Links to specs, tutorials, and articles on XSL, XSLT etc.
- XSLT client-side
- Simple introduction, but you'll need the www.w3schools.com
or other tutorial to go further
- Tizag tutorial on XSLT
(and earlier one on XPath
- Like the w3schools tutorials, this is a gentle introduction.
- Cient-side XSLT: Not just for server geeks any more
- Good introduction
- How to translform
XML into XHTML
- XSL Homepage of w3c
- Including links to XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL-FO etc.
- There is a large list of links to specs on all these languages, mailing lists,
and software.
- A great starting place for these technologies.
- You can also find links to examples of XSL style sheets (e.g. at TopXML)
- Style Activity Statement Gives status of various projects on
style sheets - including CSS and XSL
- XSL
- Computerworld
- What XSL is and why you should use it. Good start.
- Sidebar:
Additional resources about XSL - Computerworld
- Books and links on XSLT
- Spinning Your Code with
XSLT and JSF in Cocoon
- Using XSLT with Java Beans etc. Advanced.
- Multi-part tutorial: Discover the Wonders of XSLT
- Part 1 -XSLT Good introduction to XSLT itself
- Part 2: XPath
- Part 3 of 3: Advanced Techniques:
Tests and advanced techniques
- Part 4: XSLT Quirks
- Part 5: Workflows and multiple documents
- Understanding the XPath
Data Model
- XPath data model and how it works, with links to info on infosets. Not for beginners
- XPath and XSL tutorials
- From w3schools.org I think this is one of the clearest of the introductory tutorials.
- Tizag also has clear introductory tutorials on XPath and
XSLT
- Learning XSLT has implications for CSS
Tutorial; main interest is using CSS to style XML in browsers
- Tutorial on XSLT 2.0
- Norman Walsh has also posted related tuorials on XPath etc.
- XPath
tutorial with links to examples on the left side. From Zvon
- XPath Tutorial From TopXML
- Several XSLT Tutorials
- Their home page also has links to books and other resources for XSL and CSS.
- Mozilla maintains a lot of information on XPath and XSL
- What's New in XPath
2.0?
- The primary purpose of XPath is
to address parts of an XML document. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax to
facilitate use of XPath within URIs and XML attribute values. XPath gets its
name from its use of a path notation as in URLs for navigating through the
hierarchical structure of an XML document.
- Java JAXP,
Writing Java Code to Emulate an XSLT Transformation
- Emulating XSLT transformations in Java
- XSLT and Java Server Faces
- Introduction to
XPath
- .NET and XML: XPath
Queries Tutorial
- About.com tutorial on XSLT
- Also has tutorial on ASP
- Facilitating Teamwork
with XML and XSL
- XSL-FO - Extensible
Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
- NOTE: XSL-FO is the old name for XSLT
- XSL-FO for formatting objects
- Using FO with Java tutorial
- Introduction
to XSL - XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects
- Introduction to XSL
- Many examples of XML, XSL, VML and related technologies
- Java and XSLT
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Tools and implementations of XSLT
- Contemporary browsers all implement XSL for rending documents in a browser.
- These links are for more general implementations of XSL.
- XT
- Free implementation of XSLT written in java
- JARS Automatic
Resource Listing
- XML/XSLT editor (java based)
- How to transform XML
into XHTML
- Stylus Studio sells a full line of tools for XML, XSLT, etc.
- Many XML Tools
- ZDNet has a listing of many XML tools for Windows, often with free trials.
- XMLSpy includes an XSLT engine
- Microsoft tool to create XSLTs to go from their WordProcessingML to their OpenXML form
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Specific extended MLs - MathML etc and also RDF
and RSS
Note: This is XML and security first, then RDF and
RSS, XML and Databases, then MathML and Amaya, XML in the financial services industry and
then miscellaneous.
The Semantic Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, mashups etc. are in their own section.
XML Security and Encrpytion
- Trusting
and verifying
- Which comes first
- w3c
has many resources
- WS-Security
is the specification for web services security
- This is from OASIS
- XAMCL stands for
eXtensible Access Mark-up Control Language
- This is Sun's implementation and programmer's guide
- On-going news on Sun's implementation of XAMCL
- SAML is one standard for
secure web services
- From w3.org, of course.
- SAML stands for Security Assertion Mark-up Language
- Security with SAML and
XACML
- This area is still changing – suggest you search the w3.org site for these two
extensions.
- Encryption
working group at w3.org
- XML Encryption
Added to Apache Project
-
Security issues and XML
- Requires free login at ZDNet
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MathML and Amaya
- MathML
- Home page at w3.org
- Includes a complete description of MathML
- Amaya Home Page
- Web authoring tool which includes support for MathML
- MathML in Mozilla
- A rich resource, including transling from TEX, SOAP interfaces, etc.
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Financial Service Industry
- XML
in the Financial Services Industry
- A good introduction to eBXML, XBRL, FIXML, MDDL, FpML,
and assorted standards groups for this industry
- InfoWorld:
XBRL: A case study in complexity:
- How BusinessReportingML became too complex to work - good case study in design
- ebXML:
Introducing the Vision
- What is eBXML? (hint: e is electronic and B is for Business)
Follow links at bottom for series of articles - for whole series of articles
- XBRL to
Sharpen Banks' Biz Reports
- XBRL (eXtended Business Reporting Language) must be used by banks and other public companies (per
Sarbanes-Oxley Law) to consolidate units when they report their financial
results; will also migrate to internal reports.
- XML Variant to
Ease Financial Reporting
- How XMRL will help
- Sarbanes-Oxley:
Road to Compliance
- What's involved in compliance
for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) from an IT point of view
- SOX compliance is a big topic.
- Resilient: Making processes
into objects - News - ZDNet
- BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for the non-techie
- InfoWorld:
Is BPEL the real deal?:
- July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley :
APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES
- An introduction to
ebXML
- The interaction of eBXML
and Web
Services
- UBL, or Universal Business
Language
- Uses XML to define a vocabulary for common business forms, such as purchase
orders etc.
- It is also designed
to work with eBXML
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Miscellaneous: VoiceML, XUL, WML (wireless), Semantic Web etc.
- XML Technolgies
- Short descriptin of the main ones
- MetaMap of All the XML Technolgies
- A wonderful map of how these are all related and what the acronyms mean
- The Mark-up Languages
- Description of what is around (as of August 2005) including
less widely used ones
- Add XML
functionality to your Flash movies
- FlashXML
- A markup language for
designing GUIs
- XUL is Mozilla's Language for designing user interfaces and widgets.
- Tutorial on creating application with Mozilla
- Includes chapter on XUL
- Links to books on
VoiceXML etc.
- WDVL.com
- Introduction to WML from About.com
- WML is Wireless Mark-up Language
- Wireless Web Initaitive at w3c.org
- Mastering Wireless Programming: First Steps in C++ or C#
- Microsoft’s XML Visio
Schemas
- TimeML is a markup
language for temporal events
- XInclude
- An evolving specification for including &merging XML documents
- Not
surprisingly it works only with schemas (no DTDs)
- Here is a brief introduction
- Zvon tutorials on many XML related topics
- Tutorials on XML, Schemas, Namespaces, XPath and XSLT, RDF, XInclude, XUL etc.
- Primer on OpenXML (Microsoft) and Open Document Format (everone else)
- OpenXML for Open
documents format - vs. Microsoft (3/06)
- OpenXML gaining
(4/06... especially after acceptance by ECMA
- ODF (Open Docment Format) is accepted by OASIS and supported by IBM
- Translator to go
between Microsoft’s OpenXML and Open Document Format (ODF) (7/06)
- Microsoft’s
plug-in for conversions from Office To OpenXML (7/06)
- Google
behind ODF; You should also check out Massachusetts’s push for ODF.
- Many XML Tools
- ZDNet has a listing of many XML tools for Windows, often with free trials.
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Web Services
Web Services - general information; what is SOA,
etc.
Please note that many links related to web services - e.g. security, mobile web, etc.
are in section directly above.
Choreography and BPEL are in this section.
Web Services - general information; what is SOA,
etc.
- Overview of Web Services
- A brief overview; not much detail; links to implementing web services with Java on Linux
- What are web services?
- The 'home' links to many articles about web services
- Client and server terms defined
- Web Service Demos from Mindreef.net.
- Fun to try.
- w3c.org definition of a web service
- This is in their document on web service architecture.
- MetaMap
of how the different technologies are related
- May be more useful after you know a little about the area, and then invaluable
- There is also an information page.
- Relationship of Web Service's Major Components
- Simpler than the MetaMap; good place to start, then go to MetaMap
- This site also has an excellent glossary
- What is a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA)? What are Web Services?
- Very good introduction to SOA, for those who already know the lingo. 8 pages!
- SOA (without web services) in plain language
- The difference between SOA and Web Services'
- InfoWorld:
Web services alphabet soup: Application Development
- Web services alphabet soup - and modularity
- The Web Services Family Tree
- From XHTML to AJAX
- Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture
- Great introduction (actually a book chapter). 'Composition' has the same meaning as composition of functions
in math - i.e. one followed by another
- Web Services Explained
- Another book excerpt, slightly less detailed than the previous one
- Web Services Architecture
- Although this claims to describe only IBM's architecture, it is a good description of all the web service architectures.
- Web Services Architecture
- Description of basic and more complex web services stacks; covers major vendors: Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, BEA and Borland
- Web Services Essentials
- From Sun, this emphasizes a role for Java. Of course, designed to be platform neutral, web service may be implemented in other languages, too.
- Introduction to Web Services
- Very clear, but basic. From Altova, creators of XMLSpy. Starts general and then moves to their tool
- Service Oriented Architecture: How and Why
- Arguments of for IT managers and why SOA is the way to go. Good survey
- New Rules Govern the SOA Lifecycle
- As Ye SOA So Shall Ye Reap
- Humorous story
-
Fuzzy boundaries: Objects, Components and Web Services
- Which to use when; further discussion with authors
- Web Services Hurdles
- Including security and reliability
- Also cultural changes
and peoples' customs
- Quality control issues
- No warranties, or QoS issues
- Securty issues, which OASIS has several initaitves on
- Performance issues as files get larger and larger
- The Rise and Fall of CORBA
- What we can learn from CORBA, one of the ancestors of web services
- The Top 5 Myths about SOA
- Capitalizing on SOA
- Good discussion of SOA patterns, philosophy, pros and cons
- TestingQuality in an SOA
- The Value of SOA and Part II
- Close the loop:Using SOA to automate human interaction
- With specific detailed example
- White Papers from Ziff Davis
- Including on ROI, strategies for success, costs and benefits, how to adopt etc.
- Four Steps to SOA
- SOA FAQs
- Free registration at MC PRess On-line required
- Building SOA Your Way
- Making it work for you; case studies
- Finding Your Way to SOA
- Sun introduction in either a business or technical version
-
SOA: Integrating Applications
- Case studies of who did what and how much they saved
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Web Services: Documentation
Please note that standards in this area are issued by both
W3C (for XML and many of its extensions, SOAP, WSDL)
and OASIS (for UDDI and eBXML, WS_Trust, etc.) and sometimes jointly.
WS-I is also starting to develop standards. There is overlap in their membership, too.
- XML Protocols Matrix
- Who is in charge of what protocol
- Web Services Architecture from w3c.org
- Web Services Addressing Standards: Core
- And SOAP Binding
- Explanation of what the addressing standard do
- Standards to Improve Performance released Feb 2005
- Another discussion of same release
- Web Services Polcies
- w3c compares their version with that from IBM and Microsoft
- Includes discussion of how to specify Quality of Service (QoS)
- Table of all policy groups and standards on web services at w3c.org
- WS-I is also working on standards
- WS-I is Web Services Interoperability Organization, a consortium of major software provides such as IBM, SAP, Microsoft
. It is interested in asynchronous messaging
- OASIS is working on standards for SOA protocols
- They have issued standards on UDDI, reliability, security, transactions, and eBXML
- They develop the UDDI Specs
- They also have three security related standards: for exchanging secuirty related information (with SAML),
for secure web services and
for secure exchange of multiple messages
- OASIS also codifies the specifications for Web Service Management (WSDM),
which includes both Mangement of Web Services (MOWS) and Management Using Web Servises (MUWS).
- The WSDM homepage
links (near the bottom) to primers on both MOWS and MUWS.
- Web Service Modeling Ontlology and the
Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group
- are developing standards for semantic web servcies
- Links to SOAP, Web Services and related specifications
- Unfortunately last updated in 9/05
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Web Services: Articles and Tutorials
General or multi-topic
- Web Services Primer
- Excellent place to start; from O'Reilly and XML.com; many links at bottom of article
- Web Services Architecture
- Although this claims to describe only IBM's architecture, it is a good description of all the web service architectures.
- This is a very general article; if you want more information at this level, please look in the section on
Web Services - general information.
- Web Services tutorial from w3schools
- After this tutorial, go to their tutorials on SOAP
and WSDL
- SOAP tutorials
- About 20 different tutorials with brief comments. Older with some broken links
- Try A Busy Developer's Guide to SOAP 1.1
- Web Services
- Columns 96 to 106 (each of which is multi-page) includes coverage of calling web services from IE
and of writing DTDs for XML.
- MetaMap
of how the different technologies are related
- May be more useful after you know a little about the area, and then invaluable
- There is also an information page.
- xmethod.com tutorials on many tools to implement web services
- Web Services
- Large collection of articles on Web Services at MSDN. Everything from
Web Services Basics
to very advanced. For example, start with the
XML Web Services Basics or the non- technical
See What Web Services Can Do for You and move on to articels on security, problems with SOAP encoding, etc.
-
Special Issue of CACM on 'Services Science', which includes
Web Services: vol. 49, July 2006.
- Issue has many articles, including
Introduction,
Research Manifesto,
Understanding Service Sector Innovation,
Algorithmic Decomposition of Services, and
What we can learn from CORBA, one of the ancestors of web services
- Design of Web Services
- Thought provoking tutorial from Roger Costello. Costello posts many excellent tutorials here, too.
- Web Services: a B2B demonstration
- Complete sophisticated example
- XML-RPC tutorials for many platforms
- See also their homepage; RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
is ancestor of SOAP and many SOAP messages imitate this process.
- Combine Polymorphism with Web Services
-
Understand Web Services Reliable Messaging
- Google Direcotry on Web Services and SOAP
- Securing Web Services the Low-Tech Way
- Web Services Using JavaScript and .NET
- Developing Web Services with Borland JBuilder and BEA Web Server
-
Develop Web Services Using JSF Web service tools in Rational Application Developer
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SOAP
Be sure to look in the sections on
general information and tutorials first; this section has examples and language-dependent information.
- SOAP Primer from w3c
- SOAP tutorial from w3schools
- Understanding Web Services: Part I SOAP
- You need an IBM password for this, so it is good for academic use and those who use IBM products.
- Archives of SOAP
at Discuss.Develop.com
- Discussion list for problems implementing SOAP applications. Searchable
-
Understanding SOAP
- From MSDN. Excellent article for those with some familiarity from more basic entries.
- Brief SOAP Primer from above list
- Full list of SOAP1.1 Implementations
- What is in an HTTP header
- Useful reminder as SOAP messages are transported with HTTP
- Web Service Demos from Mindreef.net.
- You can see the SOAP messages by clicking the Invoke tab and then the Edit/Preview button
- AMQP:Advanced Message Queueing Protocol
- From Cisco, RedHat, et al; to interoperate with SOAP and other messaging protocols. Sty tuned
- Perl
- SOAP examples from soaprpc.com
- SOAP::Lite for Perl
- Includes an excellent
Quick Start Guide, which may also be found at
O-Reilly's Perl.com site.
The O-Reilly version links also to more complicated examples
- SOAPLite maintains its own site, with a cookbook
- Much of this duplicates the site above,
but this one is easier to navigate and includes news.
- Client-side SOAP from soapuser.com
- Also links to table of SOAP packages
for UNIX and Windows and information on
server-side SOAP.Good tutorials.
- Archives of SOAP
at Discuss.Develop.com
- Discussion list for problems implementing SOAP applications. Searchable
- PHP
- Zend offers a SOAP implementation with PHP Extension
- Devzone at Zend has examples and articles on using PHP and SOAP messaging and AJAX
- New articles and tutorials are in the news section.
- Also more advanced articles, such as on PHP SOAP extension
- Tutorial on Web Services and PHP
- NuSOAP, older and now less common, implements SOAP in PHP without PHP extensions
-
Download NuSOAP at SourceForge.org
-
Beginner tutorials from NuSOAP originally from Zend
- Links to more information on NuSOAP by its creator, Dietrich Ayala
- eZ is another open source SOAP implementation for PHP users
- PEAR offers other modules for web services, some of which are described by Builder.com
- Java
- Java and XML: SOAP
- Excellent discussion of SOAP and RPC; first half of multi-page book excerpt is general and second half is Java-specific.
-
Java classes to create the SOAP API
- Package from Sun
- The Sun ONE Studio 4 tutorial also has a fully worked web services example.
- Writing a Handler Class to Process (SOAP)Messages
- Water
- Water is a language designed for rapid protoyping of web services.
- Some people are using it for teaching as it is designed to have a short learning curve.
- Apache web server
- Writing a SOAP client for Apache
- The xmethod site also includes a guide to installing Apache SOAP and
examples of SOAP services with their WSDL descriptions.
- See also Introducing Axis2
- Axis2 is the web service framework from Apache. A search at this site will lead you to many articles about Axis2, including Building a non-Java web service on Axis2. These articles explain some fairly sophisticated and complicated examples.
- Apache has many web service projects, including SOAP, XML-RPC, and Axis
- Apache site for SOAP
- Microsoft platform ( as your platform)
- SOAP: Platform-Independent Server Communication
from 4GuysFromRolla
- SOAP from IE
- A Young Person's Guide to SOAP
- What SOAP is and how it is better than CORBAS and DCOM
- Microsoft's .NET SDK
- This replaces
Microsoft's SOAP Toolkit 3.0, officially retired in3/05 and on extended support until 3/08;
Also see How to Migrate to the .Net Framework
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WSDL
- Introducing WSDL
- Tutorial from Altova; first few slides are general and then moves to using XMLSpy to create WSDL documents.
- WSDL Tutorial from w3schools
- This is the most detailed of the 3 basic introductions listed here.
- Writing WSDL Short, basic and clear
- Understanding WSDL
- Excellent detailed explanation from MSDN. Easier if you read one of the previous entries first. From Aaron Skonnard, one of the authors of the book Essential XML
-
XMethods lists many webservices available publicly for demos and examination.
- It is helpful to work through several.
Highlighted links allow you to examine the WSDL entry and try it.(See also the full list of these services.)
- For example,
Weather - Temperature is an easy place to start. .(Cape Clear offers a more complex
global version of this.)
-
US Yellow Pages ,
with its WSDL entry,
is more complicated as it provides several web services in one WSDL.
- Web Service Demos from Mindreef.net.
- You can see the WSDL by clicking on the Analyze tab.
- WSDL Editors
- Article is from 12/02, but many of these (e.g. XMLSpy from Altova
and the one from
Cape Clear) are still popular. Tools from are more recent.
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UDDI
- UDDI4J IBM's open source implememntation for UDDI with Java interfaces
- IBM, Microfot SAP had problems implemmenting UDDI 12/05
- UDDI-based models of eCommerce
- First read
An Introduction to eBusiness with
eBXML and web services and eBXML:the vision
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Choreography, BPEL and REST
- w3c Group on Choreography
- Choreography refers to sequences of web services interactions
- There is a Overview of the Choreography Model
and a
Requirements document,
- Choreography Description Language and a
Primer for it.
- Understanding ebXML, UDDI, XML/EDI
- eBXML and BPEL and modeling business processes
- SOAP vs eBXML for complex transacations
- W3C Inks Key
Web Services
Language
- To coordinate a series of services - WS-CDL and also see about BPEL
- Language may be used to describe peer-to-peer interactions
- Web Services
Choreography Description Language (WS_CDL)
- Working draft of language spec from w3.org
- Orchestration of Rule-Based Web Services
- Web Services Integration Patterns
- and more patterns
- Reconciling Web Services with REST
- REST and the Rest of the World, which follows a description of REST
- REST Tutorial from Roger Costello
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Web Services: Other Resources
- Organizations
- W3C
- Links on topics such as web services, WSDL, XML, WS-CDL, etc.
- OASIS and its subsidiary XML.org
- Also The Cover Pages cover news.
- ACM Portal
- WS-I - open-source organization to promote web services interoperability
- Standards, articles and news
- WebServices.org
- Group of about a dozen providers of enterprise-level software for web services,
of which the most notable are CA and Systinet. Lots of news about who signed what deal, but most
of the useful information is restricted to members of those companies.
- Open Source
- Apache Software Foundation
- Soucre for Apache server, Tomcat java servlet server, Xerces XML parser and many other packages
- Apache web services projects include Axis
for SOAP and many others
- Sourceforge.net
- Major source for over 100,000 open source projects in anormous range of categories
- Search for web services and specfic language or environment
- Eclipse
- Has an entire section on web tools; known primarily for Java IDE, now also offering a PHP IDE and
web services tools
- IBM runs a number of open source projects, and makes others available on academic license
- w3c open source tools
- Open Source Web Services Tools in Java
- DevShed open source tools
- Sources for good articles
- Please also check the tools for many topics for a list of newsletters
- Mangement of performance of web applications
- IBM's alphaworks
- Many excellent articles, some very sophisticated,
and also RSS feeds on XML, webservices, etc.
- IBM's Developer Works
- The Web Services and SOA site has many excellent tutorials, articles and technical forecasts,
all of high quality. A few of the longer tutorials require an IBM password.
- XML.com from 'Reilly
- Organized site with entries ranging from blogs to book excerpts. High quality.
- O'Reilly also owns Safari on-line books (also available through the ACM if you are a member)
- Web Services Architect
- Magazine with some news, high quality downloadable articles, links to books and other resources
- MSDN or Microsoft Developer Network
- General articles and links to their magazine, as well as tutorials on their
own products. High quality, but not as many current articles as the IBM sites
- Sun Developer Network
- Mostly focused on Java and on Sun developer kits, though some more general articles
- Google Directory on Web Services
- More focused than a straight search; more specifically:
FAQs, tutorials, etc.on SOAP,
on web services,
on SOA architecture
- XMethods.net
- Many tutorials (for various platforms) and articles
- XFront
- Tutorials and articles from Roger Costello
-
Mozilla and Web Services
- Many articles, including on
how to access web services in mozilla agents.
- Also check their project page as many projects are
related to XML technologies
- SOA Systems
focus on web service standards and on SOA
- Links to SOA Magazine and other resources.
- Also useful glossary
- SOAPRPC
- News, many links to articles and other resources
- Developer.com (Earthweb)
- Many seful articles; this links to their web services section
- Primarily news
- SearchWebServices is primarily news, but is searchable
- eweek and InfoWorld
- Regular sources of news for techies; announcements of new standards and products, summaries of conference speeches, etc.
- Loosely Coupled
- Similar to above, but more technical and with an SOA focus
- JackBe
- News and short articles on SOA and Ajax
- Application Development Trends
- Primarily news; some whitepapers
- Ziff Davis Buyer's Guides and White Papers
- Downloadable after free registration; oriented towards IT management
- Similar to above, but more technical and with an SOA focus
- Fusion Zone: SOA is primarily news and managerial-type articles with an Oracle slant
- Languages and Tools
- WebSphere from IBM
- Sun Web Services Developer Kit
- XMLSuite, XMLSpy, etc.
- Tools for XML, web services, etc. Beautiful interfaces. Academic license available or 30 day trial.
- Stylus Studio
- Tools for XML, web services, etc. 7-day trial
- SOAPLite toolkit for Pearl
- SOAP client for PHP
- McAfee Shares Internal Web-Services Security Tool
- Water language
- Mindreef SOAPScope Toolkit
- Web services toolkit; free trial
- Miscellaneous
- Training
for web services
- The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that at
CapeClear,
Systinet,Collaxa, and Grand Central.
These sites have lots of information : e.g.tutorials on regular expressions
and Java Web Services at CapeClear (you need to search for tutorials; there are
many more than are suggested by the tab on their home page), but some require logins.
InfoWorld:
Rounding up Web services intermediaries: July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley :
APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES
Programs to manage, monitor,
bill for web services
IBM's Alphaworks site has many topics
Not for newbies
- RSS feed for webservices news from IBM
Web
services, SOA and Application Frameworks
Making them work together to address issues such as scalability,
Security, and transaction and state management.
There are also links to a reading list on the left.
This site, which includes the next few links, focuses on web services
architecture.
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Web Servers
Goodies to Go! Newsletter
#289
Hosting on windows vs.
Linux/UNIX
Web Services
Sun's site for web services info
and downloads
Apache
Using Apache with
Microsoft Windows - Apache HTTP Server
Info on Apache for Windows
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The Semantic Web
Semantic Web initiative at w3c
Microformats a way to add semantic information through annotations
Costello's slides on the subject; as always a clear discussion
Microformats.org
State of the Art on (Semantic) Modeling in XML an IBM research paper
A Simple Linkage from Web Services to the Semantic Web
AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and Web 2.0
Books, Documentation, tutorials and articles- in that order
Books
- AjaxPatterns.org keeps a list of books and refers you to Amazon etc. for reviews.
- Ajaxian.com also keeps a list of books with descriptions and some
reviews
Documentation
- The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Fields in the HTTPRequest Object
- The Beginning of Ajax Standardization 4/25/06
Basic tutorials and articles
- What is Ajax?
- Very basic introduction
- Another very basic What is Ajax? - this one with links to further information
- AJAX introduced
- The article which named it - with a great introduction to what it is
- About.com's introduction to Ajax
- Keeping Up with the Ajax Trend
- Slightly older but very clear introduction. Links to various Ajax debugging tools
- Ajax - the issues in using
- Good introduction
- Ajzx - Cut thru the hype
- Excellent discussion of pros and cons of using Ajax; from IBM DeveloperWorks
- Demystifying the Buzz about Ajax
- Assumes you are familiar with browser objects and intricasies
- Ajax and REST
- A further discussion of what it takes to develop Ajax sites
- Ajax and alternatives
- Pros and Cons of Ajax vs. applets, XUL, etc. Useful discussion, but you won't be surprised to learn these folks love Ajax
- Measuring the Benefits of Ajax
- From an Ajax developer, who also wonders
Will Ajax Replace the Desktop?
- Publish thinks it will put more desktops on line, and has links to early adopters
- Top 10 Reasons Ajax is Here to Stay
- Ajax Is No Overnight Success
- Including Security and Performance Risks
- EWeek has also written about the security issues; Ajax was used to spread a worm thru Yahoo Mail
- Ajax has some problems as pointed out by Gosling, the creator of Java
- Wikipedia article summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using Ajax
- Ajax has accessiblity issues
- But developers are working to overcome them
- Putting Ajax to Work
- Examples and a summary of some of the toolkits
- A detailed Explanation of the XMLHttpRequestObject
- This very clear article tells you all you need to know. (You can even omit the last part about interfacing with Java.)
- The XML HttpRequest Object
- Clear with nice summary tables; read the previous articlefirst.
- Ajax Tutorial
- Very basic. Uses innerHTML and not yet aware of IE 7, which supports XMLHttpRequest objects
- How to Use Ajax
- From Peachpit, which caters to graphic designers
- Ajax Tutorial
- From Tizag: level similar to w3schools tutorials
- Getting Started with Ajax
- From A List Apart. One example uses innerHTML (not supported by assistive broswers), but a richer example than most tutorials
- XUL.fr/en/ has Ajax tutorials, demos, and a list of frameworks
- How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax
- Series starts in column12, continues on to column13, 14 and 15. Good explanation.
- Understanding Ajax, followed by So How Do you Code an Ajax Page
- Longer tutorials: first isbasic and second uses frames and non-cross browser examples, but also gets to more advanced tricks
- Alternate Ajax Technologies -i.e. without XMLHttpRequest
- Ajax and the Java Platform
- Good article to get started, which uses almost no Java (use the server response of your choice). Note that Sun's Java Studio Creator 2 provides Ajax-like functionality for those who don't want to use Ajax directly.
- Ajax and Sun's Java DB
- Creating a MySQL Connection with PHP and Ajax
- Usng Ajax from Perl
- Ajax Active Tables allows you to edit MySQL tables in place
- Symfony is a PHP toolkit which includes functions to access Ajax
- AHAH is a subset of Ajax intended to be simpler
- How to Use Ajax is another good tutorial to get you started
- It leads to Creating Smart Forms with Ajax which includes form validation and downloadable code
- Nitty Gritty Ajax
- Shows how one drop-down menu can control the choices in the next drop-down menu
- U. Minnesota Duluth References on JavaScript has whole section of articles on Ajax
- This site is a great reference. For example, there are links to a number of articles here about making Ajax accessible as well as to tutorials.
- Tutorials from Ajax Matters
- Many tutorials, with descriptions, from the basic to advanced
- Ajax Links found useful by developer/blogger John Wiseman
More Advanced Articles and Other Resources, Including Examples and Frameworks
- IBM Resource Center on Ajax
- Many articles and more advanced tutorials. A very rich site, worth checking regularly
- For example, see Part 1
and Part 2 of article on AJAX vs REST
- See also
Mastering Ajax - 8 part series. This excellent series starts at
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro1.html
- Part 2 is a http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/
- and changing the '2' at the end of the URL will get you to the other articles,
- except for Parts 7 and 8 start at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro7.html
- (Parts 4-6 also explain how to manipulae the DOM)
- Ajax Transport
may be done by methods other than XMLHttp, as explained in this tutorial.
- Mozilla's Ajax Center has many articles
- AjaxInfo.com articles and enthusiasm
- Ajaxian is one of the oldest and largest Ajax resources
- Forums on many topics, book lists and reviews, articles, reviews of frameworks for PHP, Perl, etc. Not to be missed
- Ajax Patterns
- Wiki on all things related to Ajax - patterns, frameworks, libraries, books etc. Rich resource for programmers.
Check out the popular pages.
- Open Ajax is a consortium promoting tools for Ajax
- Ajax Matters has books, tutorials, more advanced articles, and job listings.
- AjaxDNA has Ajax Daily News and Analysis- lots of it, perhaps more than you want
- Ajax World Magazine is similar
- Developer.com list of Ajax tutorials
- Extending Ajax with Flash
- Jackbe articles on Ajax, Web2.0, etc.
- JSON may be used to speed up AJAX
- JSON is JavaScript Object Notation and is more compact than XML
- See also JSON for the Masses
- JSON vs XML/XMLHttpRequest in Mashups
- Using Ajax to generate random codes
- Uses this example to explore Ajax
- The same author also show how to use Ajax to develop a chat application
- Using XML HTTP Request to include javascript files and functions
- Ajax Design Strategies from Sun
- Callback and Ajax for .ASP programmers
- Open Ajax Alliance of major vendors, open source projects, etc.
- EWeek feature with news on Ajax
- Using Ajax and JSON with Oracle
- Google Gorup on Ajax
- Pre-loading Images with Ajax and the DOM
- How to pre-load thumbnails and then fetch all the full-size images with the first click on a thumbnail
- WebReference has a number of Ajax articles; they are usually accessible to newbies
- Creating a double dorp-down list with Ajax
- Including some more advanced issues
- Expanding a navigational menu with Ajax
- How to improve your search engine ratings with Ajax
- (or at least not have them get worse when using Ajax)
- Ajax and mutual exclusion
- How to avoisd concurrency problems
- Examples of Applications Which Use Ajax
- Top 10 Ajax applications
- Zimbra,another, uses Ajax to integrate email, calendar etc.
- Google Search with Ajax
- API for putting a Google search on your web page; uses Ajax
- Using the XML Http Request object has explanation & examples with Google's API and with JSON
- Content Cafe at Quantum Books uses Ajax
- Simple Quiz with Ajax
- Expanding DOM tree inspector
- Frameworks
- Sites with links to many frameworks
- AjaxInfo.com Many many links with descriptions; great resource
- Ajaxian has articles on frameworks for Ajax,
Ajax used with PHP, with Perl, with
Ruby etc. Includes reviews by users. Great resource, but it may help to start with AjaxInfo before delving into this rich site..
- Xul.com has a slightly shorter list, with comments
- Seven Ajax Frameworks to watch out for
- Ajax Patterns lists 150+ frameworks
- Open Source Technology lists it 10favorite libraries
- XUL.fr/en/ lists a number of frameworks, integrating with various languages
- 12 Days of Ajax has useful chart comparing various frameworks as well as more substantial description
of many of them and useful set of links on the last page
- The actual toolkits: the most popular are Prototype, Script.aculo.us and DoJo
- Protoype
- Protoype is the first open source tool set (framework) and currently the most popular. It is also the basis for script.aculo.us and other libraries.
Many examples integrate with Ruby on Rails. You may also
integrate Prototype with
the symfony framework for PHP (for which a tutorial is available.)
- Joseph Scott blogs on Prototype
- Script.aculo.us
- A large open source library, almost as populr as Protoype, on which it is based; integrates with Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby and everything
else you can think of; scripts for animation, drag and drop, etc; DOM utilities. Easy to install.
A Treasure trove.
- DoJo another major open source framework for Ajax and JavaScript.
- Has a new documentation kit There is a Google group and
Ajaxian
has a forum on Dojo.
- JSPAN
- Integrates with JavaScript and PHP
- AjaxTags is a lbrary for people who serve page using Java and ASP. From SourceForge (hence open source)
- Clean Ajax intersting project at Source Forge, sadly without documenation
- Mozilla's AJAX Tolkit with tutorials, etc.
- FlapJax integrates with JavaScript and is designed to make Ajax easy; easy tutorial
- Yahoo User Interface Library includes tools for Ajax, DOM, etc.
- Yahoo's co nnection manager smplifies Ajax
- Google web toolkit for Ajax integrates with Java
- How to make your own Google Maps, host your own Gmail application etc.
- JackBe tools to integrate Ajax and SOA
- MochiKit
- Tibco soon to be open sourced
Amazon Web Services
-
Amazon Reaches 50,000-Developer Mark With Its Web Services Program > May 24, 2004
- How Amazon has attracted developers to write for the stores which sell on Amazon, or how
Amazon Web Services counts itself as having 50,000 developers
- Amazon.com
: Help / AWS home page
- Home page for Amazon Web Services - all you need to know is XML and SOAP
- Available here too
- Amazon.com
: Help / AWS home page / FAQ
- Amazon Web Services FAQs - including what services are available etc.
- AWS includes a web services platform,
- a 'scratch pad' (Turk), a search engine and many e-commerce web servcies.
- Amazon's XML
Interface.
-
Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP - Website Publisher
- XML.com: Amazon's Web
Services and XSLT.
- Article from O'Reilly decribing both the web services and the REST interace to Amazon
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Web Servers
Goodies to Go! Newsletter
#289
Hosting on windows vs.
Linux/UNIX
Web Services
Sun's site for web services info
and downloads
Apache
Using Apache with
Microsoft Windows - Apache HTTP Server
Info on Apache for Windows
to
Table of Contents
Web Services - Other
General Information
WDVL: Table of
Contents on Web Programming
Tutorial on server-side
programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent intro.
WDVL:
Request Headers
What's in an http header
Web Services group of w3c
With links to many subgroups
InfoWorld:
Web services alphabet soup: February 20, 2004: By Jon Udell: Application
Development
Web services alphabet soup - and
modularity
Web services B2B
demonstration: The complete series
9-part series of a complete B2B
web service implementation
Trying to make
Web services make sense
Are the standards there yet?
Client and server
Intro to terms
XML.com:
A Web Services Primer
primer on web services
terminology
XML.com:
Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 1
Patterns of web services
XML.com:
Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 2
More of same
InfoWorld:
Rounding up Web services intermediaries: July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley :
APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES
Programs to manage, monitor,
bill for web services
Computerworld
Development
Several articles on state of web services in 2004
IT
Management: Quality Quest
Testing a SOA
IBM's Alphaworks site has many topics
Not for newbies
The Value of a Service Oriented
Architecture
Part 1 and Part 2
Microsoft's
Office Bridge to hook into web services
Web services
example
Recurrent payments and
PayPal
Training
for web services
The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that
at CapeClear, Systinet
Collaxa, and Grand Central.
These sites have lots of information – e.g. tutorials
on regular expressions and Java Web Services at CapeClear, design patterns for
business
services at Grand Central and Middleware.
Web
Services challenges
He first is no
quality of service (QOS) warranties. There are other issues, too.
Other
web services challenges
As the files get
bigger and bigger, what happens?
Web
services and security issues
Related to data transit
SOAP tutorial
Usual excellent
start from w3schools.com
SOAP Primer
From w3.org. If you have already worked through the w3schools tutorial,
Start at section 2.1
WSDL tutorial
Usual excellent
start from w3schools.com
Examine
how SOAP works
Interesting demos. May need to poke around this site a bit.
Can Try
it! And see the WSDL
code behind it
WS-Security is the specification for web services
security
This is from OASIS
Web
services, SOA and Application Frameworks
Making them work together to address issues such as scalability,
Security, and transaction and state management.
There are also links to a reading list on the left.
This site, which includes the next few links, focuses on web services
architecture.
Web
Services, UDDI and eMarketplaces
The interaction of eBXML
and WebServices
Introduction to eBXML
Good introduction; follow the links
at the bottom to further pages.
IBM's site on ontology-based web
services
The
Rise and Fall of CORBA- the predecessor of XML
Benefits
of SOA - cases of who saved how much
Open
Standard for Messages: Will interoperate with SOAP and other formats
See also IBM's
problem, which they are working around.
Standard for Web
Services Management
See also why IBM is
embracing this.
The Semantic Web
Semantic Web initiative at w3c
Microformats a way to add semantic information through annotations
Costello's slides on the subject; as always a clear discussion
Microformats.org
State of the Art on (Semantic) Modeling in XML an IBM research paper
AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and Web 2.0
Books, Documentation, tutorials and articles- in that order
Books
- AjaxPatterns.org keeps a list of books and refers you to Amazon etc. for reviews.
- Ajaxian.com also keeps a list of books with descriptions and some
reviews
Documentation
- The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Fields in the HTTPRequest Object
- The Beginning of Ajax Standardization 4/25/06
Basic tutorials and articles
- What is Ajax?
- Very basic introduction
- Another very basic What is Ajax? - this one with links to further information
- AJAX introduced
- The article which named it - with a great introduction to what it is
- About.com's introduction to Ajax
- Keeping Up with the Ajax Trend
- Slightly older but very clear introduction. Links to various Ajax debugging tools
- Ajax - the issues in using
- Good introduction
- Ajzx - Cut thru the hype
- Excellent discussion of pros and cons of using Ajax; from IBM DeveloperWorks
- Demystifying the Buzz about Ajax
- Assumes you are familiar with browser objects and intricasies
- Ajax and REST
- A further discussion of what it takes to develop Ajax sites
- Ajax and alternatives
- Pros and Cons of Ajax vs. applets, XUL, etc. Useful discussion, but you won't be surprised to learn these folks love Ajax
- Measuring the Benefits of Ajax
- From an Ajax developer, who also wonders
Will Ajax Replace the Desktop?
- Publish thinks it will put more desktops on line, and has links to early adopters
- Top 10 Reasons Ajax is Here to Stay
- Ajax Is No Overnight Success
- Including Security and Performance Risks
- EWeek has also written about the security issues; Ajax was used to spread a worm thru Yahoo Mail
- Ajax has some problems as pointed out by Gosling, the creator of Java
- Wikipedia article summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using Ajax
- Ajax has accessiblity issues
- But developers are working to overcome them
- Putting Ajax to Work
- Examples and a summary of some of the toolkits
- A detailed Explanation of the XMLHttpRequestObject
- This very clear article tells you all you need to know. (You can even omit the last part about interfacing with Java.)
- The XML HttpRequest Object
- Clear with nice summary tables; read the previous articlefirst.
- Ajax Tutorial
- Very basic. Uses innerHTML and not yet aware of IE 7, which supports XMLHttpRequest objects
- How to Use Ajax
- From Peachpit, which caters to graphic designers
- Ajax Tutorial
- From Tizag: level similar to w3schools tutorials
- Getting Started with Ajax
- From A List Apart. One example uses innerHTML (not supported by assistive broswers), but a richer example than most tutorials
- XUL.fr/en/ has Ajax tutorials, demos, and a list of frameworks
- How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax
- Series starts in column12, continues on to column13, 14 and 15. Good explanation.
- Understanding Ajax, followed by So How Do you Code an Ajax Page
- Longer tutorials: first isbasic and second uses frames and non-cross browser examples, but also gets to more advanced tricks
- Alternate Ajax Technologies -i.e. without XMLHttpRequest
- Ajax and the Java Platform
- Good article to get started, which uses almost no Java (use the server response of your choice). Note that Sun's Java Studio Creator 2 provides Ajax-like functionality for those who don't want to use Ajax directly.
- Ajax and Sun's Java DB
- Creating a MySQL Connection with PHP and Ajax
- Usng Ajax from Perl
- Ajax Active Tables allows you to edit MySQL tables in place
- Symfony is a PHP toolkit which includes functions to access Ajax
- AHAH is a subset of Ajax intended to be simpler
- How to Use Ajax is another good tutorial to get you started
- It leads to Creating Smart Forms with Ajax which includes form validation and downloadable code
- Nitty Gritty Ajax
- Shows how one drop-down menu can control the choices in the next drop-down menu
- U. Minnesota Duluth References on JavaScript has whole section of articles on Ajax
- This site is a great reference. For example, there are links to a number of articles here about making Ajax accessible as well as to tutorials.
- Tutorials from Ajax Matters
- Many tutorials, with descriptions, from the basic to advanced
- Ajax Links found useful by developer/blogger John Wiseman
More Advanced Articles and Other Resources, Including Examples and Frameworks
- IBM Resource Center on Ajax
- Many articles and more advanced tutorials. A very rich site, worth checking regularly
- For example, see Part 1
and Part 2 of article on AJAX vs REST
- See also
Mastering Ajax - 8 part series. This excellent series starts at
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro1.html
- Part 2 is a http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/
- and changing the '2' at the end of the URL will get you to the other articles,
- except for Parts 7 and 8 start at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro7.html
- (Parts 4-6 also explain how to manipulae the DOM)
- Ajax Transport
may be done by methods other than XMLHttp, as explained in this tutorial.
- Mozilla's Ajax Center has many articles
- AjaxInfo.com articles and enthusiasm
- Ajaxian is one of the oldest and largest Ajax resources
- Forums on many topics, book lists and reviews, articles, reviews of frameworks for PHP, Perl, etc. Not to be missed
- Ajax Patterns
- Wiki on all things related to Ajax - patterns, frameworks, libraries, books etc. Rich resource for programmers.
Check out the popular pages.
- Open Ajax is a consortium promoting tools for Ajax
- Ajax Matters has books, tutorials, more advanced articles, and job listings.
- AjaxDNA has Ajax Daily News and Analysis- lots of it, perhaps more than you want
- Ajax World Magazine is similar
- Developer.com list of Ajax tutorials
- Extending Ajax with Flash
- Jackbe articles on Ajax, Web2.0, etc.
- JSON may be used to speed up AJAX
- JSON is JavaScript Object Notation and is more compact than XML
- See also JSON for the Masses
- JSON vs XML/XMLHttpRequest in Mashups
- Using Ajax to generate random codes
- Uses this example to explore Ajax
- The same author also show how to use Ajax to develop a chat application
- Using XML HTTP Request to include javascript files and functions
- Ajax Design Strategies from Sun
- Callback and Ajax for .ASP programmers
- Open Ajax Alliance of major vendors, open source projects, etc.
- EWeek feature with news on Ajax
- Using Ajax and JSON with Oracle
- Google Gorup on Ajax
- Pre-loading Images with Ajax and the DOM
- How to pre-load thumbnails and then fetch all the full-size images with the first click on a thumbnail
- WebReference has a number of Ajax articles; they are usually accessible to newbies
- Creating a double dorp-down list with Ajax
- Including some more advanced issues
- Expanding a navigational menu with Ajax
- How to improve your search engine ratings with Ajax
- (or at least not have them get worse when using Ajax)
- Ajax and mutual exclusion
- How to avoisd concurrency problems
- Examples of Applications Which Use Ajax
- Top 10 Ajax applications
- Zimbra,another, uses Ajax to integrate email, calendar etc.
- Google Search with Ajax
- API for putting a Google search on your web page; uses Ajax
- Using the XML Http Request object has explanation & examples with Google's API and with JSON
- Content Cafe at Quantum Books uses Ajax
- Simple Quiz with Ajax
- Expanding DOM tree inspector
- Frameworks
- Sites with links to many frameworks
- AjaxInfo.com Many many links with descriptions; great resource
- Ajaxian has articles on frameworks for Ajax,
Ajax used with PHP, with Perl, with
Ruby etc. Includes reviews by users. Great resource, but it may help to start with AjaxInfo before delving into this rich site..
- Xul.com has a slightly shorter list, with comments
- Seven Ajax Frameworks to watch out for
- Ajax Patterns lists 150+ frameworks
- Open Source Technology lists it 10favorite libraries
- XUL.fr/en/ lists a number of frameworks, integrating with various languages
- 12 Days of Ajax has useful chart comparing various frameworks as well as more substantial description
of many of them and useful set of links on the last page
- The actual toolkits: the most popular are Prototype, Script.aculo.us and DoJo
- Protoype
- Protoype is the first open source tool set (framework) and currently the most popular. It is also the basis for script.aculo.us and other libraries.
Many examples integrate with Ruby on Rails. You may also
integrate Prototype with
the symfony framework for PHP (for which a tutorial is available.)
- Joseph Scott blogs on Prototype
- Script.aculo.us
- A large open source library, almost as populr as Protoype, on which it is based; integrates with Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby and everything
else you can think of; scripts for animation, drag and drop, etc; DOM utilities. Easy to install.
A Treasure trove.
- DoJo another major open source framework for Ajax and JavaScript.
- Has a new documentation kit There is a Google group and
Ajaxian
has a forum on Dojo.
- JSPAN
- Integrates with JavaScript and PHP
- AjaxTags is a lbrary for people who serve page using Java and ASP. From SourceForge (hence open source)
- Clean Ajax intersting project at Source Forge, sadly without documenation
- Mozilla's AJAX Tolkit with tutorials, etc.
- FlapJax integrates with JavaScript and is designed to make Ajax easy; easy tutorial
- Yahoo User Interface Library includes tools for Ajax, DOM, etc.
- Yahoo's co nnection manager smplifies Ajax
- Google web toolkit for Ajax integrates with Java
- How to make your own Google Maps, host your own Gmail application etc.
- JackBe tools to integrate Ajax and SOA
- MochiKit
- Tibco soon to be open sourced
Amazon Web Services
-
Amazon Reaches 50,000-Developer Mark With Its Web Services Program > May 24, 2004
- How Amazon has attracted developers to write for the stores which sell on Amazon, or how
Amazon Web Services counts itself as having 50,000 developers
- Amazon.com
: Help / AWS home page
- Home page for Amazon Web Services - all you need to know is XML and SOAP
- Available here too
- Amazon.com
: Help / AWS home page / FAQ
- Amazon Web Services FAQs - including what services are available etc.
- AWS includes a web services platform,
- a 'scratch pad' (Turk), a search engine and many e-commerce web servcies.
- Amazon's XML
Interface.
-
Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP - Website Publisher
- XML.com: Amazon's Web
Services and XSLT.
- Article from O'Reilly decribing both the web services and the REST interace to Amazon
to Table of Contents