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Apache
Documentation for the Apache server
A User's Guide to URL Rewriting You just wouldn't believe all the neat stuff you can do with mod_rewrite in apache!
Apache Week "...an essential resource for anyone running an Apache server...". Online Apache Webserver magazine.
Apache's Home The offical Apache server web site, including Source, Full documentation and links to other stuff.
FAQTS Knowledge base for many topics. A great place to look for answers.
mod_ssl An open source solution for secure services with Apache
Quick Reference Cards Apache web server, mod_perl, C, Emacs, others.
ASP
Active Server pages- server-side scripting capability thru a variety of languages.
SWYNK.COM A site for system administrators. It focusses mainly on NT-based web solutions such as SQL server and ASP but has a wealth of internet development and database resources.
The ASP Tracker Home Page ASP Scripts and demos, and a current browsercap.ini file for use with ASP, PHP or whatever else uses it.
TheScripts.com A web community dedicated to server-side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, CGI and more.
WDDX Enabled Distributed Web Applications Brad Argue discusses building a sophisticate WDDX enabled application using
Browser Compatiblilty
These resources will help you write and verify code to be viewable in any browser so that as many people as possible can get your message.
Browser Archive at evolt.org A darn comprehensive and downloadable archive of all the major browsers.
BrowserCaps The self-proclaimed definitive resource on the HTML handling capabilities of Browsers. It could really use some updating.
Browserola An emulator for Windows that enables Web authors to see how their pages look in a variety of Web browsers without having to have those browsers installed.
Index Dot HTML HTML language refrence and browser support and history information. The browser support chart is a good way to make sure your HTML layout is backwards compatible.
StatMarket A heap of stats about web stuff. The top browser and plug-in stats are great for figuring out how many folks you'll be alienating by using the latest and greatest browser features.
The ASP Tracker Home Page ASP Scripts and demos, and a current browsercap.ini file for use with ASP, PHP or whatever else uses it.
Viewable With Any Browser Maybe a little extreme, this campagin aims to forever rid web pages of those annoying little 'best viewed with...' buttons. It's a good source of information on designing accessable and backwards-compatible web pages.
ColdFusion
Allaire's Server-side scripting language.
Allaire WAP reference desk Resources for both general WAP info and ColdFusion-specific tips.
Ben Forta's ColdFusion Page This guy wrote the book on ColdFusion. Actually, he wrote a couple of them. Has a few links and some info.
CF_ADVISOR ColdFusion Information and Jobs. News, Hosting tips, editorials, archives, discussion area and more...
Fusebox A development model for large-scale applications with ColdFusion
Home of ColdFusion Allaire's official ColdFusion web site with downloads, a developer center and more.
House of Fusion An informative resource for ColdFusion developers. Includes links, resources and information on development, administration and security for CF servers
Optimizing Coldfusion Ben Forta's powerpoint presentation outlining potential bottlenecks and optimization techniques
TheScripts.com A web community dedicated to server-side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, CGI and more.
WDDX Enabled Distributed Web Applications Brad Argue discusses building a sophisticate WDDX enabled application using
Development Software
When a text editor isn't enough. HTML, Java and other web development tools
AceExpert A very reliable and full-featured HTML Editior which can provide DHTML, Javascript, total control on IE and NS Browsers, and super HTML Editing Interface. Makes any web development FAST!!
Adobe GoLive A design-approach to web development
BBEdit HTML and text editing for the Macintosh
Favicon.com The home page for the java application that can generate those little icons that show up in your favorites list on IE5
HomeSite Allaire's text-based site development software.
Hot Dog Pro A popular HTML editor and website maintenance program.
Macromedia Dreamweaver Home of Dreamweaver
Nexidion Web Development Environment In early stages of development, this HTML editor provides a development IDE/debugger for PHP.
Page Spinner The Ultimate HTML Editior for the Mac. Super featured. Awsome Interface. Javascript galore. A must shareware for Mac Web Designer.
The VIM Home Page For those of you who still insist on using a text editor.
Website META Language A free offline web designer's toolkit for unix brought to you by Ralf Engelschall.
Domain Registrars
Register your own .com, .net or .whatever with one of these companies
AfterNic Buy your dream domain name from this Domain Auction service.
Dotster.com A very economical registrar with an intuitive web interface.
GoDaddy OK service, and 8.95 per year!
Joker.com The most economical registrar I've found (as long as the dollar/euro exchange rate is good)
Network Solutions The grandaddy of domain registrars. Handles .com, .org and .net
Dynamically-generated HTML
This Category is NOT for DHTML but rather for server-side dynamic page generation with various scripting languages
SWYNK.COM A site for system administrators. It focusses mainly on NT-based web solutions such as SQL server and ASP but has a wealth of internet development and database resources.
The Flash Challenge A database-driven Flash 4 site with links and rankings of the best Flash sites out there.
TheScripts.com A web community dedicated to server-side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, CGI and more.
WDDX Enabled Distributed Web Applications Brad Argue discusses building a sophisticate WDDX enabled application using
Flash
A really great vector-based animation and authoring program for the web
Flash Bible Great Flash tutorials, including a large section on ActionScript in Flash 4
FlashZone This site has some great Flash tutorials complete with source files to download
Macromedia Flash Support Some helpful technical notes from the company that makes Flash
Moock Flash Colin Moock has a wide variety of Flash tutorials available, including ActionScript, FS Commands, and detecting the plug-in
The Flash Challenge A database-driven Flash 4 site with links and rankings of the best Flash sites out there.
General HTML
Tips and reference for HTML, Javascript and all kinds of other stuff...
A Pattern Language for HTML An overview of using pattern languages for HTML development. Updated in 1996, it covers HTML 2.0. Still, it's relevant and helpful.
Adam's Advanced HTML Guide A tutorial site on more advanced HTML, such as Frames, Tables, CSS, Layers and DHTML
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters All the poop on web caching, and how to make your documents cachable, if you're into that sort of thing.
CNET Builder.com A good general reference site with tutorials and articles covering both backend and web development topics
Cool Nerds Good quick reference for HTML, Javascript, and WebArt
D.J. Quad's Ultimate HTML Site "Your one-stop Web Development site, Period." -- That's pretty close to summing it up.
Developer.com This site has a lot of windows programming info on it, but also some good HTML and JavaScript stuff
Doctor HTML Doctor HTML is a Web page analysis tool which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds. It is very helpful and concise.
Echo SSI A good overview of all the neat stuff you can do with Server-side includes
evolt.org A world community for web developers, evolt.org promotes the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.
FAQTS Knowledge base for many topics. A great place to look for answers.
Guide to Publishing HTML and Forms Somewhat of a beginners guide to HTML and forms.
Home of Webalizer A really cool utility that collects and graphs website statistics in HTML.
HTML, META, REL and REV Tags A dictionary of Meta tags to better control the actions of browsers
Index Dot HTML HTML language refrence and browser support and history information. The browser support chart is a good way to make sure your HTML layout is backwards compatible.
LinkScan/QuickCheck QuickCheck is a free online link checking and HTML validation service.
Quick Reference Cards Apache web server, mod_perl, C, Emacs, others.
StatMarket A heap of stats about web stuff. The top browser and plug-in stats are great for figuring out how many folks you'll be alienating by using the latest and greatest browser features.
The Bandwidth Conservation Society Helpful tips on reducing web graphics and other methods of making your page load faster and making the internet a better place
The HTML Writer's Guild The World's Largest international organization of web authors, with support, representation and education for all levels of skill.
Wacky HTML "HTML Your Mother Never told you about" -- Call it tacky if you like, but you can learn how to do many neato effects with these tutorials
WC3 - The World Wide Web Consortium It just doesn't get any more definitive than this. These are the folks who actually define HTML standards...
Web Page Design for Designers An introduction to design and usability theory for designers starting out in web development.
Web Site Garage An arsenal of handy free/paid services designed to analyze, optimize and promote your website.
webcoder.com A new site that focuses primarily on DHTML and has good information on all the cutting-edge backend stuff.
Weblint A syntax and minimal style checker for HTML. Type in your url or code on this web interface and watch it tear apart your code with one click of a button.
Webmonkey home The first place to go for commentaries, reviews and in-depth tutorials on just about everything web developer-related.
Webreview.com Articles, reviews and resources on web development. It's also pretty Linux-friendly.
High Availability
Server administration resources to keep that site running
Eddie Project Eddie provides automatic traffic management and configuration of geographically distributed server sites, consisting of one or more LANs.
Fake Fake allows you to take over the IP address of another machine in the LAN by bringing up an additional interface and making use of ARP spoofing.
High Availability References Mostly links to corporate HA solutions vendors such as IBM, Sun and HP.
Linux High Availability HOWTO This document describes the concepts of Linux-HA, the High Availability software solution for Linux.
Linux-HA Project Website Their goal is to provide a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) through a community development effort.
LVS Cluster Configuration HOWTO This document explains how to set up and administer a Linux Virtual Server (LVS) cluster that provides highly available Web and FTP services.
Red Hat's Piranha Documentation for Red Hat's Load-balanced Web and FTP Cluster solution
Ron Resnick's Distributed Objects and High Availab Coverage of CORBA and Distributed Objects, and "A Modern Taxonomy of High Availability", another great place to start.
The Linux Virtual Server Project Virtual server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers.
Ultra Monkey Open Source server farm for Linux using LVS (Linux Virtual Server). The topologies section has diagrams and configuration examples. Worth the trip.
JavaScript
Links to information about client-side scripting with JavaScript
Cool Nerds Good quick reference for HTML, Javascript, and WebArt
DevEdge JavaScript Central Lots of detail about Netscape's Javascript.
Developer.com This site has a lot of windows programming info on it, but also some good HTML and JavaScript stuff
FAQTS Knowledge base for many topics. A great place to look for answers.
Internet Tips Index A growing list of JavaScript tips and code tidbits.
IRT (Internet Related Technologies) Great Javascript FAQ and Articles
The Javascript Source The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your web pages. All for free!
WDDX Enabled Distributed Web Applications Brad Argue discusses building a sophisticate WDDX enabled application using
webcoder.com A new site that focuses primarily on DHTML and has good information on all the cutting-edge backend stuff.
Webmonkey JavaScript center Home of one of the best JavaScript tutorials on the web as well as code examples and links for all things JavaScript.
Marketing
So you've developed such a nice website. Why not find more ways to share it with others?
Ad Resources Internet Advertising and Web Site Promotion Resources.
Add your URL to AltaVista A quick form and some directions on adding your link to AltaVista's search engines
Add your URL to Excite The URL submission form at Excite.
Add your URL to GO The URL submission form at GO Networks
Add your URL to Hotbot The URL submission form to Hotbot's search engine.
Add your URL to Lycos The URL submission form at Lycos
Add your URL to Northern Light Invite Gulliver, the Northern Light crawler, to come and visit your site.
Add your URL to Snap List your site in Snap's Live Directory
Add your URL to WebCrawler Search engine submission form.
Add your URL to Yahoo Directions on submitting your site to the biggest search engine around
GVU Center's WWW User Surveys Everything you ever wanted to know about web users and their habits
HTML, META, REL and REV Tags A dictionary of Meta tags to better control the actions of browsers
Internet Advertising Resource Guide A comprehensive rundown and resource listing about advertising on the Internet
MarcommWise Marketing communications articles, news, forums, resources, book reviews, ROI calculators, vendor directory and glossary.
Mediamap A list of e-mail addresses that you can use to send press releases to publishers, online e-zine editors, etc
RankThis! The Online Tool and Cyberguide for Search Engine Promotion. Has a quick and dirty ranker that shows your placement for search strings in the big search engines
Search Engine Watch Search engine tips, news and resources
Selfpromotion.com A 'free' search engine promotion service with do-it yourself information and great tips on yahoo submissions.
The Web Robots Pages An explanation of those little web robots and spiders including a database of known robots, a FAQ, and instructions on how to lead and guide them while they're navigating and cataloging your site.
VirtualPROMOTE A somewhat fluffy yet usefull 'website promotion and ecommerce marketing community.'
Web Marketing Today Info Center A site with heaps and heaps of articles, links and other resources that lead and guide you in website promotion.
MySQL
Information about the MySQL database
DevShed A great site with several introductory articles for PHP and MySQL.
DevShed MySQL articles Examples for setting up MySQL and starting out basic database-driven sites.
FAQTS Knowledge base for many topics. A great place to look for answers.
MySQL home page The MySQL home page, including full documentation and links to other resources.
Webmonkey PHP, MySQL tutorial The Hotwired Webmonkey's guide to getting a quickie site up and running using mysql and php.
Perl
A speedy programming language frequently used for cgi applications
CPAN perl modules CPAN perl modules
Perl documentation Perl documentation
Perl Homepage Best place to start with Perl
Perl Language Perl language documentation
TheScripts.com A web community dedicated to server-side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, CGI and more.
PHP
Handy tips, reference and code examples for everybody's favorite server-side scripting language.
Classes and PHP A great introduction to OOP with classes in PHP on PHPBuilder.com.
DevShed A great site with several introductory articles for PHP and MySQL.
FAQTS Knowledge base for many topics. A great place to look for answers.
PHP Addicts! This is a site under development. It will support persons who have addictions with PHP.
PHP home page The home site for PHP. Includes the full searchable manual.
PHP TidBits Some handy tips for PHP and dynamically generated websites.
PHPBuilder.com This is an incredibly helpful site which includes the full PHP documentation, message boards and lots of tips and articles.
phpGroupWare phpGroupWare is a multi-user web-based groupware suite written in PHP. It also provides an API for developing additional applications.
PHPioneers Fairly young and infrequently documented, but it has some great code examples
PHPLIB PHPLIB is a base library for the PHP language. It contains class definitions that help in session tracking, manage persistent variables (just like ASP session-variables, only more flexible), can do authentication and permission checking and support shopping cart applications. Additional classes generate HTML code from database queries and similar features.
PX: PHP Code Exchange PHP contributed code examples
The ASP Tracker Home Page ASP Scripts and demos, and a current browsercap.ini file for use with ASP, PHP or whatever else uses it.
TheScripts.com A web community dedicated to server-side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, CGI and more.
Twin Cities PHP User Group A Local source of help and info if you're in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.
WDDX Enabled Distributed Web Applications Brad Argue discusses building a sophisticate WDDX enabled application using
Webmonkey PHP, MySQL tutorial The Hotwired Webmonkey's guide to getting a quickie site up and running using mysql and php.
Zend Technologies Zend is a company providing commercial viability and backing for PHP-based solutions while keeping PHP open-source.
Usability
Interface design and usability tips to minimize user frustration and maximize productivity.
Isys Information Architects, Inc Specializes in the design and development of robust, highly usable information systems.
useit.com Jakob Nielsen's site for usable information technology.
User Interface Engineering Getting development teams the information they need to make design decisions
WebWorld.com: Usability and Human Factors for the Newsletter, Interviews, Reports and discussion board about usability and web information architecture.
Web Art Resources
Links to information about creating and using art in web development.
Cool Nerds Good quick reference for HTML, Javascript, and WebArt
Favicon.com The home page for the java application that can generate those little icons that show up in your favorites list on IE5
The Bandwidth Conservation Society Helpful tips on reducing web graphics and other methods of making your page load faster and making the internet a better place
Web Development Methodologies
Nifty ways to separate form and content, reuse code and build sites more efficiently.
A Pattern Language for HTML An overview of using pattern languages for HTML development. Updated in 1996, it covers HTML 2.0. Still, it's relevant and helpful.
Free-energy A Fusebox-like method for encapsulating small chunks of code for PHP
Fusebox A development model for large-scale applications with ColdFusion
Ron Resnick's Distributed Objects and High Availab Coverage of CORBA and Distributed Objects, and "A Modern Taxonomy of High Availability", another great place to start.
WebDAV
"Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
cadaver command line webDAV client for UNIX
DAV Searching & Locating Working Group A working group concerned with making DAV content searchable. Theres a discussion list and proposal drafts
How to implement Web-based Groupware Systems A paper on creating a browser-based document repository based on the WebDAV protocol. Also includes another WebDAV overview.
How to Install and Use Web Folders in Internet Exp Microsoft's instructions on getting WebDAV (also known as 'Web Folders' -- thanks for the clarification, Microsoft!) to work with Windows and IE.
MSDN: Communicating XML Data Over the Web with Web An overview of WebDAV from the Microsoft Developers Network
Problems Connecting to a Web Server as a Web Folde Microsoft's Troubleshooting documentation for problems that may arise with WebDAV
SWYNK.COM: Introducing WebDav Another overview of WebDAV from Swynk.com
The Future of Distributed Software Development on How WebDAV assists geographically disperse development teams with working on projects together, and how the proposed Version control implementations will further benefit such efforts.
WebDAV Resources The home page for the WebDAV community, with links to WebDAV projects, documentation and a mailing list.
Wireless Internet
How to be prepared for ANY kind of browser, including wireless.
Allaire WAP reference desk Resources for both general WAP info and ColdFusion-specific tips.
AnywhereYouGo.com AnywhereYouGo.com is 100% wireless application development and deployment portal.
Jumbuck A web portal for WAP developers.
The Independent WAP/WML FAQ This is an FAQ that is not associated with any particular company.
WAP Forum Creating the standard for providing internet communications on digital mobile phones, pagers, pda's and other wireless devices.
WAP-Resources.net A collection of WAP references and development resources.
XHTML
A reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application that lets you create documents that conform to XML standards AND HTML 4.0
Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples A broad introduction to the XHTML specification and its uses, with a few examples illustrating the differences between HTML 4.0 and XHTML
Modularization of XHTML Specifies an abstract modularization of XHTML and an implementation of the abstraction using XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs). This modularization provide a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms.
The WC3 specification for XML 1.0 All that meaty specification stuff
XHTML: HTML Merges With XML A quick overview of XHTML and its benefits, adding modular methods and targeting your data to any device.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere.
The W3C XML Home Page The World Wide Web Consortium's Home page for XML
The XML Cover Pages A comprehensive online reference work for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its parent, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
XML.com - Syndicating XML A general resource for all levels of XML authoring
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