Programming Resources and Sites

Visual Basic / VBScript
HTML: Tutorials, Reference, Style Guides and Utilities
JavaScript, Pearl, CGI, KiXtart, Windows Scripting Host: Tutorials, Reference, Style Guides and Utilities
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
General Programming: Design and Implementation, Client/Server, etc.
C++ Source Code, FAQ's, Tutorials

HTML: Tutorials, Reference, Style Guides and Utilities

www.arachnoid.com

Home of Arachnophilia. A 32-bit HTML Editor for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Imports, automatically converts fully formatted text, tables, outlines from any Windows 95-compliant application. Supports up to 6 Web browsers. Supports CGI, Frames, JavaScript development. Fully user-customizable toolbars provide frequently used tags. Multiple document interface with full drag & drop capability. Built-in tutorials on HTML development, JavaScript, the Internet. Cost is $0.00. Please read about CareWare.

This site also contains some interesting reading: How we confuse symbols and things, Why are computers so hard to use?, Interview with an Extraterrestrial, Computer Math, The Constancy of its Affections, How to Buy a Computer, and a book, "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor" by Paul Lutus. http://www.arachnoid.com/

Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi

http://www.jalfrezi.com/iniframe.htm

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html

Essential HTML Resources on the WWW

http://www.iap.net.au/~cmathes/html_resources.html

How do they do that with HTML?

http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/index.html

HTML for the Conceptually Challenged

Want to learn HTML fast? If you mostly watch television, have an attention span measured in microseconds, and think reading is a waste of your valuable time, this page is for you. http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html

HTML Primer

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

HTML Quick Reference

http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/HTML_quick.html

HTML Reference Library by Stephen Le Hunte.

The HTML Reference Library is a Windows HLP file, that details with numerous screenshots and examples, all of the currently supported HTML elements. As such, it is the ideal companion for anybody involved in HTML development and best of all, it's absolutely FREE! http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818

HTML Station

Provides a quick reference to HTML syntax as well as demonstrations of how HTML tags look online. Help on coding tables, frames, image maps, and forms. View the pages' source code to see how the examples were constructed. Covers HTML specifications from Level 1 to Level 3. "HTML entities, codes, and types" contains useful quick references. A list of HTML character codes, ASCII codes, color codes, HTTP status codes, etc. http://www.december.com/html

HTML Writers Guild Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Index

Covers: Basic HTML, Graphics and Imagemaps, Advanced HTML, CGI, Scripts, Perl, Java and JavaScript, Servers & Technology, Business Related, Security and Encryption. http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/index.html

HTML Writers Guild News Tips

http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/newsletters/tips/

Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dsb/kgv-faq/

Professor Pete's Webmastering 301:

Designed to enlighten business people, marketing directors, computer consultants and other interested parties about how to create a business Internet Presence. http://www.professorpete.com

Web Basics / HTML by ZDNet.

Links to several HTML tutorial resources on the Web. http://www5.zdnet.com/zdwebcat/content/basics/html/

webreference.com

From browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design, we'll keep you in touch and informed. Check your links and HTML automatically with these robots from NetMechanic. http://www.webreference.com/

World Wide Web Consortium:

The W3C was founded in 1994 to develop common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web and are an international industry consortium.
The Consortium provides a number of public services:

A repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, especially specifications about the Web;
A reference code implementation to embody and promote standards
Various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology

http://www.w3.org/

This site also contains the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification and a list of the 16 standard color codes.

World Wide Web FAQ

http://www.boutell.com/faq

WAI Accessibility Guidelines: Page Authoring

"This document is a list of markup guidelines that HTML authors should follow in order to make their pages more accessible. Following the list of guidelines is a checklist that authors and Web masters should use to verify page accessibility." http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH

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Scripting

Developer Shed: Server Side: Administration, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL, Python, Roxen, Wireless, XML, Zope
Client Side: DHTML, Flash, Graphics, JavaScript, Style Sheets, WML
http://www.devshed.com/

Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms, An: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/info/forms/forms-intro.html

Java Script Basics: http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/handbook/javascript/index.html

KiXtart.org: KiXtart is a logon script processor and enhanced batch scripting language for computers running Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows 9x in a Windows Networking environment. http://kixtart.org/
Bryce's Kix Library: http://kix.isorg.net/
CJ's KiXtart Page: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrismat/scripts.html
ScriptLogic: KiXtart Resource Center: http://www.scriptlogic.com/kixtart/

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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor: PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
PHP script is embedded in an HTML document, allowing the web developer the freedom of not having to rely on extensive amounts of code to output HTML. PHP is server-side, i.e., executed on the server, so the client is unable to view the PHP code. Due to its cross-platform compatibility PHP is included in a large number of Web servers, primarily Apache Web Servers but still supported by the majority of Web Servers and by most operating systems. http://www.php.net/
Developer Shed: Server Side: Administration, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL, Python, Roxen, Wireless, XML, Zope
Client Side: DHTML, Flash, Graphics, JavaScript, Style Sheets, WML
http://www.devshed.com/
PHP Builder: 'How To' articles on various PHP concepts. Good place for beginners to start. http://www.phpbuilder.com
phpWizard.net: PHP Tutorials, scriptlets, quick reference, plus they are the keepers of phpMyAdmin, a web app written in PHP to make managing mySQL databases much easier. http://www.phpwizard.net/
LinuxGuruz.org: Has info on PHP, including PHP and mySQL tutorials. http://www.LinuxGuruz.org
Web Development With PHP FastTemplate: If you've worked with PHP, JSP, ASP or any other tag-based scripting language, you already know that one of the most powerful features of these languages is the ability to combine regular HTML code with programming constructs like variables and function calls. By substituting variable "placeholders" for actual content in an HTML page, these languages make it easy to construct dynamic Web pages; simply alter the values of the variables embedded within the HTML code, and the content displayed on the page changes appropriately.
UltraTemplate.com: UltraTemplate is a class that allows you to separate your code (PHP or ASP) from your html content. http://www.ultratemplate.com/
TheWebMasters.net: FastTemplate PHP Class. http://www.thewebmasters.net/
PHP Knowledge Base: http://php.faqts.com/
PHP Resource Index: Over 800 PHP related resurces in more than 190 categories. Scripts, Functions and Classes, Documentation, Community. http://php.resourceindex.com/
Introduction to PHP by Stig S�ther Bakken with Zend staff: http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php
phpHoo: Create a "Yahoo like directory" using PHP and MySQL. http://www.webreference.com/perl/xhoo/php1/
phpHoo3 by Rolf V. Ostergaard: Updated version of phpHoo with examples and source code. http://www.cable-modems.org/phpHoo/

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General Programming

CodeHound.com: Software Developer's Search Engine. Covers: Perl, VB, ASP, XML, SQL, C#. http://CodeHound.com/
Building Successful Client/Server Applications: Today, over 80 percent of the applications running on a Microsoft Windows platform access data. More and more of these applications are used where the client/server architecture is not only recommended, but is a requirement. Unfortunately, most of these applications fail to succeed for a variety of reasons, including poor planning, design, and implementation. Here, we examine the most common mistakes, and discuss the benefits of using the Active Platform. Developers use the Active Platform so that client/server applications work seamlessly over the Internet, an intranet, or corporate network. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwindev/html/msdn_bldcli~1.asp
EchoEcho.com: HTML, JavaScript, Flash tutorials. http://www.echoecho.com/

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C++

Programming/C++ Tutorial by Paul Lutus: "This section of www.arachnoid.com is meant to introduce the topic of programming, but not provide a comprehensive education in the field � that takes years of effort and great dedication. By reading these pages, you will acquire a sense of what programming is about, an overview of the territory." http://www.arachnoid.com/cpptutor/
Cygwin Tools: (C/C++ Compiler): The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Windows NT, 95, and 98. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect.

With these tools installed, it is possible to write Win32 console or GUI applications that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or the Cygwin API. As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant Unix programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code. This includes configuring and building most of the available GNU software (including the packages included with the Cygwin development tools themselves). Even if the development tools are of little to no use to you, you may have interest in the many standard Unix utilities provided with the package. They can be used both from the bash shell (provided) or from the standard Windows command shell. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
Microsoft Visual C++: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/

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