Learn to Program, by Chris Pine A Place to Start for the Future Programmer I guess this all began back in 2002. I was thinking about teaching programming, and what a great language Ruby would be for learning how to program. Unfortunately, there wasn't much Ruby documentation geared for newbies at the time. And it wasn't very good. What saved me was that I made it really easy for people to contact me, and I always tried to help people when they got stuck. A couple of years later, it was getting pretty good. :-) So good, in fact, that I was ready to pronounce it finished, and move on to something else. It took me another year, but now I think it's really good, mostly because of the hundreds of brave souls who have helped me write it. What's here on this site is the original tutorial, more or less unchanged since 2004. Thoughts For Teachers There were a few guiding principles that I tried to stick to. Another principle I've kept in mind is to teach only one way to do something. About the Original Tutorial Acknowledgements
GoodPHPTutorials.com - 94 PHP Tutorials Tutorials HTML Tutorials Applying meaningful structure to content. HTML Beginner Tutorial: A step-by-step guide to HTML basics. If you’re completely new to web design, start here.HTML Intermediate Tutorial: Some HTML bits-and-bobs that might be useful to beginners and advanced HTMLers alike, including meta tags, definition lists, and sectioning.HTML Advanced Tutorial: Pushing HTML to its full standards-compliant, semantic potential, including accessible links, HTML5 forms, and embedded content. CSS Tutorials Presentation. CSS Beginner Tutorial: A step-by-step guide to CSS basics.
Comics of the week #100 Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today. So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Casual Friday Basic social networking The nervous designer Can you relate to these situations?
HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML This Version: Latest Published Version: Latest Editor's Draft: Previous Versions: Editor: This specification is available in the following formats: single page HTML , multipage HTML , web developer edition . This is Revision: 1.4938. Copyright © 2011 W3C ® ( MIT , ERCIM , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification, under a license that permits reuse of the specification text. This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. If you wish to make comments regarding this document in a manner that is tracked by the W3C, please submit them via using our public bug database . Implementors should be aware that this specification is not stable. This is a work in progress!
Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More Advertisement Coding or designing a page, it’s always nice to have some basic templates you can quickly modify or adapt to your needs. However, at least once you have to know, how to create this “universal” template. In this case tutorials prove to be an ultimate solution, particularly if you just want to get an idea how something works and where to start from. In this post we’ve covered over 200 Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML as well as ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials. You may want to take a look at our related posts Ajax AJAX Matters6 A comprehensive list (over 130) of tutorials on AJAX, JavaScript and other web development topics.Ajax RSS reader7 Use Ajax to build an RSS readerAJAX Tutorial8 Free w3schools AJAX TutorialBuilding a Pagination System with AJAX9 You know how to use AJAX to pull rows from a database, but do you know how to create an AJAX-based system to organize the records neatly into pages? CSS Techniques Lightboxes & GreyBoxes
How to Learn to Code for Free In days gone by, all you needed to make a website was a Geocities account and some basic knowledge of HTML. Maybe you’d throw in a bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) if you wanted to get fancy. Times have changed, though, and now people build websites using at least one advanced coding language. Programming is a noble pursuit, but if you want to build apps and services for the Web, you need to learn one of these popular languages. Unfortunately there's no lingua franca when it comes to coding, so beginners can find it difficult to choose their first language. Choosing a Language The first step in learning to code is selecting a language to code in. Front-end coding relates to the appearance of your website. Back-end coding focuses on the work that happens behind the scenes. If you’re interested in back-end Web development, I suggest taking a crack at the Ruby programming language. For aspiring front-end coders, I suggest JavaScript. Where to Start What’s Next
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JavaScript Kit- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials and over 400+ free JavaScripts! Web Graphic Design Trends in 2012 Design trends for this year are bold and aim to grab audience attention. The focus is still on aesthetics but functionality is also crucial. Web style is the procedure of preparing and developing a website. Textual content, pictures, electronic marketing and entertaining components are used by web developers to generate the website seen on the web technique. Web developers use markup terminology, such as HTML for framework and CSS for demonstration as well as JavaScript to add communication to create websites that can be study by web surfers. The graphics should get through to the web users and grab their attention. 1. Bright hues of red, pink and green are being used on the web instead of neutrals. 2. Custom fonts can be put together using CSS Typeset, Typetester, WhatTheFont and other tools. 3. To grab user attention, large sized photos and backgrounds are used. 4. Keeping the animation subtle is important as it should take away attention from the main subject of the webpage. 5. 6.