Resources

Lots of resources related to internet applications can be found on the internet. This is a collection of some useful resources.

Tutorials There is a lot of online instruction on the different languages covered in this course. Some useful sites are listed here.

W3Schools http://www.w3schools.com/ Simple tutorials on all languages covered in the course.

Web Education Community Group Wiki http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page HTML, CSS and JavaScript resources from the W3C.

PHP Manual at php.net http://www.php.net/manual/en/ Much more complete than the tutorial at W3Schools.

Mozilla JavaScript Guides JavaScript reference, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference

JavaScript guide, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide

Can I use... http://caniuse.com/ Which browsers support which parts of the HTML, CSS and JavaScript specicifiactions.

Browser Usage Statistics It is good to know market shares of different browser versions when deciding which browser should be able to display your site. Be aware that such shares vary a lot depending on region and user category. Here are some sites for browser usage statistics.

* StatCounter, http://gs.statcounter.com/
* W3Schools, http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Specifications Frameworks and APIs jQuery http://jquery.com/ JavaScript API that provides a simpler syntax than plain JavaScript for reading and manipulating HTML elements.

Knockout http://knockoutjs.com/ JavaScript framework that manages model-view separation using the MVVM architectural pattern. Such a framewortk is required by pages that do not reload HTML with hardcoded values but instead update values in the current page.

Flight http://flightphp.com/ Very small PHP framework that manages some of the tasks common for web projects, such as routing, caching and composite views. Flight also to some extent helps give the application a MVC structure.

Programs jsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/ Online editor where you can testrun HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

JSLint http://jslint.com/ Online tool for testing JavaScript code quality.

Web Development Browser Plugins
* Firebug, http://www.getfirebug.com/ Firebug enables inspecting, modifying and debugging HTML, CSS, JavaScript, network activity and more.
* Web Developer, http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Web developer can display and change lots of properties of a displayed web page, for example cookies, forms, images and window size. It can also validate HTML and CSS.
* Inspect Element Many browsers has a inspect element option when right-clicking on a web page, which provides a useful interface to the chosen element of the current page.
WAMP/MAMP/LAMP and so on easyPHP

Databases PHPmyadmin

Web Servers https://httpd.apache.org/ The Apache HTTP server is the most used web server. All examples will be given using this server.http://nginx.org/ The nginx server has gained a lot of popularity recently.

Designs Free design templates is a good source of inspiration even if you do not find any appropriate to use.

* Open Source Web Design, http://www.oswd.org/
* Open Web Design, http://www.openwebdesign.org/
Images and Icons Some sites with free images and icons.

* freeimages, http://www.freeimages.com/
* Public Domain Pictures, http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
* Pixabay, http://pixabay.com/
* Free Icons Web, http://www.freeiconsweb.com/
* Free Icons Download, http://freeiconsdownload.com/index.html