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Table of Contents:
Important Web Sites
Web Development Books
Advanced Web Programming Books
Content Management Systems
Free Blogs
Blog Applications
Web Hosting
Free Web Hosting
Storage
FTP clients
Text Editors
Fonts
Graphics Programs
HTML Specification 4.01 - the complete language specification - contains some CSS guidelines.
CSS Specification 2 - The complete manual and how-to guide for Cascading Style Sheets.
HTML Writers Guild - they have lot's of tutorials.
Wolrd Wide Web Consortium - the main resource for the World Wide Web.
With books, get the most recent editions as the technology driving the web is constantly changing.
HTML and XHTML the Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano
CSS Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day Laura Lemay, et al
CGI Programming with PERL by Scott Guelich - a bit dated, but still valuable. Combine it with an up-to-date HTML book.
Core PHP Programming by Leon Atkinson - you'll need this book if you want to learn how to customize a Content Management System.
php-Nuke - early open source CMS. Free. Lot's of add-ons.
post-Nuke - a php-Nuke derivative.
Dragonfly - another php-Nuke derivitive with emphesis on security and speed. Most likely will supercede Drupal for future KAG domain (according to Twisty).
php-website Freeware CMS, in use by the U.S.S Nokomis.
Mediawiki - also free, used by Wikipedia, Memory Alpha, and KAG's Cold Death Quadrant.
Drupal - another CMS, not related to php-Nuke...I've mucked around wit it some; it's not a favorite of mine.
Geek Log - another CMS, not related to php-Nuke. No opinion.
Live Journal - lot's of folks in Fandom are on this system.
Blogger, also known as blogspot. Allows up to ten co-bloggers.
tribe community site with blogging built in.
myspace community site with blogging built in.
word press good blogging tool, and it is freeware.
movable type - considered the standard by bloggers. Pricey, but there is a free option.
Find My Hosting can be used to compare web hosting providers for price and features. If you plan on using a CMS, be sure the hosting provider you select includes mySQL databases as well as PERL and PHP language support.
Never having used any of these options, I have no recommendation as to which one to try out.
Geocities
Freeservers
Tripod
Anglefire
Brinkster
youtube, for storing video clips. They provide code to plug into your blog or website for your videos.
WinFTP - pricey.
WS FTP - pricey.
winSCP - use this utility when you need a secure file transport utility.
FileZilla - open source, top of the line FTP utility, and it is free.
Komodo Edit - excellent text editor and free, best of both worlds.
Win Edit - excellent text editor for HTML and otehr programming languages. A touch pricey.
Text Pad - good general purpose text editor similar to Win Edit. Less pricey than WinEdit.
Front Page Microsoft product. Pricey.
Extended Klingon Dagger font
Remember, when using non-standard fonts, include a URL where they can be downloaded from.
In fact, this site is best viewed with the Klingon Dagger Font.
PovRay - Persistance of Vision Ray tracing - great for generating 3D images, including text. Very powerful graphic design tool. Steep learning curve.
Paint Shop Pro - commercial application from Coral. Very good tool for editing/modifying images, as well as simple graphic design.
gimp - open source graphics design application first developed for Linux, now available for Windows. Very powerful, and has a steep learning curve.
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