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Beginner's Walk - Web Development

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Web development beginner tutorials. A compilation of web development tutorials that serve as a beginner's walk to web development

We want to create the definitive Beginner's Walk for Web Development and we need your help in putting together the articles.

This Table of Contents is editable by all Silver members and above. What we want you to do is replace the entries in the Table of Contents below with links to articles that represent the entries.

Find an article that matches an entry and replace the entry with a link to the article, updating the entry's text with the title of the article, and making the entry a hyperlink to the article. If you can't find an article then write one! Find a topic that suits you, author an article, and once it's approved by our members then link to it from here. Full circles represent article titles, open circles represent article topics.

This is not a wiki in the traditional sense. It's an experiment we hope you enjoy. If you have any questions or comments feel free to send us an email at submit@codeproject.com.

HTML – Basics Required For Making Web Sites

  • HTML For Beginners By Nongjian Zhou
    • Basic tags and Page Structure
    • Elements
    • Attributes
    • Paragraph, Divs, Tables
    • Design, Formatting Tags – Style Declaration (Basic CSS)
    • Div Page Design – Why using tables for layout is bad
    • Protocols – HTTP, Port Numbers, SSL (HTTPS)
    • URL-encode (for specifying addresses in hyperlinks) / HTML Encode (for representing entities in HTML)
    • What not to use
    • Designing for different browsers / Cross Browser Compatibility / Quirks vs Standards Mode
    • XHTML schema, and how to target it

CSS

  • CSS For Beginners By Nongjian Zhou
    • Syntax
    • Text Properties
    • Borders, Margins, Padding - Differences in how these are rendered in different browsers
    • Positioning
    • Cross Browser Issues, CSS 2.1

JavaScript

ASP.NET

PHP

  • General Overview
    • Basic Syntax
    • Using Operators, Functions, Statements, Namespaces, Exceptions, etc.
    • GET vs POST
  • Basics
    • Page Creation
    • Inserting PHP Script
    • Files — create, read/write, open, delete, etc.
  • Objects
    • Overview
    • Constructors and Destructors
    • Class Definitions
    • Object Iteration
    Function Reference
  • APC
  • Error Handling
  • Database Extensions
  • Directory
  • Filesystem
  • FTP
  • HTTP
  • libxml
  • XML Parser
  • Session Handling
  • Web Services
    • SCA
    • SOAP
    • XML
    • RPC
    Libraries
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • LDAP servers

Ajax

Security

  • Security – Cross Site Scripting
  • Security – SQL Injection by Colin Angus Mackay
  • Security – HTML Injection
  • Security – Spoofing and Phishing
  • Security – Handling Passwords and Logins
  • Security – General Overview – all possible threats

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