Career Connections Recomended Links
I really had a great time talking with you all today… thanks for your interest in IT and internet technologies. Below is a brief compilation of links that might be of interest to those interested in web design, web development, and other related technologies.
The World Wide Web Consortium develops web standards such as HTML. CSS, XHTML, and more. Their main site can be found at http://www.w3.org/ with more specific links to html and css at http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss - this link – and site – are particularly useful as information on usage, several tutorials, best practices, and tones of working examles are presented. I also like the section on AJAX.
WordPress is an open source blogging platform released under the GNU/GPL v 3. This means that you can download the source code, learn about it and modify it and re-distribute it as needed. It is a great application to learn about html, css, and php because it has well structured code and is well documented. There is also a strong international community to offer support through forums, IRC (#wordpress on freenode), and more. Although WordPress was designed as a blogging platform, the many modules and customizations available can make it a light-weight content management system.
Drupal is another excellent open source platform to learn the nuansces of HTML, CSS, and PHP. Drupal allows for the design of rather complex web applications though a solid code base, extensive module availability, strong community through forums and IRC (#drupal and #drupal-support on freenode), and a powerful API. The Drupal CMS is used by the White House, British MTV, Sony, and many more.
The best way to learn is to explore and have fun.
