Web technology and web design tutorials

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Draft

Most tutorials are just drafts. I will take some time before I will be done with these - Daniel K. Schneider october 2009.

Introduction

This entry indexes various web technology and web design tutorials. Roughly, the learning goals are the following

Web technology level 1 - Learning goals

1. Use simple Web 2.0 services like Webtops
2. Configure a web 2.0 application, e.g. a Ning social network
3. Import widgets and understand how content syndication works
4. Learn how the Internet works and about some major Web protocols
5. Design a web page with (X)HTML and CSS and upload it to a server
6. Evaluate and use web page styles
7. Edit and code simple JavaScript programs
8. Know how to make use of JavaScript libraries
9. Create and validate an XML file (learn how to read and use DTDs and XML Schemas)

web technology level 2 - learning goals:

1. Learn web design and usability principles
2. Design XML grammars
3. Write XSLT stylesheets for text or database centered XML applications
4. Access a web server, code, test and run a very simple server-side program
5. Design a simple SQL database
6. Be able to use some PHP/MySQL generators
7. Install and configure LAMP-based web applications

web design - learning goals:

1. Implement a user-centered agile design practice
2. Use prototyping tools like pencil and paper and wireframing tools
3. Identify major usability issues
4. Conduct simple usability tests
5. Understand requirements for accessibility

List of (future) tutorials

Note: The list below is really provisional, got some renaming and (of course) work to do.

Getting started

I suggest to start creating web sites with online services. This way you will be aware of what you can do without learning to code or install anything. In addition, you will implicitly become aware some issues and concepts that will be introduced later.

• Creating websites with online services
• Using web widgets
• Browser extension
• Search engine (needs some rewriting)

Internet principles

• Internet tutorial (not done yet, see Internet in the meantime)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (not done yet)
• URLs, URNs and URIs (short definition of these standards)

Managing identities on the Internet and Authentication

• single sign-on
• OpenID
• LDAP

HTML

• Basic tools for web developement (not done, see Web authoring system for a list of tools.
• HTML, XHTML and HTML5 for some background information
• HTML and XHTML elements and attributes, an introductory (X)HTML elements tutorial. Explains some markup principles and introduces the most important elements.
• HTML and XHTML validation and repair
• HTML5

CSS

• CSS and CSS links (for some background infos)
• CSS tutorial
• CSS positioning tutorial
• CSS for XML tutorial
• Computer colors tutorial

JavaScript

• Javascript tutorial - basics
• DHTML
• HTML forms tutorial (using JS a lot)
• ECMAScript data types
• AJAX

XML tutorials

• XML
• Editing XML tutorial
• DTD tutorial
• XSLT Tutorial - Basics
• XPath tutorial - basics
• XQuery tutorial - basics
• PHP - MySQL - XML tutorial - basics

Web applications

• WAMP
• SQL and MySQL tutorial

Design and usability

• Usability, cognitive ergonomics and Human-computer interaction
• Web usability
• web accessibility
• User interaction and user interface design
• web wireframe

Other EduTech Wiki entries of interest

Overviews

• ECMAScript
• HTML
• Scripting language
• PHP

Links pages

... to help you find good web sites

• Character encoding
• Clipart
• CSS links
• HTML links
• JavaScript links
• PHP links
• Portalware
• WAMP
• Web design links

Other tutorials

• Flash tutorials (lots)
• Screen capture tutorial

Installation tips

See the category installation tips