Web technology and web design tutorials

Most tutorials are just drafts. I will take some time before I will be done with these - Daniel K. Schneider october 2009. That holds still true as of Feb 2011. Some technical information has been added. In the next few month I'll add conceptual stuff related to design and usability.

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 a blog or a 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. Also, some entries are less than incomplete ...

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 (see also SVG)
• HTML5 audio and video
• WebVTT

HTML forms

• HTML forms tutorial

SVG

• Static SVG tutorial
• Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial
• SVG/SMIL animation tutorial

CSS

• CSS and CSS links (for some background infos)
• CSS tutorial
• CSS text styling tutorial
• CSS color and background tutorial
• CSS media and alternative style sheets tutorial
• CSS box model tutorial
• CSS float tutorial
• CSS positioning tutorial
• CSS for XML tutorial
• Analyzing CSS tutorial
• CSS compatibility
• CSS transforms and animations tutorial

JavaScript

• Javascript tutorial - basics
• DHTML
• HTML forms tutorial (using JS a lot)
• ECMAScript data types
• AJAX
• HTML5 video and JavaScript

XML tutorials

• XML
• XML principles
• Tour de XML
• Editing XML tutorial
• DTD tutorial
• XSLT Tutorial - Basics
• XSLT to generate SVG tutorial
• XPath tutorial - basics
• XSLT for compound documents tutorial
• XQuery tutorial - basics
• PHP - MySQL - XML tutorial - basics

PhP tutorials

• PHP tutorial - basics
• PHP-MySQL tutorial -basics

Web applications

• WAMP
• SQL and MySQL tutorial
• PHP-MySQL tutorial -basics
• BPMN 1.2 tutorial

Design and usability

• Usability, cognitive ergonomics and Human-computer interaction
• Web usability
• web accessibility
• Font readability
• User interaction and user interface design
• Web prototyping software
• 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