CIT 336 - Web Development Index Page

Class Resources:

• Course Evaluation
• Current Syllabus - Spring 2010
• Student Web Site Index
• PHP Resources
• Building Accessible Web Sites - Online Text
• Dive Into Accessibility - PDF Text
• Setting up Filezilla (FTP client) to work with a Remote Hosted Site
• Setting up a new NetBeans project
• Podcasts and Video Media
• Browser Bookmarks

Assignments and Assignment Helps

• Presentations Dates
• Business Site Client Agreement (PDF)
• Business Site Client Worksheet (PDF)
• Business Site Criteria
• Business Site Development Teams
• Business Site Evaluation Form
• Business Site Evaluation Scores
• Business Team Member Evaluations
• Web Site Planning Worksheet — Word Format | PDF Format
• Midterm Exam Study Guide
• Personal Web Site Criteria
• Personal Web Site Evaluation Feedback
• Personal Web Site Evaluation Form
• Setup a MySql database and create a connection object
• Setting up Dreamweaver to work with remote host
• Setting up a hosting account
• Validation - JavaScript bundle
• XHTML Reference
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RefCardz Downloadables

All cards provided below identified as RefCardz are from RefCardz.com - membership is free!

• PHP — RefCardz.com
• MySQL — RefCardz.com
• Ajax — RefCardz.com
• Core HTML — RefCardz.com
• Core CSS 1 — RefCardz.com
• Core CSS 2 — RefCardz.com
• Core CSS 3 — RefCardz.com
• Findability Cheatsheet — Aaron Walters

PowerPoint Presentations

• Web Standards
• Web Site Planning
• Copyright Essentials
• Privacy Essentials
• Terms of Use Essentials
• Database Basics
• Search Engine Optimization 101 — Kelly Horner
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Four Rules of Web Design 

1. Know Your Audience - Usage Centered vs.Traditional Web Design
2. Less Is More - Web Design: Less is More| Ideologies of Web Design
3. Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should - Do´s and Don´ts | Things to consider
4. People Spend Most of Their Time on Other Sites - The need for web design standards
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Web Standards

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - The main body for web development standards
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - Standardizes Encoding Types
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Government Agency that promotes standardization
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Promotes hardware and interface stanadards
• Web Standards Project - Grassroots coalition of developers
• The Web Standards Group - For web designers and developers interested in standards
• The Internet Society (ISOC) - A professional organization promoting international standardization
• Western Civilisation - Australian site that promotes web standards
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Accessibility Guides and Tools

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG)
• Section 508 Guidelines Home Page
• Section 508 Standards Overview
• Section 508 Web Development Standards
• Web Xact - Accessibility Checker from Watchfire.com
• Accessibility Validation Tool - www.contentquality.com
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Building XHTML Documents 

• CIT 230 Building Essential Links
• XML Tutorial @ W3Schools.com
• CSS2 References and Browser Support @ W3Schools.com
• CSS Reference @ Sitepoint.com
• 10 Useful CSS Tricks
• XHTML DOM (Document Object Model)
• Special Character Codes
• ASCII Codes @ ASCII Table.com
• Fake Latin Text - Useful for mockups
• Browser Shots - Images of how your page would look in different Browsers
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Tools

• Favicon maker - Create your own favicon at Chami.com
• Http Request Variables - A list by name and value returned
• Photoshop Express - Free online photoshop tool and 2GB storage space
• Webopedia - Online Terms Dictionary
• Form Validation - JavaScript Files
• Net Robots - Telling robots, spiders and crawlers what not to do on your site
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Business and E-commerce Issues

• 37 Internet Marketing Techniques @ ecnow.com
• Internet Marketing Strategy Articles & Resources @ about.com
• Website Promotion Tutorial - Promotion Guide.com
• Search Engine Optimisation - Promotion Guide.com
• Create a Landing Page that Sells! - Article by Sandra Niehaus and Lance Loveday
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Legal Issues

• Be Right with Copyright © Blaine P. Robertson
• Copyright Legal Issues
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