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Website Development BookmarksMy Website Content Management System — PmWikiPmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Even though my website isn't open for public contributions, I use PmWiki so I can easily add and update content no matter where I am or which computer I'm using. I also use PmWiki because it stores the website contents in regular files rather than a relational database; this made it much easier when I had to transfer from one website hosting provider to another. Other Website Content Management Systems (CMS)
HTML / CSSI periodically check random pages from my websites using these official W3C validation services, to make sure my websites adhere to Markup and CSS standards: Other useful online validators:
There are many websites providing HTML and CSS reference documentation; my favorite one is blooberry.com: The definitive, though sometimes obtuse, documentation for HTML and CSS is at w3.org: To display characters from other languages, mathematical symbols, and various other non-alphanumeric stuff, you can use HTML "named character references": Most fonts provide even more characters than are supported by HTML's "named character references"; you can reference those using HTML "numeric character references":
Some characters are not directly supported within URLs (e.g. a space), you can get around that by using URL encoding: Color: Here are a few websites dedicated to tips, techniques, and best practices for website design:
Here are webpages with specific information related to website design I found useful at one time or another:
PHPAccording to php.net, PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Documentation Third-Party PHP Libraries
Data Visualization for Web Designers
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Apache Web ServerOptimizing Website Performance
Designing for the iPhone
A List Apart
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