This resource page collects information and links useful for the second course in Web Design and Programming. It contains more advanced material. You may also find the WDP-I Resource page informative.

Web Server

• Web Server Related Info
• Installing Apache 2 and PHP (mod_php) on Linux
• Installing Apache 2 on Unix and Linux
• Installing Apache 2 and PHP on Unix and Linux
• Installing Apache 2, PHP and MySQL on Windows XP
• Installing Apache 2, PHP and SQLite and more on Windows XP
• Installing Apache 2, PHP and MySQL on MAC OS X
• Comparing Web Servers
• IANA Protocol Names and Numbers
• Apache Server, and Apache Server 2.0 Documentation, Apache Server 1.3 Documentation
• Apache virtual hosts
• Apache virtual hosts configuration examples
• Apache FAQ, in case you run into a problem.
• HTTP Compression support mod_deflate for Apache 2.0
• HTTP Compression for better performance Web Compression Information Page
• Using .htaccess Files with Apache

Information Architecture and Design

• Site Usability Presentation Audio.
• Defining Information Architecture
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards
• Fitts' Law - At a glance
• Information Architecture Tutorial

Flash

• Adobe Flash CS3
• Flash CS3 Professional Free Trial
• Flash CS3 Getting Started
• Using Flash CS3
• Adobe CS3 Documentation
• Micromedia Flash 8 (old version being replaced by Adobe Flash CS3
• Flash Player 9
• Design with Flash CS3

Design Examples/Inspiration

• UNIQLO (Flash)
• Monoface (Flash)
• Heffernan Icons (Flash Site)
• More flash examples: http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid, http://www.charterone.com/pf/onlinebanking/safe_olb_login.aspx, http://www.etsy.com/, http://www.helio.com, http://www.jbltour.com/, http://www.nationwide.com/nw/nrri/index.htm, http://www.nike.com, www.tazo.com, www.curatingthecity.org, www.havaianas.com, www.tokyoplastic.com, amaztype.tha.jp, Moma Exhibitions

Javascript and Flash ActionScript

• Working with AS3 in Flash CS3
• Flash CS3 (FLEX 3) Components visual explorer.
• A Simple AS3 Tutorial
• AS3 Tutorials at Flash and Math.
• Introduction to Programming within Flash MX 2004
• All about ActionScripts
• Flash Built-in Objects
• Resources for learning ActionScript
• ActionScript Dictionary the ActionScript manual.
• Javascript Explained at Wikipedia.
• ECMAScript 4 Netscape Proposal adding class, among other things, to the languge.
• Video turorial: Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 by a number of different authors.
• Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3, a tutorial.
• Migrating from AS2 to AS3
• AS 3 and Flash CS3 - Tutorials
• Get started with ActionScript 3.0
• Understanding ActionScript 3.0 and Flash CS3
• An introduction to ActionScript 3.0 Event Handing
• ActionScript Technology Center at Adobe.
• Flash AS3 Language Reference
• Migrating a Flash project from Flash 8 ActionScript 2.0 to Flash 9 (CS3) ActionScript 3.0
• ActionScript 3.0 to Server Side Communication

Adobe Flex

• Getting Started with Adobe Flex 3
• Download the Free Open Source Flex 3 SDK
• Flex SDK Installation Guide
• Flex Language Reference
• Flex Documentation and Developer Resources

Media and Language

• MIME Overview
• Registered MIME Types: lists of registered media types List of MIME types
• Audio and Video
• MIME RFCs
• IANA Registered Media Types
• ISO 639 and IETF 1766 Stardard Language Codes

HTTP

• HTTP main page at W3C
• HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616 (June 1999)
• HTTP/1.1 Overview of new HTTP/1.1 functionality and changes from HTTP/1.0
• HTTP/1.1 and Apache
• HTTP/1.1 Header Field Definitions
• HTTP/1.1 Method Definitions
• HTTP Error Codes
• Understanding Cache Control
• Excellent Caching Tutorial at mnot.net
• Useful Cacheability Engine to test Cacheability of any page.
• HTTP Basic and Digest Access Authentication: RFC2617
• HTTP Basic and Digest Access Authentication: An Introduction
• Transparent Content Negotiation
• HTTP Compression is done via HTTP 1.1 Content Encoding and Accept-Encoding headers
• HTTP/1.1 Protocol Specification (RFC 2616)

Search Engines

• Search Engine Friendly Pages and the robot exclusion standard
• Adding search to your site
• Search engine for your Web site: free from Excite
• PHP-based search engine for small to medium Web sites: free from DGS Software
• PerlFect Search, free site index and search (UNIX/Windows).
• Search Engine Resources

SQL and Relational Databases

• What is a Database?
• Intro to Relational Database Design.
• Database Normalization.
• Introduction to SQL
• SQL Tutorial.
• MySQL Introduction.
• PostgreSQL an free advanced database system from UC Berkeley.
• A Tutorial on Database Concepts, SQL using MySQL
• MySQL central for free software download and official MySQL info.
• MySQL Online Documentation with user comments.
• MySQL Documentation links to online and downloadable documentation.
• MySQL Reference
• MySQL Column Types
• MySQL Official Site
• MySQL Complete Documentation
• Examples of common querie in MySQL documentation.
• Transaction Safty in MySQL and transaction syntax and
• Tutorial in MySQL documentation
• Intro MySQL and JDBC
• Linux World, Setting Up a MySQL Based Website - Part I, (use Perl)
• MySQL 5.0
• MySQL Manual
• SQLite Introduction
• SQLite Official Site

PHP

• PHP 101, A very nice introduction to PHP for beginners.
• PHP Homepage for download and lots of info.
• Installig PHP on Apache 2
• PHP Configuration (php.ini) File
• PHP Documentation in English This is helpful even for beginners.
• PHP Scripts for various useful purposes.
• PEAR reusable packages for PHP development. Why Use PEAR.
• PEAR Manual and Tutorials.
• Handling Passwords Safely in PHP.
• PHP/MySQL Tutorial including installation instructions.
• Website Database Basics using PHP and MySQL.
• Improved PHP support for accessing MySQL (the MySQLi extension)
• PHP and PostgreSQL and PHP functions to access a PostgreSQL database
• PHP with Embedded SQLite
• Web Database Basics,(Uses Coldfusion)
• phpMyAdmin is for handling the adminstration of MySQL over the web.
• Introduction PHP and MySQL
• PHP improved support for MySQL reference.
• PHP Manual
• Look up a PHP Function:
    
  If the function contains an underscore, replace it by a hyphen, for example mysql-query.
• PHP Debugging
• PHP Function Index lists all PHP functions.
• Output Buffering and Compression PHP uses HTTP 1.1 features to make your website more efficient.
• PEAR Tutorials, PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. It is "a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components."
• PHP Support for Dynamic Image Manipulation
• Controlling PHP Initialization

PHP and Graphics

• PHP Graphics and Image functions
• Image to Foul Automated Web Access
• PHP and Graphics book.
• Automatic Watermarking of Images

Tools

• There are several source code search engines that you can use to obtain publicly available programs, including Google Code Search, Koders, and Krugle for developers.
• A PHP Template Engine for separating HTML and PHP codes
• PHP-MySQL based User Management
• PHP-MySQL based shopping carts
• User Management Package-- Perl scripts providing Web-based userid and password management for Apache sites and more.