These resources are not supplied by the professor. See also the materials which the professor
supplies to help you.
The resources are organized in three major sections:
- 1. Software Resources
- 2. Readings & Videos
- 3. Websites About Selected Topics
At the end is information about this webpage.
- Dave Ragget's HTML Tidy
-
DC-dot Dublin Core metadata editor from
UKOLN
- W3C HTML Validator
-
W3C CSS Validator
-
Accessibility Valet
-
-
APEx homepage (by E.
W. Grundke)
-
An interactive program that acts as an interactive TCP client or
server.
-
-
Poster Firefox plugin by Alex Milowski
-
To manually create and inspect HTTP messages.
-
-
HttpFox HTTP analyzer
addon for the Firefox browser by Martin Theimer
-
To monitor and analyse incoming and outgoing (from browser to server
and vice versa) HTTP messages.
-
-
Operator add-on
for the Firefox browser by Michael Kaply
-
To display semantic information encoded in microformats in webpages.
Not in any particular order:
- XRAY by Westciv
- A favelet that shows details of the box model for all visible
elements on a webpage
- Web Developer add-on for Firefox browser by Chris
Pederick
- puts many very useful tools into the browser
- Firebug add-on for Firefox browser by Joe Hewitt, Justin
Dolske, and robcee
- a debugger
See Also
- Safari Tech Books
- On-line references
-
- Missing Articles
- might be available in archive form from wayback machine at Internet Archive.
- About Metcalfe's Law
- Related to: WWW Goals Lecture
- Metcalfe's Law by Charles Boyd for
Management 487 at Southwest Missouri State University
[copy from archive.org]
- Metcalfe's Law in Reverse by
Jakob Nielsen
in alertbox (25 July 1999)
- Hypertext Background
- Douglas Engelbart's 1968 Demonstration of Augment
- about 75 minutes in total
-
-
- Brief review entitled: A Difficult, Unforgettable Idea
by Karen A.
Frenkel in March 2009 issue of CACM
- Includes important additional resources
- Hyperland
- self-described
fantasy documentary
about hypertext and
related technologies
- approx. 50 min long
- BBC
video from 1990 starring Douglas Adams (of HHGTTG fame)
and Tom Baker
- The Machine is Us/ing Us
- An overview of some of the issues, tools, and opportunities of
hypertext as instantiated by the WWW with a
heavy Web 2.0 flavour.
- approx. 5 min long
- by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University
- Websites that have particular hypertext-ual interest
-
- About HTML and CSS Rendering Modes
- Related to: HTML Basics & CSS lectures
-
- Eric Meyer on
CSS:Picking a Rendering
Mode
- Videos of Douglas Crockford teaching JavaScript
-
- Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript expert working for Yahoo!.
- Videos of some of his highly informative and practical lectures
are at <URL:http://www.metafilter.com/61049/Douglas-Crockford-Teaches-JavaScript>.
- The three parts of Theory of the DOM are especially recommended for those with
little familiarity with JavaScript
- About Google Technology
- Related to: Search Engine lecture
-
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
- by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
- an archived copy
- Security
- Cybercrime 2.0
by Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, & Panayiotis Mavrommatis
in Communications of the ACM
(Vol.52, No.4, pp.42–47)
- Security in the browser
by Thomas Wadlow and Vlad Gorelik
in Communications of the ACM
(Vol.52, No.5, pp.40–45)
See Also:
- From Linux Magazine (Sept. 2002)
-
- About Metadata and the Future of the WWW
- Related to: metadata and Semantic Web lectures
-
- Sidebar: About
Metadata …
- Four sub-topics:
- See also:
- (Sidebar about
Metadata …
ends here)
-
- 1. The Semantic Web
-
- The Semantic Web
- by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila in Scientific American magazine for May 2001 (volume 284,
number 5), pages 34 – 43
-
- Search on the Semantic Web
- by Li Ding et al. in
IEEE Computer magazine for October 2005
(volume 38, number 10), pages 62 – 69
- <DOI:10.1109/MC.2005.350>
-
- The Semantic Web in Action
- by Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric
Neumann, and Susie Stephens in Scientific
American magazine for December 2007 (volume 297,
number 6), pages 90 – 97
- See also Sidebar: Making The Semantic Web
Tick (page 95)
-
- Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- by Ian Horrocks in
Dec. 2008 issue of
CACM
- See also
Children's magic won't deliver the Semantic Web (a
letter to the editor and response which include some clarification)
- 2. Resource Description Framework (RDF)
-
- RDF: The Resource
Description Framework
- by Bob Ducharme in Dr. Dobb's Journal
magazine for April 2005, pages
38 – 41
- 3. Tagging
-
- Excerpt from Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the
Social Web by Gene Smith
- Pages 70 and 71: how LibraryThing combines tags
-
- 4. Basic metadata
-
- Metadata for the masses: what is it, how can it help me, and
how can I use it?
- by Paul Miller
- (local copy of Miller article)
-
- Building a Metadata-Based Website
- by Brett Lider and Anca Mosoiu at Boxes and Arrows website (21
Apr. 2003)
- (no local copy available)
- About Filtering Proxies
- Related to: proxy lecture
-
- Sidebar: About Filtering Proxies
- See also:
- (Sidebar about Filtering proxies ends here)
-
- PICS: Internet Access Controls Without
Censorship
- by Paul Resnick and James Miller
- (original copy of article in ACM Digital Library)
- About Hit Counters
- Related to: CGI
lecture
-
- Hit Counters: How they work, or don't work
- by David K. Every
- (local copy of article by Every)
- About Processing Forms
- Related to: CGI
and security lectures
-
- Processing Web Forms Carefully
- by Randal Schwartz in Linux Magazine (Sept.
2002)
- About Accessibility Issues
- Bridging the gap: between accessibility and
usability
- by Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish in interactions for November+December 2003
(volume 10, number 6), pages 36 – 51
- Big, Stark & Chunky
- by Joe Clark in A List Apart
for 11 January 2005 (issue #191)
- Ajax
-
- Sidebar: Ajax tutorials etc.
- are listed below in the website section
- (Sidebar about Ajax tutorials etc. ends here)
-
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by
Jesse James Garrett (18 Feb.
2005)
-
Very Dynamic Web Interfaces by Drew McLellan (09
Feb. 2005)
-
The Ajaxian blog
-
- HTTP: The Definitive Guide
- joes-hardware.com
- Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln D. Stein
- archive of NPP homepage (at archive.org),
- NPP errata list
- The XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook: Building Better
Sites and Applications by Ian Graham
- XHTML WDS website
- The XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next
Generation of HTML by Ian Graham
- XHTML L&DS website
- Perl: The Programmer's Companion by Nigel Chapman
- P:TPC website
-
- Slides from Fran Nowakowski's presentation about Academic
Integrity
- 30 September 2008
- Ms. Nowakowski is Dal's Information Literacy Co-ordinator. These slides
are © copyright by her.
- LearningCentre directory
- Copies of examples and notes by Teaching Assistants and Learning
Centre personnel
-
- List of reference books
- (in a separate HTML document)
- Safari Tech Books Online
(a part of the Dal FCS E-book collection)
- The collection changes over time but it probably includes books
about WWW
programming right now
- Programming the Perl DBI: Database Programming
with Perl (Chapter 4: Programming the DBI) by Alligator Descartes & Tim Bunce
- A sample chapter from O'Reilly and Associates, publishers
- A list apart magazine
(ALA)
- Articles about advanced and basic webpage and website design
- Two general articles are:
- The ALA Primer: A Guide For New Readers
by Erin Lynch
- The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For
Beginners
by Erin Lynch &
ALA Staff
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