Useful websites

Web browsers

There are many different web browsers to choose from, so you should make sure to test your website's design on as many browsers as possible.

• Camino (Mac OS only)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows only)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Opera

Web tutorials

Learning to write HTML need not be too hard. Some excellent tutorials exist on this and many other web-related subjects.

• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Website authoring tools

Not keen to learn HTML? Then one of these website authoring tools might be the program for you.

• NotePad++
• Eclipse
• The SeaMonkey

Web developer reference

For extremely detailed information on the technical side of web development, these reference documents contain just about all there is to know.

• MSDN DHTML reference
• MySQL documentation
• PHP manual
• RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
• W3C CSS 2 specification
• W3C DOM level 2 core specification
• W3C DOM level 2 HTML specification
• W3C HTML 4.01 specification
• W3C XHTML™ 1.0 specification
• W3C XHTML™ 1.1 specification

Website testing tools

If your website is written in valid HTML and CSS it is more likely to work correctly in all web browsers and it is easier to track down errors that might be causing problems in some browsers. To test your website's validity you can use these automated tools.

• HTML Validator
• CSS Validator