ASP www.4guysfromrolla.com Hands down the best Web site when it comes to ASP resources. Developed and maintained by Scott Mitchell, this Web site features everything from tutorials, sample scripts, articles, and so on. www.asp101.com A great resource for learning simple ASP. This site features sample scripts for everything including calendars, shopping carts, guest books, and the like. They're even migrating their site to serve the ASP.NET community. msdn.microsoft.com/asp Excellent Web resource for everything having to do with Web development, including ASP. This site features news, articles, headlines, tutorials, and resources on the topic. Because ASP is a Microsoft technology, this is probably your best resource site. www.15seconds.com Heavily toting Microsoft technologies, this site is a great reference for technologies, platforms, and languages such as Web Services, .NET, IIS, Data Access, Component Building, ADSI, ISAPI, Site Server, Scripting, and XML. www.w3schools.com A great online resource for learning anything about Web development. It offers great tutorials on various Web development topics, including ASP. www.aspalliance.com A good reference for the ASP developer featuring articles, product recommendations, tutorials, and so on. www.asptoday.com Another good reference for the ASP developer featuring articles, product recommendations, tutorials, and the like. ASP.NET www.gotdotnet.com A great resource site providing information and links to various .NET topics, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, .NET Framework, the CLR, and the various languages built for the .NET environment. www.aspnextgen.com Also known as dotnetjunkies, this Web site features tons of software downloads, resources, links, samples, and articles on .NET topics. www.aspalliance.com/das/web.config.aspx Ever wonder what all of those tags do in the web.config file? Read this article. www.asp.net Microsoft's official ASP.NET Web site. If you're looking for good articles, tutorials, and free controls, this is your best bet. www.123aspx.com A great resource site providing information and links to various .NET topics including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, .NET Framework, the CLR, and the various languages built for the .NET environment. msdn.microsoft.com/net/aspnet If you're into marketing hype and tech jargon, this is the site for you. If you want tutorials and code samples, visit www.asp.net. This site features everything you sort of wanted to know but didn't quite understand. www.411asp.net A good portal site to everything having to do with .NET, including ASP.NET. ColdFusion www.houseoffusion.com A simple Web site devoted to ColdFusion. Includes articles and links to other ColdFusion resources. www.forta.com/cf Ben Forta, author of some of the most popular ColdFusion books, delivers his own Web site devoted to ColdFusion. www.cfvault.com A good reference for ColdFusion that contains news, articles, and links on the subject. www.defusion.com Another good reference for ColdFusion that contains news, articles, and links on the subject. www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion The official Web site for ColdFusion MX. Find everything here from sample applications, tech notes, and so on. Database www.microsoft.com/sql Official Web site for Microsoft's SQL Server. www.microsoft.com/office/access Official Web site for Microsoft's Access database. www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database Official Web site for Oracle's line of database products. www.mysql.com Official Web site for MySQL. www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2 Official Web site for IBM's DB2. Dreamweaver MX www.massimocorner.com Massimo Foti's Web site featuring tons of extensions for Dreamweaver, UltraDev, and MX. www.ultradevextensions.com Wayne Lambright's Dreamweaver and UltraDev tutorials and portals site for Dreamweaver and UltraDev users. www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/technotes.html Complete tech notes for all current Dreamweaver MX issues. www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver Official Web site for Dreamweaver MX. HTML www.htmlgoodies.com From the author of HTML Goodies comes the popular htmlgoodies.com. Packed full of, well, HTML goodies. www.webmonkey.com Also known as Webmonkey, this Web site is a great resource for beginners wanting to learn HTML, JavaScript, and more. www.w3.org/TR/html4 The HTML 4.01 specification. You don't have to worry about this specification changing any time soon. www.hwg.org The HTML writers guild features great tutorials and resources regarding HTML. www.lynda.com A good source for training videos on most Web authoring platforms and languages, including HTML. JavaScript www.javascript.com Tons of scripts and resources for JavaScript. www.echoecho.com My favorite Web site for JavaScript tips, tutorials, and browser statistics. www.javascriptsource.com One of the biggest resources for free scripts. www.javascriptkit.com Tons of scripts and resources for JavaScript. www.javascriptcity.com Tons of scripts and resources for JavaScript. JSP www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers Main link for IBM's Websphere application server. java.sun.com/products/jsp Information from the source: SUN. This Web site is your best bet for information regarding JSP. jsptags.com/gettingstarted A very good introductory level Web site for those looking to get started with JSP. www.jspin.com Also known as the JSP Resource Index. This is another great Web site with many resources for JSP. www.macromedia.com/software/jrun The official Web site for Macromedia's JRun. PHP www.php.net Everything you need to know about PHP. You can even download it here. www.phpbuilder.com Articles, news, headlines, and other great resources for PHP developers. php.resourceindex.com Great PHP resource site including definitions and documentation on PHP. SQL www.w3schools.com/sql A great introduction to the Structured Query Language (SQL). Features great tutorials and vocabulary definitions. databases.about.com/cs/sql An awesome Web site devoted to SQL. www.aspalliance.com/habal/sql A great Web site with tutorials on SQL based primarily on its use with ASP. Web Services www.w3.org/2002/ws The World Wide Web Consortium's Web site for Web Services features the Web Services Activity Statement, usage scenarios, architecture requirements, descriptions requirements, and so on. Be prepared to dig for information within this site. www.w3.org/TR/wsdl The Web Service Discovery Language working draft page as proposed by the W3C. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices IBM's Web Service Zone features great articles, tutorials, and discussions on the subject. A very Java-friendly site. www.webservices.org Web Services resource center with news, analysis, reviews, forums, FAQs, whitepapers, and software regarding the subject. www.xmethods.net This site is a "virtual laboratory" for developers, listing publicly available Web services and showcasing new ways this technology can be applied. www.uddi.org UDDI is the building block that will enable businesses to quickly, easily, and dynamically find and transact business with one another using their preferred applications. This Web site is a great start for learning more about UDDI: the Web Service registry. XHTML www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 The current XHTML 1.0 specification straight from the source: the W3C. www.xguru.com/tutorial/cat_index.asp?cat=2 A great resource for not only XHTML, but for XML, XSL, and XSLT. www.xhtml.org A plain and simple site that contains information regarding XHTML. hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/50/index2a.html The article that I always recommend when I'm too short on time to teach it myself. XML www.xml.com This site prides itself in providing a community atmosphere where developers share ideas. It also provides development resources and solutions, and it features timely news, opinions, features, and tutorials. www.xmldir.com One of the largest resources for XML. This site also features extensive links to DTD, XSL, XSLT, ASP, and XML tutorials, parsers, editors, programming, basics, scripts, parsers, browsers, applications, java, and more. www.w3.org/XML The World Wide Web Consortium's Web site features details about the drafts issued by the XML Query, XML Schema, and XML Linking working groups. The site also features the working draft issued by the XML Core working group. msdn.microsoft.com/xml Excellent Web resource for everything having to do with Web development, including XML. This site features news, articles, headlines, tutorials, and resources on the topic. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml IBM's developer works Web site provides a great resource for the development community. This site heavily focuses on Java and its coexisting relationship with XML. General Resource Sites www.oreillynet.com Great site similar to Microsoft's MSDN. Features articles and How To's for dozens of technologies, languages, and platforms. www.w3schools.com A well-designed learning site featuring tutorials and learning modules for various scripting and authoring languages. msdn.microsoft.com The best resource site for Microsoft-related technologies. If you're looking for a site that is less on the technical side, this may not be the site for you. Author Sites www.trainsimple.com Matthew Pizzi's corporate training Web site. www.modulemedia.com Zak Ruvalcaba's Internet consulting Web site. |