Web Developer

A Community for web developers. Any and all posts related to web development are welcome. There is a slight stress on coding/development related posts rather than design/art.

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Community Guidelines

1. An <lj-cut> must be used with any content exceeding the width of 600px.
2. Before advertising in the community, please consult with me (valera).

Topics
Web-host discussions: The good and the bad
Not-recommended web hosts: HOSTONY (Lots of features, but they often don't work, the tech support is crap, and they have sometimes broken things by making stupid changes on their servers. Also, 1and1 host is not recommended.

Basic references: HTML & CSS
Form handling in: ASP, PHP

Community tags

Recommended Tools of the Trade
This is a collection of software that has proved useful to me either directly or indirectly with web development. Wherever possible I'll provide open source alternatives to commercial products. If you know of a program that's better than the one on the list, feel free to let me (valera) know about it so that I may put it up here.

Editors Graphics File Transfer Communications Adobe Dreamweaver This is a WYSIWYG HTML editor with a ton of features that let you do just about anything: CSS, cross-browser validation, inline image editing, MS Office cut and paste, advanced code editing, and much more. Adobe Photoshop Photoshop is, IMHO, the best and the most advanced image editing program out there. FileZilla FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. PuTTY PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator

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A note about Software Piracy/Warez
Software Piracy is illegal, we all know this. Yet for various reasons (e.g. "i don't care, i just want free soft" or "information should be free! it's not like i'm stealing anything anyway, just making a copy!") many of us choose to practice it. That said - please don't post any cracks, serial numbers, or links to such in the community.


Maintainer: valera
Other devs: perldev, flashdev, vbdev