Web Programming Step by Step, by Marty Stepp, Jessica Miller, and Victoria Kirst

References, Second Edition

This page lists every link and reference that is included at the end of each chapter of the textbook. We hope it will give you a convenient way to check out the references from the book without having to type them in manually. Special thanks to Ewout B. from the Netherlands, who suggested the idea of this page!

Chapter 1: The Internet and WWW

Senator Ted Stevens explains internet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE
A Brief History of the Internet: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): http://www.ietf.org/
IETF Requests for Comments (RFCs): http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): http://www.icann.org/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): http://www.w3.org/
HowStuffWorks: What is an IP address? http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question549.htm
What Is My IP address: http://www.whatismyip.com/
List of all TCP and UDP port numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
Apache web server project: http://www.apache.org/
Mozilla Firefox web browser: http://www.getfirefox.com/
Opera web browser: http://www.opera.com/
Chrome web browser: http://www.google.com/chrome
List of top-level domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
ICANN rejects proposal for .xxx top-level domain: http://news.com.com/ICANN+rejects+.xxx+domain/2100-1047_3-6071124.html
List of all HTTP error codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http_error_codes
List of MIME types (alphabetical): http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp
List of MIME types (by file extension): http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml
Homestar Runner: http://www.homestarrunner.com/

Chapter 2: HTML Basics

List of all HTML tags: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
Which elements can nest inside others: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nesting.html
List of HTML character entities: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
W3C HTML5 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
W3C HTML5 Elements Reference: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements
Differences between HTML5/HTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
HTML 4.01 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401
Original HTML proposal: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
W3C HTML validator: http://validator.w3.org/
Wikipedia - HTML5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
State of HTML5 audio: http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio
State of HTML5 video: http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/
Wikipedia - Web standards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards

Chapter 3: CSS for Styling

W3 List of all CSS properties: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html
W3 CSS Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/
W3C CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Wikipedia, CSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets
Fonts of each operating system: http://www.apaddedcell.com/web-fonts
W3Schools CSS color names: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colors.asp
HTML color code table 1: http://html-color-codes.com/
HTML color code table 2: http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhex.html

Chapter 4: Page Layout

W3C CSS2 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
W3C Schools CSS2 Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
W3Schools CSS Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp
EchoEcho.Com CSS Tutorial: http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
CSS by Quirksmode: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
CSS Specificity Wars: http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html
CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know by Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/01/css-float-theory-things-you-should-know/
CSS Positioning by Relatively Absolute http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2004/12/07/relatively-absolute
CSS Positioning in 10 Steps http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
Web Design from Scratch: Block and Inline elements http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/css-block-and-inline.cfm
CSS Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com/
Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters by Emma Alvarez http://www.emmaalvarez.com/2008/04/most-useful-50-css-tips-and-tools-for.html
Reset Style Sheets: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Should I Use Tables for Layout?: http://shouldiusetablesforlayout.com/

Chapter 5: PHP for Server-Side Programming

PHP home page: http://www.php.net/
Types: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.php
Operators: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.php
Expressions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.expressions.php
Math functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.math.php
String functions: http://www.php.net/strings
Control statements: http://www.php.net/if
Array functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php
File system functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php
W3Schools PHP tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/
Practical PHP Programming (free online PHP book): http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/PHP Cookbook: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/PHP_Cookbook
PHP security guide: http://phpsec.org/php-security-guide.pdf
PHP server settings: http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php
Programming languages and beards: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx
words.txt input file: http://webster.cs.washington.edu/words.txt
Xdebug home page: http://xdebug.org/
PHP.net classes and objects: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php

Chapter 6: Forms

W3C HTML Controls: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html
W3Schools HTML forms tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
EchoEcho.com UI controls tutorial: http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms04.htm
Browser Compatibility and Styling Form Controls: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200409/styling_form_controls/
List of character URL-encodings: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp
HTML5 spec, input element: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-input-element.html
HTML5 forms tutorial: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/html5forms/
Quirksmode - Styling and laying out forms: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/forms.html
CSS fun with forms: http://www.picment.com/articles/css/funwithforms/
Fancy form design using CSS: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css/
PHP superglobals: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php
PHP handling file uploads: http://www.php.net/features.file-upload

Chapter 7: Web Design

Don't Make Me Think: http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html
Web Pages that Suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Smashing Magazine, Design Reference: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
10 Principles of Effective Web Design: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/
Patterns in Interaction Design: http://www.welie.com/
Grid Design Basics: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/grid-design-basics-grids-for-web-page-l/
Wikipedia - Web 2.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Design Seeds: http://design-seeds.com/
Colour Lovers: http://www.colourlovers.com/
W3C content accessibility guidelines: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
Dive Into Accessibility: http://diveintoaccessibility.info/
A List Apart - web accessibility: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/wiwa/
Building Accessible Web Sites (book): http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/
Designing accessible tables: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/accessibility_no16.htm
Dijit Toolkit: http://dojotoolkit.org/developer/dijit

Chapter 8: JavaScript

ECMAScript Specification: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
Mozilla Developer Center - Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide
Mozilla Developer Center - Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference
Microsoft Developer Network - JScript Language Reference: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yek4tbz0(VS.85).aspx
W3 Schools style DOM object properties: http://www.w3schools.com/HTMLDOM/dom_obj_style.asp
W3 Schools JavaScript Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: http://books.google.ie/books?id=VOS6IlCsuU4C
ppk on JavaScript by Quirksmode: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html
JSLint syntax checker: http://www.jslint.com/
ECMAScript 5 strict mode: http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-strict-mode-json-and-more/

Chapter 9: The Document Object Model (DOM)

Seven Rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript: http://icant.co.uk/articles/seven-rules-of-unobtrusive-javascript/
Mozilla DOM reference, window: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:window
W3Schools DOM tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/
W3Schools, DOM node reference: http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_node.asp
Quirksmode DOM tutorial: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/intro.html
Quirksmode on the this keyword: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/this.html
Ryan's DOM tutorial: http://www.pageresource.com/dhtml/ryan/part4-1.html
GUIStuff, DOM Modifications: http://www.guistuff.com/javascript/js_dom_a2.html

Chapter 10: Prototype and Scriptaculous

Prototype home page: http://www.prototypejs.org/
How Prototype Extends the DOM: http://www.prototypejs.org/learn/extensions
Prototype reference chart: http://www.developer.com/img/2007/01/prototype1280.png
Scriptaculous home page: http://script.aculo.us/
Scriptaculous wiki (API): http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous
Scriptaculous tutorial: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/script.aculo.us/

Chapter 11: Events

Quirksmode, intro to events: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introevents.html
Quirksmode, event compatibility: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/
Quirksmode, mouse events: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_mouse.html
Quirksmode, detecting keystrokes: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/keys.html
Wikipedia, ASCII tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii
Switch on the Code, Using setInterval and setTimeout: http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/09/06/javascript-tutorial-using-setinterval-and-settimeout/
JavaScript Madness, Keyboard Events: http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html

Chapter 12: Ajax, XML, and JSON

Ajax, A New Approach to Web Applications, by Jesse James Garrett (coined "Ajax" term): http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php
W3Schools Ajax tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/
Tizag Ajax tutorial: http://www.tizag.com/ajaxTutorial/
Prototype and Ajax: http://www.prototypejs.org/learn/introduction-to-ajax
Wikipedia, XMLHttpRequest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
Wikipedia, XML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
W3Schools XML DOM tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/dom/default.asp
Microsoft beginner's guide to the XML DOM: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468547.aspx
DevGuru XML DOM reference: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/QuickRef/xmldom_intro.html
Mozilla Developer Center, JavaScript exception-handling statements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide/Exception_Handling_Statements
JSON official home page: http://json.org/
Mozilla Developer Center, JSON: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JSON
Wikipedia, JSON: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
JSON library for older browsers: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
PHP JSON support: http://www.php.net/JSON

Chapter 13: Relational Databases and SQL

FirstSQL.com SQL tutorial: http://www.firstsql.com/tutor1.htm
Wikipedia - SQL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
SQL for Web Nerds: http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
Tutorials Point, MySQL tutorial: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/
MySQL home page: http://www.mysql.com/
MySQL documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
MySQL operators and function reference: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/func-op-summary-ref.html
MySQL operator precedence: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/operator-precedence.html
PHP PDO manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php
PHP MySQL manual: http://www.php.net/mysql
PHP error handling: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_error.asp
PHP MySQL functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php

Chapter 14: Cookies and Sessions

Wikipedia, cookies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
All About Cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Quirksmode, cookies: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
W3Schools on cookies: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_cookies.asp
Wikipedia, sessions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http_session
TuxRadar on sessions and cookies: http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp/10/0/0
W3Schools on sessions: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_sessions.asp
PHP manual, cookies: http://php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php
PHP manual, sessions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php
PHP.net session functions: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

Chapter 15: Web Security

A List Apart, Forward Thinking Form Validation: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/forward-thinking-form-validation/
PHP regular expression syntax: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php
W3 Security FAQ: http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/
PHP Security Consortium Guide: http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/
Firesheep extension: http://codebutler.com/firesheep
JSON and browser security: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/04/10/JSON-and-browser-security/

Chapter 16: Going Live: Creating/Launching a Website

Wikipedia - Use Case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
Apache Web Server: http://httpd.apache.org/
Google AdWords: https://adwords.google.com/
Wikipedia - Search Engine Optimization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
Wikipedia - PageRank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Wikipedia - nofollow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/
Google Webmaster Tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Google AdSense: https://www.google.com/adsense/
Wikipedia - Intellectual Property: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
Wikipedia - Copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrights
Wikipedia - Trademark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark