Programmer Resources

General

• Unicode Home Page Unicode is a comprehensive industry standard system to supersede the original ASCII character encoding scheme which had limited ability to encode non English language characters and symbols. Most web browsers will recognise (at least some) Unicode characters and symbols.

Web site development

Web design

• Web page colour visualizer Select and view any of 16777216 colours.
• Web Safe colour chart For web pages on restricted color display hardware.

World Wide Web Consortium

The W3C is the official coordinating body for the World Wide Web.

• HTML 4.01 Specification The latest version of HTML 4.
• XML/XHTML Latest Specification
• HTML/XHTML Validator Checks HTML code for accuracy.
• CSS Validator Cascaded Style Sheet checker.
• P3P Project Web Site Privacy

Web servers

• Apache Web Server Home Page
• Apache 1.3 Users Guide
• Apache 2.0 Documentation

Browser related

• Javascript reference and more from Netscape
• Browscap.ini If you don't know what it is you probably don't need it. Browscap is a file containing coded details of each browsers capabilities. It is used by server side apps like PHP and helps web site designers match the web page exactly to each browser. Download the latest here.

Server Side

• PHP home page PHP is one of the most sucessful and comprehensive Server Side Languages in use today. Supported and developed by the Internet Developer Community - it is free. The best value deal on the Internet today!
• MySQL Home Page Server Side free SQL Database. Integrates very well with PHP.
• MySQL Documentation Note that PHP has a number of embedded functions to access MySQL. You don't always need the SQL level documentation.

Web site authoring help

• Web Design Group Comprehensive Web Authoring Site

Email

Spam filtering

• Procmail Sanitizer Email Spam Filtering for those who have access to the Email Server.