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HTTP

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Yahoo performance rules (etags)

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HTML

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Character Sets
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DHTML
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Cascading Style Sheets

Index DOT Css: Index Page
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Online CSS tools
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Flash

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Web Design

Web design references
kdub blog on better HTML/CSS design
Web Page Development: Best Practices
Survey of forms
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Smashing Magazine on Web Design
JPG Magazine
Design tool bookmarklet
Web design resources
Login/Sign up forms

Grid-Based Design

Grid-based Web design*
Grid design links
5 steps to grids
YUI Grid CSS
Blueprint CSS Framework
The 960-pixel grid system
The Grid System

Good Examples

Relay file/directory browser
The Best Designs.com
Levi's ad site
Web pages that suck
Web UI guidelines

Using Colors

Facebook dev. (good color in banner links)
Colour Lovers.com

Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design
Good design ('Syndicate me')
Good design ('Internet music')
Good design ('Internet market')
Good design ('Internet services')
Good design ('Multiflex-2') *
('Solution')
('Neuphoric')
('Internet center')
('Leaves') *
"choice", good colors
Open Web Design
Open Designs

Browser Issues

QuirksMode on Browser Issues
Wikipedia Quirks mode article
Displays User Agent String
Firebug web-devel plugin
FireDiff, tracks DOM changes
Browser Experiements
JavaScript Browser detection
Test in multiple browsers
MS JScript blog
Chromium base for Chrome
Google Chrome
Save the Developers!

Favicons

About Favicons
How to add a Favicon
Graphics Guru Favicon generator
Dynamic Drive Favicon generator
FavIcon from Pic
Favicon generator, editor

Program Icons

Tango Icons
Silk Icon set *
Oxygen icons
Mini (14x14) icons
Listing of free icons
Wikipedia icons
Kanji Icons
Fedora Echo icons
Icon Buffet (commercial)
Royalty-free icons

Web Accessibility

Fangs screen reader emulator
Accessibility - What Not To Do
aDesigner, visual impairments

Web Performance

YSlow Firefox plugin
Yahoo Performance Rules
14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites

Google App Engine

Google App Engine
AppEngine getting started
AppDrop, host AppEngine apps
Portable AppEngine API
App Engine launcher (Mac)
Google Ajax API playground
App Engine Java

Tiddly Wiki

TiddlyWiki
TiddlySpot tiddly hosting
ServerSide Wiki
TiddlyWiki Plugin list
MacroCodex, on writing plugins
TiddlyWiki.org community
TiddlyThemes
TiddlyWiki Help
TiddlyWiki cheatsheet
TiddlyVault plugins
TiddlySnip Firefox scrapbook
Tiddly Themes
Mocha Theme

Super-Wikis

Backpack
Highrise, 37signals shared contacts
PackRat
Trac Wiki/Bug Tracking
ClearWiki (free 10 users, 512Mb)
Protopage
Stikipad
Stikkit (sticky notes)
Versionate
WetPaint public wikis
Wiki Matrix
CMS Matrix

Business Apps

CogHead build online business apps
NetBooks online accounting
HP RPN Calculator

Calendars

Google Calendar
HipCal
Kiko
CalendarHub
ZohoPlanner
TimeTracker
Zimbra
Really Simple CalDAV server
Schedule World, cal, contacts

To-Do Lists

Remember the Milk
IMified, send to-dos via IM

Personal Pages

Netvibes
Favoor
PageFlakes
Google Personal Home Page

Messaging

eBuddy
Meebo
Jaiku online presence Web app
Meetro, IM and location info
Yafumato IM, open source
Kool IM IM
I Love IM
Imo.im

Office

Writely Word Processor
Zoho Writer
gOffice Word Processors
Writeboard
GoogleSpreadsheets
EditGrid online spreadsheet
Num Sum
Dojo Spreadsheet Widget
ZK Ajax Spreadsheet
Zoho Show
ThumbStacks
SoapBX
ajaxPresents
Solodox
Peepel Office Suite
ContactOffice

Online DBs

Dabble DB
QuickBase
Lazybase
ZohoCreator
Open Record
Freebase DB
HyperTable, distributed DB tables

Projects

activeCollab
DevShop
TeamWork Live
Intervals
Prolify business collaboration
Myguire project management
Mentat project to-do lists
Ajatus CRM
Quick Sequence Diagrams

Mash-Ups

Google Your Maps

Online OS

YouOs
Ajax OS (Ajax 13)
ajaxWindows (Ajax 13)
DesktopTwo
Sapodesk API, desktoptwo
Atoolo
Goowy Webtop
CorneliOS content management
Yuuguu share desktop screen

Ajax Technique

JSLint
Quirksmode.org
Ajax Patterns Wiki
IE Developer Toolbar
E-Books on Ajax
timeout your mouseovers
Image Reflections
AjaxRain, resources
MiniAjax, like AjaxRain
Frozen Toolkit, from Advanced Ajax
Ajax-tutorials.com

Ajax News

TechCrunch
Dead 2.0 (Dead)
SolutionWatch
Ajax 13, runs AjaxLaunch
AjaxLaunch.com
eHub
Ajax Matters
Ajaxian.com

XmlHttpRequest

Apple XmlHttpRequest Tutorial
Another tutorial
XmlHttpRequest Tutorial
Another tutorial
XmlHttpRequest and Struts
Short Examples
Mozilla XML Tests
Sun Ajax Tutorial
Usable Example
Links to more examples
Another example
Tibco General Interface
Good Intro Article
XmlHttpRequest on IE7

Ajax Libraries

List of Ajax Frameworks
AJS lightweight Ajax
OpenLink Ajax Toolkit
myAJAX toolkit
40 Ajax resources

JS Toolkits

wingS
ZK rich app framework
Microsoft Atlas
Jitsu
Moo.fx
Ext JavaScript toolkit
OpenRico, JS effects
Leightbox JS effects
QooXdoo JavaScript toolkit
OpenLayers for layering map data

JSON

JSON.org
Ajax libs w/ Java support
JsonLib for Java
JsonSQL, use select with JSON data

Prototype JS Library

Prototype JS library
script.aculo.us
Script.acul.us wiki docs
Prototype docs
Quick guide to Prototype
Using the Prototype Library
Prototype lib field validation
Prototype window class
Common mistakes with prototype
Scripteka Prototype Add-ons
Prototype class inheritance
Prototype and script.aculo.us book
Prototype vs. jQuery

jQuery

JQuery JavaScript lib (GPL or MIT)
Tutorial on jQuery
Jamal, based on jQuery
jQuery table sorter
jQuery UI library
jQuery Glide-in component
jQuery Date picker
iCal-like calendars in jQuery
jQuery Visualize, charts from tables
Flot charting library
Drop-down menus with jQuery
Facebook-style alert
25 jQuery tutorials

YUI

Yahoo UI Library
Yahoo Developer Network
YUI Ext Library
YUI Blog.com
YUI Grid CSS
YahooPages, edit grids
YUI text editor
Yahoo performance rules (etags)

GWT

Google Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit forum
GWT-Powered Resources
Styling GWT widgets with CSS
Java classes you can use with GWT
GWT Text Editor
Google Gears (offline toolkit)
Gears DB Lib
GWT-Ext, integrate ext
Google Web Toolkit Solutions book
GWT incubator projects
GWT Site, info
GWT Eclipse plugin
MyGWT extra widgets
Google Ajax API playground

Dojo

Dojo
Dojo Forum
Dojo mailing list
Dojo API docs
Dojo Planet
Dissecting Dojo 0.9
AOL CDN Dojo online
Using dojo.io.bind
Bunkai Dojo visual designer
Dojo Grid widget
Dojo Spreadsheet Widget
Dojo Docs (DojoCampus)

DWR, Direct Web Remoting

DWR, Direct Web Remoting
DWR (Wikipedia)
Java and DWR Ajax
Integrating DWR and Spring
Getting started with DWR

Java Web libraries

ThinWire RIA library
Echo2
Wings Framework
Dekoh Application Platform
Helma Javascript Web App Framework

Date/Time Libraries

DateJs library
Timeframe date picker
Calendar library
Popup Calender/Date chooser
jsCal
Date JS library

Testing Libraries

JsUnit
CrossCheck testing JavaScript
JsTester, JavaScript testing
Selenium HQ
Selenium Docs

Other Libraries

MochiKit
Base 2 library
Plex Toolkit
Listing of JS libraries
Tool-Man
Jude JavaScript lib
jsPro lib
Tigra Table Pro
FreeDOM Js library
Cross-browser DHTML API
TIBET JavaScript desktop
Motionbox EventHandler
JDA, Javascript Dataflow Architecture
JavaScript MVC framework
jsPDF, JavaScript output PDF
jsSplitter
Natural Docs
Java2Script
Fork JS Library
DWT, DHTML Windowing Toolkit
SproutCore, Cocoa-like MVC framework
Sly DOM queries

JavaScript Tutorials

Jennifer Madden JavaScript Tutorials
dmoz JavaScript Tutorials

JavaScript Programming

Quirksmode JavaScript info
JavaScript string functions
comp.lang.javascript FAQ
Regular Expression Tool
OpenJs.com, JavaScript articles
getElementById docs
JavaScript reference

Optimizing and Performance

JavaScript Performance Rocks
Optimizing JavaScript
MS Doloto, JavaScript download optimizer

OO JavaScript

Smart OOP in JavaScript
JavaScript module pattern, namespaces
Private members in JavaScript
Publish-subscribe in JavaScript
More pub-sub

JavaScript and DHTML

JavaScript tutorial focusing on DHTML
Working with JavaScript
JavaScript Forms and Wizards
Form validation
Remote Scripting with IFRAME
Useful JavaScript
Netscape JavaScript libraries
JavaScript Kit
Cross-Browser size and centering
XRAY Dom Viewer
DHTML components article

Controls

OS3 grid
Writing Menus
XML-based tree control
Tigra Tree Menu
Cute Tree widget
mapbMenu
DOM Menu
Tab Listing

Table Widgets

DHTML Goodies table
Fixed-header scrolling
Dojo Grid widget
Pure CSS scrollable table
Pure CSS Scrolling table with widgets
Sorttable for tables
Unobtrusive table sort
Sortable tables
TableKit
Tables and data

Effects

Table Row Rollover
Sorting tables
JavaScript fading effect

JavaScript Tools

DOM viewer
JavaScript Shell
JavaScript/DHTML Debugger
jslibs, JavaScript runtime environment
Lily programming environment

JS Text Editors

HtmlArea
Indite R3
widgEditor
Wysiwyg Editor
BitFlux XML Editor
Helene
TinyMCE editor
CKEditor (replaces FCKEditor)
FCK Editor
WYM Editor
Ekit
YUI text editor

WebDAV

WebDAV.org
SkunkDAV
WebDAV Explorer
Magi

Browsers

QuirksMode on Browser Issues
Quirks Mode Browser Detect
Quirksmode compatability tables
Mozilla Coffee
Debugging JavaScript on Safari
IE memory leak detector
IE and animated GIFs

.htaccess

How to use .htaccess
htaccess tricks

Character Sets

HTML Document Character Set
HTML special characters
URL characters

Tag References

APPLET, OBJECT tags, etc.
Microsoft Tag Ref
Tags

Meta Tags/Cookies

Canvas Tag

Canvas tag tutorial
Canvas Graphs
Mozilla Canvas Docs
Canvas Shell

DHTML

DHTML Central
MS DHTML ref
Dan Steinman DHTML Tutorials
DHTML menu tutorial
MS DHTML Site
Dynamic Drive
Scrolling Tables with static headers
Core Web Programming Book

DHTML Articles

DHTML Interfaces, taking the next step
Table panel based on DIV tags
MS DHTML Topics
Using Mozilla for testing Web sites/apps.
The Site Wizard

Colors

HTML Color Codes
Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers
Create Color Schemes *
Color Blender
Color Schemer
Fedora Icon Colors
Embedded Media HTML Generator
Color Mixer
Colr lists good colors
Choosing color combos
Zenburn color scheme
Analyzing Colors

CSS Tutorials

W3Schools Tutorial
CSS Techniques
Chapter 2 CSS
Embedded CSS Example
A CSS Framework
Quick CSS Intro

CSS Layout Techniques

The One True Layout
CSS Layout techniques
CSS layout overview
Tutorial on layout
BlueRobot CSS Layout Resevoir
CSS Tinderbox layouts
CSS Dump, organizes by columns
CSS Menus - list of sites
Layout-o-matic
CSS Equal Height columns

Styling Elements

Reasons to use striped tables
Syling Form Controls
CSS for Bar Graphs
CSS Vertical Bar Graphs*
CSS Styles for Tables
25 CSS techniques
CSS Rounded Corners
Rendering GMail buttons
Styling forms with CSS, labels
Smooth candybar gauges

CSS Sites

A List Apart
CSS Beauty
CSS Vault
Nice Stylesheet
CSS/edge
SitePoint CSS reference

Alternatives

OpenLazlo

Flex

Adobe Flex
Flex.org
Adobe AIR, AKA Apollo
Cairngorm, EE patterns
Integrate Flex with Grails
BlazeDS remoting
Cinnamon remoting framework

Java and Flash

JGenerator Flash generator

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YUI
Dojo
Tiddly Wiki

HTTP
Web Apps
Flash

Colors
Create Color Schemes *
Color Blender *
Color Schemer

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