Web Primer

Web Building Primer

Table of Contents

WWW - The World Wide Web
The Web is a network of computers all over the world. How does it work?

HTML - The Markup Language for the Web
HTML is the language of the web. It uses "markup tags" to define the content of web pages.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CSS define how HTML elements are formatted and displayed.

JavaScript - Programming the Browser
JavaScript is the language used for programming the browser.

XML - Extensible Markup Language
XML is a common language for data transmission, and data storing.

PHP and ASP - Server Side Programming
With server-side scripting, you can (amongst many other things) access databases and display the results in a browser.

SQL - Structured Query Language
SQL is the standard for querying and updating databases like SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.

Web Design
About designing a web site. About users and their equipments.

Web Standards
About web standards and the World Wide Web consortium.

Web Page Validation
This chapter lets you validate your HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, and WMP pages.

Web Semantic
This chapter is about the "Semantic Web".

Web Glossary
This is an alphabetical list of internet glossary terms.

Web Search
About SEO (Search Engine Optimization)