CLIENT SIDE WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
ECT 270 (701)

Books

• Internet and the World Wide Web How to Program (required)
• Microsoft Frontpage (optional)
• HTML The Definitive Guide (optional)

Additional Books

• David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites (addressing aesthetic issues)

Background and History

• Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) page including a history of HTML

The World Wide Web

• Search Engines: Altavista, Google
• Directories: yahoo, excite, lycos

UNIX

• DePaul's Unix help (basic commands)
• Unix Help
• Indiana's pico page
• How to set up .forward file

HTML

• The WRCs HTML page including HTML 4.0 specification.
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Microsoft Frontpage
• EditPlus HTML editor
• Web Design Group's HTML help
• Special Characters (iso8859-1)
• Unicode

JavaScript

• Netscape's JavaScript Guide
• Using Regular Expressions in Javascript
• Cookie documentation

Cascading Style Sheets

• A quick reference to selectors and values.
• A short guide to style sheets.
• The W3C's style sheet page.

Security and Privacy

• Counterpane newsletter
• Junkbuster's cookie page
• Privacy issues

XML

• An introduction to XML
• A tutorial on XSL