Herself's Webtools

This is a listing of my favorite online resources I’ve used designing websites and learning all about web publishing. Most of them have been on the web as long as I have and I expect them to be here a long while yet.

Legal Stuff
Chilling Effects keeps track of free speech issues, requests for removal of information and other legal issues that effect your website.
Electronic Freedom Foundation You should already know who they are and what they do.

Website Development
Webmaster World News and Discussion
Project Cool
W3C, WWW Consortium
Internet Application Workbook ( how to build an online community)
Web Developer’s Virtual Library (this is one of my favorites)

CGI-Perl
Beginner’s Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl
A CGI Tutorial
Obtain Perl, tutorials, information
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
Perl Monks

XML
The XML Cover Page has extensive information on XML
VoiceXML Overview and Elements
VoiceXML Reference at Mother of Perl

Flash
Extreme Flash
Turtleshell

MySQL
MySQL Manual ( Chapter 3 covers 99% of what you need to know )

HTML/XHTML/DHTML…
HTML Reference Guide
Dev Helper ( click on the link ‘Training Center’ )
XHTML tutorial

PHP
PHP Manual

Javascript
JavaScript Lessons (excellent downloadable book/lessons, better than any javascript books I’ve bought)

Browser Information
Browser News News and information about browsers

Google Information for Webmasters

Usability

I needed to update the TimesToCome Daily Horoscope page ( no longer on web ) but I didn’t want to have to do it manually. Now I can upload a week or month of new pages information and have the computer load the appropriate page for a given day by checking the system date. This script works great if you are only using straight html.

If you use Flash movies or javascript or other languages, they don’t work properly. The way to work around this is to use frames. Load your other languages and embedded code into the main frame and call the Perl script to update the secondary frame.

#!/usr/bin/perl#www.timestocome.com
#program to update a web page with new information daily.
##Name each webpage for each day you wish to appear daily_dayofyear.html.
##So the daily update for Jan 2 would be daily_2.html
#The page for Dec 15 would be daily_350.html ( don’t forget to adjust for leap years )
##put them off your top level directory in a directory#named daily.##Put this file in your cgi-bin directory with the proper permissions ( 755 )

###To use this link to#< a href=”http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/daily.pl > Page < /a >

#This link will bring up the page for today.

##############################################################
##################
#get day of year
$today = (localtime(time()))[7];

#add file extention
$tag = “html”;

#add file information
$name = “daily”;

#clean up and stick together to build file name
chomp($today);
chomp($tag);
chomp($name);
$temp = join “.”, $today, $tag;
$filename = join “_”, $name, $temp;

#open the file for reading
open(IN, “../daily/$filename”);
flock(IN, 2);

#lock the
fileseek(IN, 0, 0);

#rewind to beginning
#create the html page
print “Content-type:text/html\n\n”;
while ( ){
print ;
}

close IN;