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"Our "Age of Anxiety" is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s
job with yesterday’s tools — with yesterday’s concepts." Marshall
McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian communications and media theorist
As Web designers, we need tools to do our job, just as a carpenter needs
his. To a carpenter, it is his hammer, pliers, and saw that help him to
create his work; they enable him to bring forth the concepts of the design
set before him.
To the Web designer, it is the HTML editor, the graphics software, and the
programming application that enable him to do his job; to bring forth the
concepts of the design set before him. In fact, the Web designer himself is
building tools for others to use.
"Concepts are, so to speak, problem-solving devices, the internal
equivalent of technologies; they are the technologies of the mind-machine."
Jacob Needleman (b. 1934), U.S. philosopher, educator
The field of Web design is still new. Considering that carpentry goes back
thousands of years, Web design is still in it's infancy. You need to know
what tools to use, how to use them and where they fit best.
Not to fear ... the WDVL is here! Our writers and reviewers have delved
into the tools that you need to create earth (or virtual reality, in this
case) shattering Web sites. Look over the selection below. Many of the
links will take you to other pages which will also help you find what you
need.
"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to
use." Freeman Dyson, British–born U.S. physicist, author.
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Introducting .NET
Part 3
Wrox Press
April 27, 2001
This week's installment covers, XML as the .NET 'Meta-language',
Visual Studio.NET, and Language Changes Affecting ASP.NET. Introducing .NET from Wrox Press is
designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the
fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can
expect to be able to do using it.
Introducting .NET
Part 2
Wrox Press
April 20, 2001
Introducing .NET from Wrox Press is
designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the
fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can
expect to be able to do using it. This week's installment covers
metadata, .NET Framework base classes and Web forms.
Introducting .NET
Wrox Press
April 13, 2001
Introducing .NET from Wrox Press is
designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the
fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can
expect to be able to do using it. This week's installment covers a
general overview and key design goals.
Introduction to Data
Selena Sol
January 3, 2000
Introduction to Data - Part 9 of our Introduction to the Web
Application Development Environment (Tools) series continues our look
at the Web technologies that define, describe, or standardize the
basic characteristics of the data.
Introduction to Data
Selena Sol
December 6, 1999
Introduction to Data - Part 8 of our Introduction to the Web
Application Development Environment (Tools) series takes a look at the
Web technologies that define, describe, or standardize the basic
characteristics of the data.
ASP (Active Server Pages)
Selena Sol
November 1, 1999
ASP, COM & Server-side Java: Alternatives to SSI-based Technology -
Part 7 of our Introduction to the Web Application Development
Environment (Tools) series covers such topics as the power of ASP, the
COM architecture and Server-side Java.
Introduction to Server-Side Processing
Selena Sol
In the previous sections of this tutorial, you saw how user requests
are gathered by the GUI Layer and how they are sent across the wire to
a Web server by the Communication and GUI Layers. So now what happens?
In this section of the tutorial, we will investigate the resources of
the MiddleWare Layer.
Intro to Web Application Development Environment:
Parts of an HTTP Transaction: The Request
by Selena Sol
In Part 5 of the "Web Application Transmission, or How the Web Works"
Selena continues his look at the Communication Layer covering such
topics as the parts of an HTTP transaction, encryption, and secured
transmissions.
Intro to Web Application Development Environment:
Transmission, or How the Web Works
by Selena Sol
After the user has submitted whatever information they need to submit
into whatever GUI you have designed, it is time to get that
information from the Web browser to the Web server. This is where
"transmission" takes place; find out how the Web really works!
Intro to Web Application Development Environment:
Extending the Browser with Plug-ins
by Selena Sol
In part three of
Intro to Web Application Development Environment, Sol completes
the survey of GUI Layer technologies covering
Plug-ins, client side
java, client side
scripting, and the
DOM and
dHTML.
Introduction to the Web Application Development Environment (Tools)
The Display (GUI) Layer
by Selena Sol
In this 2nd part of the Intro to Web Application Develpoment
Environment Series, Selena Sol takes a more in depth look at the GUI
Layer with particular focus on the browser itself as well as HTML
forms which serve as the base for most Web applications.
Introduction to the Web Application Development Environment (Tools)
by Selena Sol
In this tutorial, Selena Sol steps back from the realm of specific
technologies and focuses on a general survey of Web application
development. In doing so, Sol provides a broad framework with which
you can make sense of the mosaic of available technologies,
programming languages, standards and protocols, and tools. By the end,
you should not only have a good idea of what you need to learn in
order to get up to speed today, but you should also understand how
technologies, even future technologies, fit into the big picture.
HTML
Tools for authoring HyperText Markup Language, (HTML), the foundation
behind Web pages.
3d Graphics
A selection of 3d graphics tools
Graphics
These tools will be particularly useful for Web developers. Some are
online and can be used by filling in a form; they either create images
from scratch or manipulate existing images.
Java
Development tools, vendors and reviews.
Software
Active Server Pages, Active X, Animations, Java Software Development
Tools JavaScript, Macromedia Authorware
Website
Website management tools
WWW VL
The World Wide Web Virtual Library
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