Web Development For Beginners

HTML – Basics Required For Making Web Sites

• HTML For Beginners
  • Basic tags and Page Structure
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Paragraph, Divs, Tables
  • Design, Formatting Tags – Style Declaration (Basic CSS)
  • Div Page Design – Why using tables for layout is bad
  • Protocols – HTTP, Port Numbers, SSL (HTTPS)
  • URL-encode (for specifying addresses in hyperlinks) / HTML Encode (for representing entities in HTML)
  • What not to use
  • Designing for different browsers / Cross Browser Compatibility / Quirks vs Standards Mode
  • XHTML schema, and how to target it

CSS

• CSS For Beginners 
  • Syntax
  • Text Properties
  • Borders, Margins, Padding - Differences in how these are rendered in different browsers
  • Positioning
  • Cross Browser Issues, CSS 2.1

JavaScript

• JavaScript For Beginners 
  • Syntax
  • Functions
  • DOM access, Event Handlers
  • Applications
  • Class Resources
  • Libraries
• Data Structures with Javascript 
  • Data Structures
  • Objects
  • Methods
  • Encapsulation

ASP.NET

• General Overview
  • Introduction to ASP.NET and AJAX By Suchi Banerjee
  • How web forms (page design) compare to basic HTML forms
• ASP.NET Events
  • What they are
  • How/when are they fired
  • How to use them
  • Event Procedure
• ASP.NET application and page life cycle By Shivprasad koirala
  • GET vs POST for Beginners
  • Web.Config – how to set it up, etc.
• User State By N a v a n e e t h
  • Viewstate – What, why, when to use, when not to use By Abhijit Jana
  • ViewState: Various ways to reduce performance overhead By Brij
  • Caching By Abhijit Jana
  • Session By Abhijit Jana
  • Application State and Application Object By Brij
  • Cookies By Abhijit Jana
  • Other methods (static variables, application variables, file storage, database storage)
• Data Binding
  • Simple (i.e. fields) By Qwertie
  • Complex (list and datagrid)
  • Database Access Using Basic ADO.NET By Huseyin Altindag *********
• ASP.NET User Interface
  • ASP.NET controls (text boxes, buttons etc) and writing your own User- and Custom-controls
  • Theming and Skinning
  • Inserting and using JavaScript By SeaWater
  • Inserting and using Stylesheets By SeaWater
  • Ajax (basic)
  • IsPostback - what is it? When does it not occur? By ThirstyMind
  • IsCallback
  • Custom Sorting with Jquery UI By Farooq Kaiser
  • Exploring ASP.NET Validators By Brij
• Incorporating JavaScript
  • Embedding JavaScript into DLL's by AspDotNetDev
  • Interacting with Server Controls
• Design Guidelines, Usability and Accessibility
• Resources
  • Including Resources in your web application (WebResource.axd)
  • App_Data directory - By Abhijit Jana
  • App_Resources Directory - By Abhijit Jana
  • App_Code - By Abhijit Jana
  • App_GlobalResources - By Abhijit Jana
  • App_Themes - By Abhijit Jana
  • App_Browsers - By Abhijit Jana
• Internationalization
  • Web Site vs. Web Application, Deployment
  • Localizing ASP.NET MVC - By Farooq kaiser
  • Beginner's Guide : Exploring IIS 6.0 With ASP.NET - By Abhijit Jana
  • Deployment of a Website on IIS By Brij
  • Configuration Overview: ASP.NET By Brij
• Testing
  • Errors – syntax, logic, testing, debugging, tracing
  • Beginner Guide to Page and Script Debugging with Chrome By Dave Auld
  • Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide - By Abhijit Jana
  • Debugging Your ASP.NET Application Hosted on IIS - By Abhijit Jana
  • Remote IIS Debugging : Debug your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on "Remote IIS Server" - By Abhijit Jana
• Web Services
  • Building and consuming web services
  • Creating and Consuming Your First WCF Service - By Farooq kaiser
  • Test Your ASP.NET WebService using SoapUI - By Abhijit Jana
• Cross browser issues – App_Browsers directory – and targeting different devices using the same code

PHP

• General Overview
  • Basic Syntax
  • Using Operators, Functions, Statements, Namespaces, Exceptions, etc.
  • GET vs POST
• Basics
  • Page Creation
  • Inserting PHP Script
  • Files — create, read/write, open, delete, etc.
• Objects
  • Overview
  • Constructors and Destructors
  • Class Definitions
  • Object Iteration
  Function Reference
• APC
• Error Handling
• Database Extensions
• Directory
• Filesystem
• FTP
• HTTP
• libxml
• XML Parser
• Session Handling
• Web Services
  • SCA
  • SOAP
  • XML
  • RPC
  Libraries
• MySQL
• SQLite
• LDAP servers

Ajax

• General Overview
  • What is it, how does it work, older methods that were used (hidden IFRAMEs etc)
  • When not to use it
• HTTP Requests
  • GET vs POST and how they work in general
• Ajax Frameworks – ASP.NET Ajax – UpdatePanel
• Ajax Frameworks – ASP.NET Ajax – Ajax Control Toolkit
• Introducing AJAX for ASP.NET with Prototype By Neal Bailey
• Ajax Frameworks – jQuery By Farooq kaiser
• AJAX with ASP.NET MVC By Farooq Kaiser
• Beginner’s Guide to Adding Ajax to a Web Page
• Widgets and Components
• User Interface Guidelines
• ASP.NET AJAX extensions - Understanding OOP By Petr Pechovic

Security

• Security – Cross Site Scripting
• Security – SQL Injection by Colin Angus Mackay
• Security – HTML Injection
• Security – Spoofing and Phishing
• Security – Handling Passwords and Logins
• Security – General Overview – all possible threats