Useful links

Below you will find a collection of best links that could be useful for web programmers, designers and web masters.

Sites are split by category.

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• Links for web programmers
  • Useful programs
  • Unix
  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • CGI
  • perl
  • PHP
  • Miscellanous programming
• Links for web designers
  • HTML & CSS
  • JavaScript / JScript
  • Flash / ActionScript
  • Learning & Trainings
  • Fonts and clipart
  • Web design
• Genreal web development links.
• Web designers/masters.
• Other links

Useful programs

• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  PuTTY: A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client
  
• http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
  WinSCP is a freeware SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell).
  Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
  
• http://www.vmware.com/
  VMware Workstation is powerful virtual machine software for the desktop

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Unix

• http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/cgi-bin/man-cgi
  Unix man pages online.
  
• http://www.usats.com/learn/crontab.shtml
  Setting up periodically executed tasks tutorial.

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Apache

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
  Complete Apache documentation.
  
• http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html
  Appache user authentication (.htaccess) tutorial.
  
• http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910
  mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting.
  

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MySQL

• http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html
  Complete MySQL documentation.
  
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
  PhpMyAdmin is a powerful web based utility to administrate the MySQL server, written in PHP.

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CGI

• http://www.scriptarchive.com/
  Matt's Script Archive. The biggest collection of free scripts since 1995. Counters, guestbooks, forums, etc.

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Perl

• http://cpan.org/
  CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The home page of the Perl project.
  
• http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
  ActivePerl is a quality-assured distribution of Perl, available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
  
• http://aperl.mastak.ru/
  Absolute Perl - Integrated development environment for Perl under Windows platform.
  
• http://www.pm.org/
  A world-wide Perl programmers community, contains a lot of technical articles on using Perl.
  

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PHP

• http://www.php.net/docs.php
  Complete PHP documentation.
  
• http://pear.php.net/
  PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) is a structured library of open-sourced code for PHP users.
  
• http://phpbuilder.net/
  PhpBuilder: PHP developers community.
  
• http://phpdoc.de/
  PhpDoc is a very useful too that offers you a way to generate an API documentation of objectoriented
  and procedural code with certain markup in your source.
  
• http://www.phpedit.com/
  PhpEdit - Integrated development environment for PHP under Windows platform.
  
• http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3
  Learning to Use Regular Expressions by Example.
  
• http://www.phpnuke.org/
  Advanced content managing system.
  
• http://phpbb.com/
  Well-known community & bulletin board creation system.
  

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Miscellanous programming

• http://www.wotsit.org/
  Format information on hundreds of different file types.
  
• http://www.experts-exchange.com/
  Answers from IT Experts in different IT area

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HTML & CSS

• http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/
  W3C HTML and CSS validators.
  
• http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
  CSS tutorial
  
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/colors/colors.asp
  Color table

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JavaScript/JScript

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp
  Miscrosoft's reference information for the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) application programming interface (API).

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Flash /ActionScript

• http://www.debreuil.com/docs/ch01_Intro.htm
  Building Object-Oriented Applications in Flash 5
  
• http://www.quantumwave.com/
  A good resource for Flash programmers

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Learning & Trainings

• http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
  Big online resource for web designers who use Photoshop, from beginners to experts.
  
• http://www.knowledgepool.com/
  Worldwide training center.

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Fonts and clipart

• http://www.acidfonts.com/
  4500 font for PC and Mac
  
• http://www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm
  Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
  
• http://www.gettyimages.com/
  The world's biggest clipart collection site. Not free.
  
• http://www.fonts.com/
  One of the biggest online font shops with font preview. Useful when you're searching for some font.

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Web design

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/filter/reference/reference.asp
  Visual Filters and Transitions Reference

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Miscellanous

• http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html
  Robots Exclusion protocol (robots.txt)

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Web designers/masters.

• MCG Web Development
  Offers low cost website design and internet hosting services for small to midsize businesses and non-profit organizations. Also offers web promotion, updates, and maintenance for existing sites.

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General Web Development Links

• Wired Webmasters
  Learn how to run a web business from home. Wired Webmasters has all the free tools you'll need to make it happen.

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