Web Design & Development

Adobe Flex forum covering building cross-platform, rich Internet applications and making extensive use of Flash. This robust application provides a software development kit and an intuitive IDE to help get you on your way.

ASP forum covering the developing web applications on Microsoft technologies. ASP allows you to seamlessly create interactive web pages and web-based applications that are easy to modify, dynamic, and interactive.

ASP.NET forum covering the power of ASP with .NET combined, allowing the creation of web pages and dynamic web applications with less code. In addition, discuss the ability to create applications in .NET compatible languages such as C#.

ColdFusion forum covering the popular web development platform. Designed originally to support database access, this tag-based programming language has grown into a robust platform that makes it a good choice for web development.

CSS forum covering Cascading Style Sheets. Css saves time when building a web site, allowing separation of the “look and feel” of a site from its content. This allows programmers to develop, while leaving the design to designers.

Dreamweaver forum convering the web development tool originally owned by Macromedia. Supporting CSS, JavaScript, and a number of other web-related technologies, Dreamweaver allows you to visually create complex web pages.

HTML forum covering the Hypertext Markup Language. At its core, HTML merely describes the structure of a web document, using tags to indicate sections such as headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. which browsers use to display pages.

Java forum covering the language with the idea of “write once, run anywhere.” This popular language slowly got it’s start as a venue for building games and other programs that run within a browser. Discuss it here.

Javascript forum covering the scripting language, which does not need to be compiled, and how it adds functionality to web pages. Javascript can be made to perform a number of useful tasks, such as respond to user actions, validate data, and more.

Multimedia Fusion forum covering the software authoring tool that uses a “point and click” programming language, an image editor, a wide assortment of extensions, and supports DirectX and ActiveX controls. Discuss it in detail here.

Microsoft FrontPage forum covering the tool designed to allow novice users to create and edit web pages without knowing any HTML. FrontPage is an HTML editor and web site administration tool, that supports automated web templates.

Perl and CGI forum covering the open source programming language that was designed for data manipulation. As such, it has become a popular language for creating CGI scripts that generate pages dynamically based on external data.

PHP forum covering the widely popular language that lets programmers create web pages with dynamic content that can interact with databases. By using PHP, web application programmers can make their pages more interactive.

Python forum covering the high-level open-source programming language designed with readability as one of its most important features. Though the core language is minimalist, there is a standard library that provides rich functionality.

Ruby on Rails forum covering the open source web application framework built on the Ruby language and following the MVC or Model-View-Controller architecture. Developers using RoR appreciate the ability to create applications using less code.

SEO forum covering the techniques used to optimize your website to rank well in search engines. Find out how Keyword Density, Page Titles, and Link Popularity all play a part in where your webpage appears in the search engines.

Web Design forum covering the things to consider when building a website: the look and feel, the theme, what kind of content it will feature, whether it will support ecommerce, how to optimize it for search engines, and so on.

XML forum covering the communication standard that was designed to make it easier to share data across different information systems. This W3C-developed specification is a self-describing format that makes integration easier.