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So one day you decide that you want to learn something about web design. Where do you start? What are the best tutorial sites on the net? Where can you find the tools and code you need? This is my personal collection of favorites. Whenever possible I’ve used the site designers own words in the descriptions:

The Absolute Basics:

First of all, you’re going to need to know what all those web design acronyms mean in the first place. About.com can help us with that one: What do all those Web Acronyms Mean?

Next you’re going to need some sort of editor to create web pages. Now you could design pages in a simple text editor. But if you’re just getting started, and you need some sort of visual affirmation I would recommend Dreamweaver. Of course Dreamweaver only works for Windows, and it’s rather expensive. It is, however, a decent, WYSIWYG editor (see the wki entry for HTML Editor if you’re confused). If you’re using Linux, I would recommend Bluefish. It’s not as visual as Dreamweaver, but your average Linux user is probably not going to need as much hand-holding anyway.

CSS:

CSS Navigation Techniques (37 entries)

• CSS Showcase is a gallery of css-based navigation menus, tabs and css navigation techniques. Compiled and updated by Vitaly Friedman.

Designing on a Dime: 100 Freebie CSS Resources - Software Developer

• As the title suggests, this is a page that has a list of resources for the beginning web designer.

Master Stylesheet: The Most Useful CSS Technique

• A Master Stylesheet is used to remove the default browser styling. This allows you to have a uniform look between different browsers.

Maxdesign

• This Page has tutorials about creating CSS based lists and teaches you how to use floats properly.

Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates.

• Download and upload free web designs.

SEOmoz | 15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)

• Explanations of 15 CSS properties that aren’t used much in web development.

The Float Model Problem

• A description of how different browsers treat float/non-float behavior.

DHTML, JavaScript & Ajax:

A library of DHTML and Ajax scripts - DHTMLgoodies.com

• DHTMLgoodies.com, a site with DHTML and Ajax scripts, demos and tutorials.

A Mootools Tutorial :: The “Mootorial” » Clientside Examples & Tutorials » Clientside

• Mootools is a very popular JavaScript Library.

AjaxDaddy

• Ajax demos and examples.

AjaxLibraries

• An overview of various Ajax/JavaScript libraries.

Ajaxlines - Asynchronous JavaScript, XML and XMLHTTP

• Ajaxlines provides Asynchronous JavaScript and XML Resources, Tutorials, Websites and Toolkits.

DHTMLSite - Ultimate Resource on DHTML/AJAX Scripts and Tutorials

• Ultimate Resource on DHTML/AJAX Scripts and Tutorials.

Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library

• A comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more.

iCarousel

• JavaScript Horizontal Image scroller.

Interactive DOM scripting - DHTML demos

• Interactive DHTML: a collection of programmatic artwork, interactive experiments in dynamic HTML and DOM scripting.

JavaScript Kit- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials and over 400+ free JavaScripts!

• Comprehensive
  JavaScript tutorials and over 400 free scripts. Also features DHTML,
  CSS, and web design tutorials, and a large developer’s help forum.

Lightbox2

• A simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page.

moo.fx - size does matter - lightweight javascript library

• moo.fx, a superlightweight JavaScript effects library

mootools

• mootools, a super lightweight web2.0 JavaScript framework

Particletree

• This is a very quick guide to the Prototype library.

Prototype JavaScript framework

• Prototype is the framework on which a lot of other JavaScript libraries are built.

Rico

• Yet another JavaScript library.

script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript

• Another add-on to the Prototype framework. This is a collection of user interface JavaScript libraries.

Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns

• JavaScript Dropdown Menus.

ThickBox 3

• ThickBox
  is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the
  jQuery library. It’s function is too show a single image, multiple
  images, inline content, iframed content, and content served through
  AJAX in a hybrid modal.

Yahoo! (UI Library)

• A
  set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building
  richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM
  scripting, DHTML and AJAX

HTML:

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide

• O’Reilly’s book of the same title.

HTML Cheat Sheet

• From the ILoveJackDaniel’s website. This is a printable cheat sheet.

HTML Goodies

• Free html tutorials and help, images, color codes and more for the web developer. Featuring tutorials on HTML tags, programming, basics, JavaScript, frames, hex codes and more.

HTML Playground

• HTML XHTML CSS tutorials, references, code examples. This site actually allows you to play with code to see how it works.

HTML URL-encoding Reference

• Free HTML XHTML CSS JavaScript DHTML XML DOM XSL XSLT RSS AJAX ASP ADO PHP SQL tutorials, references, examples for web building.

HTMLforums

• HTMLforums.com offers free HTML and web development help to webmasters, web developers and small business owners

W3Schools.com

• A large site of web design tutorials.

XHTML 1.0

• The W3Cs specifications for XHTML 1.0.

PHP:

freecodemama.com

• Freecodemama’s huge collection of PHP resources.

Happy Codings - Php Programming Code Examples

• Programming Resources & Code Examples

Hotscripts.com :: The net’s largest PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript and ASP script collection and resource web portal

• HotScripts.com is an Internet directory that compiles and
  distributes Web programming-related resources, geared toward
  webmasters, developers and programmers looking for enhancing their Web
  sites and intranets with dynamic development tools.

PHP: PHP Manual

• This is…. the PHP Manual.

PHP Cookbook

• O’Reilly’s PHP Cookbook.

Practical PHP Programming

• A PHP Wiki.

Programming PHP

• O’Reilly’s Programming PHP