Web Production Resources

Below are some online resources we use and recommend to people interested in professional web site design and development.

Web Technology

• Apache HTTP Server, the best and most popular web server on the planet.



• PHP, the leading server-side scripting language used to build dynamic web sites.



• MySQL, the world's most popular open source database management system.



• PostgreSQL, another powerful open source database management system.



• FreeBSD, an advanced Unix based operating system used worldwide in business, education and at home, freely available to everyone.



• Linux, another advanced Unix based operating system used worldwide and also freely available to everyone.

Web Development

• World Wide Web Consortium, the organization responsible for developing standards in web technologies such as HTML, CSS and XML.



• SourceForge, the world's largest open source software development web site.



• WeberDev, a large web development site which specializes in PHP and MySQL development.



• ScrubTheWeb.com's Meta tag analyzer.

Productivity

• Firefox, a new web browser that is superior to Microsoft Internet Explorer in every respect.



• OpenOffice, an open source office productivity suite from Sun Microsystems that runs on Windows and other operating systems, freely available to everyone.