Web Publishing at URI

To:        University of RI Web Publishers
Cc:        ITS Help Desk
From:        Garry Bozylinsky, Vice Provost, Information & Technology Services; Linda A. Acciardo, Director, Communications & Marketing
Re:        Website Security
Date:        October 1, 2009
As the first part of our ongoing security audit and hardening of the URI web servers, Information & Technology Services is [...]

What is it?
Google Analytics (abbreviated GA) is a free service from Google that collects traffic data about your site and its visitors which can be used to better improve your site. GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF [...]

What is Dreamweaver? Why is it such a popular web design tool?
Dreamweaver has become the industry standard web authoring tool, scaring off rivals like Microsoft FrontPage. It is a web design software with powerful features and an approachable interface which allows anyone who can use a computer kick off on a basic web project and, with a bit of patience [...]

What is it?
It is a tool provided by Google to help make your site more search engine accessible. Google, being a search engine itself, wants to help site owners make their sites more accessible so that they can bring up the best search results. Doing this can help bring your site up in [...]

To service a quick method to present similar search data results without requesting additional resources from the server, the use of an autocomplete jquery can be used. This modified version of the plug-in may be used to search through an array of database queries to present such data on-the-fly.

Tutorial
PHP.net Tutorial - Basic PHP tutorial from PHP.net
Resources
PHP.net Tutorial - Basic PHP tutorial from PHP.net
PHP Security - O’Reilley’s OnLAMP article on writing secure PHP scripts
Designing with PHP/MySQL - Building a Database-Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL, by Kevin Yank of Sitepoint.com

Tutorials
W3Schools HTML Tutorial - A quick and basic tutorial on HTML
Validation
W3C Markup Validator - Validates HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.

Tutorials
W3Schools CSS Tutorial - A tutorial on CSS
Validation
W3C CSS Validator - Validates HTML with CSS or pure CSS.

phpESP - Easy form and survey tool
URI Web Templates -  Official Distribution of the University of Rhode Island Web Templates

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