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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 [...]

Dreamweaver

July 17th, 2009

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 [...]

Google Webmaster Tools

June 10th, 2009

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 [...]

PHP

June 7th, 2009

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

HTML

June 7th, 2009

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

CSS

June 7th, 2009

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

URI Web Tools

June 6th, 2009

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

Apple Safari

June 6th, 2009

Safari for Windows - Safari 3 public beta, now for Windows XP and Vista
BrowsrCamp - Test your website on Safari without installing it on your computer

Internet Explorer

June 6th, 2009

Internet Explorer Homepage - Main page for the Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser
Standalone Version of Internet Explorer 6 - Test your website on Internet Explorer 6 without installing it on your computer (compatible with Windows only)

Mozilla Firefox

May 30th, 2009

Mozilla Firefox - Homepage for the Mozilla Firefox Browser
Portable Mozilla Firefox - Portable version that will work on any Windows machine
Plugins

Colorzilla - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
Firebug - Edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
FireFTP - Free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which [...]