• Adobe - Flex 2 - Application Development - Adobe Flex is an IDE for building custom web application development and rich internet applications.
• Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in Java -Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers.
• PageKit - PageKit is a mod_perl based application framework that uses a Template system and XML to separate the presentation, content and code.
• Seaside - Seaside provides a layered set of abstractions over HTTP and HTML that let you build highly interactive web applications quickly, reusably and maintainably. IT is based on Smalltalk.
• Fusebox - The most popular framework for building ColdFusion and PHP web applications. Coding and encapsulating entire ColdFusion application.
• CodeIgniter - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
• Helma - Written in Java and employs Javascript for its server-side scripting environment, removing the need for compilation cycles and reducing development costs while giving you instant access to leverage the whole wealth of Java libraries out there.
• Jitsu user interfaces for web applications - Jitsu contains an integrated set of tools to enable developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications.

List of web application frameworks -

Web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities used in Web development. For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and often promote code reuse.

Tips and Tweaks and Tools for Google Sites Web CMS

• First have an account with Disqus.
• Create a Community or Forum (this has the short-name)
• Put in a Google Site with Domain on any page.
• The URL example - - http://www.yourdomain.com/about
  
• A Title - like  - - My Life and my Town
• Set the short-name, cross-check in your disqus dashboard
• Then check at the URL you have set, not while editing.
• Even monitor changes in a disqus iGoogle gadget with same settings.
  

• Make the page flexible width and viewable at 300px width.
• Make all Images less than 300px width (thumbs).
• Use less Scripts - Mobile Devices, CPU, is not as fast.
• Use Less Tables and Bullets with Noindent.
• Do Not use Sidebar, Navigation at Top-Bot.
• Make a unique section in your website for mobile sites or use scripts to modify to be presentable. The latter may not give good results, unless you preprocess the pages so that they modify well with your scripts.

• Lightweight - Bluefish tries to be lean and clean
• Fast - Bluefish starts really quick even on a netbook.
• Very powerful search and replace.
• Snippets sidebar - specify custom dialogs, search and replace pattern.
• Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script.
• Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown.
• Character map of all unicode characters (requires libgucharmap during compilation)

Here is a brief summary of my Webexperience, First things first, use Firefox a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

The easiest way to have an online presence is to build your own blog with Blogger. You can also build and maintain website with the help of cms like drupal and WordPress. Then all you need is a Good Domain Name. If you want a html-ftp blog cms Thingamablog is the perfect answer.

For people who would not like to work with code, a tool like Zoundry can be set up for easy update to the CMS or Blog. You can also look at Snapfiles, where you can choose and download many productivity freeware.

My DIY Kit for webpage building has been Mozilla Composer and FileZilla for Quite some time. Then for templates and themes i use Top Style Lite and the indispensable CPick. All my pages are generated using ReplaceEm.

Dynamic Drive has DHTML scripts to make your pages more lively, thefreecountry.com has valuable Programmers Resources, many scripts can be found at Hotscripts that enable you to make database based, multi-user applications for developing your own online service. Search for developer or design resources in software using Cyber Chimp Search or look thru the WebLinks Section.

Freeware and Productivity Tools -

IrfanView does Most graphics optimization and conversion for the webmaster or coder. XnView is useful for many graphic manipulation needs.

Open Source vector graphics editor using Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG. file format Inkscape is a tool for Artists. Photofiltre is a nice drawing software, which is easy to use.

This is what you will need to produce PDF files on a budget. With Ghostgum Software.

TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement.

Want to acquire knowledge, read online at Wikibooks and Gutenberg.

Lastly you can monitor Live, the health of the web by looking at the Internet Traffic Report graph on the right.

(few years old - archived)

• Google Ajax API
• Dynamic Drive
  

GIF, JPEG or PNG? Introduction:

You've made the perfect image for your web page in your favorite graphics program. You click 'Save As', and you see something like the window below. Even the simplest graphics programs have a bewildering array of file formats you can save your file in. But which format is the right one?

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