Links

This is a collection of useful links related to ASP programming, web design and SEO. If you have a link you would like to suggest for this page please send the link and description via the contact page. 

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ConnectionStrings.com

The idea of ConnectionStrings.com is to provide an easy reference for connection strings. Today there are 249 connection strings in the database which have been collected from other internet sites, books, help files, msdn etc or have been submitted by fellow developers from all around the world.

ConnectionStrings.com

CSS

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CSS Beginner Tutorial

CSS Beginner Tutorial assumes that you know little or nothing about CSS. The purpose of the tutorial is to teach the bare essentials - just enough to get started.

This is followed up by a CSS Intermediate Tutorial and CSS Advanced Tutorial which go into more depth about CSS.

CSS Beginner Tutorial

Design Tools

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Browsershots

An excellent resource for web designers to see what their site will look like in a variety of different browsers.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

BrowserShots.org
The W3C CSS Validation Service

Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets

CSS Validation Service
The W3C Markup Validation Service

The validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.

W3C Markup Validation
W3C Feed Validation Service

This is the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds.

W3C Feed Validation

Forum

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ASP Free

This is a good resource for any one using ASP either a total newbie or the experienced user alike. the forum has lots of knowledgeable member who are friendly and willing to help and there are forums on related topics like databases, web server and hosting and HTML, CSS and Java Script.

The site also has a useful code bank where you can find good examples of ASP code.

ASP Free Forum
DeveloperBarn

DeveloperBarn is an ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript, SQL and MySQL and Programming Help Forum. Get ASP, ASP.NET, PHP and JavaScript help and sample code. the forum has lots of knowledgeable member who are friendly and willing to help.

The site also has a useful code bank where you can find good examples of ASP code.

DeveloperBarn Forums

HTML

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HTML Beginner Tutorial

The HTML Beginner Tutorial assumes that you have no previous knowledge of HTML or CSS.

The tutorial is quite easy to follow if you work through each step, and all the steps are brought together at the end, before moving on to the CSS Beginner Tutorial.

HTML Beginner Tutorial

Reference

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W3Schools

This is an excellent resource for any one learning web programming or just HTML. you can effectively learn the popular languages as well as the basics of HTML, XHTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, ASP.NET and much more.

W3Schools

SEO Tools

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Raven SEO Analyzer

The is a free tool from Raven SEO Tools that can help you build better search engine optimized Web designs. Enter the full address of the Web page you want analyzed, and then click on the Analyze button to receive your free Web design report.

SEO Analyzer
Search Engine Tools

The original "swiss army knife of search engine tools". oyoy.eu specialize in tools for search engine interaction.

Oyoy.eu Tools
Web-Sniffer

Fetures:
list of user agents
switch between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0
test If-Modified-Since and If-Match headers
support WWW-Authenticate
search engine redirect added - all bots will be moved permanently to frontpage
the URL may also be an Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
secure connections (HTTPS) allowed

Web-Sniffer

Tools

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CSS Generator

A useful resource to help with CSS, the site has a forum, beginners guide and some useful CSS tools along with other CSS related information.

CSS Generator
FavIcon from Pics

Tool for creating favicon.ico from a graphic file of any size, simply browse for the file you want to use and click the generate button. You will then be presented with a download zip file containing you favicon and an animated version with instructions on how to add it to your site.

FavIcon from Pics
Stop Forum Spam

An online service where you can query a database of spammers IP addresses. You can either visit the site and query the database or you can automate it with code and query the database from within your application.

I will later be adding a page in the Example section with code examples for using the API's to prevent spam from getting to your database.

Stop Forum Spam
Web Scraping Software

screen-scraper is a cross-platform tool for extracting data from Web sites. The basic package is freeware but the professional is $499 USD and enterprise is $2,499 USD so unless you have a need for any of the features in the Pro or enterprise the basic is a good starting point.

Screen-Scraper.com