Setting up a Website Baker site is not that complicated. The most common issues are related to layout problems caused by the incorrect usage of CSS or HTML tags. Another potential source of issues is related to mixing HTML elements with Javascript and PHP statements in the index.php file of your template.
The bookmarks below provide some basic links to HTML. CSS, Javascript, PHP and Apache resources, which may be helpfull when developing websites. Please notice that the Website Baker Forum only covers problems related to WB itself. If you have problem with styling your layout, the WWW is your source of inspiration.
| HTML Resources |
| HTML Dog -> http://www.htmldog.com/ The Best Practice Guide To XHTML and CSS. |
| Validation of HTML markup -> http://www.validome.org/ Service for the validation of HTML and XHTML markup. |
| CSS Resources |
| CSS Library -> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast. Please read this page before asking questions in the forum about styling the navigation menu!!! |
| CSS Maxdesign -> http://css.maxdesign.com.au/ Provides some nice tutorials dealing with layout and styling of menus by using CSS style definitions. |
| CSS Zen Garden -> http://www.csszengarden.com A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. |
| Position is everything -> http://www.positioniseverything.net/ Site which explains some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers. Provides examples of interesting CSS bugs and shows how to deal with them. |
| YAML Builder -> http://builder.yaml.de/ The YAML Builder is a AXAJ framework designed for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts. It is the easiest and most comfortable way of creating float based multi-column layouts which work on almost all browsers available. |
| Apache / PHP / MySQL |
| MySQL Manual -> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/#manual Description of all MySQL functions with code snippets. |
| PHP Manual -> http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php The English PHP manual. Description of all PHP functions with code snippets. |
| Tutorial for the modrewrite module -> http://www.modrewrite.com/ Tutorial for the modrewrite module which will most likely be introduced with WB2.7 latest WB3.0. |
| Tutorial for using .htaccess -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html Apache tutorial which explains the most common settings you can make in the .htaccess file. |
| XAMPP -> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html Set up your own local test environment using the free package XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl). |
| Javascript Resources |
| Javascript Kit -> http://www.javascriptkit.com/ Website that provides some nice Javascript tutorials and code snippets. |
| Website Development |
| Dynamic Drive -> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ Contains lots of information about the website development (CSS, Javascript, htaccess....). Simply have a look on it. |
| Firebug -> http://www.getfirebug.com/ Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. |
| Firefox -> http://www.getfirefox.com Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more, and is one of the most W3C standards compliant browser you can find. |
| Web Developer Toolbar -> http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox and will run on any platform that supports Firefox including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Also available for as well as, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey |
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