Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Web Technologies 2008 Version

What are the important web technologies to learn in 2008? My view on this is that we need to look at two extremes. After a quick preview, we will cover the core, standards based components of everything we do on the web. Those components being: (X)HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript. These technologies form the bed rock of for all future web technologies as they are built-in everywhere and must be understood in order to do anything constructive with the latest approaches. I try to avoid using proprietary tools as focusing on these merely teaching a current tool rather than the underlying technologies.

We will apply these basic technologies using a contemporary application that makes experimenting with HTML, CSS, and Javascript very convenient. That application is iGoogle. We will build some simple Gadgets for iGoogle using the Gadget Editor.

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