Web Tech Talk

Every web designer, web developer and web monkey needs to keep their skill updated. Some of us are lucky enough to have a good job that pay for classes, courses and seminars that will improve our skill or better yet teach us new skills. Others have to try and keep themselves a float by teaching themselves the new tricks of the trade.

Here are a few resource that may help you when you're building a new web site or add some extra functionality to your web applications.

Google Code.

I'll be completely honest with you and say that I integrate almost all of the sites I create with the Google Search API. It's fast, effective and Google has been doing this for years so you might as well use their technology. Also, the APIs they have up there are fun to play with and can be very useful.

Yahoo! User Interface Library.

I haven't used any of these libraries yet. So I can't give you much input. But I'm sure Yahoo! has plenty of tricks to show you. Plus I hear the AutoComplete is really cool.

Dr Web's Web 2.0 Webdesign - Tutorials

These tutorials are a great resource if you're trying to achieve an updated look. It has many tutorials on the new Web 2.0 design techniques.

AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

For all of those trying to get a handle on Ajax be sure to check out W3C School - Ajax Tutorial, Dojo - The Javascript Toolkit, ASP.Net AJAX, AJAX - MDC and AJAX Design Patterns

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

CSS has come a long way. In my opinion CSS is the best way to design and construcht your web site. The control you have over each element on the page is amazing and designers have the ability to specify different style sheets for different browsers to increase the sites usability. Be sure to check out W3C Cascading Style Sheets
home page, W3C School - CSS Tutorials, CSS Zen Garden, Smashing Magazine - CSS Category

Hopefully these resources will help some you. They were pretty useful to me.