Web, Web Design and Web Application Issues
Client-Side Technologies
HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language): HTML v4+v5 Elements HTML Form Specials DOM*
CSS (Cascaded Style Sheets): CSS v1* CSS v2* CSS v3* Moving from HTML inline formatting to CSS CSS resetter / CSS defaults
JS (JavaScript): JS Keywords JS+DOM JS Events JS Libraries
Server-Side Technologies
Scripting Engines:
ASP (Active Server Pages): ASP_Keywords ASP_Versions*
PHP (Php Hypertext Preprocessor): PHP_Keywords* PHP_Versions PHP_Tricks
SSI (Server-Side Includes): SSI_Keywords
Template Engines:
Apache Velocity, currently (2011) v1.6.2
Beilpuz, currently (2011) v0.3
Transport Technologies
AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML)
HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol): v1* v1.1* Character Sets
Vendors´ non-Standard Extensions
HTTP P3P Policy-Header (IE6+)
HTML Form vCard-Attributes (IE ?)
Usability
Nice article about users apparently choosing products bloated with features: "Users’ desire for both features and easy to use products will never go away. They do not only want one or the other. They want both." ... "When people have to choose which product to buy, people will actually choose the simpler product when they their needs for a product are clearly defined. However, if they cannot clearly define what their needs for a product are, they will choose the more complex product with more features." — full text on Simplicity is Not Overrated, Just Misunderstood
Bruce Schneier on Security: "Complexity is the enemy of security. As systems get more complex, they get less secure." — full text on Three Minutes