• Author: Robert Schifreen
• Format: PDF download
• Price: Free for personal use, commercial licensing available

The Web Book is a complete 330-page book that tells you how to create a Web site from scratch. It covers everything from registering a domain name and renting some hosting space, to creating your first HTML page, to building full online database applications with PHP and MySQL. You can download The Web Book as a PDF file completely free of charge for personal use.

Contents include:

• About The Web Book
• Our Choice of Web Host
• Licensing The Web Book
• A Custom Edition For Your Company
• Who’s Written This Book?  And Why?
• Why We’re Here
• From Word Processor to Web Site
• How long should all this take?
• What Is a Web Site Anyway?
• How the Web Works
• Domain Names
• The Simple Option
• The Flexible Option
• About Web Content
• Do you need a development server?
• Getting Everything Together
• Our Domain Name and Hosting
• It’s Not Rude to Point
• Our HTML Editor and FTP Client
• Amaya
• Make A Web Work Folder
• Filezilla
• Creating Your First Web Page
• Now step away from the computer!
• Keep On Reading
• WWW – What, Why, Who?
• Importing Existing Content
• Writing For The Web
• Fonts and Colours
• Hyperlinks
• Linking to Other Sites
• Mailto: Links
• Understanding The Basics of HTML
• Meta tags
• HTML and Privacy
• Validating your HTML
• A Bit More about Accessibility
• Cascading Style Sheets
• About DOCTYPEs
• Getting Started with CSS
• A Word About Fonts
• Classes
• Making Styles Work For You
• HTML Tags Names
• A Better CSS Editor
• ID-based Styles
• Extreme CSS
• Page Layouts and Div Tags
• The CSS Box Model
• Pictures On Pages
• About Image Sizes
• Pictures As Links
• Finding Images to Use on Your Site
• A Browser Icon for your Site
• The Short Cut to Great Web Pages
• Using an Open Source Design
• Tweaking the Text
• Changing the Pictures
• Changing the CSS Styles
• Which Style Is This?
• Adding Pages and Navigation
• Uploading the Finished Files
• Rules, Tables and Image Maps
• Rules
• Tables
• Image Maps
• Password-Protecting your Web Pages
• The .htaccess File
• The .htpasswd File
• Protecting Multiple Folders
• CMSes and Other Software
• CMSes and Templates
• Automatic Installers
• Try Before You Install
• A Word about Patching
• Setting Up A Database
• General Installation Procedures
• Uninstalling
• Joomla
• Uploading the Files
• Configuring Joomla
• Your New Joomla Site
• WordPress
• Downloading the Software
• Make a Database
• Configure WordPress
• Upload The Software
• Final Configuration
• phpBB
• File Permissions
• Plogger
• Getting Started
• The Installation Process
• Uploading Your Pictures
• Avoiding Data Overload
• Installing the PSPad Editor
• Javascript
• Choose Your Side
• Javascript and Semicolons
• Email Address Obfuscation
• Why Upload?
• Security and Cookies
• Morning All!
• Getting the Screen Size
• Javascript Toolkits and Frameworks
• Finding Out More
• MySQL and Web Databases
• Databases, Tables, Fields, Rows and Columns
• Normalization
• Referential Integrity
• Creating A Database
• Using phpMyAdmin
• Creating The Customers Table
• Inserting Some Data
• Querying the Customers Table
• Introducing PHP
• Don’t Panic
• Your First PHP Program
• Some More PHP
• Random Numbers
• Sending Email with PHP
• Passing Information to PHP
• Don’t Forget to Sanitize
• Loop the Loop
• Arrays
• User-Defined Functions
• HTML Forms
• Creating a Form with Amaya
• Naming the Form Objects
• Handling Form Data in PHP
• Testing The Form
• Other Types of Form Data
• Checkbox Arrays
• Feedback Forms
• Hidden Fields
• Accessing MySQL Databases with PHP
• Counting Rows
• Reading Data
• Searching A Table
• About SQL Injection Attacks
• Adding Data to a Table
• Editing a Data Record
• Deleting Data
• Putting it All Together
• Debugging and Global Variables
• Syntax Errors
• Coding Errors
• The $_SERVER Variables
• The Structure of a PHP Application
• Web Servers and the Real World
• Putting the App Together
• Saving State
• How to Back Up your Web Site
• Don’t Forget the Database
• Restoring Lost Information
• Finance and Marketing Issues
• Promoting Your Site
• Making Money
• Accepting Online Payments
• Managing your Marketing
• Search Engine Optimisation
• SEO Tips
• Keeping the Crawlers Away
• If at First you Don’t Succeed, Pay
• The End.  So, What Now
• Appendix A – Building a Test Server
• Our Goal
• First Install the OS
• Some Useful Commands
• Get Updated
• Test Your Web Server
• Install the Telnet Server
• An ftp server
• Webmin
• Webalizer
• PHP and MySQL

http://www.the-web-book.com/index.html

• Author: Mark Pilgrim
• Format: online HTML, archived HTML, archived PDF, archived plain text, Palm OS, archived video demonstrations
• Price: free

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.

There is a huge repository of user scripts that do all kinds of amazing things at Userscripts.org.

But Firefox isn’t the only browser that you can write these scripts for. There is also a macro for K-Meleon called GreaseMeleon, that will allow that browser to use Greasemonkey scripts, too. And there is even a way to use them in Google’s Chrome browser. (instructions)

All this is great if all you want to do is use Greasemonkey scripts, but what if you want to write your own? That’s where Dive Into Greasemonkey can help.

It takes you step-by-step from explaining what Greasemonkey is, installing it into Firefox, installing user scripts, to actually writing and debugging your own. Chock full of information that will help the beginner and expert, alike.

Dive into Greasemonkey is a valuable reference for anyone that wants to truly unleash the power of user scripts.

Chapters include:

• What is Greasemonkey?
• Installing Greasemonkey
• Installing a user script
• Managing your user scripts
• Hello World
• Describing your user script with metadata
• Coding your user script
• Editing your user script
• Debugging User Scripts
• Tracking crashes with JavaScript Console
• Logging with GM_log
• Inspecting elements with DOM Inspector
• Evaluating expressions with Javascript Shell
• Other debugging tools
• Executing a user script on a domain and all its subdomains
• Testing whether a Greasemonkey function is available
• Testing whether a page includes an HTML element
• Doing something for every HTML element
• Doing something for every instance of a specific HTML element
• Doing something for every element with a certain attribute
• Inserting content before an element
• Inserting content after an element
• Removing an element
• Replacing an element with new content
• Inserting complex HTML quickly
• Adding images without hitting a central server
• Adding CSS styles
• Getting an element’s style
• Setting an element’s style
• Post-processing a page after it renders
• Matching case-insensitive attribute values
• Getting the current domain name
• Rewriting links
• Redirecting pages
• Intercepting user clicks
• Overriding a built-in Javascript method
• Parsing XML
• Case Studies
• Case study: GMail Secure
• Case study: Bloglines Autoload
• Case study: Ain’t It Readable
• Case study: Offsite Blank
• Case study: Dumb Quotes
• Case study: Frownies
• Case study: Zoom Textarea
• Case study: Access Bar
• Storing and retrieving persistent data
• Adding items to the menubar
• Integrating data from other sites
• Compiling your user script into an extension
• Greasemonkey API Reference
• GM_log – log messages to the JavaScript Console
• GM_getValue – get script-specific configuration value
• GM_setValue – set script-specific configuration value
• GM_registerMenuCommand – add a menu item to the User Script Commands submenu
• GM_xmlhttpRequest – make an arbitrary HTTP request
• List of “further reading” links
• List of tips
• List of examples
• List of procedures

http:/diveintogreasemonkey.org/