Go to place for Web Development

Rainagul · 4 Jan 2014 at 20:44

It's been a few years since I developed any sites for the web and recently I've been getting the itch to get involved again.

Whilst I presume most of the basics are still used these days, I want to find a resource(s) where I can research & learn about everything I've missed and more importantly what people consider to be relevant and the 'in' thing to be using these days.

Does anyone have any sites/forums/reading they can recommend? Cheers!

kitkat9933 · 4 Jan 2014 at 21:32

Do you want advice on the programming side / hosting side/ design side etc?

Rainagul · 4 Jan 2014 at 22:19

Mainly to do with programming & design

kitkat9933 · 4 Jan 2014 at 22:39

Code Academy has some great tutorials for beginners. http://www.codecademy.com/learn

Or if you have some experience http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

They are both great to get you going.

Rainagul · 4 Jan 2014 at 22:49

kitkat9933 said:
Code Academy has some great tutorials for beginners. http://www.codecademy.com/learn

Or if you have some experience http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

They are both great to get you going.

Thanks that's not really what I'm looking for though.

For instance if I wanted to know something about computer hardware I would check the OCUK forum first as it has plenty of knowledgeable of posts about the latest tech and has plenty of posters with varied perspectives.

I'm now on the hunt for a forum/resource, that offers something like OCUK, but about web development rather than computer hardware.

Th3M8dH8tt3r · 4 Jan 2014 at 23:02

There's nothing really out there past searching for and finding people's blog posts about current web development and stuff.

Go on YouTube and search for "the treehouse show". It's a 20 - 30 minute show about current principals, new plugins and frameworks etc. Basically, a news and review show of current, new and popular code.

Dj_Jestar · 5 Jan 2014 at 13:06

There is a lot going on at the moment. The rise of the MV* framework for JavaScript like AngularJS, ember, knockout and others is probably the current fad.

Sever side JS with node.js is also rising in popularity too.

planty · 5 Jan 2014 at 13:45

I tend to find some interesting posts/articles by following pages on Google+, for example I follow JavaScript and node.js which can throw up some good stuff.

Hyburnate · 5 Jan 2014 at 13:47

Depending on how long you've been out, I'd do some research on HTML5 and CSS3 and then work from there.

HTML5 has some nice things, CSS3 is pretty darn amazing tbh.

spenncerr · 6 Jan 2014 at 18:24

http://stackoverflow.com/

And there are hundreds of coding forums if you just Google it.

Oz!asM!dwinter · 6 Jan 2014 at 18:53

HTML5 updates and other stuff:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/

http://html5doctor.com/

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