Web Application Development
There are many skills, technologies and languages that can be utilised to develop and maintain web sites. A good starting point is the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) tutorials.
Software you need for these tutorials
All you need is an editor and a browser. You can use any program but here is a couple of free open source software you will find useful.
Firefox is a standards compliant browser and is a 'must-have' for developers. 
HTML and Accessibility Validator (add-on) for offline page validation. 
Web Developer (add-on) adds a menu and a toolbar with various useful tools. 
Firebug (add-on) lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. 
Notepad++ is a free open source editor with syntax highlighting. 
Cooltext is a free graphics utility for generating a logo and colourful text. 
Apache web server, PHP, Mysql database server, and a neat control panel. 
FireFTP (add-on) is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. 
