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Please submit basic sites written in such a way that children and teens can understand them. This may include free online tutorials, tips, troubleshooting guides or downloadable scripts. Sites that are of a highly technical nature are not good candidates for this portion of the directory.

Sites that are designed primarily to market products or services, including instructional books, video tapes, and classes, should not be submitted to amy portion of Kids and Teens, including this one.

This category lists sites that offer free CGI and Programming resources for kids and teens that are interested in designing their own web pages.

DHTML

DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language) is a combination of technologies which work together to allow version 4+ browsers to produce more interactive page effects. Whereas previously a user would have to reload a page to change the content, DHTML allows content changes triggered by the user.

Webpages that explain how to do and learn this are included.

Java

Java applets are mini applications written in Java (not the same as Javascript). While Javascript and HTML are scripting languages which are interpreted at run time by the browser, Java applets are compiled into machine language (which runs very fast) prior to run time then embedded in a web page. They can be made to do all sorts of things but are often used to produce graphic effects.

This category has resources for you to download applets.

Javascript

JavaScript is a platform-independent, event-driven, interpreted programming language developed by Netscape Communications Corp. and Sun Microsystems.

This category will have resources that have pre-written code for you to use and also resources for you to learn it.

XML

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language XML is a markup language much like HTML. XML tags are not predefined in XML. You must define your own tags. XML is not a replacement for HTML. XML and HTML were designed with different goals:

XML was designed to describe data and to focus on what data is. HTML was designed to display data and to focus on how data looks.

HTML is about displaying information, XML is about describing information.

This category will contain resource for you to learn and use XML.

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