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You'll find a link to my analysis here:
A couple of key things from my analysis I wanted to share with you:
-A great resource I found that covers a range of technologies that you would use to develop a site. It covers some history, background and advantages and drawbacks, as well as some how-tos.
Lane, J., Moscovitz, M. & Lewis, J.R., 2008. Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript, Available at: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/10.1007/978-1-4302-0992-8 [Accessed April 7, 2010].
-While looking into html/ Xhtml and hml5, I realised that while I'd use Xhtml mostly, it might be good to at least look into using some html5 tags since that's what's coming.
Here's a great article about using html5 tags with graceful degradation:
Here's a section I really liked:
"HTML5 is not for everyone. Therefore, you must be wise and select how and where to use it. Think of all the markup flavours you’ve got available as tools: use the right one for the right job. Therefore, if your website is coded in standards compliant XHTML strict there’s no real need to change to HTML5.
There’s also the fact that by using HTML5 code right now your website gets stuck in some kind of “limbo” since even though your browser will render HTML5, it does not understand it as of yet. This may also apply to other software such as screenreaders and search engines.
Lastly you must consider that HTML5 is still under heavy development, and it’s probably the “most open” project the W3C has ever done. With the immense amount of feedback and all the hype around it, the current draft is bound to change and it’s impossible to predict how much."
There’s also the fact that by using HTML5 code right now your website gets stuck in some kind of “limbo” since even though your browser will render HTML5, it does not understand it as of yet. This may also apply to other software such as screenreaders and search engines.
Lastly you must consider that HTML5 is still under heavy development, and it’s probably the “most open” project the W3C has ever done. With the immense amount of feedback and all the hype around it, the current draft is bound to change and it’s impossible to predict how much."
Lastly, PHP was something to get my head around, particularly thinking about its advantages and drawbacks- which required a comparison with other alternatives. Here's an article that compares three major options PHP, Rails and Java. It gave me some ideas on what to compare and how to compare- and the graph makes it easy to access:
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