W3Schools

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W3Schools
The world's largest web developer site
Portal for web development and web design
languages English
items over 1000
Registration only necessary for the forum
On-line 1998 (currently active)
http://www.w3schools.com/

W3Schools is an e-learning - the website for tutorials and assistance in the field of web development and web design .

Functions

On the page, source code examples with explanations are shown free of charge in English, which can usually also be edited and executed interactively in a live editor. Other important code elements are hidden so that the user can focus on the code shown (developer sandbox ). The tutorials are divided into individual chapters on the development languages ​​from which you can choose. In addition to the basics, certain advanced technologies (for example HTML5 or frameworks and program libraries ), graphic or application-related implementation options and examples, as well as a focus on individual elements of the programming language (so-called "references") can be learned, looked up and tried out. There is also a YouTube channel, which takes up and explains certain topics in web development, and an internet forum .

The languages HTML , CSS , JavaScript , JSON , PHP , AngularJS , SQL , Bootstrap , Node.js , jQuery , XQuery , Ajax , and XML are supported .

History and background

The site was first made public in 1998. The name is based on the World Wide Web and not to be confused with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The site is the largest web development website . It currently has a worldwide Alexa Internet rank of 187 and receives more than 10 million unique visits per month .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Learn HTML and CSS with w3Schools. Retrieved May 24, 2010, April 2, 2018 (Canadian English).
  2. ↑ Entry into IT: Entry into IT | W3Schools - Learn Web Techniques Online. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ W3Schools. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b it-times: W3Schools: What is hidden behind the world's largest website for developers . ( it-times.de [accessed on April 2, 2018]).
  5. ↑ About W3Schools. Retrieved April 2, 2018 (American English).
  6. ↑ w3schools.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .