Computational Methods for Research in Speech Science

Web programming

This page provides some useful resources to support the web programming part of the course..

Free Software

• PSPad. Plain text editor with ability to edit remote files. Great for simple HTML editing on UCL server. Be sure to download the latest 4.5.6 version.
• Top Style Lite. A simple free editor for CSS (cascading style sheets) to help you create your own style sheet for your pages.
• WinSCP. A free file copying program that can be used to download and upload files between your home computer and our server.
• Paint.NET. A free paint program suitable for making and manipulating web images. Requires the .NET 2.0 framework (as does Visual Basic 2005).
• WASP - Waveforms, Annotations, Spectrograms & Pitch. Free program for recording and displaying speech. Allows you to save audio in WAV format.
• WinLAME. Free MP3 encoder for WAV files.
• HTML validation service. Check the validity of your coding with this free service.

On-line Tutorials & Reference Information

• HTML reference from the Web Design Group. All the reference information you will need about authoring web pages in HTML and CSS.
• W3Schools HTML tutorial. An excellent combination of reference and tutorial information about web authoring. Includes interactive pages where you can try out your HTML coding.
• Beginner's HTML. Good introduction to common HTML, although with too much advertising for my taste.
• W3Schools CSS tutorial. Another W3Schools tutorial, this time about CSS (cascading style sheets).
• Beginner's CSS. Good introduction to basics of cascading style sheets.
• Using IPA Unicode symbols in web pages. Detailed advice and symbol codes for phonetic characters.
• How to play sound from a web page using Flash. A tutorial in the use of the free WordPress audio player.
• How to play video from a web page using Flash. A tutorial in the use of the free FlowPlayer video player.

Books

• Learning Web Design: A Beginners Guide to HTML, Graphics and Beyond. Jennifer Nieferst, O'Reilly, 2003. Beginners introduction to building web pages with HTML using common tools. ISBN: 0596004842.