web tech knowledge

Keeping your Software Updated and Secure

When you host your project on the New Media Lab server, we require you to keep your software reasonably up to date. Though some updates are urgent, others are less important or even better to avoid.

Web applications and tools used at the NML

Why we strongly recommend open source programs & several programs we like for web work: Wordpress, Omeka, MediaWiki, and Drupal

Web hosting & the NML server: The basics

What is web hosting? How does your site get a domain name? What does a server do?

Web servers: a bit beyond the basics

How does a server work? What do terms like LAMP, Apache, MySQL, and PHP mean?

Web content: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more

How do browsers read web pages? What are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript? What are other formats, such as XML and JSON?