W3Schools is a web developer's portal

Web portal

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, with tutorials and references relating to web development

Web development

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet . This can include web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development...

 subjects, including HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, CSS

CSS

-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, ASP

ASP

ASP may refer to:-Electronics:* Analog signal processing, processing electronic signals that represent continuous variables by use of analog circuitry* Anti-skip protection or electronic skip protection, a protection of an audio compact disc playback...

, ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

, and SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

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 advertising

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. The tutorials and references on the website and the related code are proprietary

Proprietary software

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. The site derives its name from the abbreviation for the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

; W3 is a numeronym

Numeronym

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 of WWW. W3Schools is not affiliated with the W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

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. Members of the W3C have asked W3Schools to explicitly disavow any connection, but they have refused to do so.

It is created and owned by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian

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 family-owned

Family business

A family business is a business in which one or more members of one or more families have a significant ownership interest and significant commitments toward the business’ overall well-being....

 software development

Software development

Software development is the development of a software product...

 and consulting

Consultant

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company.

Major Updates in 2011

Based on user comments, W3Schools added a "Suggest corrections" form to all pages. HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials and references were added, and existing content was reviewed and updated.

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