List of Useful Web Development Related Links
Software & Libraries
- sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), "a method to insert rich typography into web pages..."
- Timeframe, highly customizable/interactive javascript calendar library.
- Best Flash Music Player Ever
- S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System, it's all in the name.
- Piwik, open source alternative to Google Analytics
- The Lightbox Clones Matrix, comparison of various scripts that display images and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups
Articles
- Reset Browser Default Margins and Padding
- Logo Design Guide
- Website Layouts, by Matthew J. Taylor
- The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern
- Web Designer Wall, various useful tutorials maintained by Nick La
- "Stupid htaccess Tricks", an awesome list of every imaginable htaccess trick
- maxdesign (Listamatic, Floatutorial, etc), a series of web coding techniques.
Development Tools
- TypeTester, for extensive testing and experimentation of type-faces
- Stripe Generator, generates… stripes, with full customization
- W3C Validator, use it!
- WhatTheFont?!, an amazing online tool that returns fonts similar to the one you have in mind
- .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool, see iWebTool for more
- RegEx Helper, a regular expressions workbench. Grab code in various languages.
- Color Comobs, a site that helps choose attractive colour schemes for websites
- The Grid System, 'The ultimate resource in grid systems'.
- Typechart, lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS
- Text|Generator, for those tired of using Lorem Ipsum for dummy text (me)
- RSS Viewer, a simple rss viewer for testing feeds by yours truely
Media Resources
- Blue Vertigo, massive collection of web resources
- Bulleted List Images
- FamFamFam Site Icons
- Squidfingers - Patterns, large collection of tiling background images
- Stock.Xchng, stock photography
- 63 Must Have Grunge Fonts
- Ajaxload, ajax loading gif generator