38 Tools tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
"In an effort to return to my roots, I spent the majority of the day compiling what I believe to be the mother of all technical SEO cheat sheets."
Programing Cheat Sheets
"After learning a few programing languages it gets hard remembering all of the functions and properties that programing languages come with. Below is a list of Cheat sheets to make your coding experience much easier and faster."
The Blogger’s Library: 28 Free eBooks and Excerpts for Bloggers
"Looking for some reading material? These eBooks cover topics ranging from content creation, promotion, social media, general blogging, business blogging, making money blogging to web writing/copywriting, SEO and design."
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
"Features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between."
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible web site
"This book answers two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is "How can I make my web site more accessible?" If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second."
Building Accessible Websites
Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
"Improve your websites, software, hardware, and consumer products to make them more useful to more people in more situations. Develop effective accessibility solutions efficiently."
Universal Usability
"A universal design approach to web usability."
Getting Real
"Discover the smaerter, faster, easier way to build a successful web-based application. A book by 37signals."
Web Typography Style Guide
"This guide covers the basics of good typography on the web, explaining theory behind font choices, and the details of providing accessible and good looking text."
Time-Savers: Code Beautifier And Formatter
"The tools and services we've collected below aren't validators. They format and beautify the code; some of them can remove redundant elements. Using them, you have to make sure you have a backup, so your data can always be restored."
Freelancers: Manage your projects
"Today we take a look at software and web apps to help you manage your freelance projects. An essential tool for any freelancer who wants to stay organised, keep the client up to date and keep records of milestones, deadlines and project files..."
List of CSS Tools
"We've collected them. At least most of them, and compiled them in a brief and precise overview. And here what we've come out with - most useful CSS-Tools you can use developing tableless web-sites."
Javascript cheat sheet
"The JavaScript cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing methods and functions of JavaScript. It includes reference material for regular expressions in JavaScript, as well as a short guide to the XMLHttpRequest object."
JavaScript and Browser Objects Quick Reference
An 8-page printable PDF with loads of useful reminders, and space for developers to make their own notes.
JavaScript Reference Card
Six-page overview of Javascript basics.
CSS cheat sheet
"The CSS cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties. It includes a visual example of the box model, unit reference for CSS units and the various media types CSS makes allowance for."
CSS Help Sheet
CSS Quick Reference
"Instead of duplicating the lengthy and detailed charts that explain which CSS features work or don't work in various browsers, we wanted to make a quick reference chart, listing only the CSS features that work in most browsers. CSS Functions only supported by Internet Explorer are NOT LISTED."
HTML Help Sheet
Character Entity References in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0
"Here is a set of tables containing the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as described in the official HTML 4 specifications."
Prototype 1.5.0 Cheat Sheet
"I decided to go through the latest version of the Prototype library and detail every method and property that was available."
A field guide to scriptaculous
Includes basic syntax, default options, and effects.
Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet
Mootools r.83 Cheat Sheet
"I've colour-coded this one to match the four main categories that are in the download section of the web site and within the documentation. This way, it should hopefully be clearer when trying to compare against the two."
Microformats Cheat Sheet
"The Microformats cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a designer or developer's desk, to make life a bit easier."
Microformats Cheat Sheet
"This microformats cheat sheet lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used."
Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
Detailed table showing browser support of various CSS properties.
Smarty Cheat Sheet for Template Designers
MySQL Cheat Sheet
"The MySQL cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about MySQL. It includes a list of the available functions in MySQL, as well as data types. It also includes a list of MySQL functions available in PHP, and a list of useful sample queries to select data from a database."
MySQL Cheat Sheet
A list of commonly-used MySQL commands, with examples of usage.
MySQL Reference Sheet
Handy Cheat-Sheet of MySQL Commands
Common MySQL commands with examples.
PHP Basics Quick Reference Sheet
Includes syntax and information for commonly used tasks.
PHP Basics Quick Reference Sheet
Includes syntax and information for commonly used tasks.
Designers' color chart cheat sheets
Links to various colour charts for web designers.
PHP cheat sheet
The PHP cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a developers desk, to make life a bit easier. It includes helpful reminders about useful functions, date formatting, superglobals, regular expressions, and more.