100+ Resources for Web Developers
Blog-well has put together a great list of over 100 resources to help web developers…where to find snippets of code, sites that automate processes, cheat sheets, lessons, & useful tools.
Below are my favorites from each category:
Code
Snipplr
Collection of code snippets – JavaScript, HTML, PHP, CSS, Ruby, Objective C
AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries
An extensive list with over 60 Ajax, Javascript and DHTML Libraries – with detailed descriptions.
AJAX Javascript Solutions for Professional Coding
Over 90 useful AJAX-based techniques you should always have ready to hand
Open Source Directory
An archive of the Web’s best Open Source software, applications and references.
Best Solutions for Images
30 scripts of impressive slideshows, lightboxes and galleries you can use for effective presentations of your images.
Cool Online Tools
Pipe Bytes
Send files of any size through any Web browser. No software to install, private and the recipient can start downloading while you’re still uploading
CSS Tidy
Open source CSS parser and optimizer
HTML Tidy
Open source utility for tidying up HTML
Font Sizer
Let visitors change the font size on your site. XHTML, CSS, and PHP source available
Recaptcha
Captcha helps prevent automated abuse of your site, ensuring only humans perform certain actions; free
Documentation and Reference
Cheat Sheet Round Up
Your one stop shop for all cheat sheets including: Actionscript, Ajax, Apache, ASCII, ASP, C#, CSS, CVS, C++, Django, Firefox, Google, HTML/XHTML, Java, JavaScript, LaTeX, MySQL, Perl, Photoshop, GIMP, PHP, Python, Regular Expressions, Ruby, Unix, Linux, Weblogs, Windows, XML.
Optimize Your PHP code
40 Tips to optimize your PHP code
Optimizing MYSQL queries
10 Tips to optimize MYSQL queries
Testing
CSS Validation
At W3C
HTML/XHTML Validation
At W3C
Link Checker
Checks for broken links in your HTML pages
Screen Sizer
Check out your site in different screen sizes
Converters
Convert HTML to RSS
Generate an RSS feed for almost any Web page
HTML To JS/PHP/Perl Converter
This tool will convert normal HTML code to a script based language such as JavaScript, PHP or Perl
Graphics
YotoPhoto
Search engine for royalty free images (over 250,000 indexed)
Iconaholic
Lots of great free icons
Site Analytics
Crazy Egg
Variety of products to see what people are doing on your site using a heatmap or just plain hard data. Pricing plans start with free accounts that let you track up to 5000 visits per month and four pages, up to Pro an offering for $99 per month that lets you track 250,000 visits per month.
Reinvigorate’s Snoop
Real Time Web Analytics – free for PC and Mac. Greater flexibility than Google Analytics
WordPress
How to create a WordPress theme
A 16 part series on how to build a WordPress theme from whoa to go
100 High Quality and Free WordPress Themes
Smashing Magazine has downloaded, installed, and tested hundreds of themes; these are their top 100 picks. Whether you are after design inspiration or coding solutions, this is the place to start
Miscellaneous
Internet World Stats
Comprehensive statistics about the Internet and Web
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Thanks for the mention Nelly – this is way cool! I really like how you’ve chosen your fave’s from the list