Web Design & Development Resources
A collection of tools and resources that we find useful. We have even more links related to web development bookmarked on Delicious.
For tips and advice on a wide range of web development topics, Site Point and its weekly newsletters is a great place to start.
Accessibility
- Web Accessibility Initiative - the "official" guidelines
- Accessify - a collection of accessibility tools
- Color Laboratory - see what your site looks like to someone who is colourblind
- Lynx Viewer - see what your site looks like in a text only browser
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- W3C Cascading Style Sheets - the official specifications
- W3Schools CSS Tutorial
- W3C CSS Validator - check if your CSS code is valid
- QuirksMode - has comprehensive CSS and DOM compatibility tables and a wealth of other CSS and JavaScript knowledge accessible via the SiteMap
JavaScript & AJAX
- JavaScript Kit - tutorials, scripts and more
- The JavaScript Source - scripts, core reference, JavaScript and AJAX tutorials etc
- Dynamic Drive - another good script library
- jQuery - a fast, concise JavaScript library that heavily reduces the amount of coding you need to do.
Search Engine Optimization
- High Rankings Advisor - an excellent e-newsletter.
- Search Engine Watch
- Google Webmaster Guidelines
(X)HTML
- W3C HTML Validation Service
- Magic XHTML Quick Reference - find every XHTML tag and its allowable attributes
- Character Entities (Greek alphabet, maths symbols etc)
- HTML META Tag Dictionary
- Transitions Between Pages using meta tags. Not advisable to use them but interesting to know.
Web Standards
Miscellaneous
- Style Guide for Online Hypertext - good tips for making an effective web page.
- A List Apart - online magazine which contains articles on code, content, design and more
- Email Address Obfuscator
- Favicon Generator
- Two-Character Language Codes - for use in setting language attributes
- Unicode Charts
- dnScoop - a domain and site valuation tool
