Web Developer and Designer Resources

The web is filled with resources to help you with most anything you can thinks of, I've used these sites for developing web sites, designing, learning, surfing, reading, and finding design inspiration. Have a good link to suggest? Submit a link here with the subject: Resource Site.

Web Site Design Showcases

  • CSS Remix - CSS Site Design Showcase
  • FWA - Favorite Website Awards. Flash Web Site Showcase.
  • Design Melt Down - Site Design Showcase categorized by design types and classifications
  • Daily Slurp - Web Design Site Showcase
  • Design Shack - CSS Web Design Site Showcase
  • CSS Beauty - database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

 

Designer Resources

  • Computers Arts Magizine - Computer Arts is the one-stop shop for professional advice on creating digital art and illustrations.
  • Vitamin - is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs
  • Typetester - compare fonts on the web.
  • Favicon Creator - Create Favicon.ico

 

Devlepement Tools

 

Web Development Daily Reads

  • Copyblogger - Tips and guides for writing good copy for your website.
  • Ajaxian - Want to see what's happening in the world of AJAX? Links and information about AJAX

CSS Development Resource Sites

  • CSS at W3 Schools - CSS Tutorials
  • CSS Zen Garden - The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation in CSS site Design
  • Clean CSS - CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter.
  • A List Apart - A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
  • 40 CSS Layouts - 40 layouts based on the same markup, each with valid CSS and HTML
  • CSS Property Index

 

Web Development Resources

  • PHP.net - PHP foundation and documentation
    Cool secret about php.net: if you type in www.php.net/functionname it will take you directly to the documention on that function
    EX. http://www.php.net/array
  • W3C Markup Validation - Checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
  • W3 Schools - Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
  • HTML at W3 Schools - HTML Tutorials
  •  Javascript at W3 Schools - JavaScript Tutorial