[Sam G]

Handy Links for Web Designers & Developers

The following are links that I have come across over the years, and links submitted by other forum members. All of the products, services or tutorials featured on these websites are FREE!

Note: This list is by no means exhaustive, and will be updated periodically.

Accessibility Validation

• Accessibility Color Wheel

• HiSoftware Cynthia Says

• Luminosity Colour Contrast Ratio Analyser

• WebAim WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)

FTP Clients And Servers

• Cyberduck FTP Client (Mac OS X)

• FileZilla FTP Client (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

• FileZilla FTP Server (Windows)
  

• PureFTPd FTP Server (Linux, Mac OS X)

Graphics Editors

• GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Package (Linux, Mac, Windows)

• Inkscape - SVG Vector Graphics Editor (Linux, Mac, Windows)

HTML Editors

• Bluefish Editor (Linux, Mac, Windows)

• Notepad++ (Windows)

• TextWrangler (Mac)

Javascript Frameworks

• jQuery

• MooTools

• Scriptaculous

Local AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) Web Servers

• LAMP - Linux AMP Web Server (CentOS - Debian - SUSE - Ubunutu)

• MAMP - Mac AMP Web Server (Mac OS X)

• WAMP - Windows AMP Web Server (Windows)

• XAMP - ApacheFriends.org Web Server (Linux - Mac OS X - Solaris - Windows)

Reference

• MySQL Official Documentation

• PHP Official Documentation

Tutorial Sites

• CSS Tricks (CSS)

• gotoandlearn.com (Adobe Flash)

• kirupa.com (Adobe Flash)

• Learning jQuery (jQuery)

• Nettuts+ (web development)

• Photoshop Lady (Adobe Photoshop)

• Psdtuts+ (Adobe Photoshop)

• screencasters.heathenx.org (Inkscape)

• Smashing Magazine (various)

• The Tech Labs (Adobe Flash)

• Tizag (web design and development)

• Tutorialized (Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop)

• tutvid.com (most Adobe applications)

• Vectortuts+ (Adobe Illustrator)

• W3Schools (web design and development)

• WDF (various)

• Web Designer Depot (various)

Web Design Tools

• Animated AJAX Preloader GIF Generator

• CSS Menu Generator

• CSS Menu Maker

• Diagonal Stripes Background Generator

• EM Calculator

• FavIcon Generator

• Gradient Image Generator

• HTML Color Codes

• Javascript Email Address Encoder

• "Lorem Ipsum" Text Generator

• Online Image Optimizer
  

• Readability Test Tool

Web Development Tools

• HTML to ASP Converter

• HTML to PHP Converter

• Javascript Code Obfuscator

• Javascript Code Validator

This post has been edited by Sam G: 19 April 2010 - 10:44 AM