Web Design Resources
Tutorials- Mixed
- Lissa Explains the style suggests the site is oriented towards children, but it is extremely helpful for beginning web designers of all ages (and more advanced ones who want to check something quickly) (*)
- W3Schools Free tutorials include XML, HTML, XHTML, XSS, Javascript, and DHTML
- Echo Echo: Complete Web Tutorials HTML, XHTML, CSS, DHTML, PHP, XML, and other language tutorials plus web design tools
- Sitepoint This site has a large collection of articles and tutorials.
- Velvet Rose html, css, javascript, php, and more
- Leafkey css, php, html, javascript, design, and more
Tutorials- (X)HTML and CSS
- HTML Source a site with basic HTML and web design information
- MaxDesign Listamatic a wonderful resource for CSS and general web design
- HTML Home Page at W3C
- Cascading Style Sheets from W3C
- HTML Goodies The ads are intrusive, but this site has easy to understand tutorials and primers. It also includes a small amount of information about advanced programming languages (*)
- HTML Dog This site has html and css tutorials divided by beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Tutorials- Javascript, PHP & MySQL
- Codegrrl a popular PHP resource
- PHP.net The official website
- Good PHP Tutorials
- Javascript 1.5 Guide from Mozilla
- JavaScript Source Free scripts, tutorials, example code, references, and resources
- JavaScript Kit one of the best known javascript websites
- Hotscripts This site lists over 35,000 resources. Scripts are reviewed before being posted.
- Quirk Mode This site has wonderful and largely copyright free tricks and tips.
- Codewalkers PHP help and code
- PHP Freaks
- Javascript Special Characters
- Javascriptkit This site has a large collection of scripts and a few tutorials.
Web Design Resources
- Dynamic Drive a collection of tools including one for creating a secure htaccess password, a favicon generator, a css library, and a collection of scripts (*)
- Lorem Ipsum Generator Lorem Lipsum is dummy text used in the printing industry and web design to show where text would go in a layout or other element (*)
- Special Characters from Webmonkey
- Altlab: Test Your Hotlinking Protection
- Webmaster Toolkit This site has a variety of resources including SEO tools, generators, a link checker, domain tools, and HTML tools.
- HTML Basix This site has code generators, html generators, and tutorials.
Validators
- HTML and XHTML Validator by W3C (*)
- W3C Link Checker
- W3C CSS validator (*)
- HTML, XHTML, WML, XML Validator by Validome Also available in several languages including European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
General Web Design, Programming, and Internet Issues Sites
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (*)
- Webreference The ads are distracting, but this site has a lot of good information about web design. As of October 2006 the menu you want is in yellow in the right side of the page.
- A list apart This site includes a variety of articles relating to web design
- Website Tips and Resources (*)
- Sitepoint This site has articles about web design and internet issues along with information about their publications.
- Devlounge: A resource for designers and developers This site has a good collection of articles about web design along with a few Word Press Themes.
Links Collections
- The Web Developer's Handbook an excellent collection of web design links (*)
- Browsing Resources from the HTML Writers Guild
- Website Tips and Resources This site covers everything from fonts to PHP to the legal side of creating an website. The links provided vary in quality, but there are some good links that are not included on other lists of links.
- Sweet Aspirations Resources
- For Web Designers
Freely available layouts
- Glish: CSS Layouts This site includes several free layouts that can be customized
- The Layout Reservoir A popular site for layouts that can be customized
In some cases I made reference to the terms of service last time I checked. However, I do not control the linked websites and users are advised to check the sites for full details regarding acceptable use.
Resources marked with an (*) are ones I use. The fact that I do not use a resource site is not a reflection of the site (there are numerous excellent ones I don't use), but because I prefer to use my own resources. If I linked to a site it means that I think it has excellent resources.
