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Web Development Links
I have come across a variety of useful online resources whilst developing websites and here they are.
This is NOT a link exchange page, this is a page of links I regularly visit which help me make websites. If you email me asking me to put your link up here, I will ignore it.
- Ajaxload - ajax loading gif generator
- Ever wanted an ajax loading animation for your ajax site that fits in? Well here you go. Here is an alternative with a few more customisations.
- Check Server Headers Tool
- A tool to double check that a web server is sending out the correct HTTP header codes. If you are interested in the full headers, try web-sniffer.net.
- Colour Combination Tester
- Simple colour combination tester, compare your colour schemes. This is a little simpler than Adobe Kuler but not as awesome.
- CSS Gradient Generator
- Simple Photoshop-esque generator for your CSS gradients.
- Cynthia Says, content accessibility validator
- A tool that checks your websites against basic criteria for accessibility based on the WCAG guidelines from the W3C.
- Entity Code
- Cannot remember how to display an entity in HTML? Its probably on Entity Code but if you are looking for an accented letter try these lookup tables or alternatively a big page with lots on for copying and pasting.
- FavIcon from Pics
- There are plenty of FavIcon generators out there but this is the one I use.
- Firebug, web development tool
- A web development tool that integrates with Firefox and allows you to quickly edit the code of any website on the fly.
- Firefox, highly customisable web browser
- The most customisable web browser. Not the fastest or lightest but definitely the most capable.
- Font Squirrel font-face generator
- This tool generates the font-face code you might want for your website, compatible with all desktop browsers.
- Google Closure Compiler
- This tool strips out the whitespace and comments etc from your javascript, compressing it down to allow for faster loading without losing functionality.
- GTmetrix website speed test
- Useful for finding out how fast your page loads and comparing it against other pages.
- Iconfinder
- Find and download icons for free
- jQuerify bookmarklet
- Add jQuery to any page you are viewing so you can mess around with it easier in your browsers developer tools.
- KeepYour.co.uk
- Quickly find out about your .uk domain name, what its current name servers are, owner details, etc, etc.
- MD5 generator
- Surprisingly useful from time to time.
- Network Tools
- A variety of domain tools (including an online dig) which, being run from a more partial location, is a bit more accurate.
- PHP Function Index
- A list of every PHP function and links to pages on how to use them.
- Rackspace Cloud Servers
- Very affordable and well equipped virtual servers. They are very very reliable but you can always confirm that here.
- Random string generator from clsc.net
- More and more these days I am finding I need a truly random string for passwords or encryption so here is my favourite generator of said random strings.
- RegExr
- An online regular expression testing tool.
- Responsive Design Testing
- Quickly see how your website looks at mobile resolutions.
- stock.xchng
- The leading free stock photography site apparently.
- Tizag
- Slightly easier to digest tutorials than W3Schools but slightly less comprehensive.
- Ultimate .htaccess examples
- Awesome bit of .htaccess magic for when you are dealing with the beast that is apache.
- VisiBone color lab
- A quick reference web safe color comparison chart. Yes they spell colour wrong but nevermind.
- (Unofficial) W3C Validation Badges
- Useful to show off your efforts developing your website without taking up too much physical space on your website.
- Unicode Character Finder
- Find out all the different codes for HTML entity characters. Useful for using with :before and :after.
- W3C cheatsheet
- A nifty little search engine for HTML tags and CSS properties.
- W3C CSS validator
- Validate your CSS to quickly check for any typo or bad code.
- W3C HTML validator
- Validate any HTML to quickly check for any typo or bad code.
- W3Schools
- The largest resource for web development tutorials, the CSS reference is perhaps the most useful part of W3Schools.
- WAVE
- This useful tool checks your website for accessibility and graphically highlights errors and accessibility issues in your code.
- Who.is
- Whois lookup and other tools at an easy to remember URL.
- Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Online
- This displays a website in Lynx or text only mode online in a website page.
- Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool
- This tool integrates with Firefox to display a website in Lynx or text only mode, (presumably) how search engines see websites.
Lorem Ipsum Generators
- bacon - meaty
- Cupcake - cakey
- Hipter Ipsum
- lorizzle - Gangster
- malevole - random TV show theme song lyrics
- Samuel L Ipsum - Samuel L Jackson (both not safe for work and safe for work versions available
- T'Lipsum - Yorkshire
- Tuna - fishy
- Veggie - vegetarian…obviously
Picture placeholders
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