Important Web Developer Links

CSS
➢ 10 CSS tricks you may not know (➲ Tantek's addendum) (☃ Discussion)
➢ ALA: Sliding Doors (CSS-tab navigation)
➢ Basic CSS Layouts
➢ CSSEdit (CSS-editing software)
➢ CSS Primer
➢ CSS Style Sheet Switcher (☃ Discussion)
➢ CSS Validation
➢ One true layout [↸ Madmacgames]
➢ Xyle scope (CSS analytical tool / browser ) [↸ Phil Sherry]


(X)HTML
➢ IE7 (Fixing IE-rendering problems, PNG-images) (☃ Discussion)
➢ Markup Validation
➢ URL and HTML entities (If you are not using Unicode)
➢ W3 Schools (Free tutorials in building web pages)


Usability and Accessibility
➢ UseIt: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
➢ Usability.gov (Great resource for usable sites!)
➢ Dive Into Accessibility (30 Days to a more accessible site)
➢ Web Acessibility Initiative


Scripting, languages and databases
➢ AJAX - Getting Started
➢ AJAX: Usable Interactivity
➢ CGI Resources (Pre-written scripts)
➢ JavaScript Source
➢ MySQL
➢ PHP Resources (Pre-written scripts)
➢ PHP Manual
➢ Ruby on Rails [↸ DeathMan]
➢ WebObjects


Blogging
➢ Ecto (Software working with blogging software)
➢ MovableType
➢ WordPress

☃ Discussion


Hosting
➢ Dreamhost
➢ GoDaddy
➢ A Small Orange
➢ ReadySetConnect (Uses cPanel X - great control panel)

WYSIWYG-editors
➢ Dreamweaver
➢ Freeway Pro
➢ RapidWeaver (Template-based)


Code editors
➢ BBEdit [↸ Mania]
➢ SEEdit Maxi
➢ Smultron
➢ SubEthaEdit (Collaborative text/coding tool)
➢ TextMate


Further reading
➢ A List Apart
➢ Boxes and Arrows
➢ The Web Developer's Handbook (Plenty more links) [↸ Chris v]
➢ Web development resources (And even more links) [↸ Madmacgames]
➢ Web Designers Bookmarks (And yet more links) [↸ Shawn Grimes]


General tips:

• Learn hand-coding
• Keep your content and styling separate
• Drop table-based layouts
• Make your sites accessible and usable
• Compress your HTML

Add to the CSS section: Xyle scope

Here's a great collection of such links:

http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

very good list - w3schools.com is fab.

personally I would kill the wysiwyg editor section and replace it with one link to BBedit but I am extremly biased against wysiwyg - the opiate of the webmastards.

That's why the first tip is learn hand-coding. BTW, being a hand-coder I find DW8 to be a great editor as I discussed in it's thread.

But I've added a list of code-editors now too. Hope this satisfies you :)

bah humbug. a baby bunny dies every time someone uses dreamONweaver. its so sad.

Just as an aside ( and many thanks -- erik -- for taking the time / initiative on this one ) upstairs I'm getting a "square block" in Win IE and a " ? " in Win Firefox before the list items.

That's weird. Or it is IE at last. I had no problem using Unicode with the latest versions of IE and FF on Win on other pages. This appears to have the right declaration too.

No RoR! Come on e r i k, I expect more from a modern web designer like yourself.

let me say here here to erik for making the web developer forum interesting again!!!

i have been web developing since 1995 when all we had to know was the paragraph tag - I would hate to have to start from scratch now. is that why i am so cynical???!

keep up the discussions all!

Are you talking about Ruby on Rails? Adding that to the list now :)

To CSS, we have to at least add PIE's one true layout article:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/...onetruelayout/

And just a great collection of web dev resources:
http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/categories

Wish granted. This is an excellent list. I think I'm going to replace the earlier "10 CSS tricks you may not know" thread (which I also stuck) with this.

Free online analytics with funnels and goals and other stuff:

http://www.google.com/analytics/

thanks for sharing

Here is a great site that I have grown to like quite a bit for resources and such. Maybe good to add to the list...

WDB - WebDesignersBookmarks.com High Quality Bookmarks for Web Designers. Free Templates, Tutorials, Free Images, Scripts...etc

Added.

Her are some web dev tools

CSS
Style Master

Code Editor
RAGE WebDesign

Why no Objective-C sites?

List em, and I'll add to the first post!

Any tips for good up to date resources for developers?

RIP early claim to internet fame ;)

Good list mate, thanks