Over the past year I have gathered a collection of 15 brilliant resources for the Web Site Developer. This article provides the link to each of these web sites and discusses what each one offers.
W3C offer three brilliant and essential services for the Web Site Developer. Use this service to determine if your HTML code meets W3C validation criterion. If your site is not up to standard you will be provided with a list of errors. The service checks to see if your CSS meets W3C validation criterion. Again, if there are problems the service will make a list of them. Check links and anchors in Web pages or full Web sites. One of the most frustrating and sometimes difficult task of every Web Site Developer is ensuring that their web sites render correctly in all browsers. To further complicate the task, it is impossible to run all browsers on a single computer as many of them are specific to operating systems. Browser Shots solves this problem by providing screen shots of your web page as it is seen in different browsers. When creating templates one often needs filler text to test how different font styles will look. Lorem Ipsum is often used for this purpose and the Lipsum website will provide you with as many paragraphs as you require. The biggest fear of any web site developer, is that someone may steal their work and pass it off as their own. Copyscape will troll the world wide web and find any web sites that are a little to similar to your own. If you need to formally license material placed on the world wide web, then Creative Commons is the place to go. Stu Nicholls is the master of CSS and his techniques have filtered through out the world wide web. His website CSSplay is one stop shop for finding fantastic CSS web site galleries, menus and a variety of demonstrations. Much of his work his free for personal use or requires a small donation. People who are new to Web Site Developing may choose to first adapt a template rather than design and build one from scratch. FreeCSStemplates provides a huge resource of nearly 400 validating templates which have been superbly coded and may be used in any capacity, provided the copyright is retained in the footer of the template. Icons can be used with great effect on a web site but they can take an age to create. VistaIcons provides a huge resource of Icons which you can download and use. If you are using these Icons on a website, be sure to check the terms of use, as not all the icons may be used on web sites. When creating templates you may require images to bring your template to life. If you are not going to sell your template or are creating an example template for a client you may need images which you do not want to have to pay for. The following 5 resources provide just that, thousands of images, free for you to use. Remember to check the terms of usage though as different sites and photographers have different conditions of use.W3C
Browser Compatibility
Filler Text
Has your site been plagiarised?
Licensing your work
CSS Play
Templates
ICONS
Images and Textures
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Excellant and helpful Links !
Thank you for taking the time to put this together, for us!
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