Web Development Resources

When you start out on your own as a freelancer, everything you do may seem very daunting task. Trust me, this is usually the case. Whether you have many years experience working for a larger design firm or you are fresh out of college. Every new site design is a different experience with a different client need. You need to know your stuff in order to make the process go as easy as possible. That may be a lot of stuff to know. That is where we come in with this article.

In this article we will give you some of the best resources that we have discovered in our time as developers. You can use this article to boost your knowledge or just brush up on something that you may have forgotten over the years. This list will contain some of the best resources for Javascript, Ajax, CSS, XML, and HTML as well as server-side coding languages like PHP, ASP.NET, Perl, mySQL, and SQL. This resource should contain almost anything that that would help a typical web developer whether you have experience or not.

Give our quick cheat sheet a go and see if you can learn something new. Just for good measures, we have included a few add ons for Firefox just in case you need them to. So, if you are interested in making your web developer experience of Firefox complete you can scroll down to the bottom of the page to read those. Enjoy our article.

Client Side Development

Javascript

• Javascript in 10 minutes
• Javascript Quick Reference
• Javascript and Browser Objects Quick Reference

AJAX

• What's AJAX? Cheat Sheet
• Prototype 1.5.0 Cheat Sheet
• Mootools R.83 Cheat Sheet
• A Field Guide to Scriptaculous

CSS

• CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Quick Reference
• CSS Property Index
• CSS Shorthand Guide

XML

• XML Schema - Structures Quick Reference
• XML Scheme - Data Types Quick Reference

HTML / XHTML

• HTML Cheat Sheet
• A Simple Guide to HTML
• HTML and XHTML Cheat Sheet
• HTML Codes Cheat Sheet

Colors

• HTML Color Codes
• Color Wheel

Browser Compatibility / Validation

• Will the browser apply the rule(s)
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• W3C Feed Validation Service
• W3C CSS Validation Service

Sever Side Development

PHP

• Developer / PHP Cheat Sheet
• Added Bytes PHP Cheat Sheet

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Page LifeCycle
• VB.NET / C# Comparison
• Casting in VB.NET
• .NET Standard Format Strings

Perl

• Perl Cheat Sheet
• Perl Quick Reference Card

MySQL

• mySQL Commands
• SQL Injection Cheat Sheet
• mySQL Cheat Sheet

SQL

• SQL Server 2005 A-Z Index
• SQL Injection Cheat Sheet

Firefox Addons

• Web Developer Extension
• ScreenGrab
• ColorZilla
• Firebug
• HTML Validator
• Alexa Sparky

Conclusion

Hopefully, this article helped you like it would have helped me back in the day. As you may have noticed, we did not include every article in the world. or we would have went own forever. We included the links that we think that you can benefit from like we have benefited from. If you have any extras, please leave as comment and we may add it later or in another post we do regarding the newer resources that web developers need to succeed.

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