Web development links
- Beyond Badges: 3 Smart Ways To Gamify Your Startup
Here are three key strategies for creating a gaming solution that has lasting value and truly engages consumers and site visitors.
- Add an iFrame Facebook custom Tab
This post is aimed at the non developer in an effort to give the bare minimum of what is needed to get your first custom tab via iframe deployed.
- Usability Toolkit
The Usability Toolkit is a collection of forms, checklists and other useful documents for conducting usability tests and user interviews.
- How to Write a Facebook Application
If you want to develop your own Facebook App that works the way you want and doesn’t carry any third-party branding or advertising, here’s an easy tutorial to help you get started.
- Building a successful online team
Here is a list of what one organisation believes to be the five most crucial positions required for maintaining and growing your organization’s online presence.
- How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development - Smashing Magazine
When dealing with clients, one faces the challenge of clearly and effectively communicating the goals and results of the work done in business development, graphic design, technology and user experience design.
- The Art and Science of Understanding Users
Get your audience assessment wrong, and your whole marketing strategy will fall in a heap, no matter how slick your design or compelling your copy might be.
- The Complete iPhone Development Toolbox
Everything you need to get started; books, tutorials, software resources, screencasts, podcasts, blogs, forums, conferences, software libraries, design kits, icons, and even where to hire a developer if you decide not to go it alone!
- data.gov.uk
This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data to developers outside of government who have the skills and abilities to make wonderful things out of public data. These are the government's first steps in building a collaborative relationship with developers.
- The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development
70 tools, tutorials, and resources to help you get started developing your own iPhone apps - everything from basic tutorials to templates to resource libraries to help you on your way.
- How to run a one-person web design agency
"Knowing yourself, working hard, playing even harder and being able to quickly switch between different tasks is a start". A look at how a one-man-band achieves a great working life.
- Interviewing Web Developers - 20 Good Questions to Ask
A list of web development related questions, not specific to any particular type of development position, but balanced between the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.
- How to Create Your First iPhone Application
This how-to guide is supposed to walk you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a reality. This post presents various ideas, techniques, tips, and resources that may come in handy if you are planning on creating your first iPhone application.
- A Nonprofit’s Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites
Guidance on how to plan a new website and how to maintain an online presence using tools that you don’t have to be a web developer to master, including tips for finding volunteers with web expertise who can help along the way.
- Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Yahoo's Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.
- Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby
Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet - handy cheat sheets deliver the information you are looking for - immediately.
- 7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing
Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. Luckily, there are many great tools for web development testing. These tools test everything from CSS validation to website speed. Making sure that users and customers have a problem-free experience should be the goal of any website. These tools are the final step in that process.
- UK Government data APIs (Rewired State Wiki)
This page hopes to gather the collective knowledge of UK public data. If you have know of any public data feeds available, or have some scraped data on our hard drive, or even just some regexes you've used in the past, please do share them on this page.
- 50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product
- 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs
If you’re looking to break into the web dev industry, start your own development and design business, or learn a few new skills to remain a competitive force in your field, you don’t necessarily have to go back to school and pay for an expensive degree.
- How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
- How-To: Taking WordPress One Step Further
Creating a website is no easy task. WordPress is an easy solution for creating a Blog, but sometimes something a little more, in terms of functionality, is needed. Using a Custom Write Panel, Custom Options, and manipulating the theme files, the possibilities are almost endless.
- How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface
This tutorial shows how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface which has a ton of potential applications!
- Web Development Toolbox: 120+ New Tools for Web Development
Drag-and-drop application builders, code repositories, project management and testing apps, and frameworks for working with a variety of coding languages, from Ajax to Ruby to Python.
- JavaScript and screen readers
In recent months, many web designers have been asking the question, "How can I make my dynamic site accessible?" Screen readers are complex beasts, and understanding why they do what they do can be quite a challenge.
- Good-Tutorials
Good-Tutorials is the largest source of tutorials on the web, was started in 2002 and is designed, coded, and loved by Zach Holman.
- Scroll your HTML with jquery.scrollable.js
- NETTUTS: Web Development & Design Tutorials
NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, and Flash.
- 22 Firefox 3 Plugins Web Designers Can’t Live Without
Mozilla Firefox has always been considered a "user-friendly" browser, but with all the customizable extensions, it has become probably the most "developer-friendly" browser as well. We have collected the best FFX dev scripts available, and installing them takes just a few clicks.
- Turn Firefox into a screen reader with Fire Vox
Fire Vox is a free, open source screen reader extension for Firefox that works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It has support for WAI-ARIA and the CSS3 Speech Module, and is good if you need a screen reader for web browsing (or testing).
- Building a Custom Lifestream Website with Sweetcron
Sweetcron is "The Automated Lifestream Blog Software". New posts are created automatically from your activity elsewhere on the web. New photos on Flickr? Tweets on Twitter? Thumbs up on StumbleUpon? Blog posts on Tumblr? Add them all to your Sweetcron-powered site and they will appear on your site in minutes.
- Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website
With 75% of the US population and 65% of the UK population having internet access at home, it is imperative that websites are designed to be both accessible and usable. The WCAG Guidelines, introduced in 1999, go some way to helping web developers create accessible websites—but …we must look further than the guidelines if we are to create websites which are accessible to users with disabilities and the assistive technologies they rely on.
- 13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier
There are lots of free downloadable extensions and add-ons available for Firefox and there demands are increasing every day. This post lists 13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier.
- Web 2.0 Design Generators For Developers
If you are a busy web developer that also need to work on the interface, here is a handy list of online tools to help you save time and effort creating nice graphics for your sites or apps.
- 19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know
Most of these are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity
- How I built my lifestream
I thought wouldn’t it be great to build my own lifestream, a chronological listing of all my online activities. Well, web 2.0 is all about freedom and interoperability of data so a lifestream it is.
- 10 Things That Would Have Been Nice to Know When Starting My Facebook Application
- Last.fm API
The Last.fm API allows you to call methods that respond in REST style xml.
- Planning a Semantic Web site
This article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved.
- Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet
In this article, Lei Zhu examines a few different techniques for delivering Flash videos over the internet and compares the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers
We’ve amassed a collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer. If you’re interested in more podcasts try searching through Odeo or iTunes.
- 30 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Development
Here’s some websites you should keep track of to find new techniques, resources, and news about building websites, including sites that cover fields relating to web development - such as information architecture, user interaction, and web/graphics desig
- The Official Successful Website Checklist Challenge
If your website doesn’t stand out and do things right, then chances are it’s going to crash and burn. Take the Successful Website Checklist Challenge and see what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and what you’re forgetting to do.
- Resources for builders, developers and designers of the web.
Community, blogs, reference sites, tutorials and betas for builders, developers and designers of the web.
- 10 Best Free Chart APIs
A list of some of the best free APIs for generating charts
- Web Development Toolbox: 120+ Web Development Resources
As rewarding as web development is, it can also be a pain sometimes, especially if you spend half your time looking for the right tools and resources. Well, we’ve done the work for you with this one, and have compiled a list of over 120 web development
- Using Weather Data to Change Your Website’s Appearance through PHP and CSS
Using a little magic and trickery (read: PHP and CSS), we can change the appearance of a website automatically based on the weather outside, in real time!
- Web Developer Toolbox | Tech Magazine
While working on the project a Web developer might encounter thousand problems. That is why it’s hard to imagine a Web developer’s life without good developing resources.
- 170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers | Developer's Toolbox
An overview of the most important ideas and suggestions you should be aware of if you’d like to become or remain a professional.
- Javascript Toolbox: 25+ tools & tutorials for Javascript
JavaScript is one of the most often used languages on the web, and it seems to be gaining in popularity each day. We’ve gathered 25+ tools and tutorials which will be useful to any JavaScript programmer - novice or pro.
- 20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer
In an industry that evolves rapidly, you’ve got to keep up or you risk being obsolete and outdated. 20 websites that will broaden your knowledge, expand your skill set, and improved the quality and efficiency of your web development projects.
- 20+ Tools For XML
XML is one of those aspects of websites everyone uses, but few understand. We’ve gathered 20+ tools to help you with just that.
- Eight Tips on How to Manage Feature Creep
In this article, I’d like to discuss eight tips and suggestions, based mostly on my experience, to help minimize and manage the effects of feature creep in your own projects.
- How to Write an Effective Design Document » “Hello World” - The SlickEdit Developer Blog
- 101 Adobe AIR Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
The Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR is a runtime environment for developing rich Internet applications. These applications can be deployed as desktop applications.
- FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed
The FriendFeed API enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications.
- Handbook
Welcome to the handbook for website owners - a guide and toolkit on how to develop an effective website which is part of the University of Manchester's web presence.
- Clearspring - Services for Building, Deploying and Tracking Widgets
- App in a Box: Facebook Platform applications in 5 minutes
Simple Facebookf Platform applications in 5 minutes
- jQuery Tutorials for Designers
This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.
- Yahoo! Developer Network: Weather
The Yahoo! Weather RSS feed enables you to get up-to-date weather information for your location. You can save this feed in My Yahoo! or your favorite feed aggregator, or incorporate the RSS data into your own web site or client application.
- Version Control with Subversion
This is the online home of Version Control with Subversion, a free book about Subversion, a new version control system designed to supplant CVS.
- Improve website load time by 500% with 3 lines of code
There are 4 relatively easy ways by which you can speed up the time it takes a browser to download a page. This is a PHP script which will automatically do these things.
- (Mostly) Free Resources for the Web Worker Who Works on the Web
All of these resources (except for the print books) are either freeware, open source, or the application offers a free version.
- Producing Open Source Software
This book is meant for software developers and managers who are considering starting an open source project, or who have started one and are wondering what to do now.
- Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.
- Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site
Tools and techniques for getting relatively complicated Web sites up and running quickly
- Radiant Core: Deconstructinng Facebook Beacon JavaScript
On November 6th, 2007, Facebook launched a series of new tools to help advertisers target the 54 million people now regularly using their site.
- Full WEB 2.0 API List | Tech Magazine
- GeekUp
GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the North West. Our socials take place once a month in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester they are always a lively place to share ideas and spread a little knowledge.
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Technical Documentation
- CodingForums.com- Web coding and development forums. Get help on JavaScript, PHP, CSS, XML, mySQL, ASP, and more!
- Getting Real: What is Getting Real? (by 37signals)
- Smashing Magazine | Blog Archive » AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries
- http://www.roscripts.com/Top_list_of_Ruby_on_Rails_resources-126.html
- 30 ways to promote your web application with little or no money » RobertoAlamos.com - The place to learn how to make money online
- MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
- Digg API
- symfony Web PHP framework
- Facebook Developers
- 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part5)
Part 5 of the code snippets series sees us take a look at more handy pieces of html, css, javascript and other usefull things to a web designer
- Software Development in the Real World: Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide
Look no further if you're a web developer! This is the Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide!
- 7 Clutch Free Tools For Budding Web 2.0 Developers and Designers
- 30 firefox add-ons for web developers and designers
Firefox has cool add-ons which make the job of website designers and developers much easier. Here is our list of 30+ excellent Firefox add-ons that every web developer and designer should know about.