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http://www.stickysauce.com/(13 views)

Lots of interesting articles

A List Apart - for people who make websites(18 views)

"From Pixels To Prose, Coding To Content"

Basic Tips.com(17 views)

Lots of great info on CSS here

BrainJar.com(11 views)

BrainJar.com features technical articles, tutorials and examples of programming for the web

Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com(1 view)

Nicely formatted cheat sheets for things like Javascript, ASP, CSS, HTML, etc

CSS Rounded Boxes(14 views)

Getting Real, the book by 37signals(453 views)

Getting Real is finally available to read online for free.

How to redirect a web page, the smart way(1 view)

How to get rid of those old pages w/o having to worry about those who go to the old web page and see nothing.

Juicy Studios Tutorials(13 views)

Some pretty decent information!

Mamboportal.com(9 views)

Mambo news, articles and files.

ShaunInman.com(15 views)

Great looking minimalistic design.

Spoono(17 views)

The mecca of web design

W3 Schools(11 views)

Web development tutorials with great interactive examples

Accessibility

Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Sc(8 views)

Intersting article about what it's like to surf the web using a screen reader.

Skip Navigation Link (ILoveJackDaniels.com)(9 views)

Great accessibility tips

Advertising Management Systems

phpAdsNew(12 views)

An open-source ad server, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system

Apache Web Server

htAccess Generator(8 views)

Fill out a form, get an htaccess file.

Javascriptkit's Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess(11 views)

ASP

Sending email with CDO(1 view)

Useful information that inclues how to login with credentials on the server.

Browser-based WYSIWYG Editors

FCKeditor(12 views)

100% IE 5.0+ compatible (Mozilla coming soon) with integration for all major server side languages.

Web-based WYSIWYG Editors(13 views)

Lists tons of available browser-based WYSIWYG editors. Nice!

CMS

opensourceCMS(15 views)

This site lets you test drive a huge list of CMS systems.

The CMS Matrix(1 view)

Lets you compare the features of hundreds of different CMS's that are available. Very cool.

Color

Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast(14 views)

Fresh color schemes for 2005

Color Palette Generator(0 views)

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.

Color Rules of Thumb(9 views)

Web Color Schemes (Return of Design)(9 views)

A page of stylish web-safe color schemes.

Where'd You Get That Color Scheme -> Tulips(12 views)

Neat demonstration of how to pull colors out of photographs to create color schemes

CSS

I'm going to have to break this out to its own category soon. ;)

+ Seybold Seminars: Why tables for layout is stupid(17 views)

A GREAT online article that talks about the advantages to moving to CSS. A must read for those making the move to CSS.

+++ A List Apart(13 views)

This site rules.

456 Berea Street(9 views)

A website focused on web standards, accessibility, usability and other things related to web development and web design.

All My FAQs Wiki: CSS FAQs(10 views)

Building a page template in CSS(6 views)

This is neat - a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create a CSS site template

Cascading Style Cheatsheet(19 views)

A very simple cheatsheet for beginning/intermediate CSS peeps

Complex Sprial Article: Containing Floats(10 views)

Some neat info about how to contain floats in other divs.

CSS Vault >> The Web's CSS Site(11 views)

A directory of cool sites designed using CSS to inspire and educate

Interview: The ESPN.com Redesign(1 view)

Mike Davidson runs a blog and posted an interview he did about the benefits ESPN saw after they switched to a CSS site.

Listamatic: one list, many options(12 views)

Neat site listing a bunch of sites with info on handling lists with CSS

No More Tables | CSS Layout Techniques (stopdesign.com)(10 views)

Presentation notes on advantages to CSS-based layouts where microsoft.com gets a makeover

Perched Upon a Lily Pad(54 views)

CSS Layout Demo

PVII(13 views)

Project Seven has some neat tutorials on CSS layout and Javascript stuff.

Webreference: Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step(12 views)

An article talking about building up a CSS layout from scratch. Helpful.

CSS - Effects

CSS Drop Shadow(9 views)

This is a simple way to make nice looking drop shadows using very little markup

CSS - Examples

CSS Beauty | CSS Design Showcase(9 views)

Examples of great CSS web sites

CSS Zen Garden(46 views)

A great resource. The same page over and over rendered with different style sheets.

css Zen Garden Shot(14 views)

A directory of all the CSS Zen Garden layouts viewable by screenshot. Why didn't someone thing of this before?

CSS - Hacks

'position:fixed' in Internet Explorer(6 views)

Neat hack to get position: fixed in Internet Exploder

centricle: css filters(7 views)

Neat chart showing whether different browsers will apply different rules.

Clearance (mezzoblue)(10 views)

A new solution just popped up that enables clearing of floats without the markup hacks of old. Greatness!

Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) Fix!(11 views)

Some pages that use the CSS @import rule experience a curious display quirk in IE...

footerStick(11 views)

An excellent article demonstrating a method for keeping a footer against the bottom of a page.

Interactive Three Column Layout Designer(1 view)

Very neat stuff. Definitely useful information for doing fluid layouts.

The IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug (positioniseverything.net)(9 views)

display: inline; is the key

Vertical Centring with CSS(7 views)

Example of how to do vertical centering, but it's also a great example of centering absolutely positioned objects

CSS - Templates

Open Source Web Design(4 views)

Over 1000 free CSS-based page layouts. They're not all Grade-A awesome, but there's some decent stuff if you dig around

CSS - Tools

Helpful applications for CSS coding

CSS Editor - Top Style Pro + Top Style Lite(18 views)

Lite is awesome. A++++ WOULD DOWNLOAD FOR FREE AGAIN!

CSSVista(5 views)

A free application which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. A must.

Design Helpers

4096 Color Wheel(15 views)

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator(1 view)

This thing does makes a nice pallette

ColorMatch 5K(14 views)

This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website.

ColorMatch Remix(17 views)

ColorMatch 5K? Old and busted. This is the new hotness.

ColorToy (defencemechanism)(15 views)

Another cool color picker. I like this one...

Designers Toolbox(10 views)

Good link with quick information and tools for designers.

EasyRGB(11 views)

Pixy Color Scheme(16 views)

Awesome color scheme application.

Steel Dolphin's Color Scheme Tool(9 views)

ANOTHER color scheme tool. I kind of like this one too. lol

Typetester(9 views)

Compare fonts with this neat tool. I'm going to use the shit out of this -- lol

Digg

How To: Run a digg like site(0 views)

You can have your own digg-like site running on your hosting space by installing pligg.

Domain Registration

Domain Extension List(12 views)

WTF is .cc? .tv? .ca? Check this out.

How to Catch an Expiring Domain (mikedavidson.com)(9 views)

An interesting Mike Davidson article about what it takes to grab an expiring domain name.

Email

A Guide to CSS Support in Email(0 views)

A really awesome resource about what different email clients do when they encounter CSS

How can I ensure all my campaigns are CAN-SPAM compliant?(0 views)

While certain aspects of the law still remain a little cloudy, there are some simple steps you can follow with Campaign

Responsive Email Templates(170 views)

Boy do I have some projects in desperate need of this!

Favicons

Information about favicon.ico files

Dynamic Favicons(1 view)

Nice Javascript library to make favicons dynamic

Filler Text

AKA Greeking

Greeking Machine(11 views)

Generate Lorem Ipsum text, or get text in other formats for testing layouts

Flash

Director Online Users Group(9 views)

Check out their resources link - <span style="color: gold">GOLD</span>

Forms

Build better Web forms

Build Accessible Online Forms (Sitepoint.com)(10 views)

Interesting info containing info I didn't know about web forms before. A must-read.

Pixy - Styling Form Fieldsets, Legends(10 views)

This is a perfect compliment to the Sitepoint article. Once you've digested that article, check out Pixy's application!

Google Calendar

Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX(0 views)

Nice looking code

Google Maps

Voidstar - Google Maps Example of "bunching"(0 views)

TODO: Integrate something like this into Shackmap.

Internet Explorer

Base64 Encoded Images for IE(12 views)

I have to try adding this to my Blockbuster/IMDb Trixie script sometime.

Multiple IE's in Windows(11 views)

This article shows how to install multiple copies of Internet Explorer on one PC. Great info for web devs!

The PNG problem in Windows Internet Explorer(10 views)

Nice Javascript solution to getting around transparencies not working in Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer Plugins

ieHttpHeaders(8 views)

ieHTTPHeaders is an explorer bar for Internet Explorer that will show you the HTTP Headers IE are sending and receiving.

Inline CSS Editor(15 views)

Invision Board

IB is my favorite forum to work with

Invision Board Knowledge Base(8 views)

Invisionize.com(9 views)

Resources for modifying Invision Board.

Java

J2EE made simple(0 views)

An article from IBM's Developer Works that talks about getting started with J2EE development. Good stuff.

JavaScript

9 Javascript Tips You May Not Know(48 views)

Some of these were new to me and I know quite a bit about Javascript.

Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS(9 views)

This is some really neat stuff. You can make anything dragable/sortable/editable with this code!

DOM Elements Reference(10 views)

Good reference on Elements for coding Javascript

How to Create Pop-Up Windows (youngpup)(7 views)

This is an awesome tip. Popups suck, but this makes them tolerable. A+++

HowToCreate.co.uk Javascript Libraries(13 views)

Some good-looking Javascript libraries

JavaScript Toolbox(16 views)

Matt Kruse's collection of Javascript source files, examples, and concepts.

PengoWorks.com(11 views)

Advanced Javascript Articles

Prototype Documentation(6 views)

Great information on what prototype's capable of.

Simplified Javascript DOM with the graft() Function(512 views)

This article demonstrates the use of the graft() function to simplify the construction of DOM structures using Javascript's own simple object notation. Yahoo UI has something similar to this built-in, but this would be useful for someone who didn't want all that overhead.

Top 10 Javascript Functions of All Time(5 views)

The title's a little hyperbolic, but there are some great functions to add to the toolbox there.

Javascript - Prototype / Scriptaculous

Awesome Javascript scripting libraries

Bernie's Better Animation Class(448 views)

A really neat animation library that uses CSS to define actions instead of the strange proprietary stuff most of the other Javascript animation libraries use.

jQuery: New Wave Javascript(0 views)

jQuery is a Javascript library sort of like Scriptaculous, but with a simple scheme for chaining commands

script.aculo.us(3 views)

Scriptaculous builds on Prototype and adds a ton of neat animations and widgets possible for DHTML applications

script.aculo.us Reflector(2 views)

Makes it easy to create those inverted reflections that are all the rage these days using Scriptaculous.

Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet(2 views)

A cool one-page PDF cheat sheet for Scriptaculous. Defiintely handy.

Javascript Widgets

Neat drop-in controls coded in Javascript

Easy JavaScript Autocomplete / Intellisense Script(1 view)

A very cool autocomplete box

Nifty Corners Cube(1 view)

A pretty wild javascript that adds rounded corners to page elements. Loads fast and looks hot.

Tooltips, Floating captions - DHTML, javascript - BoxOver(2 views)

A very nice Javascript library for adding javascript/DHTML tooltips to pages. Looks very easy to implement and fast too

Mambo OS

An open source CMS

Patch - HTMLArea3 XTD WYSIWYG Editor(10 views)

WYSIWYG that works in and out of Internet Explorer

phpBB

phpBB Fetch All(4 views)

phpBB Fetch All is a phpBB mod that displays data from the forum on any page of a website. It's freaking sweet!

phpBB2 Site Integration(5 views)

Very helpful information on integrating phpBB2 into a site.

PostgreSQL

Regular Expressions

Learning To Use Regular Expressions(13 views)

Learning to Use Regular Expressions by Example (PHPBuilder)(9 views)

A great description of how regular expressions work.

Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions(9 views)

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible)

RSS

RSS Button Maker(29 views)

Handy wizard for making feed icons for dozens of popular feed services

Search Engines

Google - Bad Link Report(4 views)

Report bad search results to Google.

Google Trends(2 views)

Check out what other people are searching, and where they're from. Typical cool app from Google. ;)

SEO Chat - Search Engine Optimization(8 views)

This Boring Headline Is Written for Google(4 views)

An interesting look at how search engine optimization is affecting newspaper headlines on the internet

Why Submit Your Site to Internet Directories?(1 view)

Sexy Sites

Cool looking sites

script.aculo.us(9 views)

I really love the style of this site -- especially the fixed transparent footer bar. TODO: Steal that. ;)

6 Weather: Lawrence, KS(15 views)

This is the neatest way imaginable to display a week's weather forcasts. Very nifty.

Current style in web design (2006)(7 views)

Pretty neat overview of the common elements in design these days.

Design Melt Down(7 views)

An awesome overview of the current flavors of web sites and how to achieve the effects in them. A++

Ordered List by Steve Smith(3 views)

I love how Steve's taken Wordpress and changed it to only show a summary for the lead story and other misc content

snook.ca(12 views)

I like how the comment box stays floating in the middle of the page.

TalkLeft(3 views)

I really like the colors used for the backgrounds. Site content? lolz...

The Morning News(5 views)

I love the look of this blog. Very cool organization of content.

USC Annenberg - Online Journalism Review(16 views)

Wow. Great layout and colors. Great navigation.

Waxy.org(13 views)

This is how Web Sites should all be designed. Even though it makes heavy use of CSS it renders just fine in Netscape 4

SSL

WhichSSL.org(13 views)

make sure you see all the facts before choosing an SSL Certificate

SWiSH

SWiSH(10 views)

SWiSH's Home Page

Swish-db(10 views)

Swish Ultimate Designers Community

Templates

Open Source Web Design(12 views)

Free templates for sites.

Testing

Browser Cam(8 views)

A (expensive) subscription-based service that lets you see how sites appear on different browsers.

iCapture(11 views)

See your site through Safari's eyes (FREE!)

Tools

The data:URI Kitchen(470 views)

Handy for converting images to base64. I embed images in my Greasemonkey scripts so they don't have to rely on an external site being up for their images.

Web 2.0 x

Making Money With Web Services (Amazon Web Services Blog)(1 view)

An article with a back-to-basics approach on the topic of making money with web services

Programmable Web(5 views)

Great resource for Web 2.0 programming and analysis.

Web 2.0 Design(7 views)

Some observations about what makes a site "look" Web 2.0

Web Dev Blogs

Design by Fire(15 views)

Web Hosts

I'm shopping around for new hosts all the time... here are some to check out

AngryHosting(13 views)

Hostica(9 views)

Liminal uses these guys

Surpass Hosting(8 views)

Web Server Insallation

Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/(9 views)

I followed these instructions and it worked perfectly. A+++ WOULD READ AGAIN

Wordpress Plugins

Democracy AJAX Poll(0 views)

Democracy adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog and uses AJAX like a good poll should. ;)

My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins(123 views)

John Chow lists his favorite Wordpress Plugins. It's a pretty good list containing a couple I don't use (yet).

planetOzh Wordpress Plugins(1 view)

Home of the Wordpress Theme Toolkit and other neat and useful plugins

Red Alt - Wordpress Plugins(0 views)

A terrific collection of plugins for Wordpress

WordPress Plugins Used > BlogRodent(462 views)

An insane list of neat-looking Wordpress plugins for future reference. ;)

WordPress plugins | Semiologic(0 views)

A neat collection of WordPress plugins.

Wordpress Themes

Canvas for Wordpress(0 views)

With Canvas and Ink for Wordpress, you can easily rearrange, reconfigure, and colorize your entire blog w/o code. Hot!

From XHTML/CSS to WordPress(2 views)

A neat article that demonstrates how to build a Wordpress Theme from scratch. Good info.

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes(1 view)

A good round-up of minimalist themes.

Wordpress Theme Viewer(4 views)

It has SCREENSHOTS so it's actually useful. lolz

XMLHttpRequest

AJAX Login System using XMLHttpRequest(3 views)

Pretty neat use of ajax!

AJAX Tamed: Where HTML and the DOM meet(5 views)

A great example of code that degrades well when Javascript isn't running. Also uses Behavior -- very neat!

Ajax Toolkit and Project List(14 views)

A good list of Ajax projects floating around out there.

Cloning Google Suggest with AjaxAC(7 views)

This Google Suggest clone is the closest I've found to the real deal.

iBox(2 views)

This is a very cool idea and something I've been thinking about lately. Cool Ajax popups with support for non-JS users!

Responsible Asynchronous Scripting(1 view)

An article discussing things to take into account when writing AJAX apps

SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit (ModernMethod)(11 views)

A simple Javascript library for using XMLHttpRequest. Supposedly does all the hard work for you.

Very Dynamic Web Interfaces(13 views)

A good article demonstrating how to use XMLHttpRequest

XMLHttpRequest / Ajax Working Examples(10 views)

Code snippets and proof of concepts to help get you started on building your own functions with XMLHttpRequest