Online Resources
Graphics
- iStockPhoto
Excellent, affordable site for getting stock graphics to use in your Web designs. - Stock.XCHNG
Large selection of free stock photography.
Information Technology
- DNS Stuff
Nifty site for doing domain lookups and checking IP addresses. - Slashdot
Ultimate Nerd Haven. Resource for IT, video games…. hell, they might even talk about robots. For true geeks only.
JavaScript
- eDevil’s Weblog
Extensive list of JavaScript application libraries.
Online Marketing
- Google Trends
Google’s tool for seeing exactly what people across the Web are searching for each day. - XRank
Microsoft Bing’s answer to Google Trends. - Yahoo! Search Buzz
Yahoo! alternative to Google Trends, though it includes a strong editorial element and commentary.
Search Technology, SEO, and SEM
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Google’s Rich Snippets/Microformats Tool
Nifty tool by Google to check if your page contains valid microformat markup, and if it does what the extracted data would be. - John Battelle’s Searchblog
Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.
Technical Writing
- Yahoo! Style Guide: Writing for the Web
Great resource offered by Yahoo! on how to write effective Web copy as well as the editorial guidelines they try to follow for producing content.
Web Design
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A List Apart
In the site’s own words: “Explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. ” - CoolHomePages.com – Web Design Examples
Features a database of the best sites on the Web. This is a great resource to see design elements and programming features that are preferred by users. -
CSS Zen Garden – Beauty in CSS Design
Excellent site that displays the very best in CSS, standards-based, accessible web design. -
Google Browser Size
Free tool by Google that provides the ability to measure how much of your Web site can be viewed without scrolling for users with various monitor resolutions. - HTML 5 Reference
Complete list of tags supported in HTML 5 as well as whether or not the tag was supported in the previous HTML spec. A nice way to get up to speed on the future of Web page markup.
Web Development
- Cody Swann
Web site for my colleague at ESPN. Lots of great insight and resources for social media, Web design, and SEO. -
Experts Exchange – IT Professional Network
The ultimate resource for programmers, IT professionals, and generally nerdy computer users. Subscription-based site, but well worth $10 a month. A must if you find yourself talking angrily to your computer. -
Netbulge.com – Design and Development
Nice resource for PHP, CSS, HTML, and general web development. Also covers larger IT and general computing topics. -
w3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Great tutorials and quizzes, especially for beginners. Covers HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, SQL, etc..
Web Usability
- Jakob Nielsen
Many of Nielsen’s ideas can be debated ad nauseum… But he is the founding father of Web usability. Plenty of helpful tips can be found here, as well as statistics and studies.