Directory of Handy Links
Here’s my collection of handy links, most of which are useful to Web designers and developers. Because I am also a musician, there are also some handy links to MIDI resources for vocal music.
Generally Useful
Google Analytics
Google Translate
Google Webmaster Tools
Responsive Web
Shows a URL at multiple resolutions, all live.
Guidelines, evaluation for mobile-friendly sites.
W3C’s mobile validator
Mobile Web Design checklist
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Web Design & Development
Can I use HTML/CSS/JS now?
Broken link checker
Comprehensive CSS Reference for Statements / Attributes
CSS Specificity Graph Generator
Cross-Browser Polyfills
HTML Character Entities
HTML Compressor
Prettyprinter for CSS, Javascript, PHP
Beautify, minify, format, or compress CSS, JS, JSON, PHP
CSS Minifier
CSS Statistics for a site
Test for errors and style issues
Superb guide to Flexbox
Excellent curated collection of top Web developer links
Design-Oriented Links
Usability in User Interface Design (pointers by Nielsen)
Color Tools
Tool for creating and editing color palettes (by me!)
Color variations
Color tints and tones and mixes.
Background Image Generator
Generate background patterns
Noise Texture Generator
Favicon Editor
Fonts & Font Tools
Google Fonts
Curated font pairs for Google Fonts.
Robert Bringhurst / typography for Web
Sample CSS font stacks
Complete list of HTML Character Entities
Typographic Symbols (HTML)
Like CanIUse for Web fonts
Javascript and NodeJS
Google Closure Compiler (and ES6-to-ES5 transpiler)
JSLint
JSHint
JS Beautifier
Babel ES6-to-ES5 transpiler
Javascript ES6 support in browsers
Javascript ES5 support in browsers
Huge linkset for Javascript
Directory of JS libraries, frameworks, plugins.
jQuery Plugin directory (curated)
Google’s Javascript style guide
Interactive examples for learning ES6
Eric Elliott’s excellent guide to all things (modern) Javascript
Languages that compile to Javascript
WordPress
WordPress Developer’s Codex
WordPress Code Reference
WordPress Resources
Best Practices in WordPress Development
Excellent WordPress security checklist
Miscellaneous Tools & Articles
Network tools, HTML stuff
Tools for .htaccess files
Check Google PageRank for pages
Excellent set of .htaccess functions
Free resources for Web Designers
http://www.echojs.com/
http://www.webdesignernews.com/
https://dzone.com/links
https://www.designernews.co/
http://www.webdesignernews.com/
https://dzone.com/links
https://www.designernews.co/
Web Developer Article Feeds
Fun Stuff
Can I Stream It? Essential tool for cord-cutters (like me)!
SETI at Home: join my team AstroScum (team number 747680) and help us find aliens before they find us!
Twitter analytics
The Internet Archive
1 million+ free-to-use images from British Library
Weight, Calorie, BMI calculations
Free graph paper templates
Blank sheet music templates
MIDI Files and Scores
Huge resource for scores and MIDIs.
Excellent MIDI source.
MIDI files for Choral Singing
Huge MIDI collection!
Catholic music: hundreds of nicely typeset scores.
Vocal and instrumental
About Aaron Copland
MIDI list
Early Music MIDIs
MIDIs by William Byrd
More MIDIs
Mike Oldfield MIDIs
Music scores (open source)