Resources for building and designing a web site:
- W3C Quality Assurance Tools – checks compliance of HTML, CSS and more; checks for dead links
- Dirty Markup – cleans up pasted-in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- TE-XT – perform various tasks with pasted-in text (case change, remove lines, colour code conversion, lorem ipsum generator, etc.)
- Dead Link Checker – scans a URL for dead links
- Can I Use… – details browser support for front-end web design techniques
- mydevice.io – lists pixel screen widths for various devices
- Browsershots – checks browser compatibility across multiple browsers (for multiple operation systems)
- evolt.org Browser Archive – download old versions of Web browsers, for testing (or just to go retro!)
- Email on Acid – test email in multiple email clients (including for mobile); paid service – pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription
- ColorSchemer – suggests colour schemes once you input one colour
- COLOURlovers – community of user generated colour combinations; advanced search facility
- UIPalette.net – various colour tools all in one site
- EnjoyCSS – CSS code generator for buttons, form fields, and more
- CSSFlow – CSS code snippets for buttons, forms, pricing tables, and more
- Hover.css – hover effects via CSS
- FontReach – Calculates the popularity of fonts used in web design
- DevDocs – searchable documentation for various APIs, including HTML and CSS
- Google Analytics – free, detailed analytics for Web sites
- WordPress – advanced blogging tool with a huge collection of plugins and themes; free download for your servers or use WordPress hosting
- BuiltWith – view what technology is used for any URL – servers, coding languages, analytics packages, ad servers, etc.
- WordPress Theme Detector – provides information on what WordPress theme and plugins are being used for a specific web site
- SiteUptime – get notified when/if your website goes down (and when it becomes live again); Free for 1 monitor and minimum 30 minute interval checking
- Peek – free user testing feedback (from one person)
- Mobile SEO – analyzes ‘mobile-friendliness’ of a web site
- Google Developers Mobile Friendly Test – Input a URL and it will analyze the mobile-friendliness
- SmallPDF – compresses PDF size; and other PDF edits/conversions
- Imgur: Video to GIF – paste video URL and convert select sections to animated GIF
- Open Foundry – open source, downloadable web fonts (top 30); resize in view
- HungryFEED – simple plugin to add RSS feed content to a WordPress page/post; customization possible
- Corporate Ipsum – ‘corporate speak’ placeholder text generator
- Material Design icons – open source icons from Google
- Let’s Enhance – improves the resolution of images