Links

Here you'll find some links that I've found very useful in the past.

Inspiration

These are pages and designer sites that I've found inspirational. Please note that I am not affiliated with these people or organizations, nor have I ever been in contact with any of them.

  • mezzoblue § - Mezzoblue is the blog of Dave Shea. His sites have been a huge source of inspiration. Dave Shea is responsible for the biggest source of inspiration on the web, css Zen Garden.
  • Veerle's Blog - Veerle Pieters is a Belgian designer from whom I have take a lot of inspiration. She has a great selection of links on her site that I have used many times for inspiration and to improve my methods. She also posts fantastic Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials.
  • Bartelme Design | User Interface and Graphics Design - Wolfgang Bartelme has posted a great many number of tutorials, thoughtful posts, and delicious icons and wallpapers. The code quality is top notch and the site's design has a lot of clever nuances that make it stand out in a crowd. I've used several of his desktop backgrounds.

Useful Tutorials

These are tutorials on the internet that I've found very useful.

  • Eloquent JavaScript -- interactive tutorial - an online book for learning JavaScript. This is by far the neatest tutorial I've seen online. There is a JavaScript console at the bottom of the screen which allows you to execute code while reading through the book. What's more, it's very easy to take the example code and place it in the console, and run it. This is the most complete, most modern, and best written JavaScript tutorial I've seen on the internet. This is the perfect place to get started with JavaScript.
  • Get Down! How to keep footers at the bottom of the page - This is a great CSS method for floating footers to the bottom of the viewable area when there isn't enough content to push it down, but still gets pushed down when there's enough content to fill up the window height. I've used this method several times.

Resources

These are resources on the internet that I would be completely lost without.

  • mozilla <developer center/>The Mozilla Developer Center is an indespensible resource for web development. There are loads of valuable articles for beginners and professoinals alike. Similar to works by Opera, you can learn about web standards, but also good JavaScript programming in the re-envisioned future of JavaScript and DOM Scripting.
  • JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier - JSLint is a great way of checking your JavaScript syntax. It isn't intended for tracking down errors per se, but it's very good for making sure your syntax is concise, clear, and readable, and can recommend best-practices. Using JSLint as a test, I've honed my skills and now I can write JavaScript that validates without error using "The Good Parts" option, which has made JSLint a very valuable skill building tool.
  • PHP101 - This is a series of articles posted at ZEND DEVELOPER ZONE, a website that provides a widely used PHP framework. These tutorials go through a very basic introduction of PHP. This is the tutorial collection I used to get started with PHP. This might be a bit daunting for beginniners; I had a background in C++ before attempting PHP, it's possible my judgment is a bit clouded, but I found these tutorials to be very clear and easy to follow.