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Resources: A Link Library
Cascading Style Sheets
- One True Layout
- Alex Robinson of Position is Everything walks through a flexible, multi-column, source-ordered layout
- Stu Nicholls' CSS PLaY
- Cutting-edge CSS... that actually works cross-browser. Some stunningly executed work here, and solutions to any problem you can think of
Design, Graphics, Photography
- Behr ColorSmart
- Fantastic Flash colour coordination tool; designed for decorating rooms, but works just as well for websites!
- Free Stock Photos for Web Designers
- An enormous list of sites providing free stock photo images that you can use in design work
- Kuler
- Adobe's awesome Flash-powered colour scheme tool
Javascript, the DOM, Ajax
- How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax
- An easy introduction to Ajax from Web Reference
- Javascript Effect Libraries
- A round-up of Web 2.0 effects libraries (animation, Ajax) by Jonathan Snook
- JSON For The Masses
- Dustin Diaz's excellent primer on using object notation to structure your Javascript
- moo.fx Javascript effects library
- Built on prototype.js, this lightweight library includes most of the behaviours you're likely to need
- Sorting items with drag'n'drop
- Tim Taylor's handy examples of the many ways drag-and-drop sortable lists can be implemented
Server-Side Scripting, PHP, ASP
- Write more efficient PHP
- Evolt.org pull together a series of useful tips for PHP beginners (although old hands may learn something new as well)
Server Stuff
- Block comment spamming domains
- Half-a-meg of .htaccess denial rules, preventing the worst offenders from ever reaching your site
Typography
- 20 Best License-free fonts
- Vitaly Friedman's list of his personal pick of free-to-use typefaces around the web
- Free fonts from Robot Johnny
- A great selection of whimsical fonts, available for free for personal projects
- Free fonts in a portrait
- A collection of free fonts
Usability, Interface Design
- 23 Tips from McAfee on User Interface Design
- McAfee share their top tips on how better UI design reduced support calls by 90%
- Label Placement in Forms - an Eyetracking study
- Excellent article from UX Matters on the relative benefits of different form/label layouts
- The Elements of Style for Designers
- Applying Strunk & White's little book for writers to the practice of web design
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
- Y! have opened up their design patterns collection, with detailed descriptions and rationale behind common design decisions