Links for Webmonkeys
You don't spend years working as a webmonkey without coming across the same problems over and over again. Luckily you also come across the same solutions over and over again, and eventually come up with a list if references. This is my list of everything a good webmonkey needs to know, conveniently sorted by category.
Design/Layout
- A List Apart
- CSS Zen Garden
- css / edge
- Web 2.0 Templates
- generate a colour palette from an image
- Smashing Magazine
- web 2.0 techniques
- CSS Beauty
- ThinkVitamin (Decent webzine)
- Adaptive Path (UI etc)
- Web design checklist
- Principles of Graphic Design
- Wow
- Color picker
- Scripty Goddess
- Pixel girl Presents
- Stop Design
HTML/Markup
CSS/Techniques
- W3Schools CSS Reference
- Visual CSS property guide
- CSS properties
- CSS2 properties
- CSS Specificity Wars
- CSS table borders
- CSS styled form elements
- Styling Form Controls
- A CSS Framework
- selectORacle
- Sane CSS font sizes
Javascript
- MooTools
- JS Animations
- Ajax file upload code
- JSAN
- cross-browser graphics primitives in javascript
- Proper Behaviour layer triggers in XHTML
IE hacks
- IE's broken box model
- Some IE/Win bugs
- Some IE/Mac bugs
- Some more IE/Mac bugs
- CSS Underscore hack
- IE6 transparent pngs plus links
- CSS conditional comments and hacks
- transparent PNGs in IE!
- IE min-height fast-hack
- IE7 - makes IE6 render CSS correctly
Testing
Usability
- Filler Text Generator
- Fitt's Law
- Why to care about text-only browsers
- google HOWTO
- Alice and Bob, cast of characters
