Mostly for front-end web developer, we need to deal with HTML, CSS or JavaScript and of course, we need to aware many stuffs around this look and feel design; Here are some web page design software and resources, I found them interesting to share.
(X)HTML, Design and Web Standards
- W3 XHTML Working Group
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ - W3Schools XHTML Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/ - Developing with Web Standards
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/ - Web-Developers Handbook
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ - SitePoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/ - FiftyFourEleven – Web Development Resources
http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/ - Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ - HTML5 – Web standard
http://webplatform.org
Cascading Stylesheets
- W3 – Cascading Stylesheets
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ - Learn Web Standards – Hands on CSS Tutorial
http://westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/index.html - CSS Based Design
http://adactio.com/articles/1109/ - The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/benefits/
Development Tools
- EditPlus (Text Editor, Windows)
http://www.editplus.com/ - Notepad++ (Text Editor, Windows)
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ - TextMate (Text Editor, Mac OS X)
http://www.macromates.com/ - Mozilla Firefox and the Firebug & Web Developer Toolbar Extensions
Addons for Mozilla Firefox provide powerful tools for web developers to explore the DOM for generated web pages.- Mozilla Firefox – http://www.getfirefox.com/
- Firebug – http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Web Developer Toolbar – http://www.chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
- ColorZilla – http://www.colorzilla.com
- Show IP – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/showip/
- CSSEdit (Mac OS X)
http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/ - Style Master CSS Editor (Windows and Mac OS X)
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/
2019 up (Thanks for still interesting on this post):
Suggesting tools that’s also help Web Developers:
- A quick way to generate your .htaccess and .htpasswd file
https://hostingfacts.com/htaccess-generator/