Web Development Resources

From time to time, I meet up with websites containing useful stuff for the aspiring web developer and designer. So, like I did previously on a forbear to what you see here, I am collecting a list here that I hope will prove useful. Like everything, it is starting out small but I hope that it will grow.

General

A List Apart

Nettuts+

There are times when Google Reader sends me off to a new and unexplored part of the web and this site is a case in point. In this case, I believe that a certain Matt Mullenweg linked to an article from it on his blog and I found more techie articles there than that one.

Cats Who Code

There’s a lot of WordPress mentions on here but this one person offering is broader than that.

CMS Wire

Latest news from the burgeoning world of content management systems and more.

CSS-Tricks

DevX

Despite the focus on application development, there’s a lot of web stuff here too. It might have something to do with the rise of web-based applications everywhere you look.

Position Is Everything

CSS positioning in IE (6 especially but that may finally die a death once the stragglers in the corporate world move on to newer versions of Windows) can be a nuisance and that’s what led me here…

Six Revisions

Smashing Magazine

I found this courtesy of a useful article on WordPress development that came to my attention but there’s more to it than that.

Useful Usability

User Experience, or UX for short, has become a buzz expression these days and for very good reasons too. Having been on the receiving end of a web application with a poor user interface, I can vouch for its importance. Here are some potted pieces of wisdom that may have a use.

WordPress

A list of useful WordPress websites was bound to appear somewhere so here it is.

Andrew Nacin

Andrew Ozz on WordPress

Codex

The first stop to check out for answers to any WordPress questions. Please bear in mind that it is a wiki and that makes it a work in progress. While that reality may mean that information could be incomplete (you could always offer to help…), it still remains very useful and it’s my first port of call when I need to know what a specific WordPress function does.

Digging into WordPress

Mark on WordPress

The WordPress pages of Mark Jaquith.

Nothing to see here

This is the home on the web of another of WordPress’ contributors so useful stuff can pop up here.

Otto on WordPress

WordPress Garage

WordPress Planet

An aggregation of news and usage information from the people behind WordPress.

WordPress Tavern

WP Engineer

WP Recipes

WPMU Tutorials

Now that WPMU and WordPress are one, this looks more topical than ever and particularly given that the multi-user piece now works on anything with mod_rewrite or an equivalent is operational.