This is a non-comprehensive list of various resources and helpful links that I have curated for my web design and development students.
- Pre-launch checklist for launching a website
- Curated list of lists related to Front End Development
- List of CSS Videos
- A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites - if you read nothing else, you should absolutely start reading this
- Smashing Magazine
- 24 Ways - a kind of "advent calendar" for web design and development
- ShopTalk Show - a great podcast
- A Book Apart - a series of short books by the people at A List Apart. Not very expensive, and easy to read.
- Typekit (subscription-based service)
- Google Web Fonts (free fonts)
- FontSquirrel (free fonts)
- Web Typography (online book)
- Practical Typography (online book)
- Nice Web Type
- Pexels
- Dustin Senos has curated a list of great places to get stock photography without having to pay for it. Please be sure to pay attention to licensing (frequently you will see references to Creative Commons licensing).
- Pixlr - A great tool for resizing photos / editing images for the web.
** Tools**
- Don't Fear The Internet - Basic HTML & CSS for Non-Web Designers
- Learn to Code HTML & CSS
- Codecademy
- Codeschool (Code School is not free, but is a fabulous resource for learning to code)
- Hack Design
- Dash