Web instruments

In this page I collect all the resources I like to have at hand when working on a site. Even realizing a simple site as this one required a lot of instruments, from CakePHP to Compass.

Hereby I present tutorials, blog entries, plugins, graphic elements to be downloaded... everything you need to browse the world of web design, organized by categories. I hope that this collection of bookmarks that I slowly created can turn out to be useful to someone else. Good work! :-)

Basic

Reference sites to learn how to make a website and find new ideas.


  • A list apart - La rivista storica sul web design
  • HTML.it - Il maggior sito italiano di guide e consigli
  • W3Schools - I tutorial direttamente dal W3C
  • 24 ways - Ogni Natale, un calendario dell'avvento con 24 trucchi e consigli
  • Build Internet! - Un blog molto attivo su tutti gli aspetti del lavoro sul web
  • How to create - Guide un po' datate, ma che insegnano il modo giusto di creare un sito

CakePHP

Ideas and extensions for the most popular PHP framework.


Colors

Choosing well the palette can drastically influence your design. Here is some advice.


CSS

Everything to learn using stylesheets.


Design

When the inspiration is missing, here are some sites to look at to find new ideas.


Elements

Little details you can add to your design.


Gimp

Tutorials to learn the graphical software Gimp.


Google

Information about SEO and some advice from Google.


Icons

Where to find icons under free licences for your site.


IE bugs

We all know what browser will break the design of our site, don't we? Better to stay informed and react beforehand.


Javascript

Tutorial, code snippets and useful libraries.


jQuery

Resources and plugins for developing in jQuery.


OpenId

A protocol which let you use a single user profile on different sites.


PHP

Resources about PHP: security and useful extensions.


Sass

Did you ever want to use variables, operations and mixins in your stylesheets? With Sass you can achieve this and more!


Security

Some basic elements to protect against malocious users.


Typography

How to choose your fonts, and be sure that they will show up as expected even on older browsers.


Utilities

Some resources that can always turn out to be useful.


  • Browser archive - Elenco storico dei browser
  • Piwik - Strumento di Web analytics da installare sul proprio server
  • reCAPTCHA - Una soluzione per i CAPTCHA che aiuta anche a digitalizzare libri antichi
  • SpriteMe - Una bookmarklet per creare sprite CSS e velocizzare il proprio sito
  • Lorem ipsum - Generatore automatico di dummy text
  • Browsershots - Strumento gratuito per i test su ogni tipo di browser