83 Top Webmaster Resources

Published in Design, Links

Blogs – To create a blog, use any of the platforms listed below.
www.wordpress.com
www.blogger.com
www.typepad.com
http://www.joomla.org
www.movabletype.com

Scripts – Looking for a JavaScript, DHTML, or PHP script? Try these resources.
www.java-scripts.net
www.javafile.com
www.phpfreaks.com
www.phpjunkyard.com
www.dynamicdrive.com
http://javascript.internet.com
www.powerfulscripts.com
http://script.aculo.us
www.dhtmlgoodies.com
www.opensourcescripts.com/dir/PHP/

Tools
www.trafficzap.com – Page rank checker, link popularity checker, keyword density checker, and more.

Stats
www.addfreestats.com
www.statcounter.com
www.google.com – The most popular free stats program is Google Analytics

Photos - Find free or low cost photos for use on your website.
http://www.freephotosbank.com/
www.stockvault.net
www.istockphoto.com/index.php
www.sxc.hu
www.stockxpert.com

Affiliate Programs – Make money promoting affiliate programs on your website.
www.cj.com – One of the largest affiliate program managers.
www.clickbank.com – Sells all types of downloadable products.

Research
www.alexa.com – Find out information about your website and about your competitors.

PDF – Create PDFs to use as downloable files on your website.
www.peernet.com/pdfcreator/
http://createpdf.adobe.com/
http://cosmi.com/OnlineStore/ProductCatalog/ProductDetail.aspx?Matnr=539000WEB

Menus and navigation – Find scripts to easily integrate quality navigation into your website.
www.vandelaydesign.com/cssmenus/lists.htm – Our own collection of free navigation menus.
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ – A very popular collection of CSS menus.
www.xtreeme.com/dhtml/ – A tool that will help you create your own menus.
www.exploding-boy.com/2005/12/15/free-css-navigation-designs/
www.alvit.de/web-dev/tabs-and-pure-css-navigation-menus.html
http://cssvault.com/cat_navigation.php

Tutorials
www.htmldog.com
www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/ – Tutorials for using Dreamweaver.
www.dmxzone.com
www.devshed.com
www.webstyleguide.com
www.w3schools.com

Article Submitter
www.artemispro.com – Submit our articles quickly and effectively.

SEO
www.seomoz.org – The leading SEO resource/company.

CSS Galleries – Find some inspiration by looking at tons of quality designs.
www.cssbeauty.com
www.cssvault.com
www.stylegala.com
www.csselite.com
www.cssmania.com
www.cssimport.com
www.cssgreen.com
www.csszengarden.com

Web Standards
www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm
www.webstandards.org/learn/

Validators
http://validator.w3.org/ – html
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ – CSS

Design News and Articles
www.digital-web.com
www.alistapart.com
www.thinkvitamin.com
www.456bereastreet.com
www.sitepronews.com

Colors
www.colorschemer.com – Find the right combination of colors for your design.

Forums – Get your questions answered and network with other designers.
www.csscreator.com/forum
www.designerstalk.com/forums
www.webforumz.com
www.webdevforums.com
www.webmaster-talk.com
www.allgraphicdesign.com
www.go4expert.com
www.webdeveloper.com
www.webmasterworld.com
www.codingforums.com
http://forums.digitalpoint.com

Feeds
www.feedburner.com
www.feedforall.com
www.tristana.org/writer.cfm

Hosting
www.HostGator.com – The leader in low price hosting. Lots of choices and features.
www.NewWebsite.com
– Low price, multiple domain hosting with great customer service.
www.Dotster.com – Another low price hosting option.

FTP
www.cuteftp.com/cuteftp/
www.smartftp.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

Page Speed Test
www.selfseo.com/website_speed_test.php – A very valuable tool to test the load time of your pages.

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72 Responses

kangax July 8th, 2007

Why only scriptaculous in “Script” section? What about jQuery, MooTools or YUI libraries?

Vijay Teach Me July 9th, 2007

Thanks for compiling a very very useful list for all of us.

Note: I donot mind click on the affiliate links also as long as they have value associated with the post.

Vijay

umut July 9th, 2007

thats cool!
also you can add mysite for hosting and domain ;)
http://www.teknopartner.com

Vandelay Design July 9th, 2007

kangax,
The websites I listed were all sites that I am familiar with. I don’t use a lot of scripts from these sites (a few from Dynamic Drive) so I really am not familiar with the sites you mentioned. They could be better than what I listed, but I really have no idea. Thanks for stopping by and for your input.

Vijay,
Thanks for your feedback. I visited your blog and it looks like you have some good stuff there.

Umut,
Thanks for the resource, looks like your prices are pretty good.

Niklas Waller July 10th, 2007

Good list! Thanks for that!
One thing that I thought of that might be useful as well for web developing is two sites for finding icons/images.

Take a look at:
- http://www.iconlet.com/
- http://www.iconfinder.net/

Another tip is the web IDE – Aptana for html, css, javascript and easier ajax development (http://www.aptana.com/).

Best regards
/ Nick

chita July 10th, 2007

why the hosting links are affiliates ones?

Vandelay Design July 10th, 2007

Nick,
Thanks for the added resources!

Chita,
The hosting links are affiliate links because 1) I use Host Gator for this site and I am very pleased with their service, 2) One of my ongoing clients uses NewWebsite.com and they are great too, 3) I felt Dotster had some good prices and features. I don’t see a problem in using affiliate links for services that I can honestly recommend to my visitors. As you can see, my website is not full of ads (in fact, I think the hosting services are the only affiliate links at this point), so I feel like it is safe to say that I am not simply trying to make a quick buck from the site.

Thanks for visiting and for your feedback.

chita July 11th, 2007

thanks for being honest!
i was complaining because i humbly think that it would be better to say (affiliate link) beside an affiliate link, this really works, and visitors like this kind of clarity.

You see, it’s just like google, thier ads are very explicit, they just don’t include ad links in the sreach results but specify that it’s an ad when it’s an ad. You see what i mean?

Anyway, your answer to my previous comment is a way for clarifying this and i bet the visitors will like that more.
Thank you :)

Shana July 12th, 2007

Thank you… thank you… thank you. I love that I will have all my resources on one page. Thank you for putting this together. I will be making it a favorite and subscribing to your feed.

Shana
http://www.allworkathomeideas.com/
http://www.abchomepreschool.com/
http://www.abchomepreschool.com/PreschoolEducationBlog/

jon July 12th, 2007

great info

Vandelay Design July 12th, 2007

Shana,
Thanks for your feedback. If you found this post useful you may also want to see the list of CSS Resources.

Vandelay Design July 12th, 2007

Jon,
Thanks for reading and for your comment.

Shana July 12th, 2007

Cool!! I will check it out now. Thanks for letting me know.

Shana
http://www.allworkathomeideas.com/
http://www.abchomepreschool.com/
http://www.abchomepreschool.com/PreschoolEducationBlog/

Nikola July 15th, 2007

Tons of resources: Web Developer Handbook

mkavici July 16th, 2007

nice list,
http://www.cssbased.com may be added in css galleries section

Truvahorse July 16th, 2007

Thanks for very useful list for all of us. Bookmarked.

byron July 16th, 2007

Excelente lista, es dificil hallar en su solo lugar todo o casi todo lo que necesita el webmaster.

gracias
http://negocioencrecimiento.ws/

Passwords July 17th, 2007

Nice Free Passwords at my site. Good information here too

Prezenty July 18th, 2007

Great piece of art. I use most of the link to enhanced my web page. Thanks for your work :)

Web Resources July 19th, 2007

This is a great list of resources for web developers!

josh July 22nd, 2007

Great collection. You can also add http://itdiscover.com . Just my 2 cents. I like the site.

Vandelay Design July 22nd, 2007

Hi Josh,
Thanks for the additional resource. Glad you liked the collection of links.

Saurabh October 27th, 2007

Great list for webmaster resources…..Thanks

Vladimir November 12th, 2007

I’d like to add this resource called Webmaster Essentials Checklist

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/webmaster-essentials-checklist

Douglas November 20th, 2007

Wow, I am definitely going to bookmark this, thanks! You also may want to add, http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/. It isn’t necessarily accurate, however it is a good judge whether or not you are increasing your sites value.

-Doug
5 Lessons Learned By a Young Web Developer

Nomar January 7th, 2008

Could you add http://www.9mb.com to the list of webmaster forums?

Mark Davis January 23rd, 2008

Hi,

Your website appears to be running ads on some of your pages. I represent a major online advertising company and we want to pay you a fee for every visitor you currently receive.

If any questions regarding this, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thank you,

Mark Davis

support@pppmedia.net

http://www.PPPMedia.net

Nick January 30th, 2008

I work for http://www.thebluecrossblueshield.com and we use these tools very frequently.

dazzafakt March 4th, 2008

Here is another Css Site. Css-Tabcreatr
http://tabcreatr.com

samet March 21st, 2008

http://www.sametesener.tr.gg” title=”Google,sametesener,bloglar,webmaster,blog,tr.gg” target=”_blank”>Google,sametesener,bloglar,webmasterblog,tr.gg

very good site..

Cool Pictures April 6th, 2008

thanx for 83 Top Webmaster Resources.

Hoang Phuc April 13th, 2008

Thanks you very much

HYIP April 21st, 2008

Great info!

Silgar May 23rd, 2008

Dear Sir/Madam

I am author of website for beginner webmasters with menu maker. Menu use JavaScript and CSS. I think that it may will be presented on your website.
url:http://menugenerator.ovh.org

Yours faithfully,
Grzegorz Radkiewicz

KaraSancak June 17th, 2008

Good archive ,thanks :)

webmaster blog July 29th, 2008

thank you. Very nice information ;)

Max | Design Shard July 29th, 2008

very good infomative collection thanks

Max | Design Shard

Mobde3 August 17th, 2008

archived it!

Dave Robinson September 13th, 2008

Hey,
Would be great to add this forum also to the list
http://www.webradiance.com/

Great forum with no ads or advertisements of any kind.

lighting September 26th, 2008

The best icon search engine I ever used is http://www.veryicon.com, it has the most powerful search function and the largest icon contents.

Jacob October 27th, 2008

This is a relatively new web design and development forum, with article, tutorials and more! Worth checking it out!

http://www.thewebsqueeze.com/

Sulumits Retsambew July 28th, 2009

This are great list of webmaster resources. I already bookmarked this site. Thanks for this man.

Shannon September 13th, 2009

This is an awesome list. I found the CSS sites that you listed to be very useful. I have bookmarked your page.

Have a great day,
Shannon

izleyici September 25th, 2009

thanks a lot for the list :)

4design November 11th, 2009

Many thanks for such a complete list of resources!

flood pictures December 5th, 2009

Very complete.
It’s very useful for me as a newbie.

Dravalley Support Community January 11th, 2010

That is a very nice list. Some useful stuff to find there. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Rewards Generator December 2nd, 2010

Why is jQuery not on the list?

Olga May 19th, 2011

Great list!

I would also suggest adding http://idea.informer.com/

This is a free and efficient tool to manage feedback and improve your website through visitors’ ideas.

Yuli June 13th, 2011

I would like to suggest another great tool.

It is a website antivirus service. It is called KyplexAV. Here is a link:

http://www.kyplexav.com

Best regards

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