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;17 New Ways To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible To Employers: http://www.businessinsider.com/make-your-linkedin-profile-irresistible-2013-10?op=1
 
;How To Make Your LinkedIn Headline Stand Out: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2012/08/14/does-your-linkedin-headline-suck/
 
;How To Make Your LinkedIn Headline Stand Out: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2012/08/14/does-your-linkedin-headline-suck/
 
;LinkedIn Bullets & Symbols, Making Your Profile Shine!: http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/2012/06/28/linkedin-profile-bullets-symbols/
 
;LinkedIn Bullets & Symbols, Making Your Profile Shine!: http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/2012/06/28/linkedin-profile-bullets-symbols/
 
;LinkedIn Profile Examples - What Makes a LinkedIn Profile POWERFUL?: http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/linkedin-profile-samples/
 
;LinkedIn Profile Examples - What Makes a LinkedIn Profile POWERFUL?: http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/linkedin-profile-samples/
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;6 Linkedin Invitation Templates that Get a Response Every Time: http://hashtagsandstilettos.com/best-linkedin-invitation-templates/
 
;6 Linkedin Invitation Templates that Get a Response Every Time: http://hashtagsandstilettos.com/best-linkedin-invitation-templates/
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;5 Ways To Use LinkedIn Invitations Help Your Social Selling: http://marketingthink.com/your-biggest-linkedin-mistake-can-be-easily-fixed/
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: LinkedIn messages are restricted to 300 characters and can't include an email or web address. LinkedIn also imposes a "lifetime limit" of 3000 messages, but promises to forgive that restriction if the sender behaves responsibly (no spam, harassment, abuse, etc.).<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=pop%2Fpop_more_invitation_limits Invitation Limits]</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 13:30, 26 March 2014

HELP FROM AROUND THE WEB

These notes began as an archive of resources listed on the humans.txt file for a particular website. The domain for that site was since hijacked by a domain squatter, but the resources listed here have proved useful for other web projects. The idea is to expand this page with other helpful resources for building simple web sites.

CMS & Blog Platforms

WordPress

Creating a Static Front Page
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Enable and Disable Comments
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
How to Show WordPress Pages on Your Homepage
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-show-wordpress-pages-on-your-homepage/

WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcode API
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
WordPress Page Design: Shortcodes v Page Templates
http://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-page-design-shortcodes-v-page-templates/
Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples)
http://speckyboy.com/2011/07/18/getting-started-with-wordpress-shortcodes-examples/

WordPress Multisite

The Beginner's Guide to WordPress Multisite
http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/beginner-guide-wordpress-multisite/

WordPress Guides

WordPress plugin: include custom fields in a post
http://pp19dd.com/wordpress-plugin-include-custom-field/
This handy site also contains links to a number of other useful tips 'n' tools, including CSV batch zipcode Lookup tool, Four things I wish someone had told me about wikis (WikiMedia) and more.
WordPress Rockers: How To’s
http://wprockers.com/how-tos
wordpress tips | tips & advice on wordpress.com blogs
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/

WordPress Themes

WordPress Child Themes
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
How to remove Proudly powered by WordPress from Twenty Eleven theme?
http://wprockers.com/how-to-remove-proudly-powered-by-wordpress-from-twenty-eleven-theme-1120.html
Replace/Remove Default Header Image Twenty Eleven Theme
http://wpti.ps/functions/replace-remove-header-image-twenty-eleven-theme/

WordPress Photo Galleries

Twitter Bootstrap Galleries
http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-bootstrap-galleries/
Wraps the content of a WordPress media gallery in a Twitter's Bootstrap grid.
NextGEN Gallery
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/
NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen-gallery-shortcodes/

Wordpress & Social Media

Top 10 Social Media Plugins for WordPress
http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/03/social-media-plugins-for-wordpress.html
WordPress Instagram Plugins - Instagram Picture
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress-plugins/instagram-picture-plugin-for-wordpress
Instagram Picture
Shortcode function example (English): http://tb-webtec.de/2013/10/instagram-picture-shortcode-function-example-english/

Drupal

Drupal Commons
http://drupal.org/project/commons
Drupal Commons is a ready-to-use solution for building either internal or external communities. It provides a complete social business software solution for organizations.
A Drupal Developer’s Setup on Windows
http://mikekeran.com/drupal-developer-setup-windows
Back up your site using the command line
https://drupal.org/upgrade/backing-your-site-command-line
Upgrading from previous versions
https://drupal.org/upgrade
Upgrading Drupal using a Patch File
https://drupal.org/comment/1545852#comment-1545852

Drupal Modules

Top 25 Drupal 7 Modules
http://www.axzm.com/top-25-drupal-7-modules
Backup and Migrate
https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
Display Suite Bootstrap Layouts
https://drupal.org/project/ds_bootstrap_layouts
Bootstrap - Photo Gallery
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap_gallery

Drupal Themes

Bamboo
https://drupal.org/project/bamboo
Bootstrap
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap
Bootstrap Barrio
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap_barrio
Bootstrap Barrio is a sub-theme of the Bootstrap Theme, adding 1, 2 or 3 columns with configurable widths.

Drupal Theme Tutorials

Bootstrap sub-theming "how to"
https://drupal.org/node/1978010
How to Use Bootswatch Themes in Drupal 7
http://webwash.net/tutorials/how-use-bootswatch-themes-drupal-7
Creating a sub-theme
https://drupal.org/node/225125
How to Customize a Contributed Drupal Theme
http://radarearth.com/content/how-customize-contributed-drupal-theme

Drupal Wikis

Commons Wikis
http://drupal.org/project/commons_wikis
Provide the wiki functionality for Drupal Commons distribution.

See other wiki-like features for Drupal here:

http://portlandwiki.org/User:WikiMaster/Projects#Drupal_Related

Drupal - Drush

A Beginner's Guide to Drush, the Drupal Shell
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/a-beginner-s-guide-to-drush-the-drupal-shell
Drush.org
A command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal.: http://drush.ws/
Upgrade Drupal easily with Drush
https://drupal.org/comment/1593136#comment-1593136
Updating Drupal Core with Drush
http://brockboland.com/2010/08/updating-drupal-core-drush/
Install Drush on Dreamhost VPS
http://www.pru8.com/install-drush-on-dreamhost-vps
Drush commands reference
https://groups.drupal.org/drush/commands

Lightweight CMS Scripts

CMS Made Simple
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
SiteCake - Simple, drag and drop CMS for fast editing
http://sitecake.com/
SiteCake is an open source PHP CMS application which allows a site admin to edit a website while browsing it. Once logged in, everything becomes editable. While in edit mode, SiteCake displays a "content editing bar" with options for inserting HTML elements like headers, lists, images, videos and other stuff like Google Maps or a slideshow.[1] SiteCake is a true WYSIWYG. There is no separate admin section, you can click any page element and edit it in-place.[2]
Zimplit
http://www.zimplit.com/index.html

CSS Grids & Frameworks

Bootstrap
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Bootstrap Templates - Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap
http://startbootstrap.com/
Bootstrap Image Gallery
http://blueimp.github.io/Bootstrap-Image-Gallery/
Bootsnipp
http://bootsnipp.com/
Design elements, playground and code snippets for Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS framework
Bootstrap Contact Form
http://www.mkt.cat/contact.php
How to make a contact form with Bootstrap 3 ? (JQuery/PHP/HTML5/JqBootstrapValidation)
http://myprogrammingblog.com/2013/08/27/how-to-make-a-contact-form-with-bootstrap-3-jqueryphphtml5jqbootstrapvalidation/
How to create a PHP, Bootstrap 3 Contact Form which works with blogger and any other platform

http://tudor-anghelina.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-create-php-bootstrap-3-contact.html

5 Bootstrap CSS - Tables - JSFiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/juanmendez/L46FX/
CSS Wizardry
http://csswizardry.com/
Emastic - css framework
http://code.google.com/p/emastic/
inuit.css
http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/
Pure
http://purecss.io/
Responsive Grid System
http://www.responsivegridsystem.com/
Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
http://sass-lang.com/
Web Experience Toolkit (WET)
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/index-en.html
Collaborative open source project led by the Government of Canada

Framework Forms

Formalize
http://formalize.me/
Features kudos from leading "industry experts."
Formee
http://formee.org/
Responsive web forms for your CSS grid project.

Tips, Tricks & Reading Material for CSS Grids & Frameworks

Don’t Overthink It Grids
http://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-it-grids/

HTML5

The HTML5 Page Structure
HTML5 Quick Tutorial
http://www.coursesweb.net/html/html5-quick-tutorial_t
HTML5 Page Structure
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/html5-page-structure/
The HTML5 Page Structure
http://www.basewebmaster.com/html/html5-page-structure.php
HTML5 Page Structure
http://www.severinu.com/html5-page-structure/
HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
http://html5doctor.com/
HTML 5 Outliner
http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/
Document Outlines
http://html5doctor.com/outlines/
Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an_HTML5_document
HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/16/html5-and-the-document-outlining-algorithm/
Fragment identifier (Wikipedia)
Examples
In URIs for MIME text/html pages such as http://www.example.org/foo.html#bar the fragment refers to the element with id="bar".

CSS3

Multiple Columns Layout (Magazine-alike) With CSS3
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/css3-multi-columns/
Using CSS multi-column layouts
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_multi-column_layouts
3D CSS Text
http://www.3dcsstext.com/
overflow-x, overflow-y tests
http://www.brunildo.org/test/Overflowxy2.html
W3C CSS3 working draft: The 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y' properties.

Bootstrap CSS

Bootstrap > CSS
http://getbootstrap.com/css/



Also see CSS Layout Tricks.

PHP

PHP Classes

The php5 object oriented web design howto > Functions and classes > A page class
http://fun-tech.se/php_tutorial/part03/index.php

PHP Includes

Custom Page Titles with PHP Includes
http://girlswhogeek.com/tutorials/2006/custom-page-titles-with-php-includes
How to automatically include your header, navigation, and footer on every page
http://www.apaddedcell.com/how-automatically-include-your-header-navigation-and-footer-every-page
Using the PHP Include Function to Template Faster
http://buildinternet.com/2009/12/using-the-php-include-function-to-template-faster/
WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > php include question - bad practice?
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241934
Flawed tips but useful in working out the basic idea of calling head, footer and other page elements from a single file.
WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > Page title from include php file??
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208744
Case Study--How to Customize a JumpStart
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=80733
(This tutorial is mainly pushing JumpStart web templates, but offers some useful tips on includes placement.

Menus

Create a centred horizontal navigation
http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/create-a-centred-horizontal-navigation/
Demo: http://csswizardry.com/demos/centred-nav/
Horizontally Centered Menus with no CSS hacks
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/beautiful-css-centered-menus-no-hacks-full-cross-browser-support

Social Media

Facebook

HOW TO: Set Up a Facebook Page
http://mashable.com/2011/05/22/how-to-facebook-page/
How to Create Custom Tabs for Facebook Business Pages
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/26330/How-to-Create-Custom-Tabs-for-Facebook-Business-Pages.aspx
The Guide to Facebook Business Page Timelines (eBook)
http://offers.hubspot.com/the-step_by_step-guide-to-new-facebook-business-page-timelines

LinkedIn

Profile Tips

17 New Ways To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible To Employers
http://www.businessinsider.com/make-your-linkedin-profile-irresistible-2013-10?op=1
How To Make Your LinkedIn Headline Stand Out
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2012/08/14/does-your-linkedin-headline-suck/
LinkedIn Bullets & Symbols, Making Your Profile Shine!
http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/2012/06/28/linkedin-profile-bullets-symbols/
LinkedIn Profile Examples - What Makes a LinkedIn Profile POWERFUL?
http://www.linkedin-makeover.com/linkedin-profile-samples/

Messenging Tips

6 Linkedin Invitation Templates that Get a Response Every Time
http://hashtagsandstilettos.com/best-linkedin-invitation-templates/
5 Ways To Use LinkedIn Invitations Help Your Social Selling
http://marketingthink.com/your-biggest-linkedin-mistake-can-be-easily-fixed/
LinkedIn messages are restricted to 300 characters and can't include an email or web address. LinkedIn also imposes a "lifetime limit" of 3000 messages, but promises to forgive that restriction if the sender behaves responsibly (no spam, harassment, abuse, etc.).[3]

General Info

Forget LinkedIn
Companies turn to GitHub to find tech talent: http://www.cnet.com/news/forget-linkedin-companies-turn-to-github-to-find-tech-talent/
Because engineers and designers can post their work for all to see, more and more companies are realizing they can see what people can actually do, not just say they can do.

Texting

Pinger makes texting and talking free.
http://www.pinger.com/content/home.html

Character Encoding

HTML Codes Table—Characters and symbols
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
Character-Code.com
http://character-code.com/

Online Encoding Tools

Convert special characters to HTML
http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
HTML Encoder / Decoder
http://www.web2generators.com/html/entities
HTML encoder
http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp
HTML Character Entity Converter
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/entity/converter.html
HTML 4.01 Entities
http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/xmlentities/xml_entities.asp

Character Encoding Help Resources & How-Tos

PHP -- Convert special characters to HTML character codes
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3882567/php-convert-special-characters-to-html-character-codes
Converting special characters to HTML entities between code tags
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/convert-special-characters-to-html-entities-between-code-tags
The Road to HTML 5
character encoding: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding
Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html
HTML Symbol Entities Reference
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp

.htaccess

Hide file extensions, add trailing slash with .htaccess
http://code.adonline.id.au/hide-file-extensions-add-trailing-slash/
The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques
Do’s and Don’ts: http://www.noupe.com/php/htaccess-techniques.html
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
Stupid htaccess Tricks
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
MediaWiki ShortURL Builder
http://shorturls.redwerks.org/
.htaccess 301 redirect from old domain to new domain while structure of pages and url are same
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13001173/htaccess-301-redirect-from-old-domain-to-new-domain-while-structure-of-pages-an
.htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990392/htaccess-rewrite-to-redirect-root-url-to-subdirectory
.htaccess redirect
http://www.htaccessredirect.net/
Free .htaccess Redirect Generator

A Lightweight CMS Using .htaccess

Still need a quick 'n' dirty splash page for the main domain. Rather than installing a full Drupal instance, this might work:

This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system navigation. We wrote it to test the feasibility of powering a content management system entirely in Apache.

Image Handling

Aspect Ratio Calculator
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/
Image Size Calculator
http://auctionrepair.com/pixels.html
Converts inches to pixels & pixels to inches.

Online Image Editors

Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image
http://pixlr.com/

GIMP

GIMP Extensions Pack for Windows
http://registry.gimp.org/node/27656
Extensions Sources
Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop/
How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP
http://geekswithblogs.net/timh/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx
Replacing a Foreground with The GIMP
http://gimpguru.org/tutorials/replaceforeground/
Convert a simple image to a vector graphic using GIMP and Inkscape
http://imgur.com/gallery/xL0Ba

Inkscape

Inkscape tutorial: Tracing
http://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html
Increase Image Resolution
Convert Raster Images to Vector: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/convert-images-to-svg-format-with-inkscape/

Web-Based Productivity Apps

What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free?
http://lifehacker.com/5967154/what-should-i-do-now-that-google-apps-accounts-are-no-longer-free
Going Google-Free: The Best Alternatives to Google Services on the Web
http://lifehacker.com/5876794/going-google+free-the-best-alternatives-to-google-services-on-the-web
(Scroll down the article a little ways to get to the discussion on productivity apps.)

3rd Party File Hosting

The basic idea is to host images, PDFs and other large files on a publicly available directory, like Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, HiDrive, etc. Alternatively, you can set up a Dropbox-like directory using an open source tool like SparkleShare (see below).

Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drop-your-dropbox-and-sparkleshare-instead
SparkleShare
http://sparkleshare.org/
"Setting up your own host to work with SparkleShare is relatively easy." (An open source option for creating your own Dropbox-like service.)
BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-secure-dropbox-alternative-goes-public-130423/
BitTorrent Sync (available from BitTorrent Labs) is free of charge and allows people to securely sync folders to multiple devices using the BitTorrent protocol.

Issues with images hosted on Google Docs.

Open-Mic.jpg
Attempted to link to an image hosted on Google Docs (image shown above). Sharing set to "public." Google's URI scheme looks a bit odd (seems to mask the file name and file type). The problematic part (in terms of linking to these images from a web site) is that Google appears to change the URI itself at least once a day.

Two Days; Two URIs

Color

Color Names Supported by All Browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp

Links

Internal Links
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/text/internallinks.html
Scroll to "Naming Sections with id" portion of the tutorial.

Footnotes & Endnotes

Javascript Endnotes
http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/dobson/portfolio/endnotes/index.html
“JavaScript Endnotes” allow a web author to create an HTML document containing endnotes which are dynamically renumbered as new notes are added, in a similar manner to the <NOTE> tag supported in many WIKI applications.
Accessible footnotes with HTML and CSS
http://www.likewowonline.net/web/dev/accessible-footnotes.html
Footnotes
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/04/20/footnotes/
Handling footnotes and references in HTML
http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/footnotes.html
This post examines what options one has for handling footnotes and references in HTML. It then presents a library that helps you with handling them.
JavaScript-enhanced footnotes and references
http://rauschma.github.com/html_demos/footnotes.html

Links To Google & Gmail Resources

Link To Specific Gmail Message

All Email Messages in Gmail Have a Permanent Web Address
http://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-emails-have-permanent-web-address/6811/
Do you know that it is possible to bookmark individual email messages of Gmail just like you would bookmark any regular web page. (Links to your Gmail messages will only resolve if you're logged into your Google account when you click on the link.)

How To Link To Specific Google Books Page

Example

Find the base URL to the Google Book you want to link to. Add the page number just after the book ID like in the example highlighted below.

http://books.google.com/books?id=zLrKGGxBKjAC&pg=PA135
UPDATE: The link shown above no longer links directly to the specific page it once did (135), but resolves to a onepage format instead.
CAUTION: Google apparently changes its URI structure without warning. For example, the link to the book / page shown above was formerly written like the one shown below (which now only resolves to the book's main Google Books description page)
http://books.google.com/books?id=8f2y0F2wzLoC&pg=P135

How To Link To Google Calendar Event

Is it possible to link to specific date on a public Google Calendar?
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/3431/is-it-possible-to-link-to-specific-date-on-a-public-google-calendar

URI Formats - (Change the yyyymmdd setting shown in the examples to the specific date you want to link to.)

Link to a date on your private calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=mc&date=yyyymmdd

Link to an event on a your public calendar:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showNav=0&showPrint=0&showCalendars=0&mode=AGENDA&wkst=1&src={your_calendar_id}&dates=yyyymmdd%2Fyyyymmdd

Other Google Link Resources

Web Server & Hosting

DIY Home Web Server

Set Up a Home Server
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/set_up_a_home_server/
Setting up a home server running an open-source operating system is a popular and useful activity.
How to set up a safe and secure Web server
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/how-to-set-up-a-safe-and-secure-web-server/
Learn a lot by doing it yourself instead of going with a hosting company.
Build a Linux Home Web Server For Under $250
http://linuxlookup.com/howto/build_linux_home_web_server_under_250
Amahi Home Server - Making Home Networking Simple
http://www.amahi.org/
Amahi is software that runs on a dedicated PC as a central computer for your home.
See Amahi's Wiki for setting up a home web server: https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Hosting_a_website

Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

Also see DreamHost's Dynamic DNS wiki page.

How to Enable Dynamic Service for Your domain name.
http://support.easydns.com/tutorials/DynamicDNS/
Dynamic DNS service is used to keep a domain name pointing to the same computer or server connected to the internet despite the fact that the address (IP address) of the computer keeps changing. This service is useful to anyone who wants to operate a server (web server, mail server, ftp server, irc server etc) connected to the internet with a dynamic IP or to someone who wants to connect to an office computer or server from a remote location with software such as pcAnywhere.
Dynamic DNS with your own domain name (for free!)
http://g18c.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/dynamic-dns-with-your-own-domain-name-for-free/

Web Site Builders

IM-Creator - a simple & elegant website builder (and it's free)
http://imcreator.com/

Free Web Hosts

The Simplest and Cheapest Free Web Hosting Services
http://lifehacker.com/5530961/the-simplest-and-cheapest-free-web-hosting-services

DreamHost VPS Hosting
http://www.dreamhost.com/servers/vps/
DigitalOcean
https://www.digitalocean.com/
Features 20GB solid-state hard drive (SSD) + 512MB memory for just $5 a month.
Google Cloud Platform
https://cloud.google.com/
"Build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure."
Linode
https://www.linode.com/
VPS.NET
http://vps.net/

Further Reading

Best Cloud Hosting
http://best-cheap-hosting.com/best-cloud-hosting/

Web Hosting Control Panels

If you set up your own server, it might be helpful to have the assistance of a GUI control panel.

Comparison of web hosting control panels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_hosting_control_panels
Webmin
http://www.webmin.com/
ZPanel
http://www.zpanelcp.com/
"ZPanel is a free and complete web hosting control panel for Microsoft® Windows™ and POSIX (Linux, UNIX and MacOSX) based servers. ZPanel is written in PHP and uses several open-source (or freely available) software packages to provide a secure, web hosting system."

Tools & Resources

Analytics

Piwik - Free (& Open Source) Web Analytics Software
http://piwik.org/

Miscellaneous Tools

PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/docs/index.html
PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are Web addresses that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.
Hacked Website Cleanup Tools Extension
https://www.whitefirdesign.com/hacked-website-cleanup-tools
Text Mechanic™ - Text Manipulation Tools
http://textmechanic.com/
A collection of free, online, browser-based, text manipulation tools.
Online Email Obfuscator
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/obfuscator/
Zamzar - free online converter
http://www.zamzar.com/
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
File convert service between document, image, music, video, e-book, compressed and CAD formats. No account or signup required.
When can I use...
http://caniuse.com/
Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
After the Deadline
http://www.afterthedeadline.com/
After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with:
- Contextual Spell Checking
- Advanced Style Checking
- Intelligent Grammar Checking
Web-Based Slide Decks Done Right
http://luigimontanez.com/2011/web-based-slide-decks-done-right/
SlideGo - Interactive Slides
http://www.slidego.com/home/
Speaker Deck
http://speakerdeck.com/
"Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code."
Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor
http://prezi.com/
if this then that
http://ifttt.com/wtf
Automated triggers for various web and internet related tasks.
What is humans.txt?
http://humanstxt.org/
Color Hex Color Codes
http://www.color-hex.com/
HeadJS -- The Only Script In Your <HEAD> -- A tiny script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site.
Load scripts like images. Use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Target CSS for different screens, paths, states and browsers. Make it the only script in your HEAD. A concise solution to universal issues.
http://headjs.com/
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
http://css-tricks.com/what-beautiful-html-code-looks-like/
ID Your Body For Greater CSS Control and Specificity
http://css-tricks.com/id-your-body-for-greater-css-control-and-specificity/
Use PHP to insert an automatic “last modified” date into web pages
http://code.adonline.id.au/last-modified-date-php/

Zip+4 Lookups

Melissa Data Address Check
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/AddressCheck.asp
Input entire address (minus zip) into text field and Melissa Data will quickly generate a zip+4 code.
Limited to 25 lookups a day to non-registered users, and 100 per day to registered users.
Melissa Data Batch Address Check
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/batchaddresscheck.asp
Must register to use this tool. Delivers zip+4 and cleaned up addresses in multiple address batches.

Further Reading

Your Web, documented · WebPlatform.org
http://www.webplatform.org/
HTML5 Development Center
Resources and Tools: http://www.sitepoint.com/tag/html5-dev-center/
All The Tools I Used to Rebuild the DMAD Website
http://dmad.com/web-tools
Brief mentions of lots of useful tools, including...
- BootstrapWP Bootstrap theme for WordPress.
- CSS-Tricks
- Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
- Advanced Custom Fields - Custom fields. Made easy. Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your edit screens & custom field data.
... and more.

References