Toolkit, Links and More: Generally Useful Stuff

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium web site is a wonderful resource for standards, guidelines, tutorials, tools and news.

HTML-editor

HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.

Download from: www.htmlkit.com/download/

Comment: Free, excellent.

Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design is a place to download quality free web designs and share yours with others. This site also has a Designer Link Blog, with links to other useful resources for web developers.

Comment: Free, very useful for new ideas for designs.

A List Apart

A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

ALA's content is protected by copyright, but their source code is freely available. Topics covered are Code, Content, Culture, Design, Process, and User Science.

Comment: Free, informative and authoritative.

HTML Goodies

HTML Goodies presents tutorials from beginner to advanced levels on virtually any topic of interest to web developers.

The website offers an astounding range of resources, answers to frequently asked questions, and a discussion forum. Check out their master list of topics.

Comment: Free, all you need to know plus more.

Web Design Group

The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics.

An example of a useful resource is their ISO 8859-1 character set overview.

Comment: Free, very good.

Website Tips

WebsiteTips.com is an educational web site design and development resource especially for web site owners, web designers, webmasters, teachers, students, and anyone wanting to learn about web sites.

All My FAQs

All My FAQs is a portal to existing FAQ pages and sites on web-centric topics, and a peer-moderated resource-sharing and discussion forum. It is a Wiki experiment in community website collaboration.

Google Webmaster Central

Google Webmaster Central gives comprehensive information about how Google crawls and indexes websites. Learn how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in the Google index, and tell Google how you would like your site to be crawled and indexed. Includes a powerful sitemap generator.

Comment: Free, and very useful since Google is after all the benchmark for search engines.

Open Source Commerce

osCommerce is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

Comment: Free, excellent, feature-rich, customisable, choose from a variety of trusted payment gateways.