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The free e-­‐book for the Udemy course
Second Edi7on, April 2015
BEST RESOURCES FOR WEB
DESIGN
AND
DEVELOPMENT
WITH HTML5 & CSS3

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1. WELCOME TO THIS E-­‐BOOK
This e-­‐book is a collec.on of the links to all the amazing resources, tools and ar.cles
we use in the “Web Design and Development: Killer Website with HTML5 & CSS3”
course. All the tools and resources we use in the course can be found in the
corresponding chapter of this e-­‐book.
Beside that, I also share a lot of other resources with you in this e-­‐book, in order to
make your life as a web designer and developer a lot easier! I found all of these tools
and resources over a period of years, spending days of my precious .me looking for
things that I needed. So I decided to pack all of them into this e-­‐book, so that you
don’t have to go through the same hassle!
Now before you start reading, please take a look at my course “
Web Design
and Development: Killer Website with HTML5 & CSS3
” right now by clicking on the
buRon below (with a HUGE discount on the original price)!
2. WEBDESIGN BASICS
2.1 INTRODUCTION TO WEBDESIGN
Design course in form of ar.cles:
hRps://hackdesign.org/lessons
 
Learn more about flat design:
hRp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/12/infographic-­‐flat-­‐design-­‐vs-­‐
skeuomorphism/
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2.2 TYPOGRAPHY
Google fonts: tons of free, easy to use webfonts:
hRps://www.google.com/fonts
Fonts for free download:
hRp://www.fontsquirrel.com/
List of best free fonts for designers:
hRp://www.crea.vebloq.com/graphic-­‐design-­‐.ps/best-­‐free-­‐fonts-­‐for-­‐
designers-­‐1233380
Very good for finding good font combina.ons:
hRp://www.fastprint.co.uk/blog/the-­‐art-­‐of-­‐mixing-­‐typefaces.html
Find even more good font combina.ons:
hRp://fontpair.co/
learn even more about typography:
hRp://www.typogui.de/
2.3 COLORS
Cool Flat UI colors:
hRp://flatuicolors.com/
Even more cool colors:
hRp://getuicolors.com/
Find varia.ons of colors (very good):
hRp://www.0to255.com/

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Adobe Color CC, play around with colors:
hRps://color.adobe.com/create/color-­‐wheel/
PaleRon, play around with colors:
hRp://paleRon.com
Beau.ful gradients for webdesign:
hRp://uigradients.com/
Learn about colors:
hRp://www.rocket-­‐design.fr/color-­‐template/
Learn even more about colors:
hRp://webdesign.tutsplus.com/ar.cles/an-­‐introduc.on-­‐to-­‐color-­‐theory-­‐for-­‐web-­‐
designers-­‐-­‐webdesign-­‐1437
2.4 WORKING WITH IMAGES
Basically all free images in one place:
hRp://thestocks.im/
Images from many sources:
hRp://www.pexels.com/
Unsplash, a must see:
hRps://unsplash.com/
Food images:
hRp://foodiesfeed.com/
A curated collec.on of free resources:
hRp://www.imcreator.com/free

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Huge paRern library:
hRp://thepaRernlibrary.com/
Subtle paRerns:
hRp://subtlepaRerns.com/
Free videos:
hRp://mazwai.com/
Techniques for working with images in CSS:
hRp://css-­‐tricks.com/design-­‐considera.ons-­‐text-­‐images/
2.5 WORKING WITH ICONS
Beau.ful icon font:
hRp://ionicons.com/
Another beau.ful icon set:
hRp://entypo.com/
Font awesome icons:
hRp://fontawesome.io/icons/
Big collec.on of SVG fonts:
hRp://iconmonstr.com/
Yet another icon font:
hRp://icon-­‐works.com/

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2.6 USER EXPERIENCE
UX crash course in 31 days
hRp://thehipperelement.com/post/75476711614/ux-­‐crash-­‐course-­‐31-­‐fundamentals
 
UI tricks that can lead to higher conversion rates:
hRp://www.goodui.org/
2.7 GETTING INSPIRED
Find beau.ful websites:
hRp://www.siteinspire.com/
Dribble, show and tell for designers:
hRps://dribbble.com/
Behance:
hRps://www.behance.net/
Inspira.on for one-­‐page websites:
hRps://onepagelove.com/
Even more webdesign inspira.on:
hRp://www.admiretheweb.com/
Flat design inspira.on:
hRp://flatdsgn.com/
Collec.on of specific design elements and paRerns:
hRp://paRerntap.com/
Another collec.on of design elements:
hRp://calltoidea.com/

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Google fonts inspira.on:
hRp://femmebot.github.io/google-­‐type/
Some amazing designers on Dribble:
hRps://dribbble.com/victorerixon
hRps://dribbble.com/benske
hRps://dribbble.com/peterfinlan
hRps://dribbble.com/Radium
2.8 EVEN MORE RESOURCES
Huge list of front-­‐end development resources:
hRps://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-­‐dev-­‐bookmarks
Curated resources for everything crea.ve:
hRp://oozled.com/
3. DIVE INTO HTML
The best text editor for front-­‐end web development in the world:
hRp://brackets.io/
Complete HTML reference:
hRp://www.w3schools.com/html
HTML special characters
hRps://css-­‐tricks.com/snippets/html/glyphs/

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4. FORMATTING WITH CSS
Complete CSS reference (this is really good):
hRp://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/
 
Important CSS selectors:
hRp://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-­‐30-­‐css-­‐selectors-­‐you-­‐must-­‐memorize-­‐-­‐
net-­‐16048
 
Cool things you can do with Google Chrome Developer Tools:
hRp://www.labnol.org/solware/chrome-­‐dev-­‐tools-­‐tutorial/28131/
 
5. THE KILLER WEBSITE PROJECT
5.1 7 REAL-­‐WORLD STEPS TO A FUNCTIONAL WEBSITE
1. Define your project (goal and audience)
2. Plan out everything
3. Sketch your ideas before you start designing
4. Design and develop your website with HTML and CSS
5. It’s not done yet: op.miza.on
6. Launch the masterpiece
7. Site maintenance
Periodic table of web design process:
hRp://www.newdesigngroup.ca/blog/web-­‐design-­‐process-­‐infographic/

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5.2 LINKS USED IN OUR PROJECT
Free, simple and easy-­‐to-­‐use fluid grid:
hRp://www.responsivegridsystem.com/
Get random user profiles:
hRp://randomuser.me/
 
Subtle hover effects:
hRp://tympanus.net/codrops/2014/06/19/ideas-­‐for-­‐subtle-­‐hover-­‐effects/
 
Up-­‐to-­‐date browser support tables for CSS and HTML:
hRp://caniuse.com/
Using Internet Explorer on a Mac
hRps://www.modern.ie
 
Social network colors:
hRp://designpieces.com/2012/12/social-­‐media-­‐colours-­‐hex-­‐and-­‐rgb/
6. LET’S ADD SOME COOL EFFECTS
6.1 LINKS USED IN THE COURSE
Animate.css:
hRp://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
6.2 COOL JQUERY PLUGINS
Webappers, huge list of plugins:
hRp://www.webappers.com/category/components/tool.ps/

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jQuery Rain, another huge list of plugins:
hRp://www.jqueryrain.com/
Magnific popup:
hRp://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-­‐popup/
Tool.pster:
hRp://iamceege.github.io/tool.pster/#demos
Maplace.js, google maps plugin:
hRp://maplacejs.com/
Typer, a plugin that types:
hRp://cosmos.layervault.com/typer-­‐js.html
OnePageScroll:
hRp://www.thepetedesign.com/demos/onepage_scroll_demo.html
7. OPTIMIZING AND LAUNCHING OUR
WEBSITE
Favicon Generator:
hRp://realfavicongenerator.net/
 
Compress images:
hRp://op.mizilla.com/
 
Minify CSS code:
hRp://www.minifycss.com/css-­‐compressor/
Minify JavaScript code:
hRp://www.minifyjavascript.com/

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HTML valida.on:
hRp://validator.w3.org/
Preview your website on mul.ple mobile devices at once:
hRp://www.responsinator.com/
SEO checklist:
hRp://webdesign.tutsplus.com/ar.cles/a-­‐web-­‐designers-­‐seo-­‐checklist-­‐including-­‐
portable-­‐formats-­‐-­‐webdesign-­‐10740
 
Google analy.cs
hRp://www.google.com/analy.cs/
8. KEEPING UP WITH THE WEB INDUSTRY
Treehouse show, weekly video about new things in webdesign and development:
hRp://teamtreehouse.com/library/the-­‐treehouse-­‐show
Sidebar: the 5 best design links, every day:
hRp://sidebar.io/
Codrops, webdesign blog with lots of freebies:
hRp://tympanus.net/codrops/
Webdesignerdepot, webdesign blog:
hRp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
Smashing magazine, webdesign blog:
hRp://www.smashingmagazine.com/
1st webdesigner, webdesign blog:
hRp://www.1stwebdesigner.com/

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Hey designer, curated list of webdesign ar.cles:
hRp://heydesigner.com/
Sitepoint, learn HTML, CSS and more:
hRp://www.sitepoint.com/
THANK YOU FOR READING THIS E-­‐BOOK!
I hope you found this e-­‐book really useful!
So now that you have all these resources and tools,
wouldn’t it be great to learn how
to actually use them for a real-­‐world project?
Let me help you with that!
All you need to do is to enrol in the course “
Web Design and Development: Killer
Website with HTML5 & CSS3
” right now by clicking on the buRon below
You even get a HUGE discount because you’re awesome and read this e-­‐book all
un.l the end :)
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