Sources and tools for web development
Link overview of practical resources for getting things done. If you know a very good web development tool to make things easier, too contact us.
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Color scheme tools
- Adobe Kuler – create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations
- BrandColors – biggest collection of official brand color codes around
- ColorHexa – free color tool providing information about any color and generating matching color palettes for designs
CSS frameworks
- Bootstrap – free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications
- Bootstrap Docs – get started with Bootstrap, the world's most popular framework for building responsive, mobile-first sites
Font and icon toolkits
JavaScript tools
- clipboard.js – modern approach to copy text to clipboard without Adobe Flash
- jQuery – fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library
Language tools
- DeepL – neural translation machine
- Grammarly – grammar tips, correct all grammar errors and enhance writing
- Hemingway App – makes writing bold and clear
- MIT OpenCourseWare – language course finder
- Oxford Dictionaries – the English site provides free access to the largest current English dictionaries and thesaurus as well as helpful tips on grammar, usage, spelling, and more
Online learning programs and courses
- MIT OpenCourseWare – an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate – and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere
- O'Reilly Media – essential topics and big ideas (e.g. design, software engineering, web programming)
- Type Terms – the animated typographic cheat sheet
Page speed and validation services
Search engines
- DuckDuckGo – search engine without tracking
- StartPage – private way to search Google
- Qwant – the search engine that respects your privacy
URL shortener
- ZEISE URL Shortener – sets no cookies and doesn't use web beacons or analogous tracking technologies.
What time is it?
- Time.is – displays exact, official atomic clock time for any time zone