This is a collection of websites that I’ve found to provide helpful tools and resources.
Code Help
- HTML Color Codes
- A great tool for web design. It provides a color picker and shows a colors hex code, but also provides similar colors to create a color scheme.
- W3Schools
- A great resource to learn the basics of many languages. I find it particularly useful when looking up html5 tags and attributes.
- Markdown Guide
- A reference guide for writing in Markdown
- Stack Overflow
- A question & answer site with answers for many developer-related questions.
- Can I use…
- Find out which browsers support which web technologies. It’s a great reference for figuring out if new
html
tags orcss
properties are supported in recent browsers, and for determining how far back they are supported. It also provides other resources specific to the web technology you are researching, such as implementation guides and polyfill libraries.
Developer Applications
I use a Mac, so all of these programs run on a Mac, however some also run on other platforms.
- BBEdit
- A professional text editor for editing code. BBEdit has many features (including syntax highlighting), and supports almost any programming language.
- TextMate
- An open source text editor with code editing features (like syntax highlighting). TextMate is a simpler program than BBEdit.
- Marked 2
- An application for previewing markdown files.
- Atom
- An open source code editor with support for plugins.
- Visual Studio Code
- A code editor with support for plugins. Visual Studio Code has a very customizable and extensible interface. I keep discovering useful features of this editor. You can find a lot of these features in the documentation.