An unopinionated web development framework
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Links
Links to useful resources when making websites
This page contains links to all sorts of useful resources when making websites with
Contents
- Free hosting options
- Email options
- Hiring linux servers
- Web servers
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Local editors
- Online editors
- Web generators
- Cloud storage
- Code sharing (hosting Git repositories)
- Continuous Integration (CI) services
- Syntax highlighting
- Markdown
- Authentication
- Databases
- Payment/ecommerce platforms
- Selling digital products
- Adding forms
- Adding comments
- Free photos and videos
- Website templates
- Image/video hosting/platforms
- Lazy loading images
- Animation videos (at cost)
- Useful links
Free Hosting options
static websites
Also check out Aerobatic.
JAMstack Websites
- jamstack.org
- Serverless resources (css-tricks)
- Carefully curated list of awesome JAMstack resources
- JAMstack training
- WTF is JAMstack?
- Snipcart
- O'Reilly - Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
- Stackbit
dynamic websites and apps
Custom domain registrars
Email options
The following options can often be used to set up mail forwarding from custom domains to something like AOL, Gmail, Outlook, ProtonMail, Tutanota, Yahoo, Yandex, Zoho etc. (note you can easily set up to send emails from custom domains using Gmail, or you can set up your own mail server on a hired server, see options further below):Hiring linux servers (dynamic websites)
See also:Web servers
Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Headless CMS - A list of CMSs for JAMstack websites
- Agility
- Contentful
- Directus
- Drupal
- Graph CMS
- Netlify CMS
- Prismic
- Scrivito (see here)
- Strapi
Local Editors
- Atom (GitHub)
- GNU Emacs (GitHub)
- Gedit (GNOME text editor) (GitHub) - also available for osx and Windows
- Joe's Own Editor
- GNU nano
- Micro (GitHub)
- Notepad++ (GitHub)
- Vim (GitHub)
- Visual Studo Code (VS Code) (GitHub)
Online Editors
- GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
- Pinta
- Photopea (photoshop-esque website)
Website generators
- StaticGen - a list of static site generators for JAMstack sites
- Example sites on GitLab Pages - simple example websites for site generators on GitLab
Cloud storage
Code sharing (hosting Git repositories)
Continuous Integration (CI) services
Syntax highlighting
Markdown
Authentication
Databases
Payment/ecommerce platforms
Selling digital products
Adding forms
- MailThis.to
- Netlify form handling
- EmailJS - Send email directly from Javascript
- Formingo
- FormSpree
- FormCarry
Adding Comments
Free photos and videos
Website templates
- HTML5 UP
- Pixelarity
- Creative Tim
- W3.CSS Templates
- Free CSS Templates
- Template Monster
- OS Templates
- Site123
- ColorLib
- Free Website Templates
Image/video hosting/platforms
Lazy loading images
Animation videos (at cost)
Useful links
- w3schools - for learning web technologies online
- Google Fonts - making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
- Free Fonts - free for commercial use
- Font Awesome - vector icons and social logos for your site
- IcoMoon - pixel perfect icon solutions
- Typicons - free-to-use vector icons embedded in a webfont for easy use in any UI
- IconScout - high quality icons
- Responsive Web Design
- Web Hosting on a Budget - Hosting and setting up your own website on a budget
- unDraw - open source illustrations for every project you can imagine
- DesignTarget - resources to make your design workflow easier
- EZGif - convert SVG to PNG online, and other conversions
- Convertio - convert files to any format
- remove.bg - free website to remove backgrounds from images
- LunaPic - make image background transparent
- IFTTT - helps your apps and devices work together in new ways
- SVG gradient wave generator
- 25 Awesome Web Background Animation Effects
- Trianglify - a tool for generating low poly triangle patterns that can be used as wallpapers and website assets
- Trianglify (alt) - algorithmically generated triangle art
- Website Launch Checklist - things to double check before launching a website
- JSFiddle - useful for small online examples, often used with question/answer sites or examples on websites
- MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) - MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
- Resources for creating a website for a business
- Free Class Tools - generate free worksheets for the primary school level
- Internet Archive - the Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge"
- Paste Bin - a paste tool for text and code
- Stack Overflow - question based
- Reddit's WebDev Subreddit - question/discussion based
- Reddit's Web Design Subreddit - question/discussion based
- HashOne Creatives - animation videos, mobile apps, custom websites, branding
- Freelancer - useful for freelanced graphics/logos
- Logo Joy - useful for purchasing logos
- List of best free logo makers and generators
- World Vector Logo - vector logos for famous companies etc.
- Toptal Subtle Patterns - 'free textures for your next web project' (dark patterns)
- TeeMill - sell merchandising online
- TeePublic - sell merchandising online
- RedBubble - sell merchandising online
- StickerMule - buy printed stickers
