Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don’t have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs, date-choosing calendars, and dozens more examples. Many require replacing just a few values to get working, but even the more complex tools are great learning tools.
Link: Lifehacker
If you’ve ever read any beginner’s articles about Ruby on Rails, you’ll know that quite a bit of thought has been put into the code base that makes up the Rails framework. This article will help beginners take that next step by examining the inner workings of Rails.
Link: Sitepoint
The role of the web developer is ever-expanding. The list includes variety of sites that covers fields relating to web development - such as information architecture, user interaction, and web/graphics design.
To that end, here’s some of the websites to keep track of to find new techniques, resources, and news about building websites.
Link: Six Revisions
Choosing a CMS for your website, or indeed for your enterprise is no easy task - in Europe alone, you have around 500 systems to choose from. Whether that system is something complex or something simple (i.e. hand editing), it is an essential part of a successful site. Enabling content editors to perform website updates (however inexperienced) with the web has always been something of a challenge for developers, thankfully there are a number of platforms and open source projects out there which take the hassle out of developing your own system, and can put you in the running for projects normally outside of your scope. The following hopefully provides a comprehensive overview of some of the best out there, and we’ve tried to be as comprehensive in our review of each.
Link: Web Distortion