30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals
Cheat sheets and reference guides are useful for both beginners and advanced web professionals. They can be used to help you remember syntax or as a tool to aid in memorization.
1. 25-Point Website Usability Checklist
Usability is a central concern for any web developer. The 25-Point Website Usability Checklist is a simple step-by-step list that can help your website achieve maximum usability.
Four major components are covered in this checklist: accessibility, identity, navigation and content. The list is a printable PDF and contains a rating system and space for comments.
Download the 25-Point Website Usability Checklist
2. Browser Compatibility Table
This is a great reference guide to ensure browser compatibility.
Below is an extract from a table that contains a list of various CSS rules and their compatibility with common browsers and operating systems. With a quick glance, the designer or developer can note which CSS properties should be used or avoided.
The table also offers an interactive feature that highlights the row your cursor is on. This makes pinpointing the compatibility of a specific CSS property much easier.
Go to the Browser Compatibility Table
3. Web Standards Checklist
A website that is compliant with W3C’s standards will be more usable and search-engine friendly than one that is not.
There are a number of ways to ensure that a website is standards-compliant; one way is to use a checklist.
This checklist contains a chronological list of factors to consider while building a website.
Download The Web Standards Checklist
4. Search Engine Optimization Cheat Sheet
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very important if a website is to be successful. This cheat sheet may seem to be for beginners, but it holds valuable information for reference and education. The ten categories are SEO rules at the coding level.
The ten essential categories for good optimization are: important HTML tags, search engine indexing limits, title tag syntax, common canonical issues, 301 redirects on Apache, search engine robot user agents, common robot traps to avoid, robot meta tags syntax, robots.txt syntax and site map syntax.
Included in each category is further explanation and an example.
The cheat sheet can be downloaded as a two-page printer-friendly PDF.
Download the Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
5. Tweet Sheet 2
Because Twitter is fast becoming a mainstream news feed, using it to your website’s advantage is important.
Tweet Sheet is a fairly simple cheat sheet about Twitter use and syntax, created by Jason Theodor. Tweet Sheet includes Twitter’s mobile URL and text numbers, personal commands, mobile commands, user name commands, tracking commands and information on Twitter applications and tools.
Version 2 is offered in PDF form, a change from the simple image in Version 1. The second version is a grid of smaller cheat sheets, with a cut-out line so that it can easily be shared with friends or posted in other locations.
