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Revision as of 14:11, 27 December 2014

HELP FROM AROUND THE WEB

These notes began as an archive of resources listed on the humans.txt file for a particular website. The domain for that site was since hijacked by a domain squatter, but the resources listed here have proved useful for other web projects. The idea is to expand this page with other helpful resources for building simple web sites.

Version Control Systems

Git

Git --everything-is-local
http://git-scm.com/
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Pro Git (book) by Scott Chacon is available to read online for free.

http://git-scm.com/book
The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress, is available here. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license.

CMS & Blog Platforms

WordPress

Creating a Static Front Page
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Enable and Disable Comments
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
How to Show WordPress Pages on Your Homepage
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-show-wordpress-pages-on-your-homepage/

WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcode API
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
WordPress Page Design: Shortcodes v Page Templates
http://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-page-design-shortcodes-v-page-templates/
Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples)
http://speckyboy.com/2011/07/18/getting-started-with-wordpress-shortcodes-examples/

WordPress Multisite

The Beginner's Guide to WordPress Multisite
http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/beginner-guide-wordpress-multisite/

WordPress Guides

WordPress plugin: include custom fields in a post
http://pp19dd.com/wordpress-plugin-include-custom-field/
This handy site also contains links to a number of other useful tips 'n' tools, including CSV batch zipcode Lookup tool, Four things I wish someone had told me about wikis (WikiMedia) and more.
WordPress Rockers: How To’s
http://wprockers.com/how-tos
wordpress tips | tips & advice on wordpress.com blogs
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/

WordPress Themes

WordPress Child Themes
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
How to remove Proudly powered by WordPress from Twenty Eleven theme?
http://wprockers.com/how-to-remove-proudly-powered-by-wordpress-from-twenty-eleven-theme-1120.html
Replace/Remove Default Header Image Twenty Eleven Theme
http://wpti.ps/functions/replace-remove-header-image-twenty-eleven-theme/

WordPress Photo Galleries

Twitter Bootstrap Galleries
http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-bootstrap-galleries/
Wraps the content of a WordPress media gallery in a Twitter's Bootstrap grid.
NextGEN Gallery
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/
NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen-gallery-shortcodes/

Wordpress & Social Media

Top 10 Social Media Plugins for WordPress
http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/03/social-media-plugins-for-wordpress.html
WordPress Instagram Plugins - Instagram Picture
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress-plugins/instagram-picture-plugin-for-wordpress
Instagram Picture
Shortcode function example (English): http://tb-webtec.de/2013/10/instagram-picture-shortcode-function-example-english/

Drupal

Drupal Commons
http://drupal.org/project/commons
Drupal Commons is a ready-to-use solution for building either internal or external communities. It provides a complete social business software solution for organizations.
A Drupal Developer’s Setup on Windows
http://mikekeran.com/drupal-developer-setup-windows
Back up your site using the command line
https://drupal.org/upgrade/backing-your-site-command-line
Upgrading from previous versions
https://drupal.org/upgrade
Upgrading Drupal using a Patch File
https://drupal.org/comment/1545852#comment-1545852

Drupal Modules

Top 25 Drupal 7 Modules
http://www.axzm.com/top-25-drupal-7-modules
Backup and Migrate
https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
Display Suite Bootstrap Layouts
https://drupal.org/project/ds_bootstrap_layouts
Bootstrap - Photo Gallery
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap_gallery

Drupal Themes

Bamboo
https://drupal.org/project/bamboo
Bootstrap
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap
Bootstrap Barrio
https://drupal.org/project/bootstrap_barrio
Bootstrap Barrio is a sub-theme of the Bootstrap Theme, adding 1, 2 or 3 columns with configurable widths.

Drupal Theme Tutorials

Bootstrap sub-theming "how to"
https://drupal.org/node/1978010
How to Use Bootswatch Themes in Drupal 7
http://webwash.net/tutorials/how-use-bootswatch-themes-drupal-7
Creating a sub-theme
https://drupal.org/node/225125
How to Customize a Contributed Drupal Theme
http://radarearth.com/content/how-customize-contributed-drupal-theme

Drupal Wikis

Commons Wikis
http://drupal.org/project/commons_wikis
Provide the wiki functionality for Drupal Commons distribution.

See other wiki-like features for Drupal here:

http://portlandwiki.org/User:WikiMaster/Projects#Drupal_Related

Drupal - Drush

A Beginner's Guide to Drush, the Drupal Shell
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/a-beginner-s-guide-to-drush-the-drupal-shell
Drush.org
A command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal.: http://drush.ws/
Upgrade Drupal easily with Drush
https://drupal.org/comment/1593136#comment-1593136
Updating Drupal Core with Drush
http://brockboland.com/2010/08/updating-drupal-core-drush/
Install Drush on Dreamhost VPS
http://www.pru8.com/install-drush-on-dreamhost-vps
Drush commands reference
https://groups.drupal.org/drush/commands

Lightweight CMS Scripts

CMS Made Simple
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
SiteCake - Simple, drag and drop CMS for fast editing
http://sitecake.com/
SiteCake is an open source PHP CMS application which allows a site admin to edit a website while browsing it. Once logged in, everything becomes editable. While in edit mode, SiteCake displays a "content editing bar" with options for inserting HTML elements like headers, lists, images, videos and other stuff like Google Maps or a slideshow.[1] SiteCake is a true WYSIWYG. There is no separate admin section, you can click any page element and edit it in-place.[2]
Zimplit
http://www.zimplit.com/index.html

CSS Grids & Frameworks

Bootstrap
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
11 Reasons to Use Twitter Bootstrap
http://www.sitepoint.com/11-reasons-to-use-twitter-bootstrap/
Bootstrap Templates - Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap
http://startbootstrap.com/
Bootstrap Image Gallery
http://blueimp.github.io/Bootstrap-Image-Gallery/
Bootsnipp
http://bootsnipp.com/
Design elements, playground and code snippets for Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS framework
Bootstrap Contact Form
http://www.mkt.cat/contact.php
How to make a contact form with Bootstrap 3 ? (JQuery/PHP/HTML5/JqBootstrapValidation)
http://myprogrammingblog.com/2013/08/27/how-to-make-a-contact-form-with-bootstrap-3-jqueryphphtml5jqbootstrapvalidation/
How to create a PHP, Bootstrap 3 Contact Form which works with blogger and any other platform

http://tudor-anghelina.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-create-php-bootstrap-3-contact.html

5 Bootstrap CSS - Tables - JSFiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/juanmendez/L46FX/
CSS Wizardry
http://csswizardry.com/
Emastic - css framework
http://code.google.com/p/emastic/
inuit.css
http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/
Pure
http://purecss.io/
Responsive Grid System
http://www.responsivegridsystem.com/
Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
http://sass-lang.com/
Web Experience Toolkit (WET)
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/index-en.html
Collaborative open source project led by the Government of Canada

Framework Forms

Formalize
http://formalize.me/
Features kudos from leading "industry experts."
Formee
http://formee.org/
Responsive web forms for your CSS grid project.

Tips, Tricks & Reading Material for CSS Grids & Frameworks

Don’t Overthink It Grids
http://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-it-grids/

HTML5

The HTML5 Page Structure
HTML5 Quick Tutorial
http://www.coursesweb.net/html/html5-quick-tutorial_t
HTML5 Page Structure
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/html5-page-structure/
The HTML5 Page Structure
http://www.basewebmaster.com/html/html5-page-structure.php
HTML5 Page Structure
http://www.severinu.com/html5-page-structure/
HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
http://html5doctor.com/
HTML 5 Outliner
http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/
Document Outlines
http://html5doctor.com/outlines/
Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an_HTML5_document
HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/16/html5-and-the-document-outlining-algorithm/
Fragment identifier (Wikipedia)
Examples
In URIs for MIME text/html pages such as http://www.example.org/foo.html#bar the fragment refers to the element with id="bar".

CSS3

Multiple Columns Layout (Magazine-alike) With CSS3
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/css3-multi-columns/
Using CSS multi-column layouts
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_multi-column_layouts
3D CSS Text
http://www.3dcsstext.com/
overflow-x, overflow-y tests
http://www.brunildo.org/test/Overflowxy2.html
W3C CSS3 working draft: The 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y' properties.

Bootstrap CSS

Bootstrap > CSS
http://getbootstrap.com/css/



Also see CSS Layout Tricks.

PHP

different title, keyword and description in every page's
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818750/different-title-keyword-and-description-in-every-pages

PHP Classes

The php5 object oriented web design howto > Functions and classes > A page class
http://fun-tech.se/php_tutorial/part03/index.php
What is the function __construct used for?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455910/what-is-the-function-construct-used-for

PHP Includes

Custom Page Titles with PHP Includes
http://girlswhogeek.com/tutorials/2006/custom-page-titles-with-php-includes
How to automatically include your header, navigation, and footer on every page
http://www.apaddedcell.com/how-automatically-include-your-header-navigation-and-footer-every-page
Using the PHP Include Function to Template Faster
http://buildinternet.com/2009/12/using-the-php-include-function-to-template-faster/
WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > php include question - bad practice?
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241934
Flawed tips but useful in working out the basic idea of calling head, footer and other page elements from a single file.
WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > Page title from include php file??
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208744
Case Study--How to Customize a JumpStart
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=80733
(This tutorial is mainly pushing JumpStart web templates, but offers some useful tips on includes placement.

Menus

Create a centred horizontal navigation
http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/create-a-centred-horizontal-navigation/
Demo: http://csswizardry.com/demos/centred-nav/
Horizontally Centered Menus with no CSS hacks
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/beautiful-css-centered-menus-no-hacks-full-cross-browser-support

Social Media

Moved content to new article: Social Networking Tips.

Character Encoding

Character Entity Reference Chart
http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
HTML Codes Table—Characters and symbols
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
Character-Code.com
http://character-code.com/

Online Encoding Tools

Convert special characters to HTML
http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
HTML Encoder / Decoder
http://www.web2generators.com/html/entities
HTML encoder
http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp
HTML Character Entity Converter
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/entity/converter.html
HTML 4.01 Entities
http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/xmlentities/xml_entities.asp

Character Encoding Help Resources & How-Tos

PHP -- Convert special characters to HTML character codes
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3882567/php-convert-special-characters-to-html-character-codes
Converting special characters to HTML entities between code tags
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/convert-special-characters-to-html-entities-between-code-tags
The Road to HTML 5
character encoding: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding
Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html
HTML Symbol Entities Reference
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp

.htaccess

Hide file extensions, add trailing slash with .htaccess
http://code.adonline.id.au/hide-file-extensions-add-trailing-slash/
The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques
Do’s and Don’ts: http://www.noupe.com/php/htaccess-techniques.html
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
Stupid htaccess Tricks
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
MediaWiki ShortURL Builder
http://shorturls.redwerks.org/
.htaccess 301 redirect from old domain to new domain while structure of pages and url are same
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13001173/htaccess-301-redirect-from-old-domain-to-new-domain-while-structure-of-pages-an
.htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990392/htaccess-rewrite-to-redirect-root-url-to-subdirectory
.htaccess redirect
http://www.htaccessredirect.net/
Free .htaccess Redirect Generator

A Lightweight CMS Using .htaccess

Still need a quick 'n' dirty splash page for the main domain. Rather than installing a full Drupal instance, this might work:

This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system navigation. We wrote it to test the feasibility of powering a content management system entirely in Apache.

Image Handling

Aspect Ratio Calculator
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/
Image Size Calculator
http://auctionrepair.com/pixels.html
Converts inches to pixels & pixels to inches.
Perfect Full Page Background Image
http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
Absolute Center (Vertical & Horizontal) an Image
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/absolute-center-vertical-horizontal-an-image/
Favicons
http://iconhandbook.co.uk/reference/examples/favicons/

Online Image Editors

Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image
http://pixlr.com/

GIMP

GIMP Extensions Pack for Windows
http://registry.gimp.org/node/27656
Extensions Sources
Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop/
Gimp Tutorial – How to make an image background transparent
http://mbrsolution.com/tutorial/gimp-tutorial-how-to-make-an-image-background-transparent.php
This tutorial is a bit easier to follow than the one shown below.
How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP
http://geekswithblogs.net/timh/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx
Replacing a Foreground with The GIMP
http://gimpguru.org/tutorials/replaceforeground/
Convert a simple image to a vector graphic using GIMP and Inkscape
http://imgur.com/gallery/xL0Ba

Inkscape

Inkscape tutorial: Tracing
http://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html
Increase Image Resolution
Convert Raster Images to Vector: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/convert-images-to-svg-format-with-inkscape/

Web-Based Productivity Apps

What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free?
http://lifehacker.com/5967154/what-should-i-do-now-that-google-apps-accounts-are-no-longer-free
Going Google-Free: The Best Alternatives to Google Services on the Web
http://lifehacker.com/5876794/going-google+free-the-best-alternatives-to-google-services-on-the-web
(Scroll down the article a little ways to get to the discussion on productivity apps.)

3rd Party File Hosting

The basic idea is to host images, PDFs and other large files on a publicly available directory, like Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, HiDrive, etc. Alternatively, you can set up a Dropbox-like directory using an open source tool like SparkleShare (see below).

Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drop-your-dropbox-and-sparkleshare-instead
SparkleShare
http://sparkleshare.org/
"Setting up your own host to work with SparkleShare is relatively easy." (An open source option for creating your own Dropbox-like service.)
BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-secure-dropbox-alternative-goes-public-130423/
BitTorrent Sync (available from BitTorrent Labs) is free of charge and allows people to securely sync folders to multiple devices using the BitTorrent protocol.

Issues with images hosted on Google Docs.

Open-Mic.jpg
Attempted to link to an image hosted on Google Docs (image shown above). Sharing set to "public." Google's URI scheme looks a bit odd (seems to mask the file name and file type). The problematic part (in terms of linking to these images from a web site) is that Google appears to change the URI itself at least once a day.

Two Days; Two URIs

Color

Color Names Supported by All Browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp

Links

Internal Links
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/text/internallinks.html
Scroll to "Naming Sections with id" portion of the tutorial.

Footnotes & Endnotes

Javascript Endnotes
http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/dobson/portfolio/endnotes/index.html
“JavaScript Endnotes” allow a web author to create an HTML document containing endnotes which are dynamically renumbered as new notes are added, in a similar manner to the <NOTE> tag supported in many WIKI applications.
Accessible footnotes with HTML and CSS
http://www.likewowonline.net/web/dev/accessible-footnotes.html
Footnotes
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/04/20/footnotes/
Handling footnotes and references in HTML
http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/footnotes.html
This post examines what options one has for handling footnotes and references in HTML. It then presents a library that helps you with handling them.
JavaScript-enhanced footnotes and references
http://rauschma.github.com/html_demos/footnotes.html

Links To Google & Gmail Resources

Link To Specific Gmail Message

All Email Messages in Gmail Have a Permanent Web Address
http://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-emails-have-permanent-web-address/6811/
Do you know that it is possible to bookmark individual email messages of Gmail just like you would bookmark any regular web page. (Links to your Gmail messages will only resolve if you're logged into your Google account when you click on the link.)

How To Link To Specific Google Books Page

Example

Find the base URL to the Google Book you want to link to. Add the page number just after the book ID like in the example highlighted below.

http://books.google.com/books?id=zLrKGGxBKjAC&pg=PA135
UPDATE: The link shown above no longer links directly to the specific page it once did (135), but resolves to a onepage format instead.
CAUTION: Google apparently changes its URI structure without warning. For example, the link to the book / page shown above was formerly written like the one shown below (which now only resolves to the book's main Google Books description page)
http://books.google.com/books?id=8f2y0F2wzLoC&pg=P135

How To Link To Google Calendar Event

Is it possible to link to specific date on a public Google Calendar?
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/3431/is-it-possible-to-link-to-specific-date-on-a-public-google-calendar

URI Formats - (Change the yyyymmdd setting shown in the examples to the specific date you want to link to.)

Link to a date on your private calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=mc&date=yyyymmdd

Link to an event on a your public calendar:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showNav=0&showPrint=0&showCalendars=0&mode=AGENDA&wkst=1&src={your_calendar_id}&dates=yyyymmdd%2Fyyyymmdd

Other Google Link Resources

Google Books API Family: Static Links
https://developers.google.com/books/docs/static-links

Google Account Document Sharing Options

Sharing a Google Doc with a non-Google user
http://www.lynda.com/articles/sharing-a-google-doc-with-a-non-google-user

Web Server & Hosting

DIY Home Web Server

Set Up a Home Server
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/set_up_a_home_server/
Setting up a home server running an open-source operating system is a popular and useful activity.
How to set up a safe and secure Web server
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/how-to-set-up-a-safe-and-secure-web-server/
Learn a lot by doing it yourself instead of going with a hosting company.
Build a Linux Home Web Server For Under $250
http://linuxlookup.com/howto/build_linux_home_web_server_under_250
Amahi Home Server - Making Home Networking Simple
http://www.amahi.org/
Amahi is software that runs on a dedicated PC as a central computer for your home.
See Amahi's Wiki for setting up a home web server: https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Hosting_a_website

Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

Also see DreamHost's Dynamic DNS wiki page.

How to Enable Dynamic Service for Your domain name.
http://support.easydns.com/tutorials/DynamicDNS/
Dynamic DNS service is used to keep a domain name pointing to the same computer or server connected to the internet despite the fact that the address (IP address) of the computer keeps changing. This service is useful to anyone who wants to operate a server (web server, mail server, ftp server, irc server etc) connected to the internet with a dynamic IP or to someone who wants to connect to an office computer or server from a remote location with software such as pcAnywhere.
Dynamic DNS with your own domain name (for free!)
http://g18c.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/dynamic-dns-with-your-own-domain-name-for-free/

Web Site Builders

IM-Creator - a simple & elegant website builder (and it's free)
http://imcreator.com/

Free Web Hosts

The Simplest and Cheapest Free Web Hosting Services
http://lifehacker.com/5530961/the-simplest-and-cheapest-free-web-hosting-services

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean
https://www.digitalocean.com/
Features 20GB solid-state hard drive (SSD) + 512MB memory for just $5 a month.
Technical FAQ
https://www.digitalocean.com/help/technical/setup/
How To Launch Your Site on a New Ubuntu 12.04 Server with LAMP, SFTP, and DNS
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-launch-your-site-on-a-new-ubuntu-12-04-server-with-lamp-sftp-and-dns
How To Create Your First DigitalOcean Droplet Virtual Server
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-your-first-digitalocean-droplet-virtual-server
An Introduction to Securing your Linux VPS
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/an-introduction-to-securing-your-linux-vps
Multiple domains on the same droplet
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/multiple-domains-on-the-same-droplet
Guidelines to setup a perfect Digital Ocean VPS
http://www.narga.net/why-moved-digitalocean-guidelines-setup-perfect-vps/
Scroll down about a 3rd of the way to get to list of tutorials.

DreamHost

DreamHost VPS Hosting
http://www.dreamhost.com/servers/vps/
DreamHost configuration fixes
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/DreamHost_PS_Troubleshooting
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PS_Optimization
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Preventing_hotlinking
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/XCache
- http://xcache.lighttpd.net/wiki/Introduction
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform
https://cloud.google.com/
"Build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure."

Linode

Linode
https://www.linode.com/

VPS.NET

VPS.NET
http://vps.net/

Further Reading

Best Cloud Hosting
http://best-cheap-hosting.com/best-cloud-hosting/

Web Hosting Control Panels

If you set up your own server, it might be helpful to have the assistance of a GUI control panel.

Comparison of web hosting control panels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_hosting_control_panels
The Definitive Thread on Open Source Control Panels/ cPanel Alternatives
Part I: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/the-definitive-thread-on-open-source-control-panels-cpanel-alternatives-part-i
Webmin
http://www.webmin.com/
ZPanel
http://www.zpanelcp.com/
"ZPanel is a free and complete web hosting control panel for Microsoft® Windows™ and POSIX (Linux, UNIX and MacOSX) based servers. ZPanel is written in PHP and uses several open-source (or freely available) software packages to provide a secure, web hosting system."

Tools & Resources

Analytics

Piwik - Free (& Open Source) Web Analytics Software
http://piwik.org/

Structured Data

schema.org
http://schema.org/
Search engines including Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right Web pages. Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables search engines to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results in order to make it easier for users to find relevant information on the web. Markup can also enable new tools and applications that make use of the structure.

Miscellaneous Tools

DIFF CHECKER
https://www.diffchecker.com/
Can't remember exactly what changes you made to that html file? Let DIFF CHECKER come to the rescue.
PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/docs/index.html
PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are Web addresses that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.
Hacked Website Cleanup Tools Extension
https://www.whitefirdesign.com/hacked-website-cleanup-tools
Text Mechanic™ - Text Manipulation Tools
http://textmechanic.com/
A collection of free, online, browser-based, text manipulation tools.
Online Email Obfuscator
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/obfuscator/
When can I use...
http://caniuse.com/
Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
After the Deadline
http://www.afterthedeadline.com/
After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with:
- Contextual Spell Checking
- Advanced Style Checking
- Intelligent Grammar Checking
if this then that
http://ifttt.com/wtf
Automated triggers for various web and internet related tasks.
What is humans.txt?
http://humanstxt.org/
Color Hex Color Codes
http://www.color-hex.com/
HeadJS -- The Only Script In Your <HEAD> -- A tiny script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site.
Load scripts like images. Use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Target CSS for different screens, paths, states and browsers. Make it the only script in your HEAD. A concise solution to universal issues.
http://headjs.com/
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
http://css-tricks.com/what-beautiful-html-code-looks-like/
ID Your Body For Greater CSS Control and Specificity
http://css-tricks.com/id-your-body-for-greater-css-control-and-specificity/
Use PHP to insert an automatic “last modified” date into web pages
http://code.adonline.id.au/last-modified-date-php/

Further Reading

Your Web, documented · WebPlatform.org
http://www.webplatform.org/
HTML5 Development Center
Resources and Tools: http://www.sitepoint.com/tag/html5-dev-center/
All The Tools I Used to Rebuild the DMAD Website
http://dmad.com/web-tools
Brief mentions of lots of useful tools, including...
- BootstrapWP Bootstrap theme for WordPress.
- CSS-Tricks
- Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
- Advanced Custom Fields - Custom fields. Made easy. Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your edit screens & custom field data.
... and more.

References