Cheat Sheets

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.

In this post, we aim to cover the reference guides for all of the most commonly used platforms, software and coding languages.

Below you’ll find a compilation of the 30 most useful and well-organized cheat sheets, checklists and reference guides.

If you know of a useful cheat sheet that we haven’t covered here, please share the link in the comments’ section at the end of the article.

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Business

The other day my daughter, Sophia, announced that she wanted to set up a lemonade stand.

Seeing as how I didn’t really want to spend the better part of my weekend selling lemonade, I tried to talk her out of it by showing her how much she’d need to spend to buy the lemonade mix, get the cups, that sort of thing.

Regardless of my best efforts, there was no changing her mind. She wanted to go into business and there wasn’t anything I was going to do to stop her.

So as I succumbed to my role as venture capitalist in her first business startup. I decided that at the very least, this would be a great chance to teach my daughter about counting money, basic business principals, that sort of thing.

Amanda says: I love this! How brilliant is she? And, the thoughtfulness with the addition of the mint - adorable. What we could learn from...
Social Media

We published the Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter at just at the right time when everyone wanted to know about this Twitter thing, how to start using it, and how to sleeve it into their websites and blogs.

The guide is still being tweeted at the rate of a few tweets per day, which is remarkable considering that it was published a few months ago.

We’d like to thank everyone for the excellent reception of that post and we will continue to report on Twitter as it evolves.

We’ve also incorporated all of your suggestions in the comments on the guide into this update post.

As usual, we encourage you to submit more news about Twitter in the comments’ area so that we can include them in this post or in future ones.

Jay says: Was it really worth including a mobile app section and just including 3 clients? And the ones listed didn't even mention the...
Best Of

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Christina says: I go for the Designer Laptop. He is really GREAT. And an anonymous hug is sometimes doing you a world of good...:-))
Design

Vintage art reminds us of a time when we were dependent less on technology and more on skill and technique.

But we cannot compare the typography of 100 years ago to that of today, with the arrival of so many new typefaces, new ways to create fonts as well as new ways to get our artwork out into the world.

Even though the application of typography has evolved so much from a century ago until now, the most common use of typography continues to be for ads, store signs, and logos.

Below, you will find 50 typographic examples that exhibit a range of artistic styles from the last 100 years or so.

John Downer says: That JAZZ PARIS poster is supposed to be from 1970? Odd. The font used to set PARIS is Adobe's Lithos Regular, but the letters...
Web Designers

Cats and dogs. Cain and Abel. Designers and developers. These are just a few of the great historical face-offs.

Designers and developers often seem to come from different planets and have completely different brains.

Developers want a website to work right, designers want it to look right.

A few weeks ago, we explored the main pet peeves that web designers have with web developers, and suggested some solutions for them.

Today, we will discuss the other side of the coin: the five most common gripes that developers have with designers.

Treavioli says: Maybe it's because I've worked in an IT environment that I don't do most of these things, but as a designer, I don't do most of...
Inspiration

Whenever a user is trying to reach a website’s page that is non-existent or missing, they are usually directed to a page where they’re informed that that specific page cannot be recalled by the HTTP server; this is what is called a 404 error page.

As designers, when we create a web site, normally we’d also include a 404 page.

Depending on the site design, overall focus, and demographics, you’ll want to create a suitable page that will cut straight to the chase and also convey a bit of creativity at the same time.

In this post you will find a showcase containing 50 of the most creative 404 pages that we found on the net.

Navyman says: Very nice ones. Yesterday i find one good for this list - 404 page with game on it: http://usavisa.eu/404 Very interesting...
Applications

Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, but the number of applications available for AIR make it incredibly useful.

There are apps for everything from business to shopping to image management to video editing.

And plenty of applications are useful to designers and developers, including HTML text editors, Flickr search apps, color palette management tools and even ones to help with the business side of the industry.

Below are 40 awesome AIR apps that we have selected to help you streamline your design and development workflow.

Rich Snap says: Under the Business and Project Management Tools section you should add the adobe air app studiocloud which lets...