Yahoo's best practices for Website performance

And they ought to know.

Free (open source) website designs

This is interesting.

Startbootstrap

Website templates based on Bootstrap.

Huxley for graphical regression testing

This is a good idea (out of Facebook) - take snapshots while testing and compare them at the pixel level for regression.

Shit for making websites

What it says on the tin.

MadLibs signup forms

Another best-practice Web design post. Signup forms work better if presented as blanks in letters. (Comparison study.)

Tutorial site for Foundation

Foundation is yet another HTML5/CSS framework. Here is a tutorial site with clever gamification and pretty design.

Usability checklist

This checklist for Website usability is a goldmine of best-practice information!

Drawingboard.js

Drop-in drawing board widget. This is getting pretty cool lately.

General SEO tricks for any Website template

Here's a short list of some SEO best practices that seems pretty good.

svg.js

A lightweight library for manipulating SVG in JS.

Skill trees for Webdev work

A new skill tree (cheat sheet) site for Webdev work (bentobox.io [github]) hit HNN the other day, and the hivemind came up with a couple of interesting alternatives: The Odin Project with a self-contained curriculum, and the very cute Dungeons & Developers.

Note that a skill tree is essentially a semantic map of the domain of interest. I'm just sayin.

180 sites in 180 days

This is a fun challenge by Jennifer Dewalt - she's on day 114 as I write this.

Chardin.js

This is a neat idea - really beautiful instruction screens on live UI.

Website design tools

Webflow looks truly incredible [hnn].  And Jetstrap looks like a really great way to slap up a Bootstrap site.

A couple of JavaScript posts

And here are a couple of neat site-design JS posts from this last week:

• donuts - by Mattia Larentis
• Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown - Ben Kamens

PHP still the right tool for many applications

This same question keeps coming up, but this answer is a good one.  Tl;dr: the usual - PHP is ubiquitous and reliable.  End of story.

Webdev stuff

A huge Web development checklist for anything published, and what one guy learned about accessibility by pretending blindness for a week.

JSON Blob

Here's a neat online tool for testing JSON-based APIs.

A "short" list of front-end development skills

Here's a nice list of domain skills for front-end work.