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Pramith Chathuranga
Pramith Chathuranga

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Resources for Creating Websites

Fonts And Typography

  1. Google Fonts
  2. Fontsquirrel
  3. CSS @font-face generator - Transfonter
  4. The best free fonts

Images,Videos And Illustrations

  1. Unsplash
  2. Pexels
  3. Coverr
  4. Pixaby
  5. unDraw
  6. DrawKit
  7. UI Faces

Testing, Optimization And Deployment

  1. Google PageSpeed Insights - A simple tool to check how well your website works. Chrome DevTools can also use it (Lighthouse).
  2. HTML Validator by W3C - Check to see if your HTML markup is correct and doesn't have any mistakes. Official W3C tool.
  3. CSS Validator by W3C - Check to see if your CSS code is correct and doesn't have any mistakes. Official W3C tool.
  4. Netlify - #1 platform of choice for hosting static webpages. They offer a generous complimentary package!
  5. Optimizilla - Another tool that can reduce the size of up to 20 JPEG and PNG images while keeping their quality.
  6. Real favicon Generator - This tool makes favicons for your website on all platforms from an image you upload.
  7. WebPageTest - Free website performance test from real browsers at consumer connection speeds with optimization advice.

CSS Resources

  1. CSS3 Reference by MDN
  2. CSS-Tricks
  3. CSS3 Reference by Codrops
  4. Can I Use?

Javascript Resources

  1. You-Dont-Know-JS
  2. The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
  3. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

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