Programmers need a crisp, clear font so they can distinguish between similar characters. What makes for a good coding font? The first criteria is the font needs to be a monospaced typeface. This means the characters have equal widths or a fixed pitch. Next, the similar characters need to be easily distingishable such as 1,I,i (one, capital I, lower case i), 0,O,o (zero, capital O, lower case o), as well as clear special characters such as parenthesis, brackets, braces, quotes, and punctuation.
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JavaScript is a client-side scripting language which is commonly used in web development. Here are more than 70 JavaScript resources of tutorials, collections, libraries, and tools for seasoned developers or newbies to enhance your web pages.

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Searching for the perfect web form design? Need help standardizing your form building for usability and accessibility? Here are 101 resources to help you build a better web form.

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If you are an application developer or search engine marketer then you have searched for standard data lists. Here are seven clean lists of cities, states, countries, zip codes with global coordinates, and airport codes to save you time. These lists are ready to be incorporated into your applications or campaigns.

All files are comma delimited with a quotation mark( ” ) for a text qualifier. Also, all files contain the column names in the first row. They are served from a free file host.

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This month Daron Rowse announced his ProBlogger Group Writing Project. He tasked his readers to come up with a top 5 list of any kind. Lists are my specialty, and so is web development, so I offer the top 5 web developing tools that I use everyday.

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All the cool kids are using CSS to separate content from appearance on their sites. Here is 101 resources that will get your feet wet with CSS, teach you some new tricks and techniques, clean your code, and hit the ground running with pre-made layouts.

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A few months ago, I was persuaded to host my blog on its own domain. Dreamhost is popular blog host and was recommended to me by a few people. I signed up, got the domain, and installed WordPress . I was up and running in less than a half an hour. Quite impressive. Once the blog was installed, I wanted to customize the look and add some plugins. I had to open up the pages and insert the code into the templates. This was my first exposure to PHP, and I was a little taken back.

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