In this post, you would find a list of over 20 free PDF files covering aspects of Web Development as well as Graphic design. These include cheat sheet for web developers, client questionnaires for Graphic and Web design, helpful checklists as well as some useful resources for designers and developers. All of these are available in PDF format as they are easy to print. I have a number of them hanging around in my work area and find them quite useful. It would be great if you have any helpful documents to share.
P.S: Please report any broken links.
Forms, contracts, pricing guides, questionnaires and more
Creative Latitude has provided some free essential forms, contracts, employee manuals, client questionnaires and pricing for graphic designers.
Building a custom Wordpress theme (Beginner Level)
Nick La’s Copy-and-Paste instructions for converting a static HTML template into a custom dynamic WordPress theme.
Wordpress Help Sheet
A handy Wordpress Help Sheet.
Writing a Wordpress plugin
A full length PDF including all code samples and images for creating a Wordpress plugin
Wordpress Theme Development Checklist
A checklist for WordPress theme development.
The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
A very useful PDF on SEO techniques by Danny Dover.
Website Pre-launch Checklist
A comprehensive pre-launch checklist for a website including content, style, validation, SEO, etc. by Dan Zambonini. (Available in pdf as well as in French translation)
Webpage Design Checklist
A helpful checklist for creating effective website design layouts.
Jquery 1.2 Commands Cheat Sheet
An all-in-one categorized commands cheat sheet for Jquery 1.2 and Ajax.
jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet
A quick reference to all functions and properties contained with the jQuery 1.3 library.
jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet
A comprehensive API Cheatsheet for jQuery 1.4.
Prototype Javascript Library 1.5.0
A comprehensive Prototype cheat sheet detailing all aspects of development.
Prototype 1.6.02 Cheat Sheet
Prototype cheat sheet – a full reference to a bleeding edge 1.6.0.2
CSS Help Sheet
A categorized CSS Help Sheet.
Typography Keyboard Layout
Typography Keyboard Layout – a simple, yet useful tool that lets you enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard with ease.
Online Graph Paper/Grid Paper PDFs
A collection of online downloadable and printable graph paper/grid paper PDFs available in various sizes.
Guide to CSS Support in email clients
A helpful guide to save you the time and frustration of figuring out the support for CSS in email on different clients, popular applications across desktop, web and mobile email.
Ajax and Ruby on Rails
A brief intro for developers wishing to get their hands on Ajax and Ruby on Rails by Slash7
HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet
This cheat sheet is essentially a simple visual grid with a list of all HTML tags and of their related attributes supported by HTML versions 4.01 and/or 5.
CSS Typography Reference Sheet
A reference Sheet created to emphasize the many options available within CSS, particularly for Typography.
CSS 3 Cheat Sheet
A printable CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF) with a listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CSS 3 specification.
Top 10 fonts for Graphic Designers
Douglas Bonneville has updated a list of some of his favorite fonts in this PDF.
72 questions to Ask new Web Design Clients
A detailed client questionnaire for web design by Douglas Bonneville.
Time Management for Creative People
A free e-book designed to help you maintain your creative focus while dealing with your other commitments.
Introduction to Good Usability
A free pdf on an introduction to good usability by PeterPixel
Basic Typography and Document Design
A beginner level lesson series by James Cline on Basic Typography and document design.
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
very cool. thanks!
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December 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Again: JPEG is a format for photos, not graphics! Use GIF or PNG instead. The images of this article sucks!!
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
thats very interesting….. thanks for sharing.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Hi, thanks for the share.
Anyway, as you asked for, CSS Typography Reference Sheet link leads to http://www.devlounge.net/publik/Devlounge%20-%20How%20to%20Write%20a%20Wordpress%20Plugin.pdf
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Hi,
@Lailson Bandeira! Thanks for the advice. I took screenshots for most of the documents and the documents themselves were mostly pixelated. That could have been the reason for the blurred output.
@Romain! Thanks for the mention. The link has been updated.
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:19 am
Very Nice Abdus Salam.M glad to find u.Another student from Pakistan having a design blog.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
The grid pdf website was an awesome suggestion.
I use art directors tool kit to create grids for my designs and technically I could simply print those grids out but this website brings the grid making to a whole new level.
nice resource round up!
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Thanks and Regards
Noel for Nopun.com
a graphic design studio
December 4th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Thank you Abdus Salam for sharing.
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Very nice list of resources.
Thank you for sharing!!
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December 11th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Wow, this is a great resource for designers. Thanks for the information! Keep the information coming.
January 7th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Nice subject area that you have chosen.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Impressive comment about seo. I’m frankly incredibly dumfounded that it has not really been pronounced before to such an extent.
January 15th, 2010 at 5:24 am
Amazing information. Thanks
January 15th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Nice one. This is truly a great list that deserves to be bookmarked. Thanks.
January 15th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Wow, fantastic list! Thanks for sharing!
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January 15th, 2010 at 9:51 am
What a useful collection! Thanks a million Abdus
January 15th, 2010 at 11:01 am
There is a much more up to date cheatsheet for Prototype here: http://perfectionkills.com/prototype-1602-cheat-sheet/
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January 16th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I was excited to see this list but I am disappointed as most of the cheat sheets are too old (like 2007). The web design evolution is very fast paced, so 2+ years is not so useful anymore.
For example, jQuery 1.2?? 1.3 has been around for ages (including cheat sheets for it) and 1.4 just came out (I know it wasn’t out 1.5 months ago when you posted this article). CSS 3 is not mentioned anywhere either – the CSS cheat sheet is obsolete and incomplete.
The effort is appreciated but there is much better stuff out there to link to.
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January 17th, 2010 at 2:52 am
@Artem Russakovskii
Thanks for pointing out. I agree that some of the cheat sheets like jQuery 1.2 are old, but I have also added the latest versions to the list. CSS 3 and HTML 5 are also added.
In fact, I would be updating the list as more stuff comes in.
January 18th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Thank you very much for this compilation! It is really, really useful, I’m enjoying it a lot. Thanks!
January 24th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
these are sort of must have.. great sharing @abdussalam
February 6th, 2010 at 1:44 am
So. Freakin. Awesome. Thank you so much!!!