Useful websites
Here are some web sites which I personally find useful:
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Documentation News and Weather Drupal Projects Personal Travel Search Engines |
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Documentation |
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| CSS | W3C Cascading stylesheets reference |
| Drupal API | Reference to Drupal API function calls |
| Google Maps API | How to use Google maps |
| Google Maps tutorial | Getting started with Google maps |
| HTML | W3C HTML reference |
| Javascript | Mozilla.org javascript reference |
| Mozilla Developer Centre | Reference to all Mozilla.org technologies |
| PHP | PHP reference manual |
| JQuery | Portable Javascript utility functions. Also JQuery API Browser. |
| W3 Schools | A good guide to almost every web-related technology |
News and Weather
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| BBC News | |
| Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Film Spot the good films - (then wait until they are on the telly) |
| Other news | Telegraph The Independent |
| Met Office | Will an umbrella be necessary? Their guess is slightly better than mine (usually). B80 |
| XCWeather | An alternative view of the weather - B80 |
| Metcheck | B80 - Let's see who gets it right |
Drupal projects |
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| crosstab | Module to add a scrolling capability to tables |
| flexible | Theme with built-in accessibility controls and a customisable architecture |
| grid |
Parent/child editing forms |
| node2node | Provides ability to link Drupal nodes |
| oscommerce | Link Drupal and osCommerce online shop |
| ticketyboo |
News ticker for Drupal |
| tinytinymce |
Integrates Moxiecode's TinyMCE rich text editor into Drupal |
Personal |
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| BBC iPlayer | Can't get near the telly owing to wall-to-all juvenile gogglers? Watch quality programmes (in postage stamp size) here. |
| My Facebook profile |
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| Fill that Hole | It's not what you think! Report potholes in the road to local authorities. |
| Google Calendar | |
| Sheldon Brown | Pages of the late Sheldon Brown who has shared vast amounts of bicycle knowledge |
| tvguide.co.uk | Is there anything worth watching amongst the 200 or so channels of mindless dross? |
| Ents 24 | What's On guide |
| Magpie Website Solutions | |
| Midland DC |
CTT Midland District Council website - local time trialling resources. Micro-sites: Midlands Rankings Midlands SPOCO |
| Time Trialling Forum | Chat, and resources on the subject of time trialling |
| Speedwell BC | The oldest continually active cycling club in the world |
| IMSLP | Public domain sheet music |
| Colour Scheme Designer | Great for generating website colour schemes |
| Picassa web albums | |
Travel and Maps
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| Transport Direct | Amazing travel planner that can plan a walk/bus/train route (even does car routes) |
| Open Street Maps | Open source map of the world created by volunteers. Highly detailed in some areas - patchy in others. Can be updated and improved by anyone with a GPS and/or local knowledge. |
Search engines
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| Yahoo | |
| Ask | |
| Moreover | |
| Live | |
