Cheat sheets (also known as reference cards, reference sheets, etc.) not only helps you remember things quickly, but can also serve as wall decoration for your workspace. In this post, you’ll find 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet. These cheat sheets are used even by the best web designers!
If you’re looking for front-end web developer cheat sheets (more CSS, HTML, and JavaScript) check out Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers.
Photoshop
Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Downloads: PDF (Windows), PDF (Mac)
Keys for using the Layers palette (HTML)
Photoshop Toolbox Reference (HTML)
Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheatsheet
Download: PDF
Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet
Download: PDF
Color
RGB Hex Colour Chart
Downloads: PDF, PNG
Color Reference Guide (PDF)
Web Designer Color Reference Hexagon Mouse Pad
Download: GIF
Web Safe Color Chart (HTML)
Hexidecimal Color Chart (HTML)
The Browser Safe Colors (HTML)
Typography
VisiBone Font Card
Download: GIF
Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (HTML)
Mixing Typefaces (PDF)
Units/Dimension
Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels (HTML)
Megapixels Chart
Download: GIF
CSS/CSS Frameworks
Blueprint CSS Cheat Sheet
Download: PDF
YUI Library: CSS Reset, Base, Fonts, and Grids (PDF)
CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet (PDF)
Apple’s CSS Cheat Sheet Widget (Mac Dashboard Widget)
HTML/XHTML
HTML & XHTML Tag Quick Reference (PDF)
HTML/XHTML Character Entities
XHTML Character Entity Reference (HTML)
Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
Dreamweaver CS3 for Mac Quick Reference Card (PDF)
Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts – MAC
Download: PDF
Browsers
Will the browser apply the rule(s)? (HTML)
W3C DOM Compatibility Tables (HTML)
Summary
There’s a number of cheat sheets you can use for different areas of web design.
These are just little things, but they can save your agency a ton of time, which will save the client a ton of money. Clients look for things such as the efficiency of an agencies procedures when they are choosing a web design company. Even big institutions such as colleges, or fortune 500 companies are looking for ways to save on web design, so using these cheat sheets can help drive down the time of a project and the price for the client.
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