Great things – ZEISE MEDIA

On this page, we'll show you some recommended links to libraries and resources that we use in our everyday web development. If you know of any smart tools, feel free to contact us.

Character encoding

Graphemica: identify characters and glyphs
ZEICHEN.TV: special characters and design resources.

Color scheme tools

Adobe Kuler: create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations
BrandColors: collection of official brand color codes
ColorHexa: free color tool providing information about any color and generating matching color palettes for designs
WebGradients: collection of 180 CSS3 linear gradients for content backdrops or any parts of a website

CSS

Bootstrap 5: free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications
Can I use: provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers
CSS-Tricks - Flexbox feature: a complete guide to Flexbox
MDN Web Docs: learn to style HTML using CSS
Normalize.css: makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards
sanitize.css: a CSS library that provides consistent, cross-browser default styling of HTML elements alongside useful defaults
Tailwind CSS: rapidly build modern websites and utility-first CSS framework

Font and icon toolkits

Font Awesome 6: icons, SVG, ligatures, and tons more
Font Awesome Animation: simple animations using Font Awesome and some CSS3
Google Fonts: making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
Ionicons: premium icon font for Ionic

Language tools

DeepL: neural translation machine
Grammarly: grammar tips, correct all grammar errors and enhance writing
Hemingway App: makes writing bold and clear
Lexico.com powered by Oxford Dictionaries: the English site provides free access to the largest current English dictionaries and thesaurus as well as helpful tips on grammar, usage, spelling, and more
MIT OpenCourseWare: language course finder

Online learning programs and courses

MIT OpenCourseWare: an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate – and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere
O’Reilly Learning: essential topics and big ideas (e.g. design, software engineering, web programming)
Type Terms: the animated typographic cheat sheet

Page speed and validation services

Pingdom Website Speed Test: test the load time of that page, analyze it and find bottlenecks
W3C CSS Validator: check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets
W3C Feed Validator: free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds (w/ common namespaces)
W3C Link Checker: check links and anchors in web pages or full web sites
W3C Markup Validator: this validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.

Search engines

DuckDuckGo: search engine without tracking
Ecosia: plant trees for free with your searches
Qwant: the search engine that respects your privacy
StartPage: private way to search Google

Vanilla JS

clipboard.js: modern approach to copy text to clipboard
MDN Web Docs: learn how to program in JavaScript with guides and tutorials
Vanilla JS: is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications ;)

What time is it?

Time.is: displays exact, official atomic clock time for any time zone