Remember the mottoes you learned when you were a kid: “Winners don’t do drugs”, and “Cheaters never win”?

Well, a little cheating never hurt anyone… when it comes to using cheat sheets, that is.

TechPosters has a colossal collection of cheat sheets for just about every program, coding language or OS that uses code or keyboard shortcuts.

Since there’s such a huge list of cheat sheets, let’s look at some of the useful cheat sheets for web designers.

HTML

• HTML 5 Quick Reference Guide
• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
• XHTML Cheat Sheet v 1.03
• XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4.01 Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
• HTML Help Sheet (HTML 4 and XHTML)
• Form Tags
• Character Entity References in XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4
• HTML – Special Entity Codes
• HTML Common Tags

Note: If you’re looking for more resources for UTF-8 special entities, check out my earlier post, Most Used XHTML Character Entities.

CSS

• CSS3 Quick Reference Guide
• Core CSS Part 1 (by Molly E Holzschlag and published by DZone), Part 2, and Part 3
• CSS Properties
• CSS2 Cascading Style Sheets
• CSS Shorthand Guide
• CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet by Example
• CSS Property Index
• CSS Cheat Sheet v2
• CSS2 Quick Reference Guide
• RGB Colour Codes

jQuery

• jQuery Selectors (DZone)
• jTouch – jQuery Cheat Sheets For iPods and iPhones
• jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet 2
• jQuery 1.2

There are a ton of other cheat sheets for javascript in general, as well as other frameworks like EXT JS, Prototype and an entire category for Mootools.

These can be found in the general Javascript Cheat Sheet category.

PHP

• PHP Cheat Sheet (DZone)
• Symfony PHP5 Framework – Admin Generator Cheat Sheet

Plus Many, Many More

There are also tons of other web design cheat sheets for MySQL, ASP.NET, Flash, Silverlight, XML and more.

Another nice thing about the TechPosters site is that you can subscribe to RSS feeds for each category and know when new cheat sheets are added.

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Do you use any great cheat sheets for web design that are not included here? Where do you get your cheat sheets from?

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