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Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers & Developers

June 21, 2010 by Hilde Torbjornsen 94 Comments

Cheatsheets and various quick reference guides are available for almost any type of software and language these days. Unfortunately they’re not always easy to find when you actually need them. This is why I decided to take some time to gather up as many as possible and share them with you here!

Hopefully this can be a timesaver for you, along with teaching you a new trick or two. The resources have been divided into various categories to make them easier to find. Below are more than 100 cheat sheets and reference cards for the following topics:

  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Color/Fonts/SEO
  • CMS
  • Softwares
  • Browsers & OS
  • Others/Miscellaneous

CSS

CSS3 Cheat Sheet ↓

CSS3 Cheat Sheet

CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet ↓

CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet (V2) ↓

CSS Cheat Sheet

Css Property Index ↓

Css Property Index

BluePrint CSS ↓

CSS BluePrint

HTML

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet ↓

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet ↓

HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet

HTML5 Glossary ↓

HTML5 Glossary

HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet ↓

HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet

Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex) ↓

Color Codes Matching Chart HTML

Javascript

JavaScript Cheat Sheet ↓

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

Javascript DOM ↓

Javascript DOM

JavaScript Reference Card ↓

JavaScript Reference Card

jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet ↓

jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet

jQuery selectors ↓

jQuery selectors

jQuery 1.3.2 ↓

jQuery 1.3.2

jQuery 1.3 ↓

jQuery 1.3

jQuery 1.2 ↓

jQuery 1.2

Mootools 1.2 Cheat Sheet ↓

Mootools 1.2 Cheat Sheet

Prototype Cheat Sheet ↓

Prototype Cheat Sheet

PHP

PHP & MySQL for dummies ↓

PHP & MySQL for dummies

PHP 5 Online Cheat Sheet v1.3 ↓

PHP 5 Online Cheat Sheet v1.3

PHP5 Cheat sheet ↓

PHP5 Cheat sheet

PHP Manual Quick Reference ↓

PHP Manual Quick Reference

Printable PHP Security Checklist ↓

Printable PHP Security Checklist

PHP Functions to work with MySQL ↓

PHP Functions to work with MySQL

MySQL

MySQL Cheat Sheet ↓

MySQL Cheat Sheet

Handy Cheat Sheet of MySQL Commands ↓

Handy Cheat Sheet of MySQL Commands

Color/Fonts/SEO

HTML Colors Cheat Sheet ↓

HTML Colors Cheat Sheet

RGB Hex Colour Chart ↓

RGB Hex Colour Chart

Web Safe Color Chart ↓

Web Safe Color Chart

The Browser-Safe Colors ↓

The Browser-Safe Colors

Megapixels Chart (and print size) ↓

Megapixels Chart (and print size)

Points to pixels conversion ↓

Points to pixels conversion

Web Safe Fonts v2 (including Google API) ↓

Web Safe Fonts v2 (including Google API)

25-point Website Usability Checklist ↓

25-point Website Usability Checklist

Webdesign for dummies ↓

Webdesign for dummies

The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet ↓

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

SEO for dummies ↓

SEO for dummies

Will the browser apply the rule(s)? ↓

Will the browser apply the rule(s)

When can I use? Compatibility tables (html5, css3 + +) ↓

When can I use? Compatibility tables (html5, css3 + +)

CMS

WordPress Help Sheet ↓

WordPress Help Sheet

The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet ↓

The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet

WordPress Theme Development Checklist ↓

WordPress Theme Development Checklist

WordPress Template Tags ↓

WordPress Template Tags

WordPress Optimization Cheat Sheet ↓

WordPress Optimization Cheat Sheet

SEO for WordPress ↓

SEO for WordPress

Drupal 7: The database ↓

Drupal 7: The database

Drupal 6 API Cheat Sheet ↓

Drupal 6 API Cheat Sheet

Drupal for dummies ↓

Drupal for dummies

Joomla 1.5 Basic Template Cheat Sheet ↓

Joomla 1.5  Basic Template Cheat Sheet

Joomla for dummies ↓

Joomla for dummies

Softwares

ActionScript 3.0 ↓

ActionScript 3.0

Adobe Flex3 ↓

Adobe Flex3

Adobe Air Cheat Sheet ↓

Adobe Air Cheat Sheet

Adobe Acrobat 9 Shortcuts ↓

Adobe Acrobat 9 Shortcuts

Adobe Acrobat 8 Quick Reference ↓

Adobe Acrobat 8 Quick Reference

Adobe Flash CS5 & Flash Catalyst for dummies ↓

Adobe Flash CS5 & Flash Catalyst for dummies

Adobe Flash CS4 Shortcuts ↓

Adobe Flash CS4 Shortcuts

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 – all in one for dummies ↓

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 – all in one for dummies

Dreamweaver CS4 shortcuts ↓

Dreamweaver CS4 shortcuts

DreamWeaver CS3 Reference Card ↓

DreamWeaver CS3 Reference Card

Adobe Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference ↓

Adobe Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference

Adobe After Effects CS4 Cheat Sheet ↓

Adobe After Effects CS4 Cheat Sheet

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Shortcuts ↓

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Shortcuts

Adobe Photoshop CS5 – all in one for dummies ↓

Adobe Photoshop CS5 – all in one for dummies

Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts ↓

Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts

Photoshop Elements8 For Dummies ↓

Photoshop Elements8 For Dummies

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Shortcuts ↓

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Shortcuts

Adobe Indesign CS5 for dummies ↓

Adobe Indesign CS5 for dummies

Adobe InDesign CS4 Tools and shortcuts ↓

Adobe InDesign CS4 Tools and shortcuts

GIMP Quick reference ↓

GIMP Quick reference

Apple Final Cut Pro 5 ↓

Apple Final Cut Pro 5

QuarkXpress 8 ↓

3DS max 9 ↓

3DS max 9

Blender for dummies ↓

Blender for dummies

AutoCAD 2011 for dummies ↓

AutoCAD 2011 for dummies

Google Sketchup 7 for dummies ↓

Google Sketchup 7 for dummies

OpenOffice.org for dummies ↓

OpenOffice.org for dummies

Office 2010 – all in one for dummies ↓

Office 2010 – all in one for dummies

Browsers & OS

Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet ↓

Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet

Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts ↓

Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Internet Explorer 8 – quick reference card ↓

Internet Explorer 8 – quick reference card

Windows 7 Cheat Sheet ↓

Windows 7 Cheat Sheet

Windows Alt Codes ↓

Windows Alt Codes

Ultimate Switcher Guide: PC to MAC ↓

Ultimate Switcher Guide: PC to MAC

Mac OS X Keyboard Cheat Sheet ↓

Mac OS X Keyboard Cheat Sheet

Mac OS X Leopard – 200 productivity boosters ↓

Mac OS X Leopard – 200 productivity boosters

Macs All-in-one for dummies ↓

Macs All-in-one for dummies

Linux for dummies ↓

Linux for dummies

Ubuntu reference ↓

Ubuntu reference

Others/Miscellaneous

Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet ↓

Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet

Python Cheat Sheet ↓

Python Cheat Sheet

ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet ↓

ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet

ASP.net ↓

ASP.net

Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET) ↓

Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)

Core C# and .NET Quick Reference ↓

Core C# and .NET Quick Reference

960 Grid System Cheat Sheet ↓

960 Grid System Cheat Sheet

Firebug Cheat Sheet ↓

Firebug Cheat Sheet

Tcp Ports List ↓

Tcp Ports List

VOIP Basics ↓

VOIP Basics

VI (Linux Terminal) Cheat sheet ↓

VI (Linux Terminal) Cheat sheat

Mathematica Keyboard Shortcuts ↓

Mathematica Keyboard Shortcuts

Country Codes – quick reference ↓

Country Codes – quick reference

User Centred Design ↓

User Centred Design

The Social Landscape (social media) ↓

The Social Landscape (social media)

Your Turn To Talk

We hope you found our list of cheatsheets/quick references useful. If we missed any or you have other feedback, please leave a comment. Also remember to share this post if you found it useful! ;)

Author: Hilde Torbjornsen

Hilde Torbjornsen is a Norwegian graphic designer/freelancer with a passion for everything Adobe, photography and freelancing.
Her website is Designer77 and you can follow her daily updates on twitter here: @Hildy77

Filed Under: Resources, Tools

Comments

  1. Izzat Aziz says

    June 21, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    well, i need to sleep early tonight, and wake up early so that i can open all before end of tomorrow :)

    thanks

  2. Clervius says

    June 21, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Dude, this is plain AWESOMENESS!!!

  3. Designer Freelance says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    WOW, great collection, thanks for sharing!!

  4. Jay Philips says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    What an awesome list. Thank you for putting this together.

  5. florian says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    this is awesome shit, thanks for sharing.

  6. Zlatan Halilovic says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    Woohoo!!! This is exactly what I needed. Hilde, you’re my hero! :)

  7. Zlatan Halilovic says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    I just started opening some of these, just to realize how useful your post is, so I had to thank you one more time for this, soooo, uhm, thank you! The award of the most useful post of the month goes to you!

  8. Mary says

    June 21, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    This is amazing! Hello, bookmarks.

  9. MicrobrewMedia.com says

    June 21, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    Great Post! I just started a hard copy of all cheatsheets. This is a great help to tracking them all down. Cheers!!!

  10. Gabriel Izaias says

    June 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Actually, this is the idea of http://www.quicklycode.com/

    Great collection, though.

  11. Aditya Menon says

    June 21, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Miss Torbjonsen, this is one of the most awesome web pages on the internet. SO many extremely important resources in one place! This is great, thanks a lot…

  12. Francesco Freezone says

    June 21, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    This is a must reference for any web developer.
    Thank you so much.

  13. Christopher Corbett says

    June 21, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    What a fantastic resource!

  14. Hilde says

    June 21, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    Thank you everyone for all the positive feedback! Im very happy to hear you all enjoyed this collection :)

  15. Omer Yaqub says

    June 22, 2010 at 2:26 am

    Dam good collection, now i don’t have to go anywhere, Thanx a lot..

  16. Saravana Prabhu says

    June 22, 2010 at 3:27 am

    Very useful post.

    Thanks alot..

  17. Marc von Brockdorff says

    June 22, 2010 at 3:54 am

    Great set… I’ve been looking for cheatsheets like these for ages!

  18. Karol K. says

    June 22, 2010 at 6:25 am

    This one went straight to my delicious. Great list. Thanks!

  19. 2excel says

    June 22, 2010 at 6:56 am

    Man you have way to much time on your hands but this is great stuff keep it coming :)

  20. fatahuri says

    June 22, 2010 at 7:01 am

    woow… great..great collection! thanks :)

  21. Kaleb Web says

    June 22, 2010 at 7:57 am

    PERFECT! very very very very very very Nice post! I LOVE!

  22. Tchikito says

    June 22, 2010 at 8:06 am

    This is THE collection I was dreaming about !!!!!!! THANKS !

  23. Nallaperumal says

    June 22, 2010 at 8:58 am

    This is truly great.

    Thanks a lot for putting this together.

  24. Marc Robinsone Caballero says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:19 am

    Wow. This is heaven!

  25. Ram says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:20 am

    Excellent Collections. Very useful one.

  26. tinym says

    June 22, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Thank you so much for putting all this in one place! I really appreciate it.

  27. Jimbo Alba says

    June 22, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    Super! Thanks for this huge collection.

  28. Tim says

    June 22, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Great collection. I’ve also created a huge directory of cheat sheets (over 1,500 so far) at http://devcheatsheet.com/

  29. dpath says

    June 22, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    It’s awesome! thanx =)

  30. Flinn says

    June 22, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    wow ,thats some pretty nice collection n it surely goes to my bookmarks.thnx a lot n keep it coming.

  31. Bill Lord says

    June 22, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Thanks, this is a great collection. I’m going to have to bookmark this and keep coming back, there’s a lot of great info here!

  32. NMS says

    June 22, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    thats really cool! Thanks!

  33. Boris says

    June 22, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    Hi Hilde,
    thank you for this superb collection!

  34. Amanda Kay says

    June 22, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    Excellent! A perfect list to bookmark =]

    Looks like I’m going to need to stock up on ink for my printer!

  35. BebopDesigner says

    June 22, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    Wow! this is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing

  36. Pusparaj says

    June 22, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    It’s very nice. Thanks. I just twit this.

  37. Ben Hughes says

    June 22, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    Very nice collection – thanks!

  38. Jamp Mark says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:14 pm

    hey this is really a trouble saver
    thanks for sharing

  39. Tookangweb says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    wow very complete, thanks for share

  40. aditia says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    very worth collection that php security chearsheet really new to me, thanks

  41. Aryan says

    June 23, 2010 at 12:25 am

    Really a very nice collection. Thanks a lot.

  42. Stephen says

    June 23, 2010 at 3:56 am

    Nice work Thanks …

  43. fmvilas says

    June 23, 2010 at 8:23 am

    YES! YES! YES! Awwwwsome!!

    THANK YOU!! :-)

  44. leonardo souza says

    June 23, 2010 at 9:00 am

    MANN..awesomeEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot

  45. Jordan Walker says

    June 23, 2010 at 9:09 am

    Great list of cheat sheets, really impressive.

  46. Nabeel says

    June 23, 2010 at 10:43 am

    WOW! Thank you very much for this post.

  47. Mike says

    June 25, 2010 at 11:10 am

    This site is the better that I have saw, thanks for all and continue like this,

    Regards,
    Mike.

  48. Ivan says

    June 25, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    just awesome, thanks for sharing that information with us

  49. Davorin says

    June 26, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Everything is said already, but I have to leave comment, excellent post and many thanks for sharing

  50. Todd says

    June 27, 2010 at 10:11 am

    hey thanks for the resources. maybe it’s my rss settings, but do you have a summary to share? i got the whole blog as one email, would like to forward it to some of my colleagues but only an excerpt.

    maybe i’ll just piece one together, but if you already something compact to share you could pass along…

    either way, thanks again, great resource.

    todd

  51. Miyagui says

    June 27, 2010 at 9:12 pm

    Awesome compilation.
    Thanks for the share

  52. Vishnu says

    June 28, 2010 at 2:39 am

    Man this is really awesome, I got really what I want!

  53. David says

    June 29, 2010 at 8:13 am

    Cool, I like it. Thanks!

  54. !ncognito says

    June 29, 2010 at 8:28 am

    This is a MONSTER COLLECTION!
    Thanks a lot.
    Good work.

  55. LauraC says

    July 1, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    I used to have a great VI cheat sheet that was an upside down V. Can’t think of anything else you’re missing.

  56. Ben Stokes says

    July 1, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    What a brilliant resource :) Thank you guys

  57. FlashStock says

    July 3, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    WOW, what a list. Just what i need. I can’t thank you enough for this resources list.

  58. Gareth J M Saunders says

    July 4, 2010 at 12:59 am

    Just to let you know that I’ve since updated the Blueprint CSS cheat sheet for Blueprint CSS v.0.9.1. You can download it on the Blueprint CSS wiki or from here: http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/blueprint/

    Thanks for the mention.

  59. munkkron77 says

    July 6, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    very useful !!!!! thank a lot.

  60. Keshaw says

    July 10, 2010 at 3:43 am

    What a brilliant resource. I got what I was looking for. Thank you.

  61. leonardo dantas says

    July 20, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    here’s all good! thanks

  62. alberto says

    September 19, 2010 at 5:37 am

    I have make on my site a online Jquery documentation cheat sheet (version 1.4) :
    http://www.abspace.it/ComputerSpace/JQueryCheatSheet.asp
    Thanks, alberto

  63. theGREATunknown says

    September 22, 2010 at 11:09 am

    WOW. I was amazed with the number of cheat sheets. I was looking for this one for a very long time. GREAT Job

  64. Luis Lopez Garay says

    September 23, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    No doubt, this is the best cheat sheet collection i’ve ever read !! thanks for sharing.

    Be happy and Keep up the good work.

  65. Jalpesh Rajani says

    September 24, 2010 at 12:08 am

    Brilliant!!

  66. Friso Dijkgraaf says

    September 24, 2010 at 4:07 am

    Thanks for sharing!
    I was hoping to find an office shortcut cheatsheet though, it would complete this collection.
    Great job anyways.
    Cheers

  67. Irfan Suleman says

    September 29, 2010 at 6:52 am

    awesome collection, loving it

  68. Andrew Torrance says

    October 2, 2010 at 3:56 am

    Thank you .

  69. loreto says

    October 3, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    loved the php cheatseet.. do you happen to have a cakePHP?

    Cheers!

  70. Pete Wood says

    October 5, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    This is an amazing collection of cheatsheets – best ever – many thanks!

  71. Swapnil says

    October 6, 2010 at 9:00 am

    This is the magnificently fantabulous super collection of cheat sheets I have ever seen. So impressed by collection. Great work .. ! Many thanks !

  72. Raj Sandhu says

    October 7, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    It’s Great Collection, Thanks

  73. Christo says

    October 7, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Many that I have seen, and even more I hadn’t!
    Please never delete this page, in fact update it as often as possible, because this is now my go-to place for cheatsheets!

    Great stuff :)

  74. Rodolfo says

    October 9, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Thank you Soooooo much :D

  75. samet demircan says

    October 22, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Thank you so much, Great Archive…

  76. Adam of Spokane says

    November 7, 2010 at 9:23 am

    I agree with Luis. Best Cheat sheet list ever. Thanks.

  77. Eben says

    November 7, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Wow this is fantastic Hilde thanks for sharing and the effort……Cheers

  78. KaryK says

    November 10, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Can’t thank you enough, I’ll be passing on your web address to my web design class mates when I go to class tonight! Very very helpful.

    Kary

  79. omurphy says

    December 14, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    Just bookmarked this page, thank you kindly.

  80. Anonymous says

    January 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    You can have Drupal 7 theming cheat sheet from herehttp://batayneh.me/drupal-7-ph…

  81. Dann Sommer says

    February 4, 2011 at 4:07 am

    absolutely great ! – and, very, very useful :-) !

  82. Shagilani says

    February 22, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    love it thanx

  83. Sergey says

    February 28, 2011 at 9:45 am

    WOW! It’s delicious. Take some sheets. Thanks.

  84. Kathleen says

    March 13, 2011 at 3:42 am

    Khronos.org has cheat sheets for their open-standards APIs: OpenCL, OpenGL, WebGL, etc. at http://www.khronos.org

  85. dave says

    April 25, 2011 at 12:57 am

    Love this collection!!! does any one have it as a single download so I put them on my flash drive?

    thanks,
    Dave

  86. Lex Koff says

    June 5, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Included this url in a must-read page list for our web template designers. Tweeted and mentioned it in our newsletter. Outstanding round up. Thanks!

  87. Prabhat says

    June 16, 2011 at 6:56 am

    This is fantastic, thanx for sharing…………. :)

  88. Mundoo says

    July 1, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    time saving site :)

  89. Tech Geek says

    July 2, 2011 at 12:55 am

    The ‘Handy Cheat Sheet of MySQL Commands’ link is dead, that specific cheat sheet was reposted on another site.

  90. internet marketing says

    July 20, 2011 at 2:01 am

    a good collection of cheatsheets for designers and developers

  91. david says

    July 20, 2011 at 9:14 am

    great , thanks for this place

  92. Gleenk Webdesign says

    August 3, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Wow, amazing list! But… isn’t it too much ? :D

  93. Binaya says

    June 14, 2019 at 2:40 am

    Wow just mind blowing collection of cheatsheet!! Just so much helpful!

  94. Chandan Chaurasia says

    June 5, 2020 at 12:16 am

    This is an awesome collection. I have always these in most of my creative projects.

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