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
CSS3 Cheat Sheet ↓
CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet ↓
CSS Cheat Sheet (V2) ↓
Css Property Index ↓
BluePrint CSS ↓
HTML
HTML 5 Cheat Sheet ↓
HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet ↓
HTML5 Glossary ↓
HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet ↓
Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex) ↓
Javascript
JavaScript Cheat Sheet ↓
Javascript DOM ↓
JavaScript Reference Card ↓
jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet ↓
jQuery selectors ↓
jQuery 1.3.2 ↓
jQuery 1.3 ↓
jQuery 1.2 ↓
Mootools 1.2 Cheat Sheet ↓
Prototype Cheat Sheet ↓
PHP
PHP & MySQL for dummies ↓
PHP 5 Online Cheat Sheet v1.3 ↓
PHP5 Cheat sheet ↓
PHP Manual Quick Reference ↓
Printable PHP Security Checklist ↓
PHP Functions to work with MySQL ↓
MySQL
MySQL Cheat Sheet ↓
Handy Cheat Sheet of MySQL Commands ↓
Color/Fonts/SEO
HTML Colors Cheat Sheet ↓
RGB Hex Colour Chart ↓
Web Safe Color Chart ↓
The Browser-Safe Colors ↓
Megapixels Chart (and print size) ↓
Points to pixels conversion ↓
Web Safe Fonts v2 (including Google API) ↓
25-point Website Usability Checklist ↓
Webdesign for dummies ↓
The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet ↓
SEO for dummies ↓
Will the browser apply the rule(s)? ↓
When can I use? Compatibility tables (html5, css3 + +) ↓
CMS
WordPress Help Sheet ↓
The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet ↓
WordPress Theme Development Checklist ↓
WordPress Template Tags ↓
WordPress Optimization Cheat Sheet ↓
SEO for WordPress ↓
Drupal 7: The database ↓
Drupal 6 API Cheat Sheet ↓
Drupal for dummies ↓
Joomla 1.5 Basic Template Cheat Sheet ↓
Joomla for dummies ↓
Softwares
ActionScript 3.0 ↓
Adobe Flex3 ↓
Adobe Air Cheat Sheet ↓
Adobe Acrobat 9 Shortcuts ↓
Adobe Acrobat 8 Quick Reference ↓
Adobe Flash CS5 & Flash Catalyst for dummies ↓
Adobe Flash CS4 Shortcuts ↓
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 – all in one for dummies ↓
Dreamweaver CS4 shortcuts ↓
DreamWeaver CS3 Reference Card ↓
Adobe Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference ↓
Adobe After Effects CS4 Cheat Sheet ↓
Adobe Illustrator CS4 Shortcuts ↓
Adobe Photoshop CS5 – all in one for dummies ↓
Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts ↓
Photoshop Elements8 For Dummies ↓
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Shortcuts ↓
Adobe Indesign CS5 for dummies ↓
Adobe InDesign CS4 Tools and shortcuts ↓
GIMP Quick reference ↓
Apple Final Cut Pro 5 ↓
QuarkXpress 8 ↓
3DS max 9 ↓
Blender for dummies ↓
AutoCAD 2011 for dummies ↓
Google Sketchup 7 for dummies ↓
OpenOffice.org for dummies ↓
Office 2010 – all in one for dummies ↓
Browsers & OS
Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet ↓
Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts ↓
Internet Explorer 8 – quick reference card ↓
Windows 7 Cheat Sheet ↓
Windows Alt Codes ↓
Ultimate Switcher Guide: PC to MAC ↓
Mac OS X Keyboard Cheat Sheet ↓
Mac OS X Leopard – 200 productivity boosters ↓
Macs All-in-one for dummies ↓
Linux for dummies ↓
Ubuntu reference ↓
Others/Miscellaneous
Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet ↓
Python Cheat Sheet ↓
ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet ↓
ASP.net ↓
Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET) ↓
Core C# and .NET Quick Reference ↓
960 Grid System Cheat Sheet ↓
Firebug Cheat Sheet ↓
Tcp Ports List ↓
VOIP Basics ↓
VI (Linux Terminal) Cheat sheet ↓
Mathematica Keyboard Shortcuts ↓
Country Codes – quick reference ↓
User Centred Design ↓
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
well, i need to sleep early tonight, and wake up early so that i can open all before end of tomorrow :)
thanks
Dude, this is plain AWESOMENESS!!!
WOW, great collection, thanks for sharing!!
What an awesome list. Thank you for putting this together.
this is awesome shit, thanks for sharing.
Woohoo!!! This is exactly what I needed. Hilde, you’re my hero! :)
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!
This is amazing! Hello, bookmarks.
Great Post! I just started a hard copy of all cheatsheets. This is a great help to tracking them all down. Cheers!!!
Actually, this is the idea of http://www.quicklycode.com/
Great collection, though.
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…
This is a must reference for any web developer.
Thank you so much.
What a fantastic resource!
Thank you everyone for all the positive feedback! Im very happy to hear you all enjoyed this collection :)
Dam good collection, now i don’t have to go anywhere, Thanx a lot..
Very useful post.
Thanks alot..
Great set… I’ve been looking for cheatsheets like these for ages!
This one went straight to my delicious. Great list. Thanks!
Man you have way to much time on your hands but this is great stuff keep it coming :)
woow… great..great collection! thanks :)
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This is THE collection I was dreaming about !!!!!!! THANKS !
This is truly great.
Thanks a lot for putting this together.
Wow. This is heaven!
Excellent Collections. Very useful one.
Thank you so much for putting all this in one place! I really appreciate it.
Super! Thanks for this huge collection.
Great collection. I’ve also created a huge directory of cheat sheets (over 1,500 so far) at http://devcheatsheet.com/
It’s awesome! thanx =)
wow ,thats some pretty nice collection n it surely goes to my bookmarks.thnx a lot n keep it coming.
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!
thats really cool! Thanks!
Hi Hilde,
thank you for this superb collection!
Excellent! A perfect list to bookmark =]
Looks like I’m going to need to stock up on ink for my printer!
Wow! this is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing
It’s very nice. Thanks. I just twit this.
Very nice collection – thanks!
hey this is really a trouble saver
thanks for sharing
wow very complete, thanks for share
very worth collection that php security chearsheet really new to me, thanks
Really a very nice collection. Thanks a lot.
Nice work Thanks …
YES! YES! YES! Awwwwsome!!
THANK YOU!! :-)
MANN..awesomeEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot
Great list of cheat sheets, really impressive.
WOW! Thank you very much for this post.
This site is the better that I have saw, thanks for all and continue like this,
Regards,
Mike.
just awesome, thanks for sharing that information with us
Everything is said already, but I have to leave comment, excellent post and many thanks for sharing
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
Awesome compilation.
Thanks for the share
Man this is really awesome, I got really what I want!
Cool, I like it. Thanks!
This is a MONSTER COLLECTION!
Thanks a lot.
Good work.
I used to have a great VI cheat sheet that was an upside down V. Can’t think of anything else you’re missing.
What a brilliant resource :) Thank you guys
WOW, what a list. Just what i need. I can’t thank you enough for this resources list.
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.
very useful !!!!! thank a lot.
What a brilliant resource. I got what I was looking for. Thank you.
here’s all good! thanks
I have make on my site a online Jquery documentation cheat sheet (version 1.4) :
http://www.abspace.it/ComputerSpace/JQueryCheatSheet.asp
Thanks, alberto
WOW. I was amazed with the number of cheat sheets. I was looking for this one for a very long time. GREAT Job
No doubt, this is the best cheat sheet collection i’ve ever read !! thanks for sharing.
Be happy and Keep up the good work.
Brilliant!!
Thanks for sharing!
I was hoping to find an office shortcut cheatsheet though, it would complete this collection.
Great job anyways.
Cheers
awesome collection, loving it
Thank you .
loved the php cheatseet.. do you happen to have a cakePHP?
Cheers!
This is an amazing collection of cheatsheets – best ever – many thanks!
This is the magnificently fantabulous super collection of cheat sheets I have ever seen. So impressed by collection. Great work .. ! Many thanks !
It’s Great Collection, Thanks
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 :)
Thank you Soooooo much :D
Thank you so much, Great Archive…
I agree with Luis. Best Cheat sheet list ever. Thanks.
Wow this is fantastic Hilde thanks for sharing and the effort……Cheers
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
Just bookmarked this page, thank you kindly.
You can have Drupal 7 theming cheat sheet from herehttp://batayneh.me/drupal-7-ph…
absolutely great ! – and, very, very useful :-) !
love it thanx
WOW! It’s delicious. Take some sheets. Thanks.
Khronos.org has cheat sheets for their open-standards APIs: OpenCL, OpenGL, WebGL, etc. at http://www.khronos.org
Love this collection!!! does any one have it as a single download so I put them on my flash drive?
thanks,
Dave
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!
This is fantastic, thanx for sharing…………. :)
time saving site :)
The ‘Handy Cheat Sheet of MySQL Commands’ link is dead, that specific cheat sheet was reposted on another site.
a good collection of cheatsheets for designers and developers
great , thanks for this place
Wow, amazing list! But… isn’t it too much ? :D
Wow just mind blowing collection of cheatsheet!! Just so much helpful!