September 13th, 2009 | View Comments

Being a good designer isn’t just about pushing out attractive pieces of work. One thing that an employer takes into consideration other than your portfolio is your ability to be reliable and provide design work on a timely basis. Your efficiency dictates the amount of work you can complete within your work day. I’ve dedicated this post to sharing links to resources which can speed up your projects starting with Adobe Photoshop shortcuts and exploring deeper into the codex of popular development languages. These are my most frequented cheat sheets. Please feel free to share your resources below in the comment thread because I’m sure there are plenty of other code lists that readers here would like to know about.

Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts (Mac and PC)

Note: In Photoshop, shortcuts are customizable by using the Keyboard Shortcuts command. Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.


CSS 2.1 Cheat Sheet Reference


XHtml Cheat Sheet Reference


WordPress Template Tag Codex

  • romi13
    smashing magazine published 2 good cheat sheets regarding HTML5 and CSS 3
    Also, I'll recommend SlickHound tool bar for faster and more efficient design work.
    The link for it's website is: http://www.wix.com/slickhound/index it's really great for designers and it's free.
  • Thanks for the input! I'll check them out. CSS 3 has great potential but it seems that IE has yet to capitalize the features.
  • romi13
    css 3 and HTML5 work teams have announced finish time for these projects to
    be somewhere around the year 2024. It has only just begun.
  • This is an interesting post that came up on a linkedin discussion for creating color schemes.
    http://colorschemedesigner.com/

    Let me know what you guys think.
  • Thanks for these, a great help
  • nmurphy
    Hi Blake:

    Since efficiency is your goal, speaking strictly within the context of coming up with sumptuous color schemes in the blink of an eye, I thought you might find this article interesting: http://www.master-colors.com/downloads/news/Epi...
    Cheat Sheet is included
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