Each year I look forward to December 1st when web development and design websites post their online advent calendars. Who wouldn’t want early holiday gifts of knowledge and advice from fellow web professionals?
From CSS to accessibility to PHP to WordPress to system admin resources, and more, you’ll find a calendar for your interests.
Here’s my list of 2013 advent calendars for web professionals:
24 ways
Leading off the list is the well-known 24 ways calendar, now in its ninth year of sharing tips for web design and development professionals.
Online Marketing Advent
Tips for Google Analytics, search engine optimization (SEO), Google Adwords, content strategy, form optimization, and more are included in High Position‘s advent calendar.
Performance Calendar
With a tagline of “The speed geek’s favorite time of the year”, you’ll find lots of tips to speed up your web site and applications in the Performance Calendar, now in its fifth year.
Mozilla Developers Network Holiday Calendar
You’ll find resources and demos behind each day of the Mozilla Developers Network holiday calendar. Have fun with the puzzle!
Sys Advent Calendar
Written by sysadmins, the Sys Advent Calendar brings daily tips about system administration topics.
Web Krauts Advent Calendar
Started in 2005, the Web Krauts Advent Calendar covers a wide range of web topics, including user experience, web design, CSS, SASS, web applications. Written in German, Google Translate quickly translates each article.
Perl Advent Calendar
Len Jaffe has gathered the links from several of the Perl Advent calendars into his Perl Advent Planet calendar. You’ll also find links to PHP, Java, and Ruby advent calendars.
WordPress Developers Advent Calendar
It took me a while to find this calendar for WordPress Web Developers. I was looking for a WordPress user calendar, but couldn’t find anything (maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough).
In its first year of publication, this calendar from Brad Vincent of Themergency shares code snippets, time-saving tips, and useful resources.
Updated
WordPress Snippets Advent Calendar
Not sure how I missed the WordPress Snippets Advent Calendar, organized by Elliott Richmond of Square One. This is the second year for WordPress Snippets, which posts code snippets from various WordPress developers.
If you know of any other web or information technology Advent calendars, share them in the comments.
Thanks Deborah!
I was trying to remember all of them and you have introduced me to a couple more. I’m now ready to cozy up to the fire place with tablet in hand.
— Karen
Hey Karen,
Glad you found them useful. I’m always looking for more calendars. Any idea if there’s a Drupal-focused Advent calendar?
Hallelujah! More advent calendar collectors! I’ve been collecting these also. Here’s my collection from 2008: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/merry-christmas-to-all/ slides http://www.slideshare.net/perplexity/calendars-and-countdowns-for-advent-christmas-and-new-years-presentation?type=powerpoint links http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/the-big-collection-of-advent-calendars-2008/ For 2011, I did a post each day, beginning (like Deborah) with 24 tips & 24 ways http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/twitter-advent-calendar-day-1/ then packing more and more in each day, until capping off with Doctor Who http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/twitter-advent-calendar-day-24-the-doctor-plus/ . It was great fun!
Thank you for the mention!
I know there was a reason to look at my referrer logs 🙂