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Lynda.com - contains a page regarding "Web Safe Colors" although this may no longer be an issue.
W3Schools.com - the World Wide Web Schools - offers free tutorials on many WWW topics.
W3C - the World Wide Web Consortium - the driving force behind the advancement of the WWW.
ProjectSeven.com - nice tutorial on creating gradient tiles (these look very professional)
HTML Goodies - excellent site with lots of tutorials and resources
28 Web Developer Cheat Sheets
25 Point Web Site Usability Checklist
Web Style Guide - an on-line book with some great design advice
tk-jk.net - brief summary of Robin William's Design Principles
Proximity and Alignment - just what it says
Good Design and the Internet - brief description of Robin William's Design Principles
Web Design Flaws - what NOT to do
Color Contrast Tool - will your colors provide enough contrast? Use this tool to find out.
webpagesthatsuck.com - what NOT to do when creating a web page.
Examples of what NOT to do (from webpagesthatsuck.com)
50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website - some things to consider in designing your site
Fireworks Web Sites
www.entheosweb.com - great source of Fireworks tutorials
www.cbtcafe.com - more tutorials
ezwebdesign.com - this page has a list of sites that provide Fireworks tutorials
webreference.com - Great masking tutorial
http://www.000webhost.com/ - free web hosting site
www.150m.com - free web hosting with FTP (free because banner adds are included on your site)
FileZilla - a free FTP program
Nvu - a free HTML editor similar to Dreamweaver
freehosti.com - free hosting with no addsfatcow.com - web hosting but not free - caution - even though the monthly rates are cheap you usually have to pay for an entire year.
Cnet Review of Hosting Sites
Web Colors
Choosing the Perfect Colors for Your Web Site
Wheel of Color
Effective Color Contrast - Designing for people with partial sight
Color Scheme Generator
Flash Web Sites
www.axix-media.com
firstbornmultimedia.com/websites/chr/crossfire.htm
www.ry-guy.com
http://www.hightechinstitute.com/index.php
www.PowerSki.Com
www.2advancedstudios.com
Valhalla High School - excellent Flash tutorials
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ - nice use of flash
Graphics and Images
File Formats for Images - provides information about the various image formats
FreeImages - some very nice photos of a variety of things
Getty Images - a well know resource for pictures that can be purchased
Military Photos - provided by the armed services
BigFoto.com - free photos provided by amateur photographers
FreeFoto.Com - boasts to be the worlds largest archive of free photos
Corbis - no freebies but check out their homepage
Sergey.com - brief introduction to server side applications
vbip.com - a primer on server side technologies
FormMail.com - an email form service
HForm.com - another form hosting service
More Forms Sites - this link provides links to many form hosting services
Freedback.com - they claim you can create and apply a form using their site in under 10 minutes.
http://www.formsite.com/pricing.html
http://www.webpasties.com/create_form_mail.html - have the results of your form emailed to you.
http://www.cgiconnection.com - here are some examples of the type of forms you can create
http://www.webformfactory.com/ - send them your form and they will create the cgi script for you.XAMPP - if you want to run PHP files on your computer this is application allows you to do so.
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Open Source Software:
Site
Description
Audacity - a nice audio editing program. Can be used to create your own podcasts. Requires LameFe to convert files to MP3s.
JavaScript Source - thousands of JavaScripts that you can insert into your pages.
JavaScript Kit - good tutorials and a great resource for scripts
Drag & Drop for Images and Layers - Include Dynamic HTML in your web page.
HTML Goodies Java Script Primers - 30 JavaScript lessons so you can teach your self
WC3 CSS Tutorial
CSS Zen Garden - Demonstrating the power of CSS
CSS Edge - pushing the limits of CSS
Project 7 - great tutorials on CSS with some advanced topics
Bluerobot.com - links to other CSS sites and one to the Layout Reservoir.
The reservoir page also has links on how to center content on a page using CSS.
CSS Layout Techniques - description and demonstration of page layouts accomplished with CSS
Free Web Templates -
Rounded Corners and Gradient Backgrounds - you select what you want and this page will create the code for you.
53 CSS Techniques - the name says it all
CSS Gradients - want to give your site a nice gradient to make it more appealing?
Fonts
Urban Fonts - good source of free fonts
The Font Thing - small utility that allows you to view different fonts.
Link to Mrs. Givens Web Resources