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updated 07/8/04 (but needs more updating ;-)

articles	jobs & internships
The Semantic Web - by Time Berners Lee (who invented the web) Article on connection speed/file size, color resolution & screen resolution statistics Article on home page design Death of the Websafe Color Palette? Article on screen resolution usage XHTML 1.0 released 1/27/2000 Time to Liberate the Web, by Ted Nelson Article on web page size Critique of multimedia "How to read a film" Article on XML Page about bogus chain emails Emotional Impact of Web Site - Interview	artisancreative.com - placement service -- temp & full time aquent - freelancer's agency (formerly mactemps) Creative Assets - digital talent agency eLance - freelancers marketplace
web resources	web resources
media design interactive media bibliography - by Peter Lunenfeld www.lynda.com Web graphics author Lynda Weinman's site www.aiga.org american institute of graphic arts -- premier design organization Yahoo's web design links page design-agency.com/project/ Examples of web design design-agency.com A registry of web design companies mining company A good resource for web design www.useit.com/alertbox - web usability information typography desktoppublishing Commercial Font Sources and Type Foundries typography resources by Robert Oberhand www.acidfonts.com - free fonts www.chank.com - free/paid fonts www.houseind.com - cool fonts www.emigre.com - great modern fonts & zine p22 - digital versions of classic typepfaces www.fontfont.com - big collections of good fonts www.veer.com - more modern fonts web typography guide - examples, info silkscreen - small pixel font for web, free www.fontsforflash.com - what it says pixel/led fonts - an exhaustive reference alternate website navigation systems Navidedron.com The Brain.com information design tony brown information design www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/ - visual vocabulary for information design	stock photography www.fstopimages.com images by designers for designers. not your standard stock house. publications web page design for designers Site for web designers www.webmonkey.com Site devoted to web developers www.artbyte.com Print/web magazine on the digital arts www.shift.jp.org Magazine about web design, etc. www.cnet.com Computer related information groups.google.com Searchable access to newsgroups software, tools, & utilities Unique Software - Sells software at academic prices for students 800.642.3669 Photoshop web safe swatch GifBuilder A free program for creating animated GIFs on the Macintosh CoffeeCup GIF Animator A free program for creating animated GIFs on the PC PKZip file expansion for the PC downloads Stuffit Expander file expansion for the Mac download
technical	site building
misc Moving files between the Mac and PC Photoshop Actions Overview browser issues Netscape Archive - Where to get old versions of the browser for compatibility testing AOL's Webmaster site - Provides lots of info for compatibility problems (of which there are many!) html html validator - check your pages eliminating the top/left margin in web pages recommended page dimensions webmonkey article on embedding fonts flash www.flashkit.com - huge flash resource site Moock's Flash Page - Javascript, Detecting Flash, Scrolling text, etc. actionscript.org - resource for Flash scripting javascript javascript functions in an external file opening a pop-up window, and forcing it to the front cycling through a series of images www.dynamicdrive.com - DHTML scripts site production services www.jbilocalization.com will translate your content into different languages mySQL www.mysql.com mySQL home PHP & mySQL webmonkey tutorial Perl & mySQL linuxPlanet tutorial sqlcourse.com a course in the basics of using a sequel database www.phpmyadmin.net software used to create and administer mySQL databases mySQL New Riders book php www.php.net official PHP website Beginning PHP, Wrox Press book www.seejanecode.com software that generates PHP code to access a database CGI Scripts http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ Matt's Script Archive including FormMail.pl http://www.cgi-resources.com/ Hotwired article on CGI	site registration, promotion www.register-it.com register sites with search engines www.SiteSolutions.Com register sites with search engines vse be found Macintosh software that submits sites to search engines Submitta - Windows software that submits sites to search engines Network Solutions - Get or check a domain name Register.com - Get or check a domain name CNET - List of web hosting companies BtoB - Marketing on the web, web site pricing, advertising hosting services www.lunarpages.com - hosting with php/mysql www.geocities.com - free hosting www.hostway.com - hosting starting at $9 www.verio.com - hosting for business web site streaming media www.playstream.com - streaming hosting company www.akamai.com - streaming hosting company zdnet.com article on streaming media streamingmediaworld.com - articles about streaming incl flash legal & copyrights legal info about interactive media electronic frontier foundation e-commerce shopping carts overview of how to approach shopping carts webmonkey article on planning, selling, and building an e-site www.onvia.com packaged catalogs store.yahoo.com packaged catalogs www.freemerchant.com free packaged catalogs earthlink hosting & store services www.verio.com hosting/ecommerce package www.paypal.com shopping cart and payment system www.vcart.com offsite shopping cart www.netstores.com offsite shopping cart www.kagi.com selling downloadable products www.digitalriver.com selling downloadable products
tutorials	previous course materials
JavaScript & DHTML CNET HTML Tutorial NCSA HTML Tutorial