WELCOME WEB DESIGN AND WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS

This material was developed to link up with a number of TAFE subjects:

1. Web Tools and Interface Design (A&M)
2. Web Development Tools (IT)
3. Principles of Web Design (IT)
4. Screen Design for Interactivity (IT)

I am concerned that this font size will be too small - front page only - new style sheet - PLEASE let me know if you have problems, what PLATFORM you are using and what BROWSER and version you are using... many thanks.

I welcome your input as to more sites to add or any new categories to include: rory_obrien@yahoo.com

Rory OBrien

( Last updated April 5, 2002 )

HTML Standards and Validators

http://www.w3.org/ - W3C World Wide Web Consortium - standards authority

http://validator.w3.org - Online validator to ensure HTML standards compliance

http://www.cast.org/bobby/ - Bobby - HTML validation and checking service

http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/History/ - History of the internet

Tutorials

http://werbach.com/barebones/ - The Bare Bones Guide to HTML

http://www.katsueydesignworks.com/
tutorials_macromedia.htm - MUST SEE!!! - list of various tutorials for Macromedia products

http://web.oreilly.com/news/dreamweaver2_0701.html - Top ten Dreamweaver tips - O'Reilly publishers.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html - Top ten NEW mistakes of web design

http://www.germantownacademy.org/
curtech/instruct/firework/index.htm - simple Fireworks tutorials

http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/teaching.www/ - teach yourself HTML

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/wacky/wacky.html - Wacky HTML - it's true..

Web Design Resources - General

http://wdvl.internet.com/vlib/ - Web Developers Virtual Library

http://webreference.com/ - General web reference guide

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ - WebMonkey - extensive Web Designers resource

http://www.coolhomepages.com/ - The best cure for designers block... great sites

http://www.k10k.net - "Kaliber 10000 - The Designers Lunchbox" - alternative design resource

http://www.wpdfd.com - Web Page Design For Designers - good general web developers resource site

http://www.digitalthread.com/index.html - Excellent category-based index of web design sites, trends and styles

http://builder.cnet.com - Extensive Web Developers and Designers resource

http://www.ultrashock.com/ - Multimedia developers resource

http://www.moock.org - Similar site to this one - one teacher's online resources

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com - good general resource for all web stuff

Web Usability

http://usableweb.com/ - Usability and the Web

http://www.useit.com - Usabilty site - Jakob Neilson

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/ - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com - learning from web design gone wrong

http://www.worstoftheweb.com - similar goals to site above..

Web Graphics

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
/01/28/index1a.html?tw=design - Good outline on preparing web graphics

http://lava.net/colorcon/colour.html - Excellent colour reference site

http://www.snagit.com/
products/snagit/default.asp - SnagIt- specialised windows screen capture tool

http://www.xara.com - simple online banner-making tool for the non-designer designer

http://tripod.animfactory.com/ - 30,000 Royalty-free GIF animations

Web Technical references

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
reference/browser_chart/?tw=eg30010705 - Webmonkey - Web browser compatibility chart

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
/99/41/index3a_page3.html?tw=design - Webmonkey - Guide to browser live areas

http://forums.internet.com/ - Extensive list of Bulletin Board forums on EVERYTHING!!!

Music sites

http://www.powderfinger.com - Good flash interface

http://www.nin.com - Nine Inch Nails - Ooo, spooky

http://www.travisonline.com - Travis - the band - Fine Flash

Amusement... as if you have time...

http://www.sissyfight.com - Hmmm... very silly

http://www.activeworlds.com/ - 3d Virtual Chat Worlds

http://www.globz.net - look for the crazy dancing flash games

http://www.avatarme.com - Get your face scanned in 3D for import into games eg: Quake etc.

http://www.nickelodeon.com.au - online presence of Pay TV csartoon channel

Colour Theory Sites

http://www.webdesignclinic.com/ezine/color.html - excellent resource for colour theory for web designers

http://www.shibuya.com/garden/colorpsycho.html - Good essay on the psychology of colour

http://www.bracknet.com/ess/Graphics/colourT.htm - Basic guide to principles of colour theory

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ - Click and point colour choosing tool - on the web for the web

http://www.abelard.org/colour/col-hi.htm - "alternative" thoeries of colour - good science facts about seeing

http://www.cyphen.com - nice design - stuff about colour

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au
/~pstagg/colourref/ - Colour Reference Tool

Designer's sites

http://www.apinchofsalt.co.uk - Nice UK designers own site

http://www.2advanced.com - "Bleeding Edge" design site - voted most popular at coolhomepages.com (the guy is 22yo)

http://www.superbad.com - Weird and wonderful Art web site - good scripting

http://www.superlooper.de/ - "Noice lookin soit, mite..." - groovy design - check out "eye candy" bits

http://www.solardesignart.com - two NY artists sell their wares online - jewellery and prints/paintings

http://www.copyrightdavis.com - Nice javascript-driven designer/artist portfolio

http://www.animallogic.com - The effects masters behind The Matrix and Babe

http://www.templar.com/ - Wonderful Flash cartoon interface - web agency

http://www.robotsandmonkeys.com - Excellent designers site - flash nav and content

http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk - You will cry... See both Version 1 and 2

Flash examples

http://www.flashkit.com - Flash developers resource

http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight3.htm - amazing Kung-Fu Flash movie (Japanese site)

http://www.digitaldeviants.com - A little large but interesting navigation

http://www.hazmatdiary.com - A Flash Web Novel - by Gorman Bechard

http://www.templar.com- Unique Flash navigation - stuffs up on IE 5 on Mac though..

http://juxtinteractive.com/ - Juxt Interactive - classy Flash web builders.

Search Engines

http://www.metacrawler.com/ - "Meta" search engine - searches multiple search engines

http://www.dogpile.com - Another Meta Search engine

http://www.google.com - Google (or Googol - actually the name of a large number - ten to the power of one hundred) - also a decent search engine

http://www.searchenginewatch.com - Watching the search engines..

Scripting Resources

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ - Matt's Free Scripts - free script resource

http://www.extropia.com - Open source web tech company - CGI and scripting resources and tutorials

http://infosyssec.com - web security, scripting, and more..

Miscellaneous

http://www.nickelodeon.com.au - Good kids site - cartoon interface

http://www.mcdonalds.co.nz - Yes, MacDonalds New Zealand - good kids site

http://www.mcdonalds.com.au - Yes, MacDonalds Australia - Very bad site...

http://www.3dcafe.com/ - 3D Cafe - Free 3D site- tutorials, resources, images etc.

http://www.cressida-goddard.com/
users/stevehapp/index.htm - Digital video site - fellow Hunter TAFE teacher Steve Happ

http://www.hungerfordhill.com.au - Highly original Javascript/CSS site