Web Design Workshop: Resource Links from the book

Web Design Workshop resources

Design and production:

Find lots of great books at www.Peachpit.com

ForDesigners.com (from FontHaus)

Web Page Design for Designers: www.wpdfd.com

Lynda Weinman's site: www.lynda.com

A great site for a variety of web design and development stuff: WebMonkey.com

HTML: HTML4 for the World Wide Web, Visual Quickstart Guide,
by Elizabeth Castro

Go to Google.com and search for "web design" or "web design tutorial"
(with quotes)

Definitions of computer and some web design jargon: www.whatis.com

New designers and web designers:

The Non-Designer's Design Book

The Non-Designer's Type Book

The Non-Designer's Web Book

Robin Williams Design Workshop

For technical information, check with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to read the latest happenings with web stuff: www.w3c.org.

Fonts:

There are, of course, many other sources for fonts, but these are some of our favorites.

EyeWire.com

Find the EyeWire TypeViewer at www.eyewire.com/resources/typeviewer

Try Galapagos Design Group at www.galapagosdesign.com for cool stuff including picture fonts we love such as Backyard Beasties and Fontoonies, which we’ve also used in other books and scattered throughout this site on the linked example pages (sample). Click around some of the buttons on the examples and see what you find.

Myfonts.com: browse for and buy fonts. This has a free feature called WhatTheFont. If you’re having trouble identifying a font, scan a few key characters and upload the scan to WhatTheFont. They will try to identify the font for you.

GarageFonts.com

LetterPerfect at LetterSpace.com offers beautiful and unique type designs.

t26.com

P22.com

FontHaus.com

This is a resource for all the free fonts that are available as downloadable files from the Internet:
The Font Fairy at www.printerideas.com/fontfairy

Fonts specifically designed to be used on the web as aliased text at small sizes:

Web Page Design for Designers at www.wpdfd.com

Atomic Media at www.atomicmedia.net

Dynamic fonts:

Bitstream's WebFont Wizard technology and fonts at www.truedoc.com

Microsoft's web embedding font tool at www.microsoft.com/typography,
look for "weft"

Clipart and stock images:

www.FotoSearch.com has nearly one million images from 90 vendors, all at one site without any browsing fees, sign-up fees, or browsing restrictions. The site provides an advanced search feature to narrow your search results.

ArtBitz, the Designer's Stock resource, at www.artbitz.com

Clipper, from Dynamic Graphics, Inc., at www.dgusa.com

EyeWire.com

Veer.com

The Bettman Archives are now owned by Bill Gates.
Find them at Corbis.com.

Free stock images:

EyeWire.com (some)

List management

Go to Google.com and search for "list management" (with quotes)

Chat rooms and guest books:

For free solutions, go to Google.com and search for "chat rooms" (with quotes)

Flash

Macromedia at www.macromedia.com/support/flash

Flash deployment kit at www.macromedia.com/support/flash/player/flash_deployment_readme/

Colin Moock's site at www.moock.org/moockmarks and www.moock.org/webdesign/flash

Also check out Lynda Weinman's classes at www.lynda.com

LiveMotion

Free trial version download at www.adobe.com/products/livemotion/tryreg.html

E-commerce:

Low-cost, pre-fab solutions:

The Yahoo Store at store.yahoo.com

PayPal.com

Purchase secure certificates from any of the places listed below:

Equifax equifaxsecure.com

VeriSign verisign.com (they also do credit card processing)

Thawte thawte.com

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Manila from UserLand at UserLand.com

Vignette CMS at Vignette.com

Atomz at www.atomz.com/services/atomz_publish

DHTML:

WebReference at WebReference.com/dhtml

Dynamic Drive at DynamicDrive.com

XML:

XMLresources.com

IBM information: www.software.ibm.com/developer/education/xmlintro/xmlintro.html

The XML Cover Page: www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html

W3C architecture domain: w3c.org/xml

To learn how to program with XML and also take advantage of those related technologies, get Elizabeth Castro’s book: XML for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide at www.peachpit.com.

PHP:

PHP web site: www.php.net.

Developer Shed DevShed.com

Zend at Zend.com

LinuxWorld at LinuxWorld.com (idg.net)

PHP for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, by Larry Ullman

ASP:

Microsoft at www.asp.net

Java:

The Java Directory at Developer.com; search for “java” on the web.

Sun MicroSystems at java.sun.com

JavaScript:

A Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript at JavaScriptGuide.com

Matt's Script Archive at WorldWideMart.com/scripts

WebReference at WebReference.com/js

JavaScript.com

JavaScript.Internet.com

JavaScriptSource.com

WebCoder.com

WebReference.com/javascript/

Developer.com; search for "javascript"

SVG:

For demos, examples, and information, see Adobe.com/svg

The World Wide Web Consortium at w3c.org/Graphics/SVG

SVGmagic.com

For a demonstration of the scalability and panning feature, as used in a CAD program, visit the CAD Standard web site: www.cadstd.com/svg.

Also see John's demo in this site: VirtualLastChapter.com

Cascading style sheets:

DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, by Jason Teague

Virtual Training Company at www.vtco.com.
You can use many of their training videos for GoLive CSS (in streaming QuickTime format) on Adobe’s GoLive site for free.

The World Wide Web Consortium has up-to-date CSS information, links, and book recommendations at www.w3c.org.

Scripts (CGI and others)

The CGI Resource Index at www.cgi-resources.com offers lots of CGI related information, including ready-made scripts.

For an introduction to CGI, visit The Common Gateway Interface site at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi.

Matt’s Script Archive, Inc. at www.WorldWideMart.com/scripts is a great resource for
CGI scripts.

Site mapping software

Inspiration at www.Inspiration.com (available for Mac and Windows)

Visio at www.microsoft.com/office/visio (Windows only)

Alternative browsers:

Opera (Mac, Windows, Linux, and others)

iCab (Mac only)

Omniweb (Mac OS X only)

Search engine information:

SearchEngineWatch.com

SearchTools.com

Search Engines for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner

Add a search feature on your web site:

Atomz at www.atomz.com

FreeFind at www.freefind.com

SiteLevel at intra.whatuseek.com

MondoSearch at www.mondosearch.com

PicoSearch at www.picosearch.com

SearchButton at www.searchbutton.com

SiteMiner at www.siteminer.com

Webinator at www.webinator.com

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