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GD 222 Flash Web Animation - Spring, 2008
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http://www.cuyamaca.edu/jeff.sale/gd222/
Web Development Resources
(Thanks to Jodi Reed, for originally assembling this list. I have updated it as needed for this course.)

BACKGROUND	Internet Basics & Reference Sites, Shopping
GENERAL	General Sites for Web Authors, Web Courses, Career Information, Professional Organizations
ANALYSIS	Information Architecture, Cuyamaca Student work
DESIGN	General Style Guides, Screen Design, Content Design, Color Design, Fonts
AUTHORING	Web Authoring (HTML, CSS, etc.), Dreamweaver, FrontPage
GRAPHICS PRODUCTION	General Information, Fireworks, Photoshop, Scanning, Clip Art, Digital Photography
MULTIMEDIA	Animation, Sound, Video, Streaming Media
WEB PROGRAMMING	General Information, CGI Script Libraries, JavaScript, ASP. PERL, Database Integration
IMPLEMENTATION	Web Hosting, Marketing, shopping carts
EVALUATION	Site Evaluation and optimization, usability, site redesign, browser differences, statistics

Background
Internet Basics & Reference Sites Web101 Glossary whatis.com How Web servers and the Internet Work TechWeb Tech Encyclopedia Bandwidth Meter Data Powers of Ten Spam & spyware Ad-Aware - free utility Spybot Search and Destroy - free utility AVG Anti-Virus - Free edition	Shopping: Books and Software Gradware JourneyEd CampusTech San Diego Technical Books Amazon Campusbooks BookPool CNET Computershopper
General
Sites for Web Authors webmonkey BUILDER.COM HTML Goodies webreference Blackstump Webmaster Resources Internet World 123webmaster.com Developer.com A List Apart CSS Crib Sheet CSS Zen Garden Eric Meyer Web Site Project Seven Tutorials World Wide Web Consortium Web AIM - Web Accessability In Mind Page Resource (tutorials) Digital Web	Certification Brainbench Career Information Industry trends Web jobs and salaries Professional Organizations World Organization of Webmasters
Analysis
Information Architecture Squishy's Crash Course in Information Architecture
Design
General Some Random Dude Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide Hot Tips - Design from Webmonkey Web Page Design for Designers Ten Good Deeds in Web Design Recipe for a Successful Website Design & Publishing Center design resources Design Principles Screen Design CARP design principles Webmonkey Type Articles Logo Design Logo Design articles Create your own browser icon (shows in favorites list) Gary Dickson reflects on designing logos LogoBee Top 10 Logo Design Tips SOS 10 Tips for Logo Design 99 Designs design competition web site	Content Design Good Documents - tips for writing that will be read on-screen Writing for the Web - a concise set of tips Color Design Color Theory Color Scheme Generator - shows harmonious colors based on color wheel Color Gallery Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design - Interactive Flash experience that explains color design Color Links from websitetips.com Graphics and Palettes from Web Page Design for Designers Fonts FontEmpire.com myfonts.com
Authoring
Macromedia Dreamweaver Official Dreamweaver support page Adobe Exchange Massimo's Corner Yaromat's Dreamweaver Extensions DWFile.com Dreamweaver FAQ.com Dreamweaver Database Tricks WebThang - tutorials for Guestbook, Online Poll, Login & Redirect, and more!	HTML, XHTML W3 Schools HTML Tutorial HTML Source CSS W3School CSS Tutorial Style Master CSS Tutorial CSS Zen Garden CSS / Edge CSS Playground CSSShark Navbar example Real World Style The Layout Reservoir Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial House of Style A List Apart - CSS topics CSS for small screens Position is Everything How to Create CSS Menus
Graphics Production
General Production Graphics Web Graphics Book CoolText - online tool for creating simple title and button graphics Copy Safe - protects your images Fireworks Adobe's Fireworks Fireworks video demos by yours truly Photoshop Adobe Photoshop CBT Cafe Mark's Photoshop tips Photoshop tips from Adobe 20 Photoshop Tips Photoshop tips Photoshop Crash Course Free Photoshop Plugins	Clip Art Microsoft Clip Gallery Realm Graphics Set City Geek Philosopher FreeFoto Background Archives Animation Factory Clip Art Connection Barry's Clip Art AltaVista Photo Finder Amazing Picture Machine Web Graphics 3000 Millanimations Scanning A Few Scanning Tips Scanning 101 from Webmonkey
Multimedia Production
Animation Animation Tutorial My First GIF Animation Flash Links	Sound soundamerica.com Sound Files Tutorial from webTeacher MP3 tutorial MP3 - Webmonkey Radio Video Movie Files Tutorial from webTeacher (multimedia section) How to Add Video to Your Site
Web Programming
General Information Webmonkey programming articles Server-Side Scripting Shootout compares ASP, ColdFusion, Perl, and PHP XML.com Wrox Programmer to Programmer Script Libraries and Tools Dynamic Drive - DHTML scripts Atomz free search tool JavaScript Source Dynamic Drive - DHTML to copy and paste JavaScript JavaScript Primer Beginners JavaScript Tutorial - from Internet.com JavaScript Crash Course from Webmonkey JavaScript.com Active Server Pages 15 Seconds activeserverpages.com	Database Integration Your First Database SQL Tutorial Perl Good Definition of Perl CGI programming 101 ActivePerl -- free Perl with installer for Windows Using Perl with Microsoft Personal Web Server on Windows 95/98 Learning Perl, by R.L. Schwartz, is published by O'Reilly Intro to Perl for CGI from Webmonkey Configuring and Testing a PERL Script with Internet Information Server (IIS) The ABC's of CGI - tutorial on creating CGI's using Perl. Tom Christiansen's Perl Language Home Page perlWWW CGI.pm - library to help handle form input Search utilities freefind
Implementation
Website Promotion How Does Google Figure out What Pages are More Relevant? and Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank How to Attract Visitors to Your Website Search Engine Watch - see How Search Engines Work Webmonkey's e-business page-- advertising, marketing, and more Web Statistics - how is the Web growing? Market Research on the Web	ISP's and Web Servers Webhosting.com is SBC's WEb hosting service Web Tactics Inc. - company of student Paul Rios offers hosting, domains, DSL, PC repair, etc. Ask for student discount! Free Web Server Space Tripod, GeoCities, NetFirms, and Bizland offer free Web hosting services Domain Name Buyers Guide DomainSurfer Shopping Carts shopping-cart-reviews.com
Evaluation
Site Evaluation and Usability Usability Guidelines Jakob Nielsen's Usability site -- see Current Issues in Web Usability and e-commerce Usability article Test Your Designs - on People! W3C HTML Validator - enter your URL to find HTML errors Web Page Purifier - see how your page looks when viewed by browsers supporting different versions of HTML OptiView - evaluates your graphic file compression Webmonkey Radio interview: Usability Testing Walk-Through A Usability Experiment Usability On The Web Isn't A Luxury Guerrilla usability Site Optimization Site Optimization Tutorial Anatomy of a Redesign from webmonkey	Browsers install multiple versions of Internet Explorer so you can test Why Browsers Haven't Standardized from webmonkey Sizing up the Browsers Will Browsers Ever Not Suck Statistics thecounter.com stats (Browser, color depth, OS, etc.) Hitbox StatMarket's Browser Stats from websidestory shows what users use (monitors, browsers, etc.) BrowserWatch - Stats Station

Jeff Sale

E-mail:	jeff.sale (at) gcccd.edu
Phone:	619-660-4000
Fax:	619-660-4399

Graphic Design, Cuyamaca College
You may also reach me at jsale37 (at) gmail.com

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Background

Internet Basics & Reference Sites

Spam & spyware

Shopping: Books and Software

General

Sites for Web Authors

Certification

Career Information

Professional Organizations

Analysis

Information Architecture

Design

General

Screen Design

Logo Design

Content Design

Color Design

Fonts

Authoring

Macromedia Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver Database Tricks

HTML, XHTML

CSS

Graphics Production

General

Fireworks

Photoshop

Clip Art

Scanning

Multimedia Production

Animation

Sound

Video

Web Programming

General Information

Script Libraries and Tools

JavaScript

Active Server Pages

Database Integration

Perl

Search utilities

Implementation

Website Promotion

ISP's and Web Servers

Shopping Carts

Evaluation

Site Evaluation and Usability

Site Optimization

Browsers

Statistics