how-to website development & design
Learning resource links for Web designers, developers, and entrepreneurs.
Community MX — "A collection of experts from around the world in all of the Macromedia [Adobe] products. We have combined forces to provide the most comprehensive content resource available. We don't think you will find the same quality or quantity of fresh new MX content anywhere else. We hope you will join us and make the community larger."
Lynda.com — "Helping you learn, master, and apply digital tools and techniques. Here at lynda.com, we believe in life-long learning. We believe that education is power, knowledge creates opportunity, and that technology should be accessible to everyone. Our goal is to make everything we know available to you to help reach your creative and career goals."
css Zen Garden — "There is clearly a need for CSS [Cascading Style Sheets] to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into [the home] page. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file. Yes, really."
NAPP — National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Adobe Kuler — "The web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project."
Webmaster Toolkit — ". . . after creating a fair number of online tools, it was decided that we should make the site public, so that other webmasters around the world would have access to them for free. The suite of free tools and resources offered continues to grow to this day, and we aim to offer something useful for the beginner to the advanced webmaster alike."
Google Sites — "Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share web pages."
iWeb — "Designing a web site may seem difficult, but with iWeb, it’s easily within your reach. Create your site using themes. Customize it with photos, movies, text, and widgets. Then publish to MobileMe [fee-based] or any other hosting service." [Apple Inc.]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — "The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. " The standards setting body of the Web. This site has the answer to everything to do with building and using the Web.
Zen Cart — "The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently."
Blogging — "A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary."
Create Your Blog Today TypePad
Social Networking in Plain English — YouTube Video — "A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular. This video comes in an unbranded "presentation quality" version that can be licensed for use in the workplace."
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