Web Resources

Web Design Discussion Lists
discussion groups to network with & get help from other Web developers worldwide

• Long Island Web Developers Guild:   Yes, we have our own list and it leads you to a wonderful resource of mostly Long Island based Web designers and programmers.
• Long Island ColdFusion Users Group:   The Long Island ColdFusion User Group is designed to provide ColdFusion developers across Long Island a common meeting place for social, educational, and networking opportunities. Monthly meetings will be held on the second to last Wednesday of each month at Briarcliffe College in Bethpage.
• World Wide Web Artists Consortium:   NYC org. w/ "spirited" discussion list...good leads on "local" job opportunities
• HTML Writers Guild:   a number of different lists targeting specific topics in Web site development
• WebMonster:   a wonderful resource...great place for site critiques from peers...be prepared for high volume
• Spiderwoman:   primarily a woman-space, but not exclusively...very supportive & helpful
• Hesketh.com Webdesign-L (formerly Digital Aspect)
• BBEdit:   a discussion list run by the folks at Bare Bones themselves...so you get answers right from the developers' mouth
• Photoshop:   need to know how to create that special effect...you'll find the answer here

Tips from Noteworthy Designers
some opinionated guides to good design for the WWW

• Creativepro.com Creativepro.com is the place where creative professionals go for information and tools needed to get real work done every day. Go to creativepro.com to discover new creative - products, companies, services, etc. Research them, buy them, update them and find out how to get the most out of them - all in one place.
• Web Page Design for Designers:   from Joe Gillespie (aka Pixel Productions)
• The Design & Publishing Center:   Photoshop Tips & Tricks...and now publishing Web Design & Review
• Project Cool Web Developer Zone
• Jeffrey Zeldman:   Web tools, tips, & commentary
• Web Pages that Suck:   learn good design by looking at bad design
• Lynda Weinman's Web Design Books:   from the Homegurrl who wrote "THE" books
• The Bandwidth ConservationSociety:   When it comes to Web graphics, smaller IS better
• more to come...

Graphics Utilities

• Netscape palette with hexadecimal numbers
  grab this GIF and load it into your browser or Photoshop when you need a Web safe color or a hexadecimal code.
• Color Picker - converts hex to RGB or vice-versa. Just enter the values and click. Check it out...
• Non-dithering Web safe 216 CLUT
  that's Color Look Up Table! -- replace your Photoshop swatches with this Web safe palette either from
  • Adobe or
  • Lynda Weinman (you want her bclut2.aco file)

Javascript

• JavaScript Tip of the Week
  this archive is a collection of 30 coding tips with complete source code, working examples, and commentary from the amazing Nick Heinle. JTotW is no longer being updated, and Nick now writes for WebCoder.
• WebCoder.com
  Nick Heinle's home for Javascript and Dynamic HTML on the Web. Now with an accompanying book, Designing with Javascript
• Doc JavaScript
  bi-weekly column on JavaScript at WebReference
• Danny Goodman
  by the author of the bestselling "Danny Goodman's JavaScript Handbook," now in its 2nd edition and covering all the new features of Netscape 3.0, and compatibility details for Internet Explorer 3.0.
• The Javascript Workshop
  supporting Laura Lemays' book, Web Workshop: Javascript

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