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4/26/02

Brainstorms & Raves - This site will help you stay up-to-date with what's happening with web design & development, typography, music, and anything else. New articles are available "almost" daily. This site is associated with websitetips.com which is an excellent resources for web designers. There are articles written by the owners of the site, as well as, thousands of links to resources around the web.

Production Graphics w/Wendy Peck - Wendy's articles and tutorials at webreference.com are always enlightening and entertaining. She writes tutorials, tips, and articles about all of the popular graphics applications. I'm currently enjoying her article on how the "KISS" theory applies to Web Design.

Sitemeter - Sitemeter is a free site that tracks your web site statistics. All you have to do is sign up for a free account and place a small amount of HTML code on your web page (the code includes a small graphic that you must display on your site). Sitemeter will track the number of people who visit your site, who they were referred by, the country they're from, entry pages, exit page, the number of users currently visiting your site, and a lot of other helpful statistics. The free version will track the statistics for the last 100 visitors, the full version ($6.95/mo.) will track the last 1,000 visitors. There are lots of other free services for tracking site usage, here are a few: Extreme Tracking, NedStat, Web Stat, Site Tracker, Free Stats, and Go Stats. There is a list of additional free trackers at The Free Site. If that's not enough, just do a search on Google for "web site tracking" and you will find lots of resources.

4/24/02

Photoshop Workshop - This sites main attraction is the search engine that contains 550+ Photoshop tutorials. If you are looking for direction on how to create a particular look or effect in Photoshop, check this site first.

Jay Arraich Photography and Photoshop Tips - This site has beginners tutorials for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Formally called LE, this is the free version of Photoshop that comes bundled with new scanners). The tutorials are very basic and contain nice screen shots of the palettes and tools.

Photoshop Roadmap - A collection of tutorials around the web for Photoshop. This site also features links to Photoshop Plugins (add on tools that help you to create cool effects easily). There are also various downloads (presets, actions, and brushes), links to other sites, and book recommendations. Definitely worth a visit if you're looking for Photoshop help.

Planet Photoshop - Features daily tutorials for Photoshop, an active forum, and links. There are already tutorials for Photoshop 7 available!

4/19/02

Need to reformat your system; looking for drivers for that old printer? Check WinDrivers.com and DriverGuide.com. Computing.net is a great source for technical support. There are user forums for all operating system platforms. Bugnet.com is a huge database (1,500 software vendors) of known software bugs and fixes.

Page Resource - This is John Pollocks, author of JavaScript A Beginner's Guide, web site. There are HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CGI/Perl and web design articles/tutorials. John's book seems to be a favorite among many students in the web class, so you might want to check his site to see if you like his writing style before you purchase the book. The errata for the JavaScript A Beginner's Guide is also available.

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