These sites are for those interested in web design. They have a mix of layout and color discussions and techniques, they also have code samples. If you’re after a new”Web 2.0” look for your new site you’ll want to check these out.

http://css-tricks.com - A Web Designers community

http://speckyboy.com - A Web Design Site with lots of graphics and code

http://www.noupe.com - Web Design site

http://www.webdesignerwall.com - Web Designers Blog

http://www.smashingmagazine.com - An excellent resource for both developers and designers, one of my personal favorites!

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com - Another great resource for designers and developers of static and WordPress sites

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog - A blog for web designers

http://www.problogdesign.com - Web Designers Blog - also a good resource for coders

WordPress

The sites in this section are all about WordPress. There are tutorials and collections of WordPress themes to help enhance your WordPress site or blog.

http://wordpress.org/extend - The official WordPress site for Plugins and Themes

http://wordpressthemesbase.com - Free WordPress themes

http://topwpthemes.com - Free WordPress Themes

http://www.themes2wp.com - More Free WordPress Themes

http://www.wpthemespot.com - And More Free WordPress Themes

http://wordpressthemesforfree.com - Still More Free WordPress themes!

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/wordpress_create_theme.htm - A tutorial for creating your own WordPress Themes

http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial - Another Theme Building Tutorial

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/how-to-make-a-control-panel-for-your-wordpress-theme - How to make a Control Panel for your WordPress Theme

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks - Hacks for WordPress Themes

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress/110-massive-wordpress-video-tutorial-collection - A list of WordPress tutorials

Joomla

Joomla is a powerful and popular Open Source Content Management System (CMS). These sites help you learn and use Joomla to its full potential.

http://extensions.joomla.org - The Joomla Extensions library

http://docs.joomla.org - The official Joomla Documentation

http://www.joomla24.com - The best source for Joomla Templates

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-tutorials/joomla-template-tutorial - Joomla Template design tutorial

http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template - Joomla's own template design tutorial

http://www.joomlatutorials.com - A site dedicated to Joomla tutorials

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/ - Joomla tutorials

SEO

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a very important consideration when designing or upgrading a website. These sites offer advice on SEO, including a few articles on what NOT to do!

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291 - Google Webmaster Central SEO Resource

http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html - A collection of 136 SEO Tools

http://searchengineland.com/21-essential-seo-tips-techniques-11580 - SEO Tips

http://freelancefolder.com/10-top-seo-techniques - Top SEO Tips

http://www.seohu.com - A collection of SEO Tips and Resources

http://www.barrywise.com/2009/07/six-seo-techniques-which-will-destroy-your-website - How NOT to do SEO (or things to avoid!)

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/bad-seo-techniques-that-will-hurt-your-google-rankings/7065 - Another article about Bad SEO Techniques

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/seo/articles/flash_seo_videos.html - SEO Techniques for Flash-based websites

Accessibility

Accessibility is very important in website design, it’s the art of constructing a site that can be used by individuals with visual handicaps. It’s not only the right thing to do, in some countries (including the United States) it is or soon will be a legal requirement.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php - An introduction to Web Accessibility

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/html.html#H2 -The W3 Guide to accessibility techniques

http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/accessweb.html - An Accessibility Checklist from IBM

http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/basics.shtml - The Basics of Web Accessibility

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/accessibility/assistance/wi - A downloadable tool from Fujitsu for testing websites for accessibility - Windows and Mac versions

http://www.wat-c.org - The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

http://accessites.org/site/2007/01/practical-entry-level-web-accessibility - A beginner’s guide to Web Accessibility

Marketing

Obviously for Internet Marketers there is no more important subject than Marketing! This is a small collection of marketing resources that you’ll find available on the Internet.

http://www.marketingbullets.com/archive.htm - A few marketing tips

http://www.marketingprofs.com - A site for marketing professionals

http://www.internetmarketing.com - The Internet Marketing Center

http://www.freeinternetmarketingcourses.com - Cody Moya's Internet Marketing courses - some of it is a bit dated but there are some good ones here

http://www.iimaonline.org - International Internet Marketing Association

http://www.conversationmarketing.com - Internet Marketing Strategies

http://internetmarketingformommies.com - Beginners Internet Marketing Strategies

Graphics

These websites provide online graphics tools and utilities. Graphics are an important part of website design, and these sites make it easy to display professional images on your site.

http://www.generateit.net/reflection/index.htm - Create an Image Reflection

http://www.mylivesignature.com - Create a signature graphic

http://cooltext.com - Create Logos and Buttons online

http://www.billsgames.com/webfx - A web-based Graphics Effects tool

http://www.allaboutyourownwebsite.com/free_graphics.shtml - Free clipart and backgrounds

http://www.flamingtext.com - Online Logo tool

http://www.3dtextmaker.com/image_editor.html - Create 3D text

http://www.animationonline.com - Create animated banners

http://www.crecon.com/newbanners.html - Create banners

http://www.dvdsmiles.com/Default.aspx?Content=ConvertImage - Online Image Conversion - change images from one format to another

http://fotoflexer.com - Online Photo Editor

http://gickr.com - Upload images and create animated GIF's

http://www.instantizer.com - Make a "Polaroid Style" image from your photos, with a border

http://www.coolarchive.com/logogenerator.php - Another online Logo generator

http://www.lookwow.com - Free online photo enhancer

http://www.myimager.com - An online Image Editor

http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk - A different tool, this is a 'Face Transformer". It lets you change the appearance of a persons face!

http://www.picnik.com - A very popular picture editor

http://www.piccyfix.com - Another online picture editor

http://www.pikipimp.com - "pimp" your images by adding objects to them!

http://quickthumbnail.com - Resize you images and add watermarks to them

Scripts

Scripts written in PHP or JavaScript can give your website enhanced functionality. This is a small collection of free scripts that you can use on your site.

http://www.nowsell.com/pop-ups/pop-under-scripts.html - JavaScript Pop-Under Scripts

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=common/home - Open Source Shopping Cart

http://www.vtubetools.com - Customize YouTube Embedded Video settings

http://screencastprofits.com/youtube - Customize YouTube Embedded Video settings

http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/embed-a-free-flash-mp3-player-on-your-blog - a Flash MP3 Player

http://www.scripts.com - A large collection of scripts in every language

http://www.hotscripts.com - The Internets largest scripts collection

http://gscripts.net - A collection of PHP scripts

http://www.phpjunkyard.com - Another PHP script collection, as well as links to PHP resources

Services

These websites provide free services that you can use when designing your new site.

http://oa4.biz - URL Shortener

http://myfreecopyright.com - Digital Copyright Generator

http://disclosurepolicy.org - Generate a Disclosure Policy

http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=coldfusion.privacypolicy -Privacy Policy Generator

http://www.dslreports.com/tools - Test your Internet bandwidth & Speed

http://validator.w3.org - Validate your HTML code

Desktop Software

The final section of the Invaluable Links List is desiccated to software that you can download and use on your computer. The majority of the software here is free, but there is also mention of some commercial programs as well. As a convenience it is divided into categories for you.

Desktop Software – Screen Video Capture

Software that records your computer screen. Very useful for creating tutorials and instructional videos.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp - Camtasia Studio, the premier screen capture software

http://camstudio.org - An open-source screen recorder

http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack.aspx?cc=true - Screen Recorder software, the Lite version is free if you register

http://www.debugmode.com/wink - A screen recorder that does an excellent job for interactive tutorials

Desktop Software – Screen Image Capture

These programs capture pictures of your desktop, or areas of your desktop. Very useful for creating instruction manuals and tutorials.

http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp - Snagit, the best Screen Print capture software for Windows

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html - Free print screen capture software

http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm - Another free print screen capture program, also has more advanced commercial versions

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html - Mouser Screenshot capture, free after registering

http://www.easy-capture.com - Another free screen print capture utility

http://www.jingproject.com - Screen capturing and recording for Windows and Mac

Desktop Software – Text Editors

Text Editors allow you to edit text and code files. If you’re still using Notepad to edit scripts it’s time you updated!

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm - Notepad ++ Text Editor

http://notepad-x.sourceforge.net - An advanced Notepad replacement for Windows

http://www.jedit.org - A Java-based text editor that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux

http://www.pspad.com - My favorite text editor

http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit - A sophisticated code editor

Desktop Software – HTML Editors

These editors provide a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface for building web pages.

http://www.kompozer.net - Kompozer WYSIWYG HTML Editor

http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor - Coffee Cup WYSIWYG HTML Editor

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html - Web browser and Web Authoring Environment

http://www.trellian.com/webpage - Trellian Webpage Designer

http://www.aptana.org/studio - Aptana Studio web application development IDE

http://netbeans.org/features/ide/index.html - NetBeans Java IDE

Desktop Software – Graphics Programs

Graphics programs allow you to create and edit images. Anyone serious about working on the Internet will need at least one of these.

http://www.gimp.org - GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program - a "poor mans Photoshop" (sort of!)

http://www.getpaint.net - Paint.NET, free graphics utility

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus - Photo Plus, free and paid versions for photo editing

http://picasa.google.com - Google Picassa photo editing software

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php - Photoscape free photo editing software

http://www.photopos.com - Photo Pos Pro, a free photo editor - also a number of other free graphics products

http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html - XNView, a great photo editor that is free for non-commercial use

Desktop Software – FTP Client Programs

FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol. You will use an FTP Client Program to exchange files between your computer and your website.

http://filezilla-project.org - FileZilla free FTP Client - also a free FTP server

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php - WinSCP, a fee FTP client (my personal favorite)

http://www.coreftp.com - CORE FTP LE, free FTP client

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty - PuTTY, everyone’s favorite SSH and Telnet client (if you have no idea what that is then you don't need it!)

Desktop Software – Flash Video (FLV) Players

Flash Video or FLV files are very popular, but the Windows Media Player won’t play them. These free players will allow you to play FLV files on your computer.

http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/index.php - Applian Free FLV Player

http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player - Free FLV Player

http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html - Desktop FLV Player for Windows or Mac

http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer - Swiff Player FLV Player

Desktop Software – Video Editors

Video Editors allow you to edit video files and save them in different formats.

http://www.videospin.com/Redesign - VideoSpin free Video Editor

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux - Avdemux free video editor

http://www.squared5.com - MPEG Streamclip video convertor, player and editor for Windows and Mac

http://www.virtualdub.org - VirtualDub Video capture and processing software

http://www.cinefx.org/downloads - CineFX Video players, convertors and editors

Desktop Software – Audio Editors

An Audio Editor will let you clean up or adjust sound files. A bi like having your own recording studio!

http://audacity.sourceforge.net - Audacity open source Sound Editor

http://www.wavosaur.com - Wavosaur free sound editor

http://www.experimentalscene.com/software/darkwave-studio - DarkWave Studio digital audio workstation

Desktop Software – Archive Utilities

Archive Utilities allow you to deal with compressed files like ZIP, RAR and GZ files..

http://www.7-zip.org - 7 ZIP file archiver, my favorite!

http://peazip.sourceforge.net - Pea ZIP, another free archiver available for Windows or Linux

http://www.tugzip.com - TugZIP file archiver

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