Julie Halitzka

Color

• Color palette creator v1.6.1

  Create Palettes with complimentary tones of the same color

• Color.org
  Create Palettes by sampling from an image.
• 18 Butterflies and their Color Palettes

Typography

• Mike Davidson — sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
  Flash Text automagically… nice!
• My Favorite Free Fonts, by Vukan Karadzic
  Very nice selection of free fonts

Image Sites

• Stock Exchange
• FREE icon sets

Image Tools

• CleVR » Panoramic photography and image stitching blog
  Online tool for stitching individual photos together to create VR images

Testing

• The W3C Markup Validation Service
  Validate your code!
• Mobile Web
  Test what web pages look like on a mobile phone.
• Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

  This is an installer that allows you to have multiple versions of IE on the same computer. Version number shows up in the toolbar. Very helpful for testing.

• Flash Switcher extension for Firefox
  Lets you test different versions of Flash on your flash content, with a firefox plugin.
• Safari for PC
  Yes, that’s right, the Safari browser is available for your PC now.

Articles and Research

• Reading on the Web (Alertbox)
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Learning Independence: New Approaches For Educating The Net Generation
• The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina

Scriptaculous and "Special Effects"

• eric hill » A Prototype and Scriptaculous primer for designers
  Why designers should care about this technology
• scriptaculous_fx1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  combination effects cheatsehhet
• dls_scriptaculous_cheat_sheet.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  script.aculo.us cheat sheet
• lightWindow Demo
  Will open ANY typ of file center, grey out background. SUPER cool. Used on the Design pages of this site
• Highslide
  
  Very nice, like this a little better than LightWindow, BUT, it costs $30 for commercial websites
• Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Lightbox image viewer 2.03
  AWESOME Photo Script
• try ruby! (in your browser)
  Try Ruby on Rails

CSS

• CSS Star Rating Redux » Blog » Komodo Media

  Star ratings for blog posts or other items, using CSS

• CSS Cheat Sheet
  Great printable cheatsheet for CSS coding
• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine
• My Top Ten CSS Tricks [CSS Tutorials]
  Highlights some great techniques, good explanations of where and why to use ‘em
• OverZone Software-CSS Tab Designer
  CSS tab design, super easy. Downloadable for windows.
• Mandarin Design: CSS Boxes and Borders
  CSS Image Borders
• Dynamic Drive CSS Library- Practical CSS codes and examples
  Lots of great CSS resources
• Layout Gala
  A collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
• Targeting IE Using Conditional Comments
• eduStyle || Inspiration for Campus Web Designers
  Education Sites done with CSS Design
• PHP: Style Changer | Mike’s Experiments | MikeCherim.com

  CSS Style Changer Script - NICE!

• Free CSS Navigation Menu Designs at exploding-boy.com
  CSS Tabs… NICE
  

Server Side Includes

• Server Side Includes Tutorial
  Server side includes are great for things like keeping the last updated date current. This is a very easy to follow tutorial on how to use them.

Multimedia

• Multimedia Training
  Web & Multimedia Basics. Aimed at Reporters, but a good resource for all.

Flash

• Drag and Drop flash exercises - Macromedia Flash - ReviseICT.co.uk

  How to create various types of Flash excercises

• Rich Chart Live - Home
  Create Animated Charts

Audio

• Flash MP3 Player
  Flash based MP3 player, name, length, album art, etc, OR simple player button.
• Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
  Great free audio editor.

RSS

• xFruits - Compose your information system
  RSS to anything, anything to RSS. Looks pretty sweet.
• Video: RSS in Plain English

  Very simple video explanation of what RSS is. from Common Craft - Social Design for the Web

• 42 Uses for RSS/Atom Feeds
  Long list of what you can do with RSS feeds.

Mapping

• Google Maps
• Atlas - Mapping for Online Publishers

Tools

• zSHARE - Free Image, Video, Audio, Flash and File Hosting
  Share files too big to email
• Zamzar - Free online file conversion
• Imagination Cubed
  Virtual Whiteboard
• Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
  Writeboard - text only, but with version tracking, edits by invitation.
• Letterpop
  Online newsletter creator. Very simple, great layouts. Give it a try. You can email or print your final creations.
• ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator - Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!
  Cartoon Strip creator, via drag and drop. Pretty cool.
• meebo me widget!
  Chat window embeddable in your webpage. Talk to other users, connects with many versions of popular IM software.
• Snap Shots
  Link Previews, specific to link type, from .mp3, to wikipedia, to the traditional screen shot.
• Google Scholar
  This is a super sweet search by google. It taps into
  University libraries, and allows auto-export of references into several
  tools. GREAT search.