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Resources for Web Designers & Developers

Design

About Web Design
An excellent resource for web designers. Be sure to check out the tip of the day.

About Graphics Software
Learn more about graphics packages such as Photoshop, Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro, including where to obtain plug-ins for these programs.

About Web Clip Art
If you're looking for free clip art, this is the place!

Macromedia
The makers of my favorite web design tools, including Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.

Programming

UserActive
UserActive offers a complete online certificate program in web programming. Many of the courses are also available as free tutorials!

About HTML/XML
This site covers HTML and related technologies, including dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets and XML.

Focus on JavaScript
An good place to look if you need to grab a script to use on your pages.

About Perl/PHP
A useful reference for both Perl and PHP.

PHP.net
The official site of the PHP hypertext preprocessor.

MySQL
The official site of the MySQL database management system.

Search Engines

About Web Search
Learn how the search engines work and how to optimize your pages for better placement.

Web Hosting

HostPro
HostPro is one of the world's largest web hosts and offers a wide variety of packages. The site you're looking at now is hosted on a HostPro VServer.

UserActive
For full functionality at a low price, UserActive is hard to beat. All of their accounts include CGI access, and most include MySQL.

Books*

Webmaster in a Nutshell
Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein
Every web developer needs this reference book on his or her desk! Sections include HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, CGI/Perl, PHP, HTTP and Apache server configuration.

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Jakob Nielsen
This should be required reading for anyone involved in the Internet biz. I don't agree with everything Nielsen says, but he provides a great deal of food for thought.

Designing Web Graphics.3
Lynda Weinman
The title is a bit deceiving; this book covers all aspects of web design, not just creating graphics.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (second edition)
Håkon Wium Lie & Bert Bos
Written by the world authorities, this book is a must for anyone into CSS.

Dreamweaver 3 Bible
Fireworks 3 Bible
Joseph W. Lowery
Lowery's books are the most thorough references I've found for my two favorite web design tools.

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