30
September
2007
Links
Here is a collection of links that I visit often and find useful for the Designer/Programmer/Graphic Artist:
Digital Art:
- CGSociety - Society of Digital Artists - a must-visit community for digital artists
- ConceptArt - community of digital and traditional artists with specialties in illustrating
- The Gnomon Workshop - Professional Training DVDs
- Adobe Magazine for Creative Professionals - free magazine from adobe in PDF format
- Image * After - free images you can legally use in both personal and commercial projects
- Morgue File - more free images you can legally use in both personal and commercial projects
- Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources -great list of sites with freely available images
- Imagine FX - UK-based magazine on digital art, occasionally has free articles and resources
- PSDTuts - tutorials for photoshop, sister site of Freelance Switch
- Illustrator Techniques Forum - afairly recent forum to discuss everything Illustrator
3D Graphics:
- Area - Autodesk community site
- Pixologic - creators of ZBrush
- ZBrushCentral- ZBrush community site
Freelancing:
- Freelance Switch - great resource/community for freelancers
- Scriptlance - bid on freelance job
Web Design:
- XHTML Validation - make sure your XHTML is solid
- CSS Validation - check your CSS while you’re at it!
- CSS Cheatsheet - excellent reference if you have trouble remembering all that CSS
- CSS, Accessibility, and Standards Links - links to various CSS resources
- Kuler - Adobe’s Flash-based color picker
Web Programming:
- W3 Schools - excellent resource for learning a variety of web-based programming languages
- PHP - a server side scripting language
- PHP Freaks - good PHP tutorials, news, and forums
- ASP.NET - another server side scripting language
- Dev Shed - great tutorials and forums for programmers
- SitePoint - good articles on a variety of web topics
Upcoming Technologies:
- Microsoft Silverlight - browser based graphics similar to Flash
- Adobe Flex - allows you to developed Rich Internet Applications based on Flash
- Adobe Spry - framework for Ajax that lets you work with XML, JSON, or HTML data as well as providing interesting transition effects