DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING  

Digital Scrapbook Pages
Digital Scrapbook Previews


FONTS  


The Scriptorium

Fontitude
Robyn's Fonts
Catscape
House of Lime
(Dingbats!)


Fontasy

Ann-S-Thesia's Dingbat Cave
Fontennium
Paul Lloyd Fonts
Mannfred Klein

FLASH RESOURCES


Designs by Mark . . . Flash tutorials, easy stuff to do.
Flash Easy . . . affordable, readytowear Flash websites.
FlashKit . . . one of the best Flash portals:  tons of tutorials and downloadable shared files.
EverMon . . Lotsa free stuff to make your Flash movies better.
Eyeland.com . . . Home of the Flash Foundry, a membership based Flash resource I use just about every day.  About the best Flash value online.
BigShotMedia . . . fabulous Flash animations and animated backgrounds.

IMAGE COLLECTIONS    

Eyewire
Comstock Images
ImageDJ
Direct Image

Free Images
Freefoto.com
IStockPhot.com
PixPics
ArtBitz

GENERAL WEBSITE DESIGN RESOURCES


The Webmaster's Den
. . .
A searchable directory of Internet resources and tools for web masters. Includes resources like programming, web design, promotion, affiliates, tutorials and many other useful webmaster resources.
I-Frame Specifications
. . .
Specifications for creating scrolling inline text frames.
Using I-Frame Elements . . .
how to create transparent, stacking, movable text frames within an html page.
Internetstats.com . . .
Uptodate statistics on browser usage, resolution, advertising stats, demographic trends on the Internet, basically everything you need to know about who is going to see your website.
Web Reference . . . everything - and I mean everything - you might want to know about site development: Java, javascript, graphics tutorials, site promotion, hosting, e-commerce. Check here, for sure.
The Beginner's Page . . . There can be no substitute for learning the basics of html and page design and this is as kindly an introduction as I have found.
The ABCs of HTML . . . ditto. Without the basic grasp of the html language, you will not even be able to ask questions in an intelligent way so that someone could help you troubleshoot your designs. Learn html. Learn html.
The Webdesign Clinic . . . learn the basics of page design and html!
Dr. HTML . . . learn more html or your life will be full of anguish.
Efuse.com . . . the basics of general webpage design for beginners, with a strong focus on NetObjects Fusion.
ZDnet . . . Everything you need to know about webpage design, and promotion. Also has several invaluable online utilities, such as GifBot, which will beautifully squeeze unnecessary pixels out of your graphics.
Personal Webpage Guide at About.com . . . an excellent archive of guides to html and webpage creation in general.
Bobbie Peachy's About.com Guide to ClipArt . . . A reeeeeally vast guide to clipart and graphics for building personal pages.
Ann-S-Thesia's Full-Border Background Tutorial . . . this is the best place to learn how to use nested tables to achieve thelook of a full bordered page.
HitBox.com: Browser Comparison Chart . . . gives you a visual view of the features supported by each browser type and version.
WebsiteTips.com . . . tons and tons of tutorials and links on html, dhtml, site design in general, Flash, graphics . . . everything but everything.

ONLINE UTILITIES

FlamingText.com . . . Create hundreds of great text effects right online.
Hype's Color Specifier for Navigator

Picture Dicer . . . I couldn't live without it. Free download of an essential program which dices up your images and spits them out in html code.
The Frameshop . . . a great online utility where you can put in your frame parameters and out comes the frame code! Very useful for learning the how-to's of frames.
Tablemaker. . . from the generous provider of The Frameshop, this online utility will create tables for you as well as tutoring you in table html. This is a great way to master the mysteries of the indespensable nested tables.
Hosted Scripts . . . This is a free service (in return for their advertising banners, of course) which will provide guestbooks, drop down navigation menus, password protection, counters, trackers, page redirects, mailing lists, search engines . . . FREE!
ColorSchemer . . . plug in a color value and Color Schemer will provide you with a perfect pallette.
Rollover Effect Coder . . . an online service of Eyeland Studios which will help you create javascript code for button rollover effects.

TUTORIALS OF ALL KINDS


PhotoShop


Stewart Studio . . .
Lots of interface elements and tutorials on those cool interface effects you see everywhere.
Team Photoshop . . . Verrry comprehensive tutorials, beginning with the basic tools, to text effects, and on through the most sophisticated image manipulation.
Eyes on Design . . . Really great and clearly explained PhotoShop tutorials.
Designs By Mark . . . a GREAT collection of tutorials in Flash as well as PhotoShop. Any aspiring webdesigner should check out these resources.
Eyeball Design . . . my top favorite photoshop & interface tutorials!  The new tutorials are KILLER!!!!
My Janee's PhotoShop Tutorials List . . . the biggest list of PhotoShop resources I ever saw.
How to Draw & Paint Hair . . . one of the best tutorials for hair I've seen yet; really explains digital hair.
Mystical Modality:  Painting Hair & Cloth in PhotoShop . . . dontcha want to be able to have realistic hair and flowing folds of cloth?
Creative Dust Hair & Cloth Tutorials . . . the most beautiful hair and clothing . . . the kind of hair you will see in  Boris Vallejo paintings.  I always go for LUSH.  And he has GREAT tutorials explanations.  The tutorials alone are entertaining.

Paint Shop Pro

Designs by Joy . . . Tutorial Wonderland . . . lots of "getting started" tutorials for Paint Shop Pro.
Top Ten Questions Asked About Paint Shop Pro . . . this is an invaluable little resources where you can get some quick but detailed answers to basic questions like "how can I make my image transparent?".
Robin's Paint Shop Pro Resources . . . a vast link listing of ALL the Paint Shop Pro tutorials in the universe.
Pinoy7 . . . one of the best sets of PSP tutorials I have yet seen. You know all those effects and techniques for PhotoShop? They can be done just as well and more easily in PaintShopPro and here is page of tutorials to prove it.
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials . . . a list of all the Paint Shop Pro tutorials in the known universe.
Web Graphics on a Budget . . . marvellous tutorials for Paint Shop Pro and Blade Pro and some very nice websets. I have personally benefited by the tutorials here.

Poser

Daz3D . . . This is the place to start to aquire your Poser models, clothing, textures, props, tips & tricks.
Strike a Pose Textures
. . . textures for Poser and a tutorial for applying textures to Poser models.
Renderosity . . . every imaginable tutorial and tons-o-downloads for textures, models, and poses to use with Poser.  this is my all-time favorite for a 3-D portal and store.
RDNA . . . great store for Poser models and textures . . . also has busy forums with lotsa links and advice for modelling 3-D characters and scenes.

Interface Design 

Anders Quicker . . . GRRREAT interface design tips.
Eyeball Designs . . . Some terrific examples of interface design and generous tutorials, too.

 

JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, DHTML


Cool Focus . . . lots and lots of Java navigation and presentation applets at bargain prices. One of the best things about this site is that you can purchase the applets individual (for about $10-$15) OR in a package. Also has Java driven guestbooks, counters, and a host of other applications for the professional designer.
OpenCube . . . This is one of the best resources for robust Java applets for presentations (slide shows, scrollers) and navigation (infinitely expanding tree menus, drop down menus) . . . the hefty registration fee insures great tech support, which you will need because these applets take some definite configuration sweat. These are the applets I use on my own websites.
Anfy Java . . . I love these applets for their image effects. This is where I got the water applets and hue rotator applet I use myself. Freeware, with a $25 registration fee, per domain, to activate the clickable link feature.
CodeBrain.com . . . tons of Java applets and scrolling effects and great animated image galleries.
Dynamic Drive
The Javascript Source
Javascripts at Earthweb
HTML Guru . . . a great resource for learning DHTML. If you are interested in expanding your skills in interactive design, this site will make your day.

BLADEPRO

NKDesigns . . . Now this lady has some Blade Pro presets unlike any I have ever seen.  Grrrreat textures and tons of 'em.  Reeeally nice presets.  Look in her "Treasure Trove" section.
Aesthetic Webcreations . . . Blade Pro Tutorials and Tips
State of Entropy . . . excellent tutorials for text effects and Blade Pro effects.
Visual Sonnets . . . . many excellent tutorials on making metals and jewels with Blade Pro: pearls, opals, metal effects.
New Dawn Graphics . . . and extensive list of sites for Blade Pro presets and tutorials, as well as some great PSP tutorials.


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