Web Design Resources, Tutorials, & More
- W3Schools - At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.
- Tutorial Kit - Photoshop Tutorials and resources to Flash and more.
- PSLover - Photoshop Tutorials and Resources
- css.maxdesign.com.au - CSS resources and tutorials for web designers and web developers.
- Wholy CSS Zeldman! - CSS Resources
- FlashKit - Flash resources. Tutorials, Fonts, Sound FX and more.
- Action Fonts - Large collection of free fonts.
- dafont.com - Large collection of free fonts.
- SearchFreeFonts.com - Large collection of free fonts.
- Dingbat Depot - Large collection of free dingbat fonts.
- Blue Vertigo - Large collection of links to design resources. Stock photography, vector clip-art, fonts, logotypes, sounds, photoshop brushes, and more.
- stock.xchng - Totally free stock images.
- Texture Warehouse - Free high resolution textures.
- ColorCombos - For web developers. Quickly select and test color combinations.
- Color Scheme Generator 2 - Sexy color picker.
- Dynamic Drive - Great resources to optimize your website. Need to optimize your images but don't have Photoshop? Try Dynamic Drive's gif optimizer.
- Web Creme - Need a little web design inspiration? Check out Web Creme.
Design Applications
- GIMP - Free substitute for Photoshop. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- Blender - Free substitute for 3D Studio Max. Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
- Nvu - Free substitute for Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Complete web Authoring System.
eCommerce Solutions
- Zen Cart - The BEST free ecommerce shopping cart. Trust me!
- Paypal - Use paypal as a payment option on your website.
Internet/Networking Applications
- Firefox - Free substitute for Internet Explorer. Browse the web with confidense with Firefox.
- Thunderbird - Free substitute for Microsoft Outlook.
- Gaim - Free substitute for Trillian. Gaim can be simultaneously connected to several networks, so if you have contacts on different networks, you can talk to them all at the same time, from one easy to use program. It is compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise, and Zephyr networks.
Misc Applications and Utilities
- OpenOffice - Free substitute for Microsoft Office. Compatible with all other major office suites.
- PDFCreator - PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application.
- 7-zip - Free substitute for WinZip. File archiver with high compression ratio.
- Notepad2 - Notepad2 is intended to be a replacement for the Notepad program that is included as part of Windows. Small, fast, and has few frills. Added functionality: Colour syntax highlighting.
- FileZilla - FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.
- AM-DeadLink - Bookmark cleaner. Detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks.
- Free Download Manager (FDM) - Full-featured download accelerator and manager.
- VLC Media Player - A highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
- Capture - A quick-and-easy screen capture utility for Windows. Simple and easy to use.
Virus and Spyware Protection
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - AVG Free for Windows is a free anti-virus protection tool developed by Grisoft for home use. AVG doesn't hog system resources like other anti-virus programs do. It does it's job well and best of all, it's FREE.
- Ad-Aware - Fight spyware with Ad-Aware. With the free version, there is no real-time protection. This means you need to run a system scan manually.
- SpywareBlaster - Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Recommended to use with Ad-Aware.
