Moonshine covers

Moonshine Arts Magazine is a new regional arts magazine hosted by southerncreativity.com. I contribut graphic design and also serve as the editor (at the moment).

Useful sites for webdesign

Note: This was created for a class I taught in 2003 on webdesign. These days, I would just put these all (and I have!) in del.icio.us. ;-)

Reminder:
Always read copyright and usage statements carefully.

Code checkers

• Dead link checker: http://www.dead-links.com/
• Metadata Creator/Generator: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
• Accessibility & more checker http://webxact.watchfire.com
• Link checker, etc:
  http://validator.w3.org/

Color & Graphics

Color theory

• Color theory: http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
• Color design for the web, http://www.coolhomepages.com/cda/color/
• Kodak: Digital Color:http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/book3/chapter2/index.shtml

Color tools

• Colormaker: shows realtime color choices, http://www.bagism.com/colormaker/
• Color Palette Generator: interactive design of color palettes (themes) for website, http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/
  
• Colors for websites (interactive color wheel), http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/
  
• Non-dithering colors by hue & value: http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html
• Retouch Pro: Color charts for skin & hair: http://www.retouchpro.com/pages/colors.html
• Webmaster's Color Lab: http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

Fonts

• Abstract fonts: 10,000 free fonts: http://www.abstractfonts.com/fonts/new_fonts.htm?set_date=2002-09-11&p=1
• Fontfreak: free & shareware:
  http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm
• The Webmaster's Color Lab:http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
• Non-dithering colors by hue & value: http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html

Graphics generator &
freeware/shareware images

• Logo creator: Cool text: http://www.cooltext.com/
• Barry's Clip Art Server:
  http://www.barrysclipart.com/
• Clips Ahoy: http://www.clipsahoy.com/

Software

• UGA software: http://www.uga.edu/sitesoft/
• Download.com: shareware, etc:
  http://www.download.com

Statistics

• Statcounter.com: free hits and traffic counter: http://www.statcounter.com/

Style & Accessibility

• Worst of the web (for what NOT to do!) http://www.worstoftheweb.com/
• Yale's Style Manual: http://www.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Writing the code (HTML, Javascript, CSS)
CSS

• Adding a touch of style: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html
• CSS Cheat sheet: http://www.tek271.com/articles/css_cheat_sheet.html
• CSS Spacing: http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/20061/0/page/18

HTML

• Advanced HTML for Beginners: http://www.ahfb2000.com/html.php
• Creating web pages in Composer: http://www.nova.edu/stafftrain/composer.html
• HTML
  Cheat sheet: http://www.netlingo.com/tags.cfm
• HTML Code Tutorial: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
• HTML goodies: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
• Introduction to HTML: http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
• Writing HTML:
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

Javascript

Some other interesting sites:

• Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
• Learn the web: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/www.html
• Search engine watch: http://searchenginewatch.com/
• Site banned by Google? Or was it the other way around? http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=99
• Web error messages: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/error.asp
• Web Monkey: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
• The web robots' page:
  http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
• Why web users scan instead of reading:
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/whyscanning.html
• Writing for the web: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

Web design

Tableless html with Flash -- a IDD project (2005)

The mist and stone (corporate site)

2002 Mist & the Stone Tours

online as of 2004.
Simple corporate website for an international tour service, coded in html. Site is maintained by the owner, but the overall tone and design of the site remains the same.

links @ del.icio.us