Resources

Lab Open Hours

The College has at least two computer labs—Crawford 212 and Crawford 114—that have both Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 that you can use during their open hours for practice and for your projects. The open hours for these two labs will be posted as soon as they are available (usually, a couple of weeks into the semester).

Color

Color Matters
If you ever wanted to develop a deeper appreciation of color, this web site is the place. Color Matters is a comprehensive site that details the art and science of color http://www.colormatters.com.

Color Blindness
Color blindness or color vision deficiency affects approximately 8% of males and 0.1% of females in the world and, contrary to popular opinion, does not merely make colors appear as shades or gray. To see how your web pages or images will look, or to modify your images to appear better to people with color vision deficiencies, or to learn more about color blindness, visit Vischeck's excellent site.
http://www.vischeck.com/

A variety of color tool or information links follows:

Color Blender
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

Color Match
Incredible online color mixer: This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your web site.
Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated. Note: Color Match does work with the Safari browser but does not work with the Firefox browser.
http://www.colormatch.dk/

Color Schemes
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/14/colour_schem/

Color Wheel
http://css.geckotribe.com/colorwheel/

Color Scheme Generator 2
Includes an interactive tool for viewing color schemes under simulated "color blind" conditions.
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Color Schemer Online v2
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/natural_selections_colors_found_in_nature_and_interface_design.php

Poynter Institute Color in Journalism
http://poynterextra.org/cp/colorproject/color.html

Dreamweaver cs3

Many resources exist on-line for getting the most out of Dreamweaver. Among these are Adobe's Developer Center (complete with great tutorials), and their company sponsored newsgroup.

Finally, two other great sources for Dreamweaver add-ons and tutorials are Massimo Foti's Massimo's corner of the Web and Al Sparber and Gerry Jacobsen's Project Seven.

Inspiration

Tutorials for setting up preferences in Inspiration 7 and for creating outlines and sitemaps in the programs are now available in the Inspiration tutorials section of this site.

Photoshop cs3

A page of essential Photoshop shortcuts and a collection of tutorials are available in the Photoshop section of this web site.

A mind-bogglingly-great set of free video tutorials is available for viewing and for downloading to your computer or video iPod from Photoshop master Russell Brown.

Lots of tips and tricks for Photoshop — versions 5.0 through CS3 — can be found on Adobe's Photoshop pages and also on Julieanne Kost and Daniel Brown's excellent adobeevangelists.com site.

VersionTracker

I highly recommend VersionTracker for finding the latest releases of Macintosh and Windows software. If you find a later version of any of the products shown above, let me know and I'll update the list.

Cascading Style Sheets & Other Web Display Issues

For excellent discussions on the merits and demerits of using Cascading Style Sheets you can't do better than to visit Jeffrey Zeldman's A List Apart or his zeldman.com site, or John Allsopp's Westciv.

BlueRobot.com has a nice selection of CSS page layouts in its Layout Reservoir section.

Digital Web Magazine is a great online magazine intended for professional web designers.

Big John and Holly Bergevin at http://www.positioniseverything.net provide great information on CSS and links to some of the top CSS sites on the web. Highly recommended.

Web Statistics & issues

Interested in who is using what gear to surf the net? Although the validity of statistical information concerning web use is subject to endless debate and qualification, you have to start somewhere. These sites are as good as any for getting your search for stats started.

Please remember to carefully study the manner in which their data were collected and to use the information you gather as a general guide, not as the final word on the subject.