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3d Studio Max
http://www.3dcafe.com
http://www.3dark.com
http://www.3dlinks.com
http://www.3dbuzz.com
http://www.3dtotal.com
http://www.the3dstudio.com
http://www.maxhelp.com/
http://www.maxforums.org/

ASP
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/
http://www.15seconds.com/
http://www.kamath.com/
http://www.asp101.com/
http://www.aspin.com/
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php

CGI
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php

Creating a Website Guides
Lissa Explains - http://www.lissaexplains.com/
Bravenet - http://www.bravenet.com/
Webmaster Database - http://www.sitepoint.com/
The Development Shed - http://www.devshed.com/

CSS
CSS help - http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css_index.html
Inspiration - http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://cssvault.com/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/index.htm
http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2004/january/shadowboxing
http://www.codebox.8m.com/dhtml&css.htm
http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php
http://www.epicstudios.co.uk/files/tutorials/tutorials.php
http://www.pmob.co.uk/
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php
http://www.w3schools.com/css/
http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/all-properties.html
http://glish.com/css/


C#
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/
http://www.csharphelp.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_1.asp

C++
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php

Colour Scheme Tools and Generators
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://colr.org/
http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/
http://www.colorcoordinator.com/colorCoordinator.php
http://www.colorwhore.com/
http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php
Colour Theory - http://www.jenova.dk/Complimentary.htm
Colour Convertor - http://www.draac.com/colorconvert.html

Databases
Popular Database - http://www.mysql.org
The Ultimate! - http://www.oracle.com/

Fonts
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.acidfonts.com/
http://www.fontfreak.com/
http://www.fontfoundry.com
http://www.wantedfonts.com/
For tracking down what your font is called - http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Graphical Manipulation
http://www.myjanee.com/
http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html
Paint Shop Pro - http://www.corel.co.uk

Graphics
http://www.graphics-4free.com/
http://www.coolarchive.com/
http://www.desktoppublishing.com/backg-free.html
http://www.designedtoat.com/
http://www.myjanee.com/
http://www.gfxmania.com/
http://www.thinkdan.com/
http://www.linkdup.com/
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://openphoto.net/
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://www.imageafter.com/images.php
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.stockvault.net/
Free stock icon collections - http://www.iconbuffet.com/

Hosts
OcUK host reviews -
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17411674 and http://www.ochostreview.co.uk
http://www.Register1.net
http://www.34sp.com/
www.lohost.com
www.fasthosts.com
www.pair.com
www.hostrocket.com
http://www.alivewww.com
http://www.dotster.com
http:///www.ukreg.com
http://www.vidahost.com

HTML/xHTML
www.htmlhelp.com
Colour Chart - http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html
Great HTML/ASP tidying program - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/
http://www.the-html-tutorial.com/
http://www.epicstudios.co.uk/files/tutorials/tutorials.php
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
HTML Help - http://www.htmlhelp.com/
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
http://www.htmldog.com/

Java
http://java.sun.com/
http://www.eclipse.org/
http://www.junit.org/index.htm
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php

Misc
www.sourceforge.net
www.codeguru.com
www.webmonkey.com
http://www.freshmeat.net
Webmail Program - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.trainingtools.com/
http://www.planetsourcecode.com/
Various Tutorials - http://www.tizag.com/

Other
Matts Script Archive - http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Cool Home Pages - http://www.coolhomepages.com/
Salia: Media Matters - http://www.saila.com/
Java mIRC on your site - http://www.jpilot.com/
Flaming Text - http://www.flamingtext.com/
Web Domain Endings - http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html
Web Afflicate - http://www.webaffiliate.co.uk/
Arles Image Web Page Creator - http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/
Graphic Design - http://www.wz2k.co.uk/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/home.htm
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/
Programmer's File Format Collection - http://www.wotsit.org/
Apache mod_rewrite cheat sheet - http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/
PDF/PNG cheat-sheet collection - cheat sheets for Ruby on Rails, ASP, PHP, CSS, mod_rewrite, Javascript, MySQL, HTML character entities and RGB hex codes - http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/
IBM AJAX introduction - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/?ca=dgr-lnxw07AJAX-Request
Royalty Free Icons - http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/


Perl
http://www.perl.com
http://www.perlarchive.com
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php

PHP
http://hotscripts.com/PHP/
http://www.php.net/
http://www.phpbuilder.com/
Rob Millers PHP Security How-To - http://robm.me.uk/articles/php-security/
Rob Miller's Image Rotation How-To - http://robm.me.uk/articles/image-rotation-in-php/
How to generate a dynamic sig image using PHP - http://www.smos.co.uk/sigtutorial/tutorial.html
http://www.epicstudios.co.uk/files/tutorials/tutorials.php
Special Day sig - http://www.2windermere.co.uk/specialsig.php
PHP Guide - http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/1
PHP MySQL Paging (Splitting Query Results Into Differnt Pages) - http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/php-mysql-paging.php
PHP Tutorials - http://www.zend.com/zend/art/

Photoshop Tutorials
http://www.kirupa.com/
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.designsbymark.com/
http://psworkshop.net/
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com
http://www.phong.com/tutorials
http://www.absolutecross.com
http://www.spoono.com
http://www.arraich.com/intro.htm
http://www.photoshopcafe.com
http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html
http://www.grafx-design.com/phototut.html
http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
http://www.eyeball-design.com/
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com
http://www.rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.tutorialforums.com/
http://www.designsbymark.com
http://www.computerarts.co.uk
http://www.teamphotoshop.com
http://www.carbonfour.com
http://www.deaddreamer.com/v10/index2.html
http://www.eyeball-design.com
http://www.eyesondesign.net
http://user.fundy.net/morris/main.html
http://www.handson.nu
http://www.phong.com
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com
http://www.psworkshop.net
http://www.sevenflow.com
http://www.shadowness.com
http://www.thewebmachine.com/
http://www.thinkdan.com
http://xen-fx.com/
http://www.spyroteknik.com/
http://www.vivaciousweb.com
http://www.ps6.com
http://www.somethingleet.com/tuts
http://www.solardreamstudios.com/
http://www.voidix.com/
http://www.absolutecross.com/
http://www.screaming-art.com/
http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/
http://www.jonbalza.com/
http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/
http://www.continuum2.com/tutorial/index.php
http://www.deaddreamer.com/v10/tuto/index.html
http://www.distortion.co.uk/freebies/tutorial.html
http://www.dsigning.com
http://www.eyeball-design.com/page09.htm
http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm
http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
http://www.firelily.com/photoshop/index.html
http://www.geda-online.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.guistuff.com/tutorials.shtml
http://www.niklasindustries.com/tutorials/index.php
http://www.phong.com/tutorials
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
http://www.shadowness.com/tutorials.html
http://www.stab.se/aq/ny/pstips/fwf_all.htm
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/photoshop/index.html
http://boblawson0.tripod.com/tutorials.htm
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7370.html
http://erk.free.fr/tips/index.htm
http://janeecake.home.att.net/tutorials.htm
http://membres.lycos.fr/harvestr/logos/davtut.htm
http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop.shtml
http://webreference.com/graphics/column36/
http://www.2ginc.com/tutorials/ps.html
http://www.actionfx.com/tipstuts.shtml
http://www.estratosphere.com/

Searching
http://www.searchengineworld.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.mamma.com
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.yahoo.com

Shockwave/Flash
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.macromedia.com/
http://www.were-here.com
http://www.ultrashock.com
http://www.kirupa.com/

Visual Basic
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php
http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/tutorials.php
http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/
http://cuinl.tripod.com/tips-and-tricks-all.htm
http://www.vb-helper.com/
http://www.vbexplorer.com/VBExplorer/VBExplorer.asp
http://www.developer.com/net/vb/
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/index.asp
http://www.vbcity.com/

World Wide Web Consortium Related (XML/XSL etc)/web standards
WWW Consortium home page - http://www.w3.org
WWWc Teaching Page - http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm
http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdbms.shtml
http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/
Accessibility validator - http://webxact.watchfire.com/
HTML Validator - http://validator.w3.org/
Accessibility Validator - http://www.contentquality.com/

XML
http://www.tupps.com/flash/faq/xml.html
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm
http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdbms.shtml
http://www.devx.com/
http://www.ipdg3.com/index.php
 
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Useful Freeware or Inexpensive Apps:

3D Graphics
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

FTP Clients
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Client Extension for Firefox - http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

HTML Editors
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/

Image Editing/Creating
InkScape (Vector Graphics Program) - http://www.inkscape.org/
Irfanview (Image Editor) - http://www.irfanview.com
Picasa (Image Editor) - http://picasa.google.com/index.html
The Gimp (Open Source Photoshop Alternative) - http://www.gimp.org/

Mac OS X tools
Pixen (Pixel editor) - http://www.opensword.org/Pixen/
Smultron (Text Editor) - http://smultron.sourceforge.net/
CyberDuck (FTP Client) - http://cyberduck.ch/
OSX VNC (VNC Client) - http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

Misc
Colourificator (For finding the right colour) - http://colourificator.sitekit.net
Orca (Application Repackaging) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/orca_exe.asp
Putty/PSCP (SSH and SCP client) - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Web Developer Extension for Firefox - http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

Text/Code Editors and IDEs
ActivePerl (Perl) - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Code::Blocks (C++)- http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context (Text editor) - http://www.context.cx/
Crimson Editor (Text Editor) - http://www.crimsoneditor.com
Dev C++ (C++ IDE) - Bloodshed Dev C++
Dev Pascal (Pascal) - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ (C++) - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse (Java) - http://www.eclipse.org/
EditPad (Text Editor) - http://www.editpadpro.com/
Freepascal (Pascal) - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE (Java) - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit (Text editor) - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad (Text editor) - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ (Text editor) - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Programmer's Notepad (Text editor) - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad (Text editor) - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
SciTE (Text editor) - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
SharpDevelop (C# and VB.net) - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
TextPad (Text Editor) - http://www.textpad.com/
WebMatrix (ASP.net) - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
VS2005 Express Edition (VB, C#, MySQL) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx
XEmacs (Text Editor) - http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/

Webserver Software
Apache - http://www.apache.org/
Lighttpd - http://www.lighttpd.net/
PHPMyAdmin (Web based MySQL Admin tool) - http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl auto-installer for Windows) - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
 
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Feel free to post any other useful tutorials or freeware/cheap apps relevant to this section of the forums :)
 
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Whoa, nice one :D

Few more:

Webserver software:
Apache - http://www.apache.org
Lighttpd - http://www.lighttpd.net

Apache mod_rewrite cheat sheet - http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/

Very useful utility:

XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl auto-installer for Windows) - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

PDF/PNG cheat-sheet collection - cheat sheets for Ruby on Rails, ASP, PHP, CSS, mod_rewrite, Javascript, MySQL, HTML character entities and RGB hex codes:

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/

IBM AJAX introduction: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/?ca=dgr-lnxw07AJAX-Request

Free stock icon collections: http://www.iconbuffet.com/

A bunch of PHP tutorials by Zend: http://www.zend.com/zend/art/
 
Woman of Honour
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Ahh ta people :)
No idea how the mistake happened considering a few people checked it thru including me lots of times :o
 
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Hey,

Great list - one thing though. I reckon the W3Schools.com/CSS link should be at the top of the CSS list.

It's tutorials are second to none in quality, simplicity and flexibility. With an inbuilt test you can't go wrong.

Oh and it also helps it's created by the fine folks who actually invented Cascading Style Sheets.

Thanks,
toose
 
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