Tutorials and Useful Freeware Programs Sticky

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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

 

[Haly]

Feel free to post any other useful tutorials or freeware/cheap apps relevant to this section of the forums

 

[Haly]

Ahh ta people
No idea how the mistake happened considering a few people checked it thru including me lots of times