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Web Development

• DevX Project Cool: Web Development Basics With dozens of demos and hands-on tutorials, Project Cool is a great resource for Web developers and designers. Whether you're building your first Web page, researching a specific client-side technique, or making your first foray into CSS or XML, you'll find the information to get the job done here.

• Webmonkey is a subsidiary of "Wired", an e-business and technology magazine. It has loads of tutorials on tons of subjects, and it's written in English, rather than in "technobabble."

• Website for The Complete Reference: HTML & XHTML, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill.  Check out the links to References (HTML AND XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets Properties (CSS).

• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website, one of the premier authorities on web design and practices.

• Internet.com One of the oldest and most respected Web development sites is about the Web and Webmastery. From browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design, we'll keep you in touch and informed

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Background and Clip Art

• Public Domain Images (Mostly!) for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages

• Color Tool a webmaster color lab.  Visualization of web safe colors

• AAA Backgrounds a great web site to get free backgrounds, banners, buttons, clipart, fonts, etc... for digital media.

• Background Paradise a great web site to get free backgrounds.

• Teacher Files Clip Art Here are the best educational clip art images from the web. All images (with the exception of Shayni's Phrases/Titles created by us) have been obtained from "free" clip art sites, so to the best of our knowledge they are not copyrighted and are available for non-commercial purposes.

• Barry's Clip Art  great web site to get free Clip Art.

• CoolText is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work. We provide real-time generation of graphics that are customized exactly the way you want them.

• Pics 4 Learning (contains Pic's for American Sign Language, alphabet and numbers). Copyright-friendly images for education

• Discovery School Clip Art by Discovery education.

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Digital Video, Audio, and Multimedia

• HiSoftware Makes Available Flash Accessibility Tools HiSoftware has two components that allow Flash developers to quickly and easily validate that your Macromedia Flash movies & presentations can be used fully by anyone. HiSoftware is releasing these specific components free of charge to help promote accessibility

• Mac iMovie web site

• Atomic Learning iMovie 2 tutorial

• Digital Librarian: a Librarian's choice of the best of the web for Audio, Video, and Multimedia clips

• VisioBone complexity is best mastered by seeing the whole picture in rich detail; that expertise consists mainly of vivid mental pictures; that working knowledge is best aided by precise reminders within view or reach.  I've tried to give you both extremes, the totality at a glance, with as much useful detail as can fit. I've tried to quench your left-brain's thirst for facts and seed your right-brain's power for intuitive, subconscious wonder.  It'd sure be my honor if you find this stuff helps. (Bob Stein of VisioBone)

• BATS (Baseline Access, Training and Support) is a California State University initiative to provide all students, faculty, and staff with "baseline" access to information resources via networks, training in the uses of baseline hardware and software systems, and ongoing professional and technical support for utilization of computer resources at San Diego State University. The BATS program is part of Instructional Technology Services.

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Closed Captioning

• Captioned Media Program (CMP) The CMP also acts as a captioning information and training center. The ultimate goal of the CMP is to permit media to be an integral part in the lifelong learning process for all stakeholders in the deaf and hard of hearing community: adults, students, parents, and educators.

• National Captioning Institute NCI's Glossary of Captioning Terms

• Frequently Asked Question, Captioning Overview by Gary Robson Get answers to frequently asked questions like: What are captions? How can I see closed captions on my television? Can I get captions with cable TV? Can I get captions from a satellite dish?

• Frequently Asked Questions, Captioning Standards and Laws by Gary Robson Get answers to frequently asked questions like: Will the government pay for my captioning? Does the FCC mandate captioning on everything now? Is captioning really going away later this year? This site does contain the following disclaimer "I am not an attorney, and nothing on this site should be construed as legal advice. I have attempted to assure that this information is accurate, but there may be errors. If you require advice regarding these laws, you should consult an attorney."

• HiSoftware Makes Available Flash Accessibility Tools HiSoftware has two components that allow Flash developers to quickly and easily validate that your Macromedia Flash movies & presentations can be used fully by anyone. HiSoftware is releasing these specific components free of charge to help promote accessibility.

Other

• Scanning Tips The purpose is to offer some scanning tips and to explain the basics for photos and documents. It is about the fundamentals of digital images, about the basics to help you get the most from your scanner. How it works, for those that want to know.

• Photoshop Crash Course Adobe Photoshop is the Ginsu knife of graphics programs - it does everything from creating Web graphics to tweaking photos...

• How to reduce .AVI file size: an article written for how to reduce file size in Camtasia.  This article has good material and suggestions for reducing file size for other applications and formats.

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