Topics
GAs
Guide to...
Mini-Modules
MSc
Links
Teaching
RnR
Surfstart
Ext Links
ITCDU
I.T. & Web Resources
IT
- don't miss the Brighton University Resource Kit
- Microsoft
- The Genetic Algorithms Archive
- Robotics Web Servers
- Osborne books (with sample code)
- PC Technology Guide
- Computers Don't Bite
- legal notes from Hamiltons
- Data Protection Act 1998
- O'Reilly books
- Howard Rheingold - online guru (also involved with online communities)
- The Jargon File - a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humour.
IT Companies
- Novatech
- 3Com
- Apple
- Intel
- Gateway
- Simply
- Software Warehouse
- Dabs
- SoundBlaster (Europe)
- Symantec
- Turnpike
- Wacom
- Logitech UK
- PC World
- Hauppauge
- Drivers and downloads for Acer 505 series
- Lucent modem pages
IT Magazines
- PC Pro
- PC Plus
- Tomorrow's World
- PC World online magazine
- Wired magazine (news page)
- Salon
- Computer Arts
- PC Advisor
- Computer Weekly
- Silicon.com - news for IT professionals (free registration)
IT Services
- C FAQ
- Virtual Doctor (and the related Computing.Net)
- BugNet
- O'Donnell's troubleshooting resources
- 32bit.com
- Device drivers from the Driver Forum and WinDrivers
- BT Cellnet's Genie - email/mobile phone cross-over (eg email to your phone)
- Softseek software library
- InoculateIT Personal Edition 5.0 free AV software (with updates).
- ZoneAlarm free software firewall
IT Games
- Petz (okay, I admit it, I own a copy of Catz)
- Games Domain UK
- LEGO software products
- MS Combat Flight Simulator homepage
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- MS Age of Empires home-page
- Empire Sport's International Cricket Captain 2
Web
- Kevin Werbach's WWW help page
- Aberdeen University's web tools
- Netscape's Net Sites assistance
- Netscape products
- The Macmillan Information SuperLibrary
- Paul Stephen's PC Pages
- Tony Morgan's Web notes
- Paula Giese's page creation aids
- DaveCentral
- Netscape Plugins
- Cnet
- The Internet Society
- Developer's Shed (an all-in-one store for WebDev)
- irt.org for web developing
- HotWired's WebMonkey guide for web developers
- WebReference (WebMaster's reference library)
- Netscape's WebBuilding centre (good set of articles and tools - get a copy of ColorPicker here)
- hits and tips from Ask Dr Web and his FAQ and web tools (VISIT THIS SITE)
- Web Design Group
- Lurch's guides (covering web stuff, media, etc)
- ICQ (mine is #38910995 - memourable, huh?)
- Jon Bell's "How to Create a Newsgroup"
- Microsoft's Web Workshop
- WebDiner (introductory Web lessons)
- The Web Robots Pages
- the Atlas of Cyberspaces (maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the Internet, the WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces)
- CWSApps - download free software
- Refsnes Datas Site Builder Web - lessons in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, XML, etc.
- The site of the book "Internet Literacy".
- Black Widow Spider Promotion's article on Meta-Tags.
- The reallybig.com Web builder network (fonts, scripts, tuition, etc).
- webTeacher - various Net-related tutorials from HTML to video-conferencing
- Mega Web Tools - web tools to use for creating and maintaining web sites
- Developer.webtv.net - authouring for Web TV
- D/HTML
- The HWG's useful URLs
- W3C HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
- DHTMLzone (articles, tutorial, links)
- HTML kit (cleans and sets out HTML code)
- HTML tutorials at:
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Masterlist (gives all the CSS tags/attributes/values, with browser support for each).
- Site analysis/validation
- Counters
- Digit's free web counters
- CounterGuide (a good guide to counters)
- Extreme Tracking visitor data service (I ran a trial of this, it was okay, did its job - I didn't have a CGI bin, but used too much bandwidth, so I stopped using it).
- Promotion
- awards and site advertising at VirtualPromote
- Fast Submit (submits your site to multiple search engines)
- Search Engine Watch
- Secrets of Searching the Web & Promoting Your Website
- ProBoost
- Dreamweaver
- Macromedia's official pages (you can download the 2791K PDF manual)
- WebRing
- "Dreamweaver 2 Bible" (the site of the book)
- Dreamweaver Depot
- WebMonkey assistance
- DWN (Dreamweaver News)
- Andrew Wooldrige's Dreamweaver Depot
- Yaromat's DW pages
- Massimo's DW fan club
- NetObjects Fusion
- NetObjects (got Fusion2 free on a PC Pro cover disc)
- ColdFusion Express (20.8MB) free download.
- FrontPage
- MicroSoft's Web Workshop - FrontPage tutorial.
- Hosting
- The Beginners Guide To Domain Names can be found at NetNames
- Allwhois.com (search for any domain name in the world)
Web Design
- the companion site of the excellent "Web by Design" book by Molly Holzschlag
- Web Page Design for Designers
- "Web pages that suck" - how not to do it
- Web Design Group
- DeskTopPublishing.com
- Web Graphics
- the Cool Archive
- Pantone (all about colour)
- Color Matters - physiological and psychological effects of color
- MediaPlace's links page (many graphics-related links)
- I/US is a graphics store (articles, links, fonts, etc)
- free 3D graphics program Design Workshop Lite (watch, as its 7MB; but the links page is impressive)
- Art Studio Chalkboard (drawing techniques and lessons)
- lots of links in "A Graphic Designer's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Jakob Nielson's articles on web design
- get a free copy of Color Picker 2.0
- graphics at the MediaBuilder
- webGFX Rendermachine - online graphics generator
- Whilst looking for Celtic graphics found:
- Karen Nicholas' Celtic Web Art
- Celtic-Art.Net
- viking snake
- Graphics Libraries
- Jelane's Free Web Graphics
- XRX animated logo collection
- netCREATORS animated GIFs
- Mandy's anime links
- BestClipart
- Art Today (free graphics, but you have to sign in)
- Sam Silverhawk's Native American clipart (best I've seen)
- the ClipArt Connection
- another list of clipart sites at ClipArt.com
- the ClipArt Universe
- a strange collection of Public Domain Images
- Art.com (WORTH A LOOK, gallery, shop, library)
- textures
- Photoshop
- Plugin Head
- Adobe Photoshop plugins
- The Photoshop Gurus Handbook
- Andrew Buckle Filter Collections
- Laurie McCanna's site (includes font creation tips)
- Furbo Filters
- National Association of Photoshop Professionals (some free pages)
- DeepSpaceWeb (a fine-looking Photoshop page)
- alt.graphics.photoshop FAQ
- Photoshop Actions
- Action XChange
- ActionFX
- AndActions
- Actions Cornucopia
- the Elated ActionKits (also has design tips, buttons, etc)
- Digital Thread
- Zero-G
- PaintShopPro
- Bryce
- MetaCreations (Bryce, Poser, etc)
- Bryce hints and tips at Alex Rives excellent site
- Director
- Macromedia
- Director on the Web (all about Macromedia Director)
- Director User's Group: UK FAQ
- Stock photography
- AltaVista's PhotoFinder
- Yahoo's links
- Photo Essentials
- Artville
- Corbis Digital Pictures
- Royalty Free photos . Companies with good databases are PhotoEssentials and Photos etc.
- PhotoDisc and Tony Stone Images have a free dual registration system, and registered users can download 150K 72dpi non-watermarked images for free.
- Stockbyte royalty-free digital stock photography
- PicturesNow - visual encyclopedia of free still & streaming media.
- Stock-photo MetaSearch engine and Ditto.com
- Digital Photography
- online digital photography course
- Kodak's digital photography & technology pages
- the Panoramic Network
Web Building 'zines
- The Editor & Publisher Interactive
- WebTools
- WebDeveloper
- WebSmith
- Internet Magazine
- .Net
- Internet Eye
- Pixart
- Web Developers Virtual Library
- A List Apart (d*amned good-looking site)
- eFUSE (e-mag targetted at small ebusinesses)
- WebReview - articles on the tools of the trade
- WebProfession ezine for Webmasters
Web Programming
- the Yale Center pages
- FreeCode
- Ack's Pages
- visit developer.com's programming resource listings (here's their java index)
- builder.com
- IBM's JCentral
- Web Monkey - JS/Java/CGI and more
- JavaScript
- Voodoo's Introduction To JavaScript
- The JavaScript Planet
- The JavaScript Source
- The Ultimate JavaScript Resource
- Website Abstraction (JavaScript)
- Crowes Free JavaScript
- JavaScript technology centre
- The Last Domain (good list of JS links)
- Java
- The Java Centre
- Sun's Java site (worth a visit)
- JavaWorld (includes JavaScript)
- FreewareJava.com
- The Java Boutique
- Jars.com - java review site
- IBM's Java developerWorks
- CGI
Search Engines/Directories
- Alta Vista
- Ask Jeeves
- Excite UK
- HotBot
- InfoSeek
- Lycos UK
- Magellan
- MetaCrawler
- MiningCo
- Netscape's NetCenter
- Northern Light
- PC Webopaedia
- SearchUK
- UK Directory
- UK Index
- UK Plus
- WebRing
- Yahoo!UK
- Yellow Pages UK
Software Archives
- the Brighton University Resource Kit
- The Free Site
- the Completely Free Software site
- Freeware Home
- ZDNET's freeware
- Virtual Free Stuff
- SoftSeek - download site
- Check out lists of freeware sites at Freeware Forever
- DaveCentral
- WinSite
- Download.com
- tucows
- the Free Stuff Center
- the Freeware Publishing Site (includes a Win95/98 forum)
- FreeBitz - links to various free offers
- HENSA (Higher Education National Software Archives)
- A free copy of Aladdin's Stuffit decompressor for Windows.
- Kids Domain's list of PC freeware
Multimedia Archives
- MediaBuilder library
- Joe's place (sounds, movies, etc)
- Laura's MIDI Heaven
- Geek Girl's list of audioclip sites
- Guide to using Real Audio
- Midi files at MidiWorld
Free Fonts
- Lavinia's collections of TT fonts and member of the Font Ring
- MediaBuilder's free font library
- Acid Fonts
- Font Foundry
- Fonts & Things (unusual fonts, tools, archives)
- Uncle Bear's
- I/us dingbats pages
- Also The Font Site typo'zine
- Wanted Fonts - a good collection of fonts