web design / development

Eventually we'll get to discussing this so I'll save all of us the trouble and get the ball rolling.

Here are some great places to visit for stats, technical problems and design inspiration.

http://www.echoecho.com/

has browser and OS stats


http://www.sitepoint.com/

has a great forum with a lot of interesting articles


http://www.alistapart.com/

I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Zeldman and this site is one of the best


http://www.w3schools.com/

Tutorials....


http://www.coolhomepages.com/

Repository of some of the best looking sites on the internet. great for getting ideas and inspiration


http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone/frames01.htm

nice Filipino photoshop and design site. Lots of tips for PS


http://www.designiskinky.net/index_main.html

Online design magazine

 

thatnks for the sites! i have a lot is reading to do now...also, i'd recommend
www.tutorialforums.com

 

Heres a few more to add to the list

Tons of Graphics stuff
http://www.graphic-forums.com/

Lots of Experts in many areas
http://www.experts-exchange.com/

CGI and PHP scripts
http://www.resourceindex.com/

Excellent Forum and Resources
http://www.3dgladiators.com/


Site Design Tips:
http://webdevelopersjournal.com/

http://webpagesthatsuck.com/

 

Go here all web designers and do your self a favour

http://www.w3.org/WAI

This stuff will become law at some point

 

Yup, I hear ya WW. my personal site is has (or rather had) the W3C seal of approval

 

irc.topgamers.net - A place I hang out, a lot of serious coders there
http://www.htmlgoodies.com - Great for a starting place to learn html, not so good now Joe Burns sold it over
<<Will edit this when I get back home to my bookmarks, great tuts in there>>

 

have any of you guys tried using a script to detect Flash and swap the html menu for one in Flash if the flash player has been detected? Is this possible and is so what do you use to make it work, Php?

 

Tutorials are ok to start, but once you learn how to use photoshop your jasc or whatever a lot of the stuff you can just look at and reproduce. You also get more and more out of using filters.

 

Can this be done? Yes. The how gets a little tricky. You could do it client-side with Javascript or server-side with PHP, ASP etc... Each has it's advantages and disavantages. One thing you'll need to identify is the version of Flash player the have installed.

 

I'm web designer so if ya need any helps or got any problems then feel free to msg me!

 

Another web designer here - using Dreamweaver & Fireworks exclusively.

http://www.dreamweaversites.com/ you may even recognise one of the mods on their forum

 

I dunno, the mod in that forum who seems to have a hobby of hitting people with sticks has a faint resemblance

|Cain|

 

*Whistles Innocently :Angel:

 

dreamweaver and fireworks??? and this coming from a fellow who says flyes are for women??? why i'd never...

 

I suppose you'd rather I hand coded in notepad huh?

 

Im Dreamweaver/Notepad & Photoshop myself I love photoshop

Mainly use dreamweaver for the basics, then use the html editor for the fine tuning

 

That works in a pinch but Interdev is better. I started when that was the only way to do webpages. I can look at source code and have a very good idea what a page looks like.

 

I code in notepad a lot..... (And I absolutly HATE fireworks, I like photoshop.)

 

Well I absolutely HATE Photoshop amd like Fireworks

Ahhh! Balance

 

I find Wordpad easier. You don't use one of those ridiculous WYSIWYG packages do you?