Educational,
tutorial & application sites:

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• Smashing Magazine — Everything you could possibly need to know about design.
  
  
• Article: How to create a successful blog
  
  
• Podcast FAQ
  
  
• Dzine Blog
  
  
• SlideShow Pro — a great slideshow application
  used with Flash MX and later.
  
  
• Photo Reflection tutorial: http://www.planetphotoshop.com/photo-reflection-effect.html
  
  
• Fav Icon Generator: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
  
  
• FavIcon Maker/Editoron DeGraeve.com
  
  
• How to Craft a Digital Portfolio
  
  
• Lorelle on WordPress — helpful tips on using
  WordPress and other articles about website blogging.
  
  
• How to prevent spam on your WordPress blog:
  http://akismet.com
  
  
  • http://www.bloggingthemes.com/
    
    
• MIT - www.mit.edu -- read about MIT’s site philosophy and rotating home page under: About MIT and at bottom of that page, About this Site.
  
  
• Read about MIT's response to the world energy crisis, here: web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/energy-0608.html
  
  
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multiimedia page
  
  
• The Corcoran Gallery of Art:
  www.corcoran.org
  
  
• Corcoran School of Art + Design:
  www.corcoran.edu


• DC Web Women
  — a great resource web site and list-serve open to women who work in technology, in the DC Metro area.
  
  
• Westlake Internet Training
  
  
• Ever wonder what your computer's
  IP address is? Go here to find out:
  
  www.myipaddress.com
  
  
• How People With Disabilities Use the Web
  (a W3C - World Wide Web Consortium document)
  

• dynamicdrive.com

Awards Sites:

Color Theory:

• Colorshcemedesigner.com
  
  
• “Color Chart— Reinventing Color 1950 to Today”— an exhibition at MOMA
  (a Flash website)
  
  
• Color Palette Generator - on DeGraeve.com  & other cool applications...


• www.colormatters.com – A website that explores the concept of color from several
  different disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, art, design, and computers.
  
  
• www.colormatters.com/chameleon.html
  -- section on how to choose colors for various types of websites.


• Worqx.com – a designer's website with extensive tutorials on color theory, including color wheels and a color picker, as well as design & development resources.


• www.worqx.com/color/index.htm
  
  
• Learning to Use Color on Your Website – a brief explanation of color theory at:
  www.creativepro.com/story/feature/6858.htm.
  
  
• The Adobe Website – www.adobe.com.
  
  
•  Experiment with making your own color combinations: http://kuler.adobe.com/
  
  A teacher's instructional guide to color theory: http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/exchange/color_theory_curriculum.pdf
  
  
• Donald Johansson's Web Whirlers' color page, which explains what color is, how to combine it, and what different colors mean. His main site below is his new web page develoted solely to explaining web color, and how it is used with hexadecimal numbers and HTML, complete with a color mixing wizard, wheel, and schemes to help you choose web colors:
  
  
  • colorsontheweb.com
    
    
• Hexadecimal color codes and chart (from ComputerHope.com)
  
  
• Color chart with 4,800 hexadecimal color codes - “Hue Hub”
  
  
• Another example of a guide to understanding color, what it is, and how designers can use it at: http://www.liquisoft.com/colortheory.html, by Ryan Ford.
  
  
• Brown University's course on color theory for design students: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html
  
  
• The Color of Sound - an interesting site applying visual color to sounds: http://www.concretethestudio.com/colorofsound