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Useful Links

"The Internet is the most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the telephone; making the world just a little smaller. "

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Color Pickers

Web Color Picker #1
Web Color picker #2
A visual guide to choosing colors for web pages. Interactive palettes help you experiment with the colors.

Color Scheme Generator #1
Color Scheme Generator #2
Finding the good combination of colors may be sometimes long and grueling work. These tools will help you find the optimal color palette.

Color in Motion
An interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.

Images & Fonts

Barrys Clipart Server
Free clipart for private or non-commercial use.

Free Buttons
Color Chart Free buttons of all types for use on the web.

Pic Search
A cool way to search for images on the web. But you must contact the owners about using the images.

Pics 4 Learning
Free images that may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and educational fundraising projects.

Free Foto
Free images for private or non-commercial use.

iStock Photo
Inexpensive photographs and clipart.

My Fonts.com
MyFonts has created one the best search tools in the business to make finding the fonts you need as easy as possible. Ever seen a great font in a magazine and wondered what it was? MyFonts can identify it for you!

Design Magazines & Tutorials

IdeaBook
Photoshop User Magazine Learn how to design anything.

National Association of Photoshop Professionals
A complete resource for photoshop training, education, and news. Also the producers of Photoshop User magazine.

International Web Masters Association
Webmaster certification, training, and courses

Before & After Magazine
How to design cool stuff.

Communication Arts Magazine
One of the leading design trade journals.

Lynda.com
Online training libraries and handbooks for most popular software.

MS Word Tutorial
Need some training in how to use Microsoft Word? Here's a simple online tutorial.

Cascading Style Sheets
Learn how to use them for web development.

Service Resources

iPowerWeb
Constant Contact eNewsletter Affordable, reliable web hosting solutions.

Constant Contact
Do-it-yourself e-mail marketing.

Calendar Wiz
An easy and affordable way to share calendars on the web.

Internic
Find out if a domain name you're interested in is available.

Domain Name Law
Info about domain name law and name disputes.

Keyword Tracker
Find the best keywords for your web site.

Google Search Box
Add a Google search box to your web site.

eBlogger
Google has a free tool you can use to create your own blog (short for "web-log")

Keyword Tracker
Find the best search words for your web site.

Download Time Calculator
How long does it take to download a big fat image or mp3? This calculator will show the download time for a variety of different bandwidths.

Resources for Nonprofits

Tech Soup
A great resource for discounted software for nonprofit organizations.

Good Practices
Articles, resources, and tips to help nonprofits manage their organizations.

Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms THEY want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

TACS
Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS) has served the nonprofit community in Oregon for 30 years providing training, consultation, information, and resources that nonprofits need to do their work better.

Browser Plug-Ins

QuickTime Player
For playing audio and video within a web page.

Flash Player
To play games and view movies and animations created in Flash.

Shockwave Player
To view movies and games created in Director.

Real Player
For tuing in to online video and radio.

Politics & Activism

2008 Central
presidential seal Nonpartisan, comprehensive coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidental election.

Change This
Thoughtful, rational, constructive arguments about important issues.

NOW
National Organization for Women and Legislatlive Action Center.

Women's E-News
Women's perspectives on public policy.

ForaTV
Unfiltered discourse, discussions, and debates on the world’s political, social, and cultural issues that allows viewers to join the conversation.

Somewhat Useful

Math Converter
Fraction-to-decimal conversion tables.

The World Clock
Local times around the world.

College Results Online
An interactive web tool, created by The Education Trust, that allows you to learn more about student graduation rates and and spending at four-year colleges and universities.

Just for Fun

10x10
Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time.

Fast Fictions
A daily dose of strange little stories.

Lucas Larson
My son's web page

Grand Illusions
Cool optical illusions.

Paper Pilot - Battle of the Air
Design your own paper pairplane, practice flying it, and then you you feel confident, challenge your buddies.

Broadway Musicals
Are you a fan like I am? This PBS web site includes history, trivia, and a cool quiz.

The Name Escaped Me
An interactive poem by Cecil Goding. When the screen loads, click once, then follow the instructions. This is from Born Magazine, the link below this one.

Born Magazine
Born Magazine is a quarterly publication that brings together creative writers and interactive artists to create experimental, media-rich literary arts experienced only through the Web.

Stone Balancing
All of the stones in these pictures are balanced, strictly without the aid of adhesive, pins or computer manipulation. They remain in place through the natural force of gravity and friction. ‘Nature’s glue’ sustains them in these seemingly impossible positions.

The Joy of Tech
The Joy of Tech is a comic about technology and pop culture.

Coffee Break Arcade
Take a break with free online interactive games.

Do Mi Stauber's Art
Do Mi Stauber colored pencil painting A friend of mine who does incredible colored pencil paintings.

The Bird's Eye Tourist
Cool repository of aerial shots from around the world.

The Old Toad Quiz
Test your knowledge of history, geography, sports, currents events, T.V., movies, science or whatever topic pops into their quiz writer’s head. A new quiz every week.

MonoFace Battlestar Gallactical Video Toolkit
Dozens of visual and sound clips to add to your home movies.

MonoFace
759375 possible faces.

Interesting Neen Animations

Neen stands for Neenstars: a still-undefined generation of visual artists. Some of them belong to the contemporary art world; others are software creators, web designers, and video game directors or animators.

These pages are all interactive, so experiment with your mouse and watch what happens.
ocean critters by Joel Fox
elastic enthusiastic by Angelo Plessas
angleviner by Joel Fox
its out by Scott Snibbe

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