- jasper's bookmarks speciaal voor jasper
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- sites with fine flash
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- games
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flashzone tile puzzle
- the classic tile puzzle game implemented with fs command and flash.
a good starter project if you're making flash games in flash 3, or if
you want a practical fs command example to look at. this one is cleanly
done. as of the release of flash 4, the game itself would be easier done
with actionscript.
- arcane
- one of the more ambitious flash games on the net, arcane is an
online mystery serial with professional illustration and animation by
quebec city (canada) based animation studio sarbakan. amazingly, arcane
was originally created with flash 3 and no real programming.
- m-zero: the interactive
mini-series
- a highly complex (in flash terms anyway) mystery game set in a neat
looking futuristic city. manipulate and use objects. feels like the old
infocom text-adventure games with pictures, animations, and a console.
apart from arcane, m-zero is in a class of its own in the flash games
department.
- the secret
garden of mutabor
- a slightly crazy series of scavenger hunt type games done in flash.
some cute illustration.
- berny's interactive
adventures
- a nicely rendered ongoing french game starring "berny" a miner who
tries to make his way through mazes. impressive use of flash 3,
especially relative to that version's limitations.
- leos great
day
- created by pepworks (see entry under "interface design"), leo's
great day is an involved click-through adventure game. nice
illustration, and fun gameplay.
- :: [ [ gigablast ] ] ::
- an unbelievably slick looking site with a fantastic version of the
classic "scramble" space shooter game. a truly impressive use of
actionscript and design skillz. done by pepworks, who also did leo's
great day.
- x p e r i e n c e
- a bunch of little old-skool arcade games with a twist: you mail them
to friends as a present. sort of a flash game/animation greeting card
type deal. nicely designed, done by swedish agency starlet
deluxe...xnet.se.
- flashkit arcade
- links to dozens (hundreds?) of games done in flash. many are high
quality. part of www.flashkit.com.
- sadistic boxing
- james baker from the wddg brings you sadistic boxing, a boxer-career
multiplayer strategy game. pit your boxers against your friends' boxers,
in an attempt to become a boxing manager tycoon. sweet illustrations,
and certainly an ambitious level of scripting complexity for flash 4.
- interface design
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- virtual_pulse records
- winner of october 1999's wddg flash challenge, this site excels at
lots of different aspects of flash: there's a useful and engaging
loading sequence, very cool sound design, a neat interface, and lots of
yummy little design elements.
- lundstrom and associates architects
- those of you are waiting for the web to look and act more lke cdroms
will enjoy looking at this architecture firm's site (based in
california, usa).
- vrlx
- a virtual world tour/attractions site with a cdrom-ish interface.
one of the earliest ambitious flash sites.
- asmussen interactive
- neat design of menus, plus a few tasteful effects. content is thin:
it's just a promo site for a small interactive company--a few tutorials
that may be useful.
- indigenous australia
- neat transitions on menu/interface elements. made by walmac
interactive media.
- image dive studio
- the promotional website for a graphic design studio in tokyo. you
tend to forget that the site's done in flash because it uses such
original type animations and interface transitions. feels almost like
sleek after-effects work in some areas. nice use of bitmap/vector
combinations.
- neue sentimental film
online
- an international film and commercial company based in hamburg and
new york. extremely elegant design, interesting interface, and a very
convincing simulation of film projection done in flash.
- pepworks
- a german web design firm. inventive text effects combined with a 3d
viewer for their work samples. also an in-depth cartoon adventure worth
looking at. pepworks is based in krefeld germany, "the ugliest city in
the world" according to patrick thiel, founder of pepworks ;)
- [new beetle] turbonium
- slick, sweet, modern...just like the car... (this used to link to
www.newbeetle.co.uk, but they took that down...oh well. turbonium's nice
too)
- balthaser
- an *ahem* slightly gratuitous self promotional site for a web design
company in san francisco. if you like cd-romish animated interface
stuff, you'll probably want to visit.
- eye4u active media
- site of the web design company "eye4u" located in munich, germany.
this is probably the most appropriate example of the latest generation
gabocorp-style overdone interface. whether you like that stuff or not,
these guys do know their way around flash. some of the sites in their
porfolio are less fluffy than their own site.
- heaven
- a gorgeous japanese example of design-for-design's sake that manages
the interface-as-art challenge incredibly well. very slick. to enter,
use the understated "click to start" button.
- dennis interactive
- a slick line-art promotional site for a new york based interactive
agency. the interface animations are nice and smooth, and the design is
elegant. their clients include cosmopolitan magazine and united media
(the for better or for worse comic strip publishers).
- living screen
- id media's site promoting their screen saver utility for flash.
another example of a cd-romish interface with some interesting little
tricks.
- nrg design!
- located in belgium, nrg design is an interactive design company that
has become famous not so much for its projects but for its fancy lookin
company website, which was macromedia's ssod on july 17, 1998. the site
suffers from a gabo-esque over indulgence, but is still worth visiting,
if only to see its remarkable use of shape tweening.
- fashionhouse.net - niki
taylor
- a promotional site for model niki taylor designed and produced by
evilsteven at zoecom design. of interest because of its integration of
lots of web technologies (html, flash, real video, asp). decent example
of a professional/corporate use of flash (that *isn't* by a car
company).
- hoover vaccuums
- not exactly the most logical combination of style and content
(unless i'm missing something and hoover has gone into spacecraft
production), but a clean, professional, technical feeling interface.
- charlotte street
- a uk based info/community portal for women & families. clean
interface, highly functional application built in flash. attractive
dynamic interface that doesn't make you seasick. produced by associated
new media (www.associated.co.uk), the online division of the daily mail
and generaltrust.
- compound heavy industries
- new york based newmedia agency shows off their stuff with a slick
technical interface and some nice flash promo pieces for ibm's ebusiness
campaign.
- searchbots
- nice looking flash search engine. good integration with a db
backend.
- rampt
- a broadband search agent that finds high bandwidth content on the
web for you. uses a slick flash4 intereface to guide you around. one of
the authors of the flash 4 bible (idg books) that i contributed to works
on this site.
- amoeba corp
- toronto, canada, based print design company. beautiful experimental
interface done by another company in toronto that's now out of business.
clients include the toronto maple leafs hockey team and canadian youth
tv station "ytv".
- open
- uk-based interactive tv content provider. nice vectory transitions
with classy scanline effects.
- cars.com: how a car
works
- cool little app that lets you explore the components of a car...uses
animation to show the car's parts working.
- greets.com
- hyper style cartoony greeting card site. fun intuitive gamey
interface elements that come out and grab you. build a multimedia
greeting card to send to someone as a packaged cd-rom.
- etalent gate
- some really nice design, and elegant, unique transitions. suzanne
terhorst teamed up with flasher ze frank to create this site for a web
employment agency that matches
digital freelancers and agencies.
- wallpaper*
- the ever-so-savvy online version of the stylish lifestyle magazine.
very unique slick and modern looking transitions and effects. done by
berlin based i-d media who also did living screen.
- smithsonian natural history
web: african voices
- a clean encyclopedia style site by terra incognita. nice active use
of flash to bring the interface alive, and some interesting scripting
tricks here to keep the navigation in synch with the browser's back
button. mark baltzegar, one of the site's developers, had an interesting
comment on how the interface simulates the museum environment: "In the
exhibit, visitors navigate the exhibit-space by means of 'visual draws'.
An object or photo captures their attention, so they move closer to read
the accompanying text."
- wireframe studio
- a web design company's site. delicious retro/modern video-gamey feel
with very punchy responsiveness and a healthy minimalist horizontal
slider. also has the requisite actionscript physics demos. doesn't seem
to like netscape.
- kerb
- candy-coated techno-toon interface by kerb, a uk based web agency. i
like how intuitive the whole thing is to use, even though it's all icons
without words. menus float in and out, visually reminding you of their
function. nice interface sound interaction as well.
- lucid circus
- this philadelphia-based web design company has a slick site with all
the requisite vectory-techno-hip elements. what sets it apart is the
nice 3d surprise you get in the menu transitions.
- :: santoriello.com ::
- tom santoriello, a designer at neoplanet, presents a selection of
his work and design in this illustrative 3d os style portfolio site.
- ward7
- beautifully illustrated 3d interface with some truly unique
surprises.
- wddg
- james baker & the gang over at this slick web/flash shop in nyc
have been doing flash since the beginning. the latest version of their
own site is a unique combo of html style done in flash.
- animation
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- they're
made of meat
- terry bisson's well known script adapted for realflash. one of the
realflash showcases on the real site.
- webtrips entertainment network
- maintained by creative explosions inc, an online advertising/flash
company based in palo alto, ca, this site is home of the famous clinton
vs. gate grudge match. click on "pleasure" when you get there.
- jonni nitro
- an online animated film-comic hybrid with stylish black & white
vector animations that are as realistic as it gets in flash.
- rooney design
- a freelance designer in california. go here to see a very neat
looping animation of a bunch of clever zoom transitions. click on "zoom
in" once you're there.
- 2b - internet comics
- 2b internet comics is an independent net publisher of brazilian
comic artists. as of jan. 99, there were 4 artists represented, with
first issues scheduled for march 99. has good potential...worth keeping
an eye on if you're in to flash used with comics.
- interactive & interface factory:I2f
- sweet japanese design + interactive agency. notable flash is a 3d
multiple cube interface with tricky mouseover effects. (select "flash"
from their pulldown menu).
- cartoon network: web
premiere toons
- spumco-style toons created for the web in flash. long and involved.
well worth a visit if you're interested in cartooning in flash. the
technical director participates in flasher-l. produced by funny garbage
in nyc.
- ego media
- a digital design agency with a ton of vectorized video animated
silhouettes of people integrated into their site's design. (similar
animation to jonni nitro...).
- atomfilms
- attractive flash/film interface on this web-based entertainment
provider's site. also some animated shorts done in flash.
- kimble rulez!
- another egoist's over-indulgent homepage. some neat effects though,
and a funny animated short with the usual bad guy: bill gates.
- melon dezign
- a promotional flash movie for a design company in france. a
combination of custom vector transitions with video motion capture (like
you find in jonni nitro). it's a 3mb file though, so take your adsl
connection with you when you visit.
- eden
- a partially-animated comic series based on a futuristic desolate
america. the site is an interactive version of a print mag released in
1996 in detroit. so far only preview episodes (as of april 17/1999), but
enough content to warrant a visit.
- ultralights
- one of my old favourites, "ultralights" started life out as a
personal site on geocities
(http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/2917/ulmain.html) by naoki
mitsuse. naoki has a couple of friends working with him now and
ultralights has become the permanent home of his animated shorts and
whatever else the group decides to make. naoki's classics (now also
posted at http://www.hotwired.com/animation/archive/) are the sex slave
rebel (I and II), and francesca the fruit fly.
- honkworm's real flash
examples
- honkworm is an online entertainment agency based in seattle
washington. they did the famous fishbar movies that were showcased at
the real site. this link takes you to lots of their work samples. good
stuff.
- marimo
- stylish little japanese animations based on the character "marimo".
maintained by toru in tokyo japan.
- the
darker wave
- follow jason murray's animated cockroach through bathrooms and love
stories. highly polished illustration and good production quality.
hosted at "triple-bypass", online urban groove zine and radio.
- the
cartoon
- a short comic-book style movie that blends animation with
traditional print techniques. neat gunshot and invisible transformation
effects. by brad merritt, a member of flasher-l.
- dreamworks records
- recognized by communication arts, macromedia, and netscape,
dreamworks records houses online animated record "covers", or
promotional pieces designed and animated by guest flash artists (one of
whom is josh ulm from quokka). record sales are directed to online
distributors like cdnow. the site was produced by second story
interactive, who also maintain the remedi project. nice collection of
animation techniques for flash.
- willing to try
- a beautifully animated series of inter-related and interactive
shorts. some of the most elegant animation in flash i've seen. produced
by the try group, a private tutoring company in japan that advocates
liberal methods of education.
- mondo mini shows
- san francisco based "mondo media" offers their mini-series style
flash animations for viewing (you have to go to the web portals where
they're hosted...netcenter, warner bros. etc)
- whirlgirl
- animated adventures and games based on a super hero "cyber-vixen"
character. very professional. fairly traditional linear animation style,
but some neat flash tricks.
- infect
- a contest in flash animation. 1999's top 10 winners are nice &
professional. inspiring uses of flash that make you forget they were
done in flash.
- *spark>>
digital gallery
- a non-profit endeavour by kris krug (and a bunch of others) to
showcase artwork done in flash and other digital tools. interesting
world-wide content so far (oct 19/1999).
- mumbleboy
- independent new york web designer, kinya hanada, hosts his
collection of freaked out hyper mumbleboy animations. pretty famous
around the web...has been showcased on hotwired's animation site and
elsewhere.
- globz: interactive games,stories &
toys
- i didn't know whether to file this one under actionscript, interface
design, games, or animation cause it excels in all of those
categories...i settled on animation cause the characters are just too
damn cute. great little games, super interface tricks. well worth
visiting.
- the cat
- a short flick done with hand drawn line art. very funny, and nice
illustrative style. by randy jamison.
- http://www.nosepilot.com/
- a trippy animated short with unique illustrations and inventive
transitions. about 10-15 minutes of solid content (takes a while to
load...but well worth the wait).
- captain low-rez
- follow the adventures of the "25 pixel" superhero, captain lowrez.
old-skool arcade graphics are what its all about in these animated
shorts, created by matthew burns.
- graphic design
-
- suction prahjex (nyc) 2.X
- neat experimentalish design. high-tech arty stuff.
- h e l i o z i l l a
- web design company with lots of clients in the music industry.
neat-as-spit arty design. mostly little narratives with the odd bit of
company info thrown in.
- typogRaphic
- a bit of design for design's sake. decent collection of collage/type
design pieces by jimmy chen. feels more like a moving print mag than a
website.
- p l a y l i f e
- benetton's active lifestyle site. very pleasing to look at.
judicious use of flash techniques with traditional html/javascript
tricks.
- boom
- a culture ezine with some attractive design elements in their
interface.
- combine
- periodic posting of flash experiments not unlike the remedi project.
actually one of combine's pieces was posted there. maintained by george
larou and andy slopsema, who have also done some work for dreamworks
records.
- father business
- a clean techno style site with some great incorporation of video
style effects. unique feeling flash. "father business" is a dutch
casting and coaching bureau (according to ronald, one of the site's
creators at limage dangereuse).
- gmunkstudio
- showcase site for gmunk studios, a one-man internet and print design
studio run by bradley grosh. heavy stressed out techno work that
includes personal experiments and art as well as client pieces.
- john mark sorum | photographer
- what do you get when you combine stylish photography with the wddg?
a fucking slick site, that's what. enjoy the highly unique transitions
between photos and the subtle touches like sounds that fade out when you
move between sections.
- impressive actionscript
-
- mono*crafts.
- some nice experiments with text. and design. has to have the coolest
guest book ever--it records the keys you type and you watch them
replayed exactly as you typed them. ok its neater than it sounds. go try
it.
- flash 4 scripting
engine demonstration - 3d cellular phone
- self-proclaimed 3d flash master "manoone" (manuel clement) shows the
neat tricks you can do with a little scripting in flash 4. spin a
cellular phone on 2 axes, and choose what it looks like and displays.
- avalon chat
- a basic chat app written in flash 4. created by daniel votino of the
flash brothers design group.
- tripuzzle
- a simple drag'n'drop puzzle. has an interesting 3d aspect to it. by
dominik lamar who runs a small multimedia company in germany,
www.visuality.de.
- flash doodle
- an experimental basic paint program that uses duplicate movie clip
to simulate drawing with a brush. by mike chambers and paul arce
(hexdesign).
- meleca
- flash 4 game: a basic version of a space fighter in the style of
galaxians or space invaders.
- action fighter
- flash 4 fighting game by spooky & the bandit. modelled after
mortal kombat and street fighter, this simple web adaptation pushes
flash programming to its limits. the fighters actually have decent a.i.
considering the whole thing is built with *no* arrays and nearly no
built-in math support. :)
- :: a t m o s p h e r e g r a f i k
::
- canadian web company that did their site like a computer app with
draggable windows etc etc. lots of scripting tricks to look at here.
- andy foulds
- an interesting series of interface and interaction experiments by
andy foulds, indie flash developer in the uk.
- a 3d shape viewer
- a computer science student at moscow state university made this 3d
rendering engine all in flash 4. complete with lighting and draggable
points. it even imports 3ds files...
- cleopatra art group
- russian flasher dennis ivanov serves up periodic experiments in
actionscript. quite a lot to explore here--lots of the usual bouncing
balls and visual effects, plus some unique stuff.
- protocol7.com
- swedish flashers eva råberg and niklas gustavsson offer actionscript
experiments and tutorials ala praystation. mostly visuals/physics/math
based. very stylish.
- art/experimentation
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- light of speed
- david crawford's really decent experiments in animation with flash
and other web stuff. stands apart from lots of the uses of flash 3.
- 00blink00
- "BLINK" was a flash/animation gallery by halfempty, a net culture
art fashion etc ezine. BLINK had refreshing, raw experiments in flash
animation. BLINK has changed though...it's now an open forum for flash
experiments by anyone. you can still see some of the creator's stuff
though...look for james paterson.
- k o n i q _alinear _digital //
protosite
- nyc flasher neil voss's attractive experiments in motion trails and
other stuff. also an exhibition space for his personal and freelance
work.
- |p|r|a|y|s|t|a|t|i|o|n|
- joshua davis, flash developer at kioken design, post his thoughts,
creativity, and flash experiments here. pleasing design and interesting
applications of flash scripting. year 1 of praystation was josh's
interpretation of the effects of video games on visual expression. now
praystation provides more general art content. josh also maintains
www.once-upon-a-forest.com, which is of a similar vein.
- neonsky
- a beautifully-housed collection of multimedia pieces on various
topics. very very slick use of halftone patterns and masks that really
give a liquid feel to the intro sequence. the main interface is like a
living mondrian...lines and squares in an abstract patter that arrange
themselves to reveal choices.
- heapingportion
- a beautiful collection of prints displayed through a highly engaging
flash interface. great scripting, beautiful and imaginative animations
dropped over the prints, and a big whack of savvy in the whole piece.
produced by james patterson of half-empty, and some friends.
- immerse
- art&culture, the san francisco-based ezine/portal, provides this
aesthetically pleasing series of multimedia essays on the phenomenon
they call immersion: being obsessed and completely preoccupied by
something.
- [ h 6 9 ] --- w h a t ‘ s _ y o u r _ l u c k
y _ n u m b e r ?
- an online gallery of flash animation and toys contributed by artists
and designers. slick design, modern content.
- .....:::::bzor t-12:::::.....
- kenneth austin's personal experiments with fractals and artificial
life patterns. nice to look at, fun to play with.
- flight404
- a series of visual scripting experiments. pleasing to view, and a
neat plane-schematics interface.
- marc taeger
- marc taeger, a traditional media artist in barcelona, spain,
combines flash with his illustrations, sculpture, and paintings in this
expressive piece.
- garage
- nearly a hundred individual flash pieces linked together by graphic
elements. it's tempting to call these flash paintings or moving prints,
but neither label seems quite right. actually i like experiencing art
that hasn't been named yet.....by ryan klak
- h.u.n.g.r.y.f.o.r.d.e.s.i.g.n
- a series of flash and graphic design experiments. also includes some
"work" samples (logos, etc). by nando costa, a senior designer at james
baker's wddg.com.
- true is true
- flash experiments in design by mike cina. see also mike's extensive
collection of static design work at www.mikecina.com (includes his
designs for the cover of the testpilotcollective.com font gang).
- .: valence
- a series of digital montages, designs, and animations tied together
with an organic cube tree. created by the digital entertainment company
kpe.
- experience/entertainment
-
- pepsi world
- one of the first large scale mainstream entertainment sites made
almost completely with flash and shockwave. updated all the time.
content focuses mainly on pop culture.
- threecolor
- arty experiments with the medium spliced with snipits of
text/poetry(?)
- the remedi project
- an attractive and professional collection of web-art experiments.
the name comes from "REdefining the Medium through DIscovery". some
truly unique uses of flash. one of the artists (josh ulm) is also a
designer at quokka sports, a web shop that is often profiled by
macromedia. maintained by second story interactive.
- create your
own fireworks
- a somewhat bizarre site that lets you choose a city backdrop and
then click firework launchers to see fireworks displayed against the
city. novel.
- sonicnet flashradio
- a flash/real player based broadcast site with multiple music
channels. listen to music while watching flash animations and reading
news.
- manifestival
- neat interface and entertaining flash animation/qt movies. here's
their site write-up:
"manifestival is an online cinema
festival
created off the love and sweat of a handful of people all over the
globe. the bi-annual festival, running for five weeks, is created by
affiliates who are organizations and companies for the film, digital
video,
and web industries."
- heavy.com
- a hiphop/groove toon & animation & music entertainment site.
full on flash in your face.
- omnisky
- wise, non-gratuitous use of flash that exposes a product by
involving the viewer in mini-narratives. by todd purgason and the gang
at juxt interactive. todd says he had to kick and scream to get the
client to allow for the limited interactivity in the piece. apparently
they are still thinking in the linear terms of tv.
- m o s q u i t o
- the website for the swedish tv animated tv show mosquito. done by
paregos. yeah, this one goes full screen, but it's beautiful and highly
immersive. wicked anime/techno style and lots of toys in the interface.
includes dj mixing stations and other show promo materials.
- ecommerce
-
- the
blair witch store
- a store for the movie with an interesting drag'n'drop shopping cart
done by "click active media".
- boo
- some elements of this stylish clothing/lifestyle site are done in
flash. it launched with more flash content but seems to have adopted
dhtml for most of the shopping cart system.
- w w w .fudge. c o m
- sales of hair products. one of the first e-commerce flash sites. you
browse the products in flash, then actually make the purchase in a
separate html window.
- ted baker
- a clean-looking online store for clothes by uk designer-retailer,
ted baker.
- um....these are just funny or noteworthy
-
- ..........skipintro..........
- my favourite(tm) flash site. anyone who's sick of gabocorp envy
should go look right now.
- welcome to planet plant
- there's a teddy bear torture chamber here. what else can I say?
- modern homepage
- a little spumco-style web infomercial done by ingram labs to promote
their web business.
- the virtual curry
gallery
- considering it's the effort of a single person, virtual curry, by
jim curry, is a massive collection of animations and games. you can get
lost in the zany halls of his museum or house...two venerable examples
of flash interactivity from the flash 2 era. jim formerly was a very
regular contributor to flasher-l, and still drops by occasionally.
- other lists
-
- the.wddg.flash.challenge
- one of the best lists of well designed and well implemented flash
sites I know of. neat concept--any visitor can suggest a site to add to
the current list of sites, then other visitors vote on the sites in the
list. and it's all displayed with flash talking to an asp back-end. the
challenge is solely maintained by james baker of the wddg, a design
company in new york.
- flash film festival
- an intensely cool collection of some of the world's nicest flash
work in all categories (design, animation, interactivity, etc). the fff
is a popular vote competition for excellence in flash that was started
as part of the flash forward 2000 conference in san francisco.
- linkdup
- an attractive, well organized list of exceptional sites, selected by
a committee, and rated by users. sites span commercial to creative, in
a
variety of technologies (which you can use to filter the list).
maintained by london-based media agency "preloaded".
- developer info
-
- general help sites
-
- flash kit
- started fall 1999, australia's flashkit was one of the first high
quality flash help sites to come around in a long while. a good all
around resource for developers, designers, and even advanced flash
programmers. lots of community stuff, free sounds, etc. tons of sample
fla files to work through. maintained by mark fennell and others in
sydney.
- flashzone
- probably the oldest serious developer help site on the web.
flashzone was originally started by branden hall, chrissy rey, and a
bunch of other flash enthusiasts. it grew from an assorted bunch of
tutorials into a full blown news and help zine. as of early 2000,
flashzone is now affiliate with c|net, offers professional content, and
is run primarily by david emberton, who wrote flash 4 magic, and writes
a monthly column on c|net.
- moock>>
web>> flash
- some lame ass shit about flash. not sure who the hell this joker
is...
- macromedia - flash
support
- help for flash from the makers of the product. notable content is
the searchable "tech notes" section which is added to regularly by
macromedia support staff, and the "developer's center" for tutorials and
references. if you're wondering whether or not your problem has been
addressed before, start by searching the tech notes. they are
exhaustive.
- flashcentral technotes
- john croteau's list of technical references for flash. most of the
references are actually technotes on macromedia's support site or other
sites around the web.
- macromania
- christian's tutorials on flash techniques (things like animating
buttons). downloads of .fla files, and reasonable tutorials on some
approaches to flash effects. christian can also be found as a
contributor on flasher-l.
- flash world (brazilian help
site)
- looks like a decent help site (though i can't read most of the
content cause it's in spanish...)
- flash and webtv
- webtv's info source for developers who are making flash content and
want it to be webtv compatible.
- macromedia:
sites devoted to flash and flash developers
- macromedia's list of flash help sites. not always up to date with
the *latest* sites, but always links to established, good sites.
- spanish flash tutorials
- a spanish help site that covers the flash fundamentals with samples
and tutorials.
- you're here, were
here
- new in the fall of 99, this site has an extensive message board
system like flashpad, and example .fla files in the usual categories.
not as large as flashzone, but has reasonably good content. maintained
by aaron adams.
- community
-
- flasher-l
- flasher@shocker.com is the primary source of professional flash
development discussion. many of the participants run flash help sites,
many produce high profile sites with flash, and macromedia product
management & tech support often joins in. flasher-l is the hub of
the flash community. as of june 1999, though, it was averaging 50-100
posts a day, so it can get a little noisy in your inbox.
- best of flasher-l
- an adapted archive of the flasher-l listserv that distills hundreds
of useful faqs from posts to the group and offers them up for browsing
or searching. look here first for answers to your question before you
post to the list. service provided unofficially by the staff of
i-technica, washington dc based web shop.
- flasher-l
archive
- the sometimes-updated archive of the flasher-l listserv. right now
you'll only see july and august 99 here, but theoretically this will be
the home of the archive when it's working.
- macromedia.flash
(nntp newsgroup)
- macromedia.flash is the official macromedia-hosted usenet newsgroup
for flash discussion. to view it you have to add "forums.macromedia.com"
to your nntp services in your mail or news reader. this group is really
high volume, but is frequented by macromedia tech support daily. great
resource, just a bit noisy.
- onelist:
flashmacromedia
- the searchable archives for the onelist flash listserv.
- flashmacromedia
listserv
- a list started in june 1999 by joe copfer as a professional
alternative to flasher-l, which sometimes get a lot of white noise.
moderated.
- flasher discussion group
- a single long web message board for flash developers. well used. no
registration required.
- flash talk
- every wednesday evening, john croteau of flash central hosts an
informal developer's chat session here. mostly frequented by flasher-l
members.
- flashcoders
listserv archive
- branden hall maintains this actionscript-focused email list, hosted
by fig leaf software. branden is a solid actionscripter with a good
non-flash programming background. he's been hacking away with flash
since the early days of the product. flashcoders was started in august
2000.
- coding/scripting and flash
-
- flashlite.net
- a help site for producing cds with flash and doing other scripty
things with flash. maintained by chrissy rey, who's also a member of
flasher-l.
- using
fscommand (technote 4160)
- macromedia's famous, though spartan, reference on using javascript
and vbscript with flash. includes a useful list of flash javascript
methods.
- flashwave
- this site started out as "the.home," thomas leitch's detailed
instructions on communicating between flash 4 and a server side script
(perl or asp) with actionscript. his main examples were a chat app, mail
forms, and hits counters. thomas also does contract work for ego media
(www.egomedia.com). the site has since become "flashwave" a portal for
high-end flash actionscripting.
- openswf.org: swiff file format info
center
- copies of the swf spec plus reference code implementations for those
doing custom c++ work with the flash player. some great "under the hood"
info, plus tools and news. maintained by dave michie.
- macromedia's
"scripting with flash 4"
- macromedia finally posted a decent explanation of fs command,
including example syntax and info on the new fs commands introduced with
flash 4.
- flashlite's
libraries
- branden hall provides his libraries for trig and square root
calculations.
- flash central's
actionscript info
- john croteau's list of actionscript examples, information and
libraries.
- zinc roe
- toronto-based flasher "jason krogh" offers up some actionscript
examples and source files for the dev. community. jason teaches flash
classes locally in toronto.
- 3dflashcube
- david colquhoun offers a sample .fla file to show how to handle
rendering a 3d cube in flash.
- code66 flash experiments
- some actionscript demos with sample .fla files. things like mouse
trails, drag'n'drop, variable setting.
- wahlers.de chat engine
- claus wahlers has his php-based flash chat system posted for prying
eyes to learn from.
- wahlers.de flash cam
- another interesting flash application by claus wahlers: a web cam.
the cam runs off a linux server which automatically converts jpegs to
.swf files (c source code for the conversion is posted!).
- math
-
- trigonometric
functions
- good coverage of basic trig functions aimed at visual thinkers.
this is just math, not a flash tutorial.
- famous
curves index
- a list of equations that define several dozen popular curves.
- basic
2d math
- mark feldman's intro to 2d geometry, excerpted from the win95 game
programmer's encyclopedia
- basic
3d math
- mark feldman's intro to 3d geometry, excerpted from the win95 game
programmer's encyclopedia
- exploremath.com:
activities
- shockwave-based interactive demos of basic geometry and
trigonometry.
- using beziers for
programmatic animation and movement contstraints
- darrel plant's concise explanation of bezier curve math and ways
to apply it to visual programming. darrel's examples are director
based, but most of the theory is described in mathematical terms that
could be converted to flash.
- how
to cook 3d in director
- che tamahori offers up a tutorial on programmatically generating a
3d cube in director. most of it can be pretty easily translated to
actionscript.
- galileo and
einstein
- professor michael fowler's first year physics course on the
foundational concepts of mathematical theories discovered by galileo
and einstein (amongst other essential topics). includes well written
notes for over two dozen lectures. many concepts demonstrated with
java applets. fowler teaches at the university of virginia.
- non-flash programming info
-
- flipCode
- game developers news and resources, aimed mostly at c++
programmers, but many languages are covered, and there's good relevent
information for basic game logic, design, and ai that applies to all
platforms.
- flash + databases
-
- Swift-Tools
- free lightweight generator-style tool for creating dynamic flash
sites.
- corda / popchart
- popchart produces dynamic graphs in flash (and other things) from
external data.
- [kessels] flashdb v1.0
- a snappy little freeware database utility for flash 4, written in
perl. converts data sent from flash (via "load variable") to a flat
file, then allows retreival of that file. not appropriate for heavy-duty
db interaction, but just right for small stuff. intallation and clear
usage instructions written by the author, jeroen kessels.
- flash detection
-
- moock>>
web>> flash>> detection>> moock fpi
- my all purpose generic detection system, the moock flash player
inspector. offers configurable netscape and internet explorer (vbscript)
detection on all platforms for all versions of the player, and doesn't
break other browsers. free for non-commercial use, linkware for
commercial use.
- mm
technote: browser support for flash detection
- a nice table listing which platform/browser combinations can detect
which plugin/activex control. also a bit of sample activex detection
code.
- mm
technote: how to detect the shockwave plugin or activex control
- two sample vb scripts for detecting shockwave and flash.
- mm
technote: how to remove the flash activex control
- explains how to rid your ie (windows only) of the flash activex
control. in netscape you can do the same by deleting npswf32.dll from
your plugins directory.
- archived
flash players
- download most of the old versions of the flash player for testing
purposes. as of april 15, 2000, minor versions (like r7, r20, etc) still
haven't been posted for some reason. the old players were made available
after some kicking and screaming by flash developers on flasher-l
listserv.
- 3rd party tools
-
- flashjester
- makers of add-on tools for projectors to do things like launch an
external program, or send email, or customize the flash projector icon.
useful stuff for flash cd development. flashjester also make a
screensaver utility called creator. all tools are free for
non-commercial use.
- swiff tools
- edwin van rijkom runs this flash related software utility company.
offerings as of march 2000 are: "screenweaver", a screen-saver-making
tool, the "swf browser", a little freeware utility that extracts .wavs,
mp3s, and images from .swf files, "fast", an external actionscript
editor for flash 4, and "swiffpeg", an mp3 converter for flash.
- flash and quicktime
4
- how to add flash to quicktime 4, a decent set of articles by
macromedia.
- http://www.davidgould.com/
- creator of "illustrate", a plugin for 3dstudio max that exports 3d
artwork as 2d vectors. flash swf format supported.
- blue*pacific
- makers of a generator alternative called "turbine" which hooks
directly into asp.
- action clip
- a little utility for actionscripting that lets you cut'n'paste hand
written actionscript code from a text editor to the actionscript editing
window in flash.
- ideaworks3d's vecta 3d
- a plugin for 3dstudio, and a stand-alone app, for creating 3d
images/animation for flash. made by ideaworks3d. (www.ideaworks3d.com)
- swifty utilities
- utilities for removing protection on .swf files and recovering
artwork/layers from .swf files if you've lost your .fla file.
- swish
- david michie's authoring tool for producing text effects in flash
(wave, explode, type, drop-in, etc). produces .swf files that can be
imported into flash or loaded with load movie. michie is an active
member of the openswf community, and runs www.openswf.org.
- swift3d
- as of early spring, 2000, this is the best 3d flash tool out there.
like vecta3d and illustrate, it works as a plugin to 3d studio and
produces .swf files from 3d vectors. but it also runs stand alone, and
has a much broader range of export options. most 3d artists will love
the control over gradients and meshes. produced by electric rain
software.
- koolmoves
- lightweight alternative .swf authoring tool. seems to have
interesting shape tweening abilities for character animation. also
exports to animated .gif.
- adobe
livemotion
- adobe's swf authoring tool. sports a familiar after-effects style
timeline and interface, with a heavy focus on animation. heavier use of
bitmaps-for-effects than flash, but very little scripting support.
- actionscript viewer
- burak kalayci's tool for viewing the actionscript in a .swf file.
can view scripts in any file on the web. burak also makes the swifty
utilities.
- ming
- named after flash's arch-rival, ming is a php library swf authoring
tool that can be used on linux to compose basic flash movies. allows
authoring of actionscript in a c-like language that is compiled to
actionscript byte code. code monkeys will love it :)
- saxess "wave"
- a tool for converting xml to to swf via xsl. all done in java. nice
results...look at the demo page.
- wildform swfx
- another text-effect actionscript generator, like swish. creates .swf
files to load into your movies. some decent effects...the type of stuff
you'd expect from programmatic scaling and rotating...
- web art / diversions
-
-
dia center for the arts, new
york, ny
-
jodi.org
- the classic ascii-experimental website. it's gotten pretty hard core
over the years. maintained by Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans
-
carnegie hall: zimmermann's
requiem for a young poet
- poetic ascii art animated with dhtml
-
redsmoke
- another non-linear collection of thoughts, images, sounds, moving stuff,
and narrative. includes some neat flash work.
-
snarg
- amazing html + javascript opening sequence. never quite seen medium
converted into content with such success.
-
superbad
- a nice big collection of artist's experiments with the web medium
-
echosystem: digital band
- music, visual, and animated web-art pieces. lots of flash, qt, dhtml,
and the usual links to arty websites (you know, like the ones in this
section...)
-
bewitched
- mostly java based visual experiments. "the short-cut" could entrance
judith zissman for hours.
-
modern living
- a biweekly animated art piece. often done in flash. click the little ml
circle to see back issues. thanks ot judith zissman for this one.
-
t h e s q u a r e r o o t o f -
1
- hundreds of stylish shockwave eye candies. wonderful to watch and play
with. one of the finer mixes of art and technology on the web these days.
(thanks to judth again...)
-
noodlebox
- by amaze, a site full of director games and visual entertainment. (from
judith)
-
---daac---
- digital arts and crafts. a series of online experiments (mainly in
flash) and reviews of shows the site maintainers go to.
-
http://www.vuk.org/
- web experiments by croatian, vuk cosic, done in the jodi vein (using the
browser + html/javascript as a medium). here's my fave:
http://www.vuk.org/metablink/metablon.htm vuk was also president of the net
art contest http://www.mi2.hr, hosted by mi2 multimedia institut in zagreb
croatia.
-
s u m e a
- two independent finnish designer/programmers doing visual experiments.
impressive 3d java demos, and a nice lookin site.
-
nofrontiere {
nofrontierans }
- an amazing little web community piece (done in java) where you can draw
little vector creatures and have them morph into creatures others have done.
thanks to kim over at alphanumerica for sharing this one.
-
icontext
- andy deck's compelling collaborative pixel paint/ascii art/chat
environment written in java. this will be fun for you. go enjoy. if you're
lucky you'll see andy himself online.
-
easylife.org
- a collection of commentary and experimentation on the web by russian web
designer alexei shulgin (who's in the same crowd as vuk cosic).
-
uploading
- neat looking flash site that didn't have any content when i visited but
was intriguing enough to bookmark cause i might want to take another look
sometime. (oct. 12 1999)
-
scenario74
- a whole truckload of homepage designs and arty experiments in
graphic/web design. thx judith.
-
expo 01 - communimage
- such a cool collaborative web app: you reserve a space in a quilt of
user-submitted images and add to the growing pattern that can be viewed as a
tiny mosaic, or zoomed to show the actual pics. works in french, english,
and german.
-
dividebyzero
- a web interface-as-art design piece.
-
course on web art
- taught by natalie bookchin, these are the lecture notes, resources, and
links. excellent collection for learning about web art.
-
00:00:00: shane cooper, interactive
web art
- an independent multimedia artist's site. decent little apps and imagery.
the artist also does installations in rl galleries.
-
intima.org
- various net.art projects and experiments. nice looking.
-
onedotzero: digital film | digital
moving image
- london (england) based online/interactive/installation type cinema
festival.
-
puree
- a grassroots quarterly art piece put together by a small design group
based in amsterdam the netherlands. the group advertises the site with
posters in the streets of amsterdam. marco de boer, one of the site's
creators, pointed out the site to me after using several of the techniques
from my flash help page. really nice design sense. fun, refreshing,
thoughtful.
-
b3
- a personal releasetheneedtocreateneetstuff art project by a group of web
designers based mostly in germany. high quality dhtml (looked to me like
golive + hand coding) and clever savvy attractive content. the sites from
which each of the contributors originates are interesting too.
-
aesthetics + computation group :: mit
media laboratory
- mit's aesthetics + computation group (acg) one of mit's labs for
experimentation in computer based expression, this group investigates the
combination of design and programming on both a theoretical and a practical
level. lots of interesting reading and visuals to experience (the students'
and teacher's work is posted). lead by designer/programmer/author john
maeda. thanks for the link, judith...
-
100 black boxes
- uk novelist alistair gentry presents his hypertext fiction about 100
people living their final moments in a plane crash. neat design and writing.
-
surfstation.lu
- pretty digital culture ezine with editorials, links, essays, digitalart,
soundtracks, design resources (typefaces, photoshop brushes, etc).
- i just like these
-
-
earth and moon
viewer
- extensive live images of the earth from outer space. views from above
most large world cities, plus lots of other options.
-
anime cafe home page
- reviews, listings and explanations for japanese animated movies.
-
the
hampster dance
- a certified waste of bandwidth
-
icepick.com
- a truly wired house...a guy hooked his fridge, doorbell, trashcan,
toilet, and cat up to the net. get stats on and pics of the things he's
wired.
-
grid models
- this guy maintains an info/fan page on GRiD Systems Corporation's
products. GRiD patented and made the first laptop.
-
a
chronology of computer history
- extensive year by year list of notable computer history events. pure and
simple.
-
compass
camera
- toronto traffic reports via live webcams
-
the link
- independent game developer/artist. try your oldskool skillz at spacejack
for windows, an addictive 2d shooter with wicked soundtracks and demo
recording features. also try scrap, a 3d helicopter game, or just go look at
the paintings.
see also:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Corner/9378/
-
leisure town
- an incredibly copious amount of r-rated bendy animal figure comic strips
made with live models.
-
starwars - ascii
- truly, truly awesome. the first star wars movie converted to animated
ascii art.
-
conan
the barbarian - soundtrack
- the whole soundtrack of the barbarian and the destroyer. plus wavs and
other sounds.
-
fading ad campaign
- frank jump's effort to photograph as many old ads painted on buildings
as he can before they are torn down or covered over. thanks to judith
zissman for this one.
-
welcome to furniture
porn!!
- my hosting is not free...please click on my sponsor's banner so i don't
have to start charging for my site!!!
-
watching the
namespace
- steve champeon graphs the live disappearance of two and three letter
domain names. (complete with source code).
-
footbag worldwide information service
- the official site for the sport also known as "hackey sack".
-
calamondin
- judith zissman finally has her own site of cultural, techno, arty
observations & experiments, though i'm hoping she'll still send me neat
things to explore.
-
infiltration
- info on urban exploration of restricted areas like tunnels, transit
systems, tall buildings, abandoned sites, etc. recounts adventures with
photos and explains how to go there.
-
newgrounds
- one man's personal voyage through irony and satire. damn this stuff is
pretty funny. mostly full of animations that pick on annoying pop-culture
phenomena. famous for the now-banned teletubby fun land, and the hampster
dance assassination game. created by tom fulp
-
underman's 2001: the
hal transcripts
- every word spoken by the hal 9000 computer in kubrick's 2001 (and 2010
if you care about that).
-
blogger.com
- you go to blogger, you provide a web page template, you create
chronological entries whenever you want, and blogger posts them to your own
site via ftp. damn.
-
ascii.pike
- convert an image on your site to magnificent colour ascii art.
-
classic gaming vault
- downloadable roms for all the old arcade and console games. use mame to
play.
-
southtothefuture.com
- a web novelty store with a healthy dose of savvy.
-
battlebots
- real video of home made robots controlled by their creators in fight to
the death cage matches.
-
sissyfight
- an elaborate multiplayer shockwave cartoon game with little girl kids
who try to humiliate each other at school. funny shit...conceptualized by
the staff of word.com.
-
brix
builder
- a java-based lego building simulation app.
-
btdoya
- one man's expression of exasperation at the dot coms.
-
plinko's 404 research lab
- praise for the 404 page, plus info, jokes and a list of the best 404's
around. if you don't know why i like this, try hitting a broken link on my
site...
-
nerve.com
- well designed, hip ezine on sex and sexuality. distinctly 'net feel with
modern writing, poetry, and photography.
-
explodingdog comes to earth
- the prolific sam brown offers up daily illustrations of his captioned
stick men. some of these are really really funny? cool? philosophical? ?
[thanks for pointing this one out judith]
-
fuckedcompany.com
- compete against other visitors to be the wisest prognosticator of
web-corporation failure.
-
eric harshbarger's lego
pages
- eric takes lego sculpting to an excessive level. puts my measly 23
models to shame...
-
http://arcadeathome.efront.com/
- large collection of resources on mame and other console and arcade video
game emulators. plenty of links to roms too. arcade@home is a front-end to
mame (makes it nicer to load and play the games). don't miss:
arcadeathome.efront.com/misc/Vcsclip.mov
- sites w/ neat design
-
-
dhky
- really nice. experimental design for the web. creative and
self-referential
-
| pixel : industries |
- a german web design company. neat site that uses a unique horizontal
background on a bottom heavy page layout.
-
glassdog
- this site about web design is notable graphically for its ability to
incorporate the givens of html (you know, stuff like lots of straight lines
from frames and tables, limited colour palettes, etc) into the graphical
look of the site. navigational buttons and location identifiers do things
that make you *think* they're breaking the rules. (added may 10, 1999)
-
digital thread
- a web design review site with really good taste. their japanese section
is neat. they cover mainstream and indy design.
-
eyesaw
- an independent font designer's site. thanks to judith for this one...
-
mediumrare.net
- the company website for an interactive agency, mediumrare. unique
pulldown-menu interface. good example of using components of the web medium
itself as design elements.
-
terrarium
- killer dhtml and sweet design. one of the few success stories of the
4th+ generation browsers. (thanks judith...)
-
amaze limited
- based in liverpool, uk, this interactive agency produces elaborate but
elegant interfaces in flash, html and shockwave for mostly experimental
sites. nice tricks.
-
http://www.perfect.co.uk/
- an astonishingly high quality collection of impressive sites.
-
mw01www : mo'wax recordings
- clean & sweet design plus creative understanding of the web. that
and the beats are good too...imagine that...
-
http://www.lindkvist.com/
- freelance designer in stockholm presents his portfolio and web
explorations. wonderful web design aesthetic...
-
thomas popinger | photographer
- beautiful experimental media site by fork design's thomas popinger, from
germany.
-
k10k: kaliber10000
- the labour of love of two euro designers who facilitate weekly digital
design displays and create this design exhibition/journal/news centre. great
graphpapery interface elements with an obvious love for html and the web.
-
artistica.org
- e-zine for online designers. the site itself is quite attractive, and
they host/link to good content by guest designers in the gallery.
-
vir2l
- the cool stressed out lines & text look, done very nicely with flash
and java.
-
subimage.com
- just some web designer's site...nice use of css etc.
-
-- 5 2 m m --
- just some neat photos and tasteful design
-
platform network
- a hip-hop/urban site for music, shopping & style. really slick
raw-html design. lots of good tricks.
-
[ clan.dr3i ... v4.0 ]
- german new media agency.
-
three.oh (inspirational kingdom)
- an ezine/portal for graphic design. see also the subsection:
www.threeoh.com/atmosphere/ for a tasteful flash interface.
-
goldtop
- emerald mosley, a uk web designer and artist offers her personal
portfolio and other trinkets up for perusal. i just love how she embraces
the elements of web browser interface and incorporates them into her site's
look.
-
suture
- jeremy tai's personal experiments in design and space, including photo
journals from cities around the world. jeremy is one of the founders of
fork.de (which is also a nice site).
- web design shops
-
-
zdnet's
twenty best internet consulting firms
- an article by lori piquet written on april 6, 1998, giving her top 20
picks for web design companies with a short paragraph of rationale for each.
has links to each company.
-
david
siegel's "a" List
- gives david's view of the cream of the crop in web suppliers. this is a
list of mostly design firms, not ad agencies or software dev. houses. (he's
got a list of those too if you look around).
-
a n g r y m o n k e y
- san francisco based. big clients are movie sites such as blade, and
dangerwillrobinson.com for lost In space. they've also got content on
shockrave.
-
pop! multimedia
- located in seattle, wa. did dr. katz in flash for comedy central, and
part of the new beetle online campaign, as well as bill nye, the science
guy.
-
icon medialab
- Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, these guys have done some neat work
for Mercedes, Amnesty International, Netscape, and Volkswagen. They've got
offices around the world in the typical web hotspots.
-
volumeone | visual communication
- Very cool company site...trippy narratives with arty theoretical intent.
Clients include: Lost in Space (the movie), Photostogo, RollsRoyce/Bentley,
Kodak. Site changes quarterly.
-
studio archetype
- these guys did my favourite design project ever...the launch of the n64
(site and product packaging).
-
hillmancurtis.com
- dave, aka, hillman used to work at macromedia and did the famous
circle-roundy redesign of macromedia's website in 1998. now he and his
faithful followers produce high end work out of newyorkcity. hillman wrote a
book on flash that was published in spring 2000, and is highly active in the
flash world.
-
phoenix pop productions inc.
- based in san fran. they did samsung's site and levi's "living denim"
section. decent client roster...
-
spyplane
- san fran based company that's done some stuff for netscape, infoseek,
excite, and david siegel. they have a funny game in the root of /games/ off
spyplane.com.
-
akimbo design
- a san francisco based design shop that did the superfly dhtml demo on
macromedia's dhtmlzone. they do lots of product demos for macromedia and
microsoft.
-
second story
- creators of dreamworks records, national geographic's site (97-98), and
the remedi project. highly experienced in flash development.
-
fire engine red
- originally started as webworks in san francisco, fire engine red has had
major affiliations with idg books over the years. they spawned their own
identity in december 1996. neat clients, and a decent fucking attitude to
doing the best web dev around without the corporate crap.
-
gr8
- a new and traditional media design company. one of the decent shops on
the east coast (baltimore and boston). does financial industry stuff and the
national gallery of art site.
-
funny garbage
- new york based agency. worked with lots of decent clients. did the
redesign of the famously spartan altavista.com homepage, and did the design
of indigo.ca online bookstore.
-
construct
- yet another decent little web company with a single word name that
starts with "c". as you may have guessed they're based in san francisco and
have a client roster that includes microsoft & the gang. two things make
this shop stand out: their neat company site, and the employee section which
profiles corporate and personal work.
-
limage dangereuse
- a dutch web design company. neat designs and ethics. creators of
www.fatherbusiness.nl.
-
terra incognita
- this alexandria, louisiana, based web company is largely involved with
national geographic's extensive site.
-
kioken design
- hip nyc agency specializing in the entertainment industry. they do celeb
sites like puff daddy & jennifer lopez. other clients include comedy
central and canon. very contemporary looking work...
-
f r o g
- a 30 year old design company founded in germany and now maintaining
offices world wide (austin, san fran, nyc, etc). neat historical clients
like apple in the '80s and now very active in the web. they did dell's site
redesign, micron, the la times.
-
agency.com
- big ass web design/development group based in nyc. the big ass client
list includes british airways, colgate, compaq, gucci, sharp electronics,
sprint, texaco, etc, etc. the folks i know there are nice people, and great
at what they do.
-
blue dingo
- another 600 broadway shop in nyc. not quite the heavyweight of others on
the block, but some good clients. chef boyardee for one...
-
ice: integrated communications &
entertainment
- one of the most established canadian digital agencies. based in toronto,
this is where i work. clients include air canada, onex, sony, procter &
gamble, la senza, tmn, bmw, blue asphalt, pricewaterhousecoopers, mcclelland
& stewart publishing, levis.
-
usweb/cks/marchfirst/whoeverelsegetssuckedintothevortex
- these guys are truly one of the bmfs (big mutha fuckas) of the industry.
massive conglomerate that started as two separate companies (usweb and cks)
and in the spring of 2000 merged with whittman-hart to get even bigger. a
new brand, march first, was born after the merger closed. clients include
the bbc, apple, cnn, sports illustrated, warner brothers, harley davidson,
nbc, etc.
- graphics
-
- png
-
- setting the png alpha
channel
- a short step-by-step tutorial on how to create alpha channel
transparency in .png images using photoshop.
- png (portable network graphics)
- the home page for the developers of the png graphics standard. all
breaking news on the standard is posted here, as well as tech specs and
links to resources.
- photoshop
-
- the
ultimate compendium of adobe photoshop sites
- lots of links to photoshop resources.
- the action xchange 2.0
- kinda what you'd expect...hundreds of photoshop actions. things like
effects on photos, text filters, and time savers...
- stock/clip art
-
- art today
- Photos, vector art, and web stuff like buttons, arrows, bullets,
graphics, backgrounds, rules, textures, icons, photos, and animated GIF
files. They claim to have over 750,000 items, and I've heard good things
about them from a member.
- digital librarian:
images
- tons of links to site with images and catalogs of images.
- ditto.com - the premier visual search
engine
- not stock art, but a great place to find images on the web. obviously
the results are all low res gifs and jpegs, but if that's all you need,
this place is a vast resource...
- optimization
-
- gif cruncher
- an excellent size reducing tool that runs online. browse for the gif
you want to shrink and the gif cruncher site will create a series of
reduced files so you can choose the one you want. i've had better results
with it than with debabelizer, photoshop, ulead's gifsaver, and fireworks.
however, image ready (or photoshop 5.5) and the rest will likely catch up.
they have a pay professional version for batches.
- links to
optimization software
- short but good reviews of image optimization software.
- fonts
-
- webfonts.com (on web
review)
- an info centre for fonts on the web. thorough content, clearly
written.
- fonts-now!
- a massive collection of free fonts for windows. view them online and
download them for free. pretty decent quality.
- comic book fonts
- a portal for typography for comic books and cartoons. pay fonts
available, created by comicraft. tons of info, news, community, showcases.
- chris macgregor's internet type foundry
index
- a directory/portal style site listing type foundries and all kinds of
type info on the web.
- typofile magazine
- a font/type zine maintained by will harris, editor of o'reilly's
webfonts.com. good article on fonts on the web and the 4.0 browsers.
- spanglytipe
- an independent font designer in new zealand offers free fonts (rotated
every so often). neat stuff, and if you join the club for $20, you get a
whole cd of interesting fonts, etc etc. was featured in artbyte magazine,
summer 99.
- uddiuddi.com
- neat site, and some slick free fonts. to go directly to the fonts page
use:
http://www.netspace.net.au/~joison/fonts.htm
- ((( utopiafonts - the fonts )))
- nicely designed site that features a good collection of free fonts
from an independent font designer. interesting preview interface that uses
flash 4 to let you view your characters online before you download.
- font warehouse
- no-nonsense view and download over 1000 free fonts. unusually high
quality
for a free site. offers the following categories: asian fonts,
balloon
fonts, ball fonts, blackletter fonts, broken fonts, brushstroke
fonts,
chisled fonts, computer fonts,crazy fonts (some of these are
nice, not too
cliche), historic fonts, reverse fonts runic fonts, scary
fonts, script
fonts, slanted fonts, star trek fonts, stencil fonts,
tv/movie fonts,
typewriter fonts, uncial fonts, western fonts.
- cool archive
- about 1000 free fonts. on-screen preview images included. not super
high quality but you may find something suitable.
- font-a-licious fonts
- an independent chicago based font designer offers up his typefaces for
free. lots to choose from, some great, some not so great. thanks to kim
from blue dingo for this moockmark.
- : : : free dinc fonts
: : : :
- a small group of quite unique typefaces from dinc, who also make
really nice looking commercial fonts. thanks to kim for this moockmark
too.
- gl:tch freeware fonts
- techno/digital style fonts produced and distributed (for free) by koen
hachmang. some nice fonts here if you're looking for rave-flyer style
stuff or video game fonts.
- sounds
-
-
laura's midi heaven
- midiI 'til you puke. 10 000+ midi files.
-
samplenet
- hundreds of samples of instruments and vocals in .wav format. updated
weekly. also, lots of info on sampling software and industry news.
-
star trek sounds
- downloadable sound effects from the various star trek series. things
like a transporter starting or something appearing on the viewscreen. also
famous clips of the computer's voice.
-
wav central
- free wavs in the movie, commercial, and effects categories.
-
4free
wav audio directory
- a long list of freeware sound sites, some of which have lots to offer.
bit of a hit and miss affair, but if you really want the free stuff, it's
worth a try.
-
index of
/pub/multimedia/sun-sounds
- a vast collection of sound clips from popular and techie culture: tv,
movies, computer sounds, sound effects, anime, birds (don't ask me...), etc.
all in .au format.
-
the free site: free
wavs
- a well annotated list of sites that offer free sounds.
-
wav
sites
- links to wav sites complete with descriptions.
-
flashwavs
- an amateur collection of various sound effects and loops for use with
flash.
-
soundamerica
- quite a big collection of free sounds in the usual categories (tv,
movies, effects, cartoons, etc).
- music
-
-
techno.ca
- hours of archived electronic music from canadian dj's. also, news on the
scene. run out of toronto by jeff haynes & co.
-
flat plastic
-
liquid sky music
-
this is
it
- a great play list from orang.org, but listen to clip 53.
-
house of laudanum | laudible
- great collection of atonal & noise repetition music. slick site too.
-
10inch.de
- decent collection of german electronic tracks for online listening &
purchase. flash 4 required.
-
1groove.com
- the university of toronto's radio station recordings of broadcasts of
electronic music. 89.5 on your fm dial if you're in toronto.
-
g.a.i.a.l.i.v.e.
- a uk-based electronic netradio station. live djs mix daily. good quality
stuff in a pretty broad range.
-
acid-jass online radio
- a solid listing of annotated links to acid jazz/ drumnbass netradio
stations.
-
live365.com
- listen to community generated playlists and broadcasts for music of all
genres. or broadcast your own music.
-
the womb
- miami-based electronic music broadcasts. live and archived, including
videos of djs. good selection.
- useful web tools
-
-
netscape
products archive
- all the old browsers and server software. gotta get 'em for testing...
-
aol's webmaster website
- some okay information if you care to cater to aol users. you can get a
copy of their browser here but only if you download some stupid trial. i'd
be a lot more willing to design for aol if they'd just gimme the damn
executable like netscape does...
-
w3c html validation service
- online html checker. checks according to strict spec, which isn't always
what the real world demands, but useful for idealists, or if you're hunting
for a missing bracket. most good html editing software does a decent job of
this too...
-
colormix
- make a new websafe colour online by dithering the 216 palette. the tool
produces a .gif for you to download as a bgcolor. does the same thing as
ditherbox (www.ditherbox.com).
-
cognitronix
- detects and lists all activex controls on your system. ie only.
-
rex swain's http viewer
- type in the address of the website, and this
page will display the
raw http header and contents the browser would usually get from the server.
- css reference
-
-
builder.com css
tutorial
- begin your education on dhtml and producing 4th generation web content
here. c|net's builder.com guides you step-by-step through the different ways
of manipulating web content using style sheets. You'll learn what css is,
how to modify text, how to create layers, and how to position content
without using tables or frames. all in the familiar, easy to read c|net
voice. note that the tutorial doesn't cover filters for applying special
effects to your content.
-
raggett's guide to
css
- offers a quick and easy to follow introduction to using css to format
your pages instead of using traditional techniques like <font> and
bgcolour. very usable...go grab some samples and see for yourself.
-
c|net's css
reference table
- a chart of all the possible css properties for classes and ids,
including font styles, borders, backgrounds, and positioning.
-
david baron's css
playground
- articles on css and a large group of pages that test css functionality
in various browsers.
-
web standards project: css
- wsp's info on css and reviews of browser compliance with the css spec.
-
css
positioning (on webcoder.com)
- a walk-through tutorial of some simple cssp techniques. good starter
guide.
-
style.webreview.com
- overflowing with solid info about css. notable content includes a long
comparison chart of browser css support.
-
css
filters in ie4 (on webcoder.com)
- a demo of how to use css filters with ie4 to create special effects such
as drop shadow and glow on layers or text. note that filters are not
supported by Netscape.
-
w3c's css level 1 spec
- the standard specification with thorough explanations of all css
elements and properties as well as an introduction to how css works.
reasonably friendly writing. more approachable for newbies than the w3c's
html dtds.
- dhtml
-
- quick reference
-
- index dot html
- an exhaustive list of html tags and their attributes.
-
webcoder.com
- dhtml/javascript articles.
-
netscape's
dhtml manual
- docs for using dhtml in netscape by the browser maker.
-
netscape's
devedge: dhtml
- technotes on dhtml problems, and a good group of solid reference dhtml
implementations with explanations.
-
web review's dhtml
centre
- dozens of solid articles on using dhtml with sample code and issues
discussed. also dhtml news. great articles on ie's custom css filters
(special effects).
-
html guru: dynamic html resource
- an all around good place to find tutorials, community development, and
references for dhtml. some neat, creative stuff. maintained by jeff rouyer.
-
dynamic drive dhtml code library
- free cut'n'paste scripts to do most common dhtml tasks. Nicely written
scripts that are easy to use.
-
assembler.org
- a bunch of dhtml experiments in motion, menus, and draggable objects.
nicely designed...retro video game style. by brent gustafson.
-
vir2l
- an agressive use of dhtml to create an application-style full screen
interface. promotional site for vir2l, a web design company. nice to look
at, interesting to see someone pushing so hard to actually produce something
that lives up to the potential of dhtml. still a tad clunky and produces the
occassional error, but hey, you've got to hand it to them for even trying...
-
the DynAPI project
- dan steinman's open source, cross-browser dhtml code libraries. solid
stuff--widgets for everything from scrollbars to layers to sounds.
- javascript
-
-
ecma 262 language
specification
- the official ecma-262 language specification from the ecma, the body
that maintains the language. javascript and jscript implementations are
based on ecma-262. this is a highly technical document used by developers of
ecma implemenations to create things such as a conforming ecma interpreter.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.4 guide
- netscape provides very readable documentation for each javascript
version in two components: the core language guide and the core language
reference. the guide is a general explanation of language features, the
reference is an encyclopedia style document that defines and explains each
component of the language exhaustively. this is the guide for javascript
1.4.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.4 reference
- the dictionary/encyclopedia for the core javascript 1.4 language.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.3 guide
- the guide to the core features of netscape's implementation of
javascript 1.3.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.3 reference
- the dictionary/encyclopedia for the core javascript 1.3 language.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.2 guide
- the guide to the core features of netscape's implementation of
javascript 1.2.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.2 reference
- the dictionary/encyclopedia for the core javascript 1.2 language.
-
netscape's
javascript 1.1 guide
- the official guide and reference to javascript 1.1 rolled into a single
resource. notably, this is the version of javascript supported by navigator
3.*.
-
netscape's
list of new features in javascript 1.1
- all the components that were added to javascript between version 1.0
(nav2) and version 1.1 (nav3). includes explanations of each component.
-
mozilla's
javascript 2.0 proposal
- the documentation for the proposed version 2.0 of the javascript
language. javascript 2.0 is intended to be an implementation of ecma-262
version 1.4.
-
netscape's
devedge javascript newsgroup faq
- several dozen of the most common javascript problems and questions
discussed in good detail by the devedge javascript champions.
-
microsoft
jscript centre
- microsoft's jscript (that's what they call javascript, or ecma script)
information headquarters. includes documentation, reference, tutorials, and
news.
this reference is actually kind of useless because it asks you to
download the internet sdk or activex control pad to see a full list of
objects, methods, and properties in ie's jscript object model. the control
pad sucked as a reference tool.
-
microsoft's
ie4 dom reference
- a list of all objects, properties, event handlers, and methods defined
for ie4. full definitions given, and sparse usage examples. no compatibility
information.
-
danny goodman's
javascript minifaq
- danny g., author of authoritative javascript books and reference guides,
maintains this faq with pointers to official sites and answers to the truly
most frequently encountered javascript problems.
-
window
attributes allowed on window.open()
- all the possible attributes a window can take when it's opened with
window.open(), complete with explanations of what each one does.
-
popup
window primer, on web review
- a good solid introduction to the task of popping up browser windows with
javascript.
-
javascript for the
total non-programmer
- considering the title, you'd think this site would be exactly what
newbies who want to learn javascript should read. and it tries to be, and it
comes pretty close, but it's not perfect. that said, it's worth a visit if
you're trying to learn javascript.
-
doc javascript -
webreference.com
- regular articles and javascript tutorials. breaks down each step in the
dev process and explains how the code works. plus supplementary info like
news and ask the doc a question.
-
website abstraction
- decent all around tutorials for beginner to intermediate javascripting
techniques. some interesting approaches, and good writing. also includes
moderated forums.
-
the
ultimate javascript client sniffer
- an excellent and *exhaustive* article on browser sniffing. long
explanations of rationale and techniques. this is the official sniffer
recommended for public use by netscape.
-
everest.js
(version 2.0)
- rick scott's heavy duty client sniffer, complete with good explanations
of how it works. (this is one of the scripthead articles on zdnet).
-
javascript source
- good library of cutnpaste javascripts
-
irt.org - javascript
articles
- one of the best places to find no-nonsense explanations of
javascripting. lots of samples and huge faq-style lists of approaches to
common javascript projects.
-
javascript games
- a true testament to what *could* be done with dhtml and javascript if
there weren't so many browser issues to face. lots of the old classics, plus
articles, how-tos, and web discussion.
- unix/perl
-
-
geek dash girl dot com
- a nicely straightforward collection of information on unix, perl, and
cgi scripts. originally hosted at http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/, this site is a
veteran of the web, started on sept 13, 1993. maintained by jennifer myers.
-
teach
yourself perl in 21 days
- the entire text of teach yourself perl in 21 days by sams publishing,
copyright 1996.
-
cgi101
- a companion site for the book by the same name. the full text of most
chapters is posted here, including sample scripts. covers the basics of
setting up cgi support for a site and writing perl code to make things like
guestbooks, counters, and email forms. great for beginners.
- java
-
-
the java boutique
- free java applets. tons of the classic little front end trick things
like text scrollers. plus programming information and general java
reference.
-
gamelan
- the canonical java developers' resource. downloadable source and lots of
programming tutorials, plus news from the java dev world.
-
soda's constructor
- a highly engaging java applet that animates vector shapes you can build
or load. really neat to try if you're into physics demonstations.
- xml
-
-
generally markup
- xml white papers, hands-on tutorials, and a list of reference sites
provided by richard lander from the university of waterloo.
-
xml programming in
the real world (article on c|net)
- an article by c|net covering how sparks.com uses xml to integrate their
backend data system with front end html. some sample code, and general
approaches described in reasonable detail.
-
xml.com
- an xml resource, information, and news site by o'reilly and seybold.
great, deep content with notable xml authorities contributing and serving as
editors.
- web dev sites
-
-
webtools
- articles and news on the software we use to create and view websites.
-
webdeveloper.com
- good general technical web dev info site.
-
web review
- good all around web dev resource site.
-
webtrends network
- web news, moderated resources, and webmaster style tools (gif optimizer,
load checker, html validator etc) at this portal launched in may 99 by
webtrends, the makers of site statistics software.
-
webmonkey
- wired's reliable tutorial/resource/info site for web development and
design.
-
evolt.org
- a community site run by web developers for web developers. articles
written by contributors and comments made by anyone in the community. up to
date and some good gems here. nice to look at as well, and adds an
interesting customizable interface to the traditional zine style site.
-
irt.org
- hard-core amounts of info on building websites. straightforward writing
with lots of examples. great and extensive faqs on the typical web building
topics (javascript, dom, css, forms etc). super resource.
- broadband
-
- broadband portals
-
- scour
- a savvy-pants search engine/portal for bandwidth hogging content.
mostly pop culture, but some indie stuff too.
- online video
-
- realplayer
- a popular plugin that plays streaming video and sound.
- icravetv
- canadian television stations broadcast live to the internet with real
audio. early in 2000, this site was slapped with as many lawsuits as there
are mega entertainment corporations. viewing was disabled last i checked
(feb 2000).
- entertainment / digital film
-
- anime cafe
- lots of info on japanese anime.
- d.film digital film festival
- an online film festival and advocate, d-film showcases and promotes
internet-based film productions.
- getoutthere.bt.com
- a promotional site for british independent film makers that runs
monthly music and film contests and promises to present winners to
prominent industry folks. lots of independent content to watch here.
- anteye
- this company solicits new independent work by offering a place to
showcase it. nice site, lots of original films and animation to watch.
mostly short.
- character encoding
-
-
iso 8859 alphabet
soup
- a description of the iso 8859 character families which are today's
standard 8 bit derivitives of the original ascii. by roman czyborra.
-
iso latin 1 character
repertoire
- excellent, in depth coverage of the characters in iso 8859-1, or latin
1. latin1 is the extended 8-bit version of ascii used to represent north
american and western european languages, and as of the year 2000, still the
default character encoding for most western web browsers. by jukka korpela.
-
iso 646 (good old
ascii)
- a description of the history of ascii which explains its roots, its
7-bit implementation, and its progression to iso 8859 and unicode.
-
unicode official homepage
- main info centre of the unicode consortium, the group that develops and
maintains the world's standard international character encoding system,
unicode. pretty technical stuff...not too much of it is lay-person friendly.
-
a tutorial on character
code issues
- a highly informative, thorough article on the basics of character
representation in computers. includes ascii, latin1, and unicode examples,
plus lots of great info for character encoding newbies. by jukka korpela
-
on the use of
some mw windows characters in html
- if you've ever wondered whether it is really ok to use a windows em dash
in an ms-word document that may end up on a mac or if you ever worried
whether or not typing alt+0153 is really a legitimate way to get a (tm)
symbol onto a web page, read this article by jukka korpela.
- general internet reference
-
-
connecting
online - the authors' bookmarks
-
whatis.com
- a good source of definitions and explanations for laypeople about
internet and computer terms and concepts.
-
wdvl: the illustrated encyclopedia of web
technology
- a very comprehensive collection of information about building websites.
many concepts clearly explained and many tutorials on how to makes sites
using the technologies described.
-
the world wide web
encyclopedia
- a fairly old (1996), but good dictionary of terms used in web
technology.
-
webopaedia
- like whatis.com, this is internet.com's dictionary of terms used in
programming, the web, and computers in general. professionally written, and
thorough coverage of most topics.
-
the free online dictionary of
computing
- started in 1993 by editor denis howe, this massive repository of
programming and computing terms is one of the dinosaurs of the web. mirrored
the world over, and used by ask jeeves and dictionary.com, it contains
excellent information, and exhaustive coverage of topics. the implied
audience is programmers, not beginners or non-programmers. the dictionary is
updated regularly and has many contributors. at my last count (may 8, 2000)
the dictionary had definitions for 13057 terms. (this is also a classic in
old school html design--p, h, ul, dl, and hr are pretty much the only tags
used. though i did spot one graphic ;)
- web standards
-
-
w3c - the world wide web consortium
- the main organization in charge of maintaining and approving web
technology standards. keepers of the html, css, dom, and xml specs.
-
ietf - internet engineering task force
- so they sound like an elite group of fighters from a 70's comic, but
they actually maintain the standards for much of the internet's
infrastructure and architecture (things like tcp, ip, ppp, uri/url, etc).
- usage statistics
-
-
thecounter.com
- statistics from around the world about browser use, domains, etc.
-
100hot sites
- the hot100 is a portal/search engine that maintains a list of the most
visited websites according to logs submitted by a confidential list of
webmasters. supposedly the logs track 100 000 web users world wide.
-
statmarket
- statistics for all the good stuff like which javascript versions are
still out there. counts approx. 27 million visits a day on 72,000 sites,
last i checked. maintained by websidestory.
-
stuck with old browsers
until 2003 (alertbox april 1999)
- an interesting and short article by jakob neilson that predicts
(complete with graphs) that version 3 browsers won't be completely gone
until early 2001.
-
nielsen
netratings
- a stats site run by Nielsen Media Research, the famous TV ratings
company. includes top 10 sites of the week, net traffic reports per day, and
top 10 banners clicked per week.
-
gvu center's www user
surveys
- georgia tech's famous graphics, visualization and usability (gvu) www
usage surveys.
-
macromedia
flash download counter
- info on the download stats for flash from macromedia's site
-
uiuc browser stats
- summarizes browsers used by 10k+ hosts in 75+ countries making 80k+
accesses on any given day to the engineering
workstations www server at
the university of illinois at urbana-champaign. most hits are
to
engineering student home pages.
- web advertising/business
-
-
iab--internet advertising bureau
- an association that conducts research, proposes standards, and provides
an informational website on internet advertising. a good place to start if
you're looking for answers or statistics about internet ads.
-
iab--banner
size standards
- the iab's document on the ad hoc industry standard banner sizes for web
banner ads.
-
emarketer
- an ezine on online marketing and advertising. includes news, stats,
community, and how-tos.
-
netratings
top banners
- a weekly display of the most frequently clicked banner ads according to
"netratings", which tracks a research group of 3500 18 year old or older net
users.
-
microscope
- a weekly review of winners of microscopes banner advertising awards.
reviews have analysis by microscope, context for the campaign, and comments
by the production company. submit your own banner campaign for review.
-
netmarketing
- general web marketing info, notably--stats on costs of building a
website, hourly developer rates, market trends, and a developer's directory.
-
webmonkey:
design: ad banner design tips
- article on designing banner ads, and some statistical reports on
advertising with banners on the web
-
welcome to microscope
-
cluetrain manifesto
- 95 interesting tennets of marketing with an e-generation slant.
-
epinions.com
- intersting site. anyone can post a review for any consumer product. over
time, users can rate your review. the more people who agree with you, the
more trusted you are, and the higher-profile your reviews become. you get
paid every time someone rates your review.
-
personalization.com
- a resource centre for creating sites with "personalized" content (ie.
content that adjusts itself to the specific preferences of individual users,
like my.yahoo.com).
-
Patterns for
e-business
- web project management
-
-
Secrets of
Successful Web Sites
- The companion site to David Siegel's book by the same name. Includes
references and general info as well as book updates and sales info.
-
Project Management Institute(PMI Home
Page)-Certification, Seminars, Standards
- Huge project management site with docs and studies on many different
kinds of project management as well as links to other info. Almost like a
project management portal site.
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graphic artists guild handbook
- the gag's official guide book to doing ethical business as a freelancer.
info on how to get the book, but no samples posted.
- web usability
-
-
Usable Web
- One of the central locations of information about UI design and
Usability Engineering for web sites and web applications. Covers testing,
design, standards, and news.
- web hosting
-
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1hostplus
- bargain basement hosting for as little as $4.95/month.
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hiway technologies, inc.
- one of the largest and most reliable web hosting services on the net.
hiway was acquired by verio in late 1999.
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pair networks web hosting
- good reviews from a guy on the flasher-l list. looks like cheap prices.
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the reprahduce company
- for mac fanatics, here's a web hoster with a good reputation that hosts
exclusively on g3s. hmm...
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vserver
- haven't researched them much, but they look decent. $25/month for
unlimited hits and 50mb storage. (added may 5, 1999)
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ci host
- suggested as a cost-effective alternative to hiway and verio by an
equaintance who hosted with verio for a long time. could be worth checking
into.
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welcome to verio
- one of the biggest hosting services out there. perhaps the biggest after
its acquisition of hiway. decent folx...they use my flash detection scripts
and have been cool to deal with.
- web news
-
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InternetNews.com - Real-Time Internet
News
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CNET: The Computer Network
- Reliable, timely, and digestible stories on all things computer:
internet events and news, software, hardware, web development. One of the
oldest and best places to find out what you want to know about computers and
the internet.
-
Welcome to Website Abstraction, THE
JavaScript technology center!
- web conferences
-
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www8
- The official 1999 site for the 8th iteration of the industry's most
important web conference, the International World Wide Web Conference, where
the W3C meets to report on their activities and to discuss where web
standards will go next.
-
flashforward2000 conference
- conference first held in 2000, put on by lynda weinman & the usual
group of flash designers & authors & a few folx from macromedia.
here's the blurb from the site:
"This first-ever Flash solutions
conference and expo is three jam-packed days of keynotes, panels,
pre-conference workshops, hands-on training, breakout sessions and product
showcases. With something for every Flash user from beginner to advanced,
this event features the most creative uses of Flash 4 technology the
industry standard for creating high-impact, vector-based Web graphics,
motion, sound, and interactivity. Today more than 80 percent of the Web can
view Flash files." etc etc etc
- reference
-
-
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/index.html
- a clickable atlas of the world. gives kinda cruddy images, but you can
find any country easily and get some info on it (flag, politics etc.)
-
merriam-webster dictionary
- a good (and free) online dictionary and thesaurus. not the oed, but then
the oed ain't free.
-
mapquest
- type an address from a major city anywhere in the world, and you get a
map indicating where your target is located.
-
symbols.com
- an encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. search by word or browse
the icons graphically.
- jargon/language
-
-
jargon file resources
- a dictionary and reference guide to techie language. funny and
legitimate. covers official acronyms like ascii, colloquial net language and
acronyms, technical terms, and code commenting styles.
- search engines
-
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search engine watch
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altavista
- the granddaddy of search engines. long established as a search engine
with immense databases, altavista became a web portal late in 1999.
-
google
- ranks hits using various algorithms. ambitiously tries to return only
"relevant" sites.
- quake
-
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id software
- thank you john: what else can you say?
- mods
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- fragstats
- cool server mod that tracks the frags of players on your server. adds
a great extra dimension to the drop-in drop-out fragfests of internet
deathmatch.
- q2 mod stats
- a webbot that checks how many servers are running each quake II mod
and the number of players on them. ranks each mod based on usage.
- Lithium II Mod for Quake II
- One of the most popular DM mods. Adds powerups (like techs in CTF), an
off-hand grapple, neat HUD configurations, and lots of server options like
tourney matches, IP banning, zbot detection, etc.
- Rocket Arena
- Fun team or one-on-one match-based mod. Tons of custom maps and
competition arenas.
- L-Fire
CTF Features
- Popular version of Zoids CTF. Adds polish as well as some neat new
features like Rocket Arena overtime.
- news
-
- planet quake
- If it happens in the world of quake or quake mods, you'll find it
here.
- my hangouts
-
- palace of destruction
- decent players, including the xeno clan. they run frag stats, my
friends play here, and I get a good ping ;).
- config settings
-
- quake 2 console
commands
- a list of shell commands for the quake console and config files.
-
quake III nation
- quake III arena news site.
-
multi-head gaming
- run quake across multiple monitors. too fucking cool.
- n64
-
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N64.IGN.COM
- A kick ass zine site with news, reviews and previews of anything N64.
Maintained by the publisher of PC Gamer.
-
Nintendo Power
- Online version of Nintendo Power magazine, plus Nintendo's official web
presence.
-
Nintendo: N64 Game
List
- Nintendo's official list of all games available for the N64 and all
games in development for the N64.
-
EB World - Electronics Boutique Online
- Huge online store for games and software. Guarantees delivery of new N64
games within days of release.
- temp
-
-
videogames.com's
The Soul Calibur Confidential
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Soul Calibur -- System
-
The
Second World War - Veterans Affairs Canada
-
Philip van Allen's SMC course on
web building
-
MediaTrip
-
Amazon.com:
A Glance: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity with Flash 4.0
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PAUL J KARLIK |
INFORMATION DESIGN
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http://www.gamesdomain.com/faqdir/soul_calibur_secrets.txt
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inf0Arcadia,
by Jouke Kleerebezem