Link List
My Favorite Sites...
Below are some of the sites I use very frequently. Check a few of them out.
Pandora
Holy crap, your life will never be the same. Pandora is THE best way to find new music. Punch in a song/artist you like, and pandora creates a streaming radio station for you on the fly. VERY cool.
www.pandora.com
Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
The IxDA is all things to interaction design, both using the gui and not. Their goal is to provide services and support to those engaged in interaction design. Excellent resources on usability theory and behavior related to using interfaces.
www.ixda.org
Functioning Form
Luke is the lead interface designer at Yahoo. His blog has TONS of great information about interface design.
www.lukew.com/ff
Factory Labs
Wanna see some sick shizzle? These guys put together a pretty wicked site, kwim?
www.factorylabs.com
Design Meltdown
This is what my homepage is set to. This website breaks apart web designs into the varying elements used and different site types. It provides resources for tutorials on the design elements as well. Highly recommended.
www.designmeltdown.com
Web Design From Scratch
A great little website with lots of tips and info about web design. Very useful and relevant information.
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/
9Rules.com
Like reading other blogs? This is an awesome blog network that can provide some steamy on-topic info you're sure to just love.
www.9rules.com
Digg
Digg is an excellent user controlled news aggregator. It collects stories, then users vote on whether or not they like it and the story ends up on the front page. Great way to get new info, or to push some content out to the web!
www.digg.com
Cameron Moll
Think of him as the Steven Covey for web designers. Cameron Moll is constantly writing and presenting on web design. He's a very sharp tack, and his stuff is always worth a read.
www.cameronmoll.com
Franklin Covey
Think of them as the Steven Covey, of Steven Covey. The 7 Habits, and The 8th Habit are awesome books.
www.franklincovey.com
Jakob Nielsen's Website
Jakob Nielsen is the king nerd of usability. Useit.com is probably the ugliest website on the internet, but its chocked full of excellent info, highly recommended.
www.jakobnielsen.com
BoagWorld
Stupid name, cool podcast. These brits lolly on about various web design topics on a weekly basis. Really good non-technical overviews that anyone can appreciate.
www.boagworld.com
A List Apart
Great news and info site for web designers, I"m really new to this one, so I'll write more about it later.
www.alistapart.com
Don Loper
This is the blog site of MWI's owner Josh Steimle. I check in every now and again to see what one of Utah's premiere web firms is up to. Usually a good read.
www.donloper.com
LinkDup
LinkDup collects good looking sites from all across the web. Corporate, flash, whatever - if it's an example of good design, you'll find it here.
www.linkdup.com
FlashKit
Wanna find a pre-made version of a flash movie that you can modify and make your own? This is a great resource site for FLA files.
www.flashkit.com
Mayang
A great place for looting free high-res textures.
www.mayang.com
Before & After Magazine
This is REALLY basic design stuff, and there is limited free content, but it's worth subscribing. The segments are really well written and provide a quick read. You could easilly learn something new while dropping a shizzle my nizzle.
www.bamag.com
GoToAndLearn
This site has some of THE very best flash tutorials around. You can learn all sorts of stellar info here-in.
www.gotoandlearn.com
W3Schools.com
Wanna learn something web related? AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, CSS, XHTML? Here you are sir.
www.w3schools.com
Dynamic Drive
A great website with loads of free scripts so you can steal some code and use it in your own project.
www.dynamicdrive.com
Color Scheme Picker
WebSiteTips.com has a groovy cool color picking tool! Check it out...
websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/
Da Font
Looking for some free fonts with a free preview engine? Excellent resource.
www.dafont.com
Jared Cornwall's Website
This d3wd is the brother of a good friend, and he's always great for some design BS whenever he's around. Jared, update your site more often dude. Hah!
www.jkc-grafix.com
Lynda Training Library
A great resource for learning a new program, everything from beginning to advanced.
www.lynda.com
Blue Vertigo
Excellent web design centric resource. Highly recommended, mmmkay!
www.bluevertigo.com.ar
NewsToday
News for designers, stuff we care about.
www.newstoday.com
SitePoint
Excellent source for web dev. news and information. Articles, news feeds, yadda.
www.sitepoint.com
Utah Advertising Federation
If you're not a member, become one. The Ad-Fed does lots of really cool stuff for agencies in Utah, more than I care to discuss here. If you're in utah, and in advertising, click on.
www.utahadfed.com
NAPP
You mean you're NOT a member of the national association for photoshop professionals? You oughta be.
www.photoshopuser.com
AIGA - Salt Lake
I need to get my arse involved, just haven't had the time... yet. I will though!
aigasaltlake.com
Team Photoshop
Excellent site for photoshop tutorials and other good PS info.
www.teamphotoshop.com
Red Interactive
I first knew Funktion12, which merged with Red Interactive. These guys share a studio space with me, and are super cool.
www.ff0000.com
Struck Design
While we're talking about good design, how about we give the boys over at Struck a shout-out?
www.struckdesign.com
Oxygen Marketing
We'll just keep shameless plugs right in this area here. Oxygen Marketing is a close business partner of Red Olive's.
www.oxymark.com
Retrospect Studios
Another shameless plug, this is my wife's wedding photography site. Lots of pictures, and whatnot, sort of dull if you're not getting married though.
www.heidiuhl.com