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Design Inspiration and Information

Cre@teOnline – The Web Designer’s Bible This site offers inspirational information, an online magazine, readers’ forums, and a weekly newsletter. Issue 27, the magazine available at the time of this posting features articles on typography on the web, interviews with Brendan Dawes and Jon Romero, plus a review of Macromedia MX products.

Another site for design inspiration is Cool Home Pages, which claims to be the “only known cure for designer’s block.”

If you search this site on the word ‘inspiration’ you will find links to several other sites as well.

Flash Resources

Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource – Online resource for Macromedia Flash Tutorials SWF FLA images clip art Sounds WAVS Animations Help and Support Resources on Flash Kit include sample movies, tutorials, gallery pages, sound loops and more.

Information Architecture

Information architecture, usability and interaction design issues, plus the odd thought from Elegant Hack has reviews of lots of IA books and other IA information. Plus, it is an interesting and unusual site experience.

Definitions for IT related words

whatis.com offers definitions for thousands of technical words.

SVG resources list

According to the W3C, SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. The W3C has recommendations for SVG now. Here are some resources to get you started with Scalable Vector Graphics.
· W3C’s main SVG page
· SVG: The Art is in the Code
· Real World SVG
· Adobe SVG Zone
· xml.com SVG tutorials
· Web Developers Virtual Library SVG Resources
· SVG Spot

Accessible Web Sites

Web Accessibility Evaluation and Repair includes a review and comparison of software accessibility evaulation and repair tools. This site is by Jim Thatcher, one of the authors of a new book titled Contructing Accessible Web Sites.

Using multiple CSS classes

CSS2: Mix and match classes A quick and clear explanation of how to apply more than one CSS class to an element at a time.