Online Resources

• W3Schools Web Tutorials
• TIEMdesign: Photoshop Tutorials
• http://web.mala.bc.ca/it/students/index.htm: Instructions for setting up a web account from Malaspina computer labs.

• HTML Goodies: Excellent html tutorials and reference help.

• An Introduction to using Graphics on the Web

• DeGraeve.com: convert gifs to ASCII (or vice versa); Pantone charts and more.

• Fonts Tutorials

• Tutorials on Becoming a Flash Master
• HTML checklist
• Frames are a Picnic tutorial
• Table Tutorials
• Mulder's Style Sheets Tutorial
• Graphics Tutorials
• Java Boutique: java scripts and tutorials.

• HTML Validator Lite: Download this free application to check your html pages for coding and syntax errors.Eye-opening!

• Dynamic Drive: DHTML and Java scripts to enhance your webpage.

• DevGuru: features over three thousand pages containing quick reference guides, tutorials, knowledge based articles, and useful products.

• Jalfrezi HTML Help

• Web Design Group HTML Reference

• CoolNerds: You can download the useful cross-reference (Xref) tables for explanations of html, css, and java code.

• Neil MacMillan's HTML Help Centre

• Barebones Guide to HTML: by Kevin Werbach.

• Yale's Web Design Manual: Formal HTML style guide.

• Download.Com: Fast download of applications.

• HTML Accessories for Download: html editing software from Tucows.

• WebMonkey Web Developer's Site:Resources for HTML developers.

• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: In Jakob Nielsen's influential Alertbox Series

• Top Ten Mistakes Three Years Later: Nielsen reviews his earlier assessment

• Cool Text Generator

• ScanTips.com: informative introduction to getting the most out of a scanner.

• On-Line Dictionary of Computing: Is that on-line or online?

• Quick Reference to HTML

• HTML Writers Guild: organization of WWW page authors and Internet publishing professionals.

For picking background, text and link colours, you can view a colour chart with hexadecimal code by clicking on the browser safe palette below:

Online Art Resources

• The Internet Design and Publishing Centre

• http://www.creativepro.com/front/home

• Graphic Designers Paradise

• Scott McCloud: comics guru

• Situ: The Diary of Displacement: new web works.

• Photo.Net

• Ernst Haas Photographer

• Hank Drew Photography

• George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film.

• Reportage: The online journal of photojournalism

• Eye Candy from the Underground: 10 fresh design styles.

• UnDesign.Org

• Talan Memmott: Check out the links to Lexia/Perplexia as an example of hypermedia art.

• finger*tips: issue 9: my favorite sin

• The Versus Project: Graphic designers engage in online design collaborations to see who wins

• Dreamless.org: An experiment in collective inspiration by artists and designers.

• Internet Moving Image Archive: archival films free for everyone to use for any purpose except resale. The films have been donated by Prelinger Archives and digitized as MPEG-2 files.

• Poems That Go: experiments with new media poetry, many of which are engaging and some even beautiful. The site offers new sets of poems each quarter, all of which require Flash or Shockwave.

• NoiseCore: Digital art, photography, design.

• A List Apart: for people who make websites

The Internet

• Search Engine Watch: Information on registering your website and improving your profile on the internet.

• Visual Route: Displays and documents the route a message takes on the internet.

• Internet History: Bruce Sterling's "A Short History of the Internet" (1993); and " A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks" by the InterNIC Society.

• The December CMC List: Directory of sources for online communication and the Internet.

• Sources Select Online: Information services for journalists and writers. Canadian focus.

• Blogdex: index of weblogs from MIT

Humanities and Technology

• Technology of Writing: Alan Lui, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has created an incredible humanities resource with his Voice of the Shuttle Project. The Technology of Writing site is specifically devoted to links having a bearing on computer-mediated communication.

• TECHNOS: Quarterly for Education and Technology

• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: IATH is based at the University of Virginia and focuses on information technology for humanities research.

• Humanist Discussion Group: An international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities edited by Willard McCarty and Christopher Fox.

Resources on Copyright

• Bill C-32

• Copyright Act: C-42

• Copyright Reform in Canada: Domestic Cultural Policy Objectives and the Challenge of Technological Convergence: Gordon A. Gow's discussion of issues which are still pertinent, although the article dates from 1995.

  Computers and Copyrights: Bibliography

  Carolyn Kotlas presents information on Copyrights in the Academic Environment, Software and Copyright, Copyright in the New Media Technologies and other relevant links and sites.

• The Copyright Website: Fun, and lots of examples of copyright infringement.

• Intellectual Property Issues (excellent U.S. links)

• Detritus: dedicated to recycled culture.

• Anti-Copyright Policy: "If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence." (John Oswald).

• ®™ark

• Viral Communications

• Negativland: Read about the group that took on U2.

Journals

• Shift: Canada's Wired

• Wired: Digital promotion

• Image & Narrative: Online Magazine of Visual Narrative

• Kairos: A journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing. Editor: Mick Doherty.

• Postmodern Culture: One of the oldest peer-reviewed on-line journals, published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Articles

• Writing for the Web: Catherine Fisher, GDNet / Eldis
• Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology Chapter One of George Landow's important study.

• Internet Publishing: How We Must Think by Laura Fillmore (1993).

• Internet Publishing in a Borderless Environment: Bookworms into Butterflies by Laura Fillmore (1994).

• Online Publishing: Threat or Menace? by Laura Fillmore (1993).

• Degrees of Freedom: Jay David Bolter's influential 1996 essay on hypertext and virtuality.

• Hack & Slay to Respectability: Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) Jargon & The Spillage Into MainstreamCommunication Diane Shortt's great introduction to the use of jargon in online communication.

• Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think": The future of CMC written in 1945.

• Media History Project: Handy index to media history--everything from Audio recording to Yellow journalism.

• Read All About It: Evolution of newspapers from papyrus to online by journalist Jean Jantzen. Excellent links.

CYBORG SITES

• Sexuality & Cyberspace: Issue 17 of Women & Performance

• Prinicpia Cybernetica Project: Network of techno-philosophy

• Gender Without Bodies: Hypertext by M. McAdam, CMC zine

• Haraway Hyperlinks: Includes excerpts from Cyborg Manifesto

• The Mind Uploading Home Page: Try it!

• BioRobotics Lab: Real cyborg research, U of Washington

• More Cyborg Links: Thanks to U of Iowa