Techniques

 I'm hoping to expand this section to include some of my own techniques for Argon Zark!, but for now I'll try to provide some how-to links for graphics and web design.


Books with Argon Zark! techniques There are several books out that have sections specifically devoted to Argon Zark! art and techniques, not the least of which is the Deluxe, Cordless, Portable Argon Zark! Souvenir Dead-tree Edition! I've moved the book recommendations that used to be on this page to a new recommended books page.


Painter

 See the Computer Graphics section of the Books page.

Painter Techniques. Tips, techniques and tutorials.

Painter Tips. Some tips by Jeremy Sutton, author of Fractal Design Painter Creative Techniques.

Artistry Online, site for Artistry Magazine, which is largely devoted to Painter Techniques. Some online tutorials.


Photoshop
 See the Computer Graphics section of the Books page.

Here's some of Adobe's own tips and techniques, including info on preparing images for the web.

The Pixel Foundry is an excellent source of info on Photoshop, including Kai's Power Tips and Tricks.

Photoshop Web Reference. An excellent overview of the app, it's tools pallets and features, examples of filter effects, etc. also links to other Photoshop sites. Nicely organized and presented.

Ultimate Photoshop. Searchable lists of Photoshop sites arranged by category. Tips and techniques, tutorials, archives of filters and actions, forums and more.


Kai's Power Tools and KPT Bryce
 See Official Kai's Power Tools Studio Secrets on the Books page.

For KPT Bryce, stop in on The Bryce Forum, The Bryce Forum Gallery, and The Terraformer's Guild. (I'm not sure what the current status of the Terraformer's Guild is.) Also check out the Bryce Gallery from Eric Wenger, creator of Bryce.










Web Design and HTML

 See the Web design section of the Books page.

Builder.com, C-net's web design resources. A good place for beginners to start, plus more advanced material.

WebMonkey, HotWired's guide. They do really good basic tutorials and also have lots of advanced stuff.

WebReference.com, the works.


WebReview, more good reference, great stuff on Style Sheets. Use the drop-down menu for "Topics".

Devhead, the works, from ZDNet

Web Developer's Virtual Library, just that. Lots of good information and links to other resources, pretty well organized.

Some good info and links on the site supporting the book: Creating Killer Web Sites by David Siegel (Hayden Books $45). Here's his High Five Award page.


A List Apart, online news and forum of ideas for Web designers

Web Developer's Journal, news, information and opinion

Internet.com's Web Developer Channel, lots of associated sites, some of which are listed individually above. A huge amount of information is accessible from this point.



Adobe GoLive

 See the CSS & dHTML section of the Books page.

Adobe's tutorials, Quick time movie training videos and user forums.

GoLive Heaven news, techniques and forums.

GoLive Headquarters, news techniques and forums.

RealWorld Adobe GoLive, the support site for this excellent book is informative in its own right

Cascading Style Sheets

 See the Style Sheets section of the Books page.

WebReview, good stuff, including an overview of the CSS specification, and a definitive listing of CSS browser compatibility. Essential, since the big problem with CSS, (As well as HTML, JavaScript and everything else on the Web, is wonky implementation on the part of the browsers. I keep an offline version of the browser compatibility chart for quick reference.

Builder.com, C-net's resources.

WebMonkey, HotWired's guide. Features Mulder's excellent CSS tutorial..

WebReference.com, part of their HTML resources and tutorials.

House of Style, good info (if in a not so good site design) about CSS form the authors of the StyleMaster CSS editor for Mac (See above in software).

W3C style sheets , info from the horses mouth, also very useful are their testing pages in which you can see how CSS declarations actually work (or not) in the browsers.

JavaScript

 Thou's JavaScript Tutorial, part of HotWired's Webmonkey site.

Doc JavaScript, columns and tips from webreference.com

The JavaScript Directory from developer.com, columns and canned scripts

ScriptHead, part of ZDNet's DevHead site

IRT.org, I go searching here when I can't answer a question quickly elsewhere. They have huge lists of FAQs that cover a lot of territory.

Coolnerds JavaScript, reference, links and canned scripts. This is where I got the script that formed the basis of my book and T-shirt order form.

Timothy's JavaScript Examples, lost of canned scripts.

Web Review's webcoder.com. Good reference for JavaScript and Dynamic HTML. JavaScript whiz Nick Heinle has a knack for explaining it to us mere mortals. He started out producing the JavaScript tip of the Week and now does the Webcoder site.

Here's Netscape's own JavaScript guide.


Web Graphics

 C/Net's graphics & multimedia resources, good info on a variety of subjects.

Lynda Weinman has become the most recognized expert on Web graphics. This site is largely in support of her many books, but also informative in its own right.

For excellent information on keeping web graphics small, check out The Bandwidth Conservation Society.

GIF.com, Internet.com's Web graphics resources

And for great general information on web graphics, including transparency, lighting effects, buttons, tiled backgrounds and more, check in with Doc Ozone and his Hands On tutorials. His site itself is a prime example of creative (and somewhat enigmatic) web design.










GIF Animation
 Here's Royal Frazier"s GIF animation tutorial.

Builder.com's animated GIF resources

Flash Animation
 Macromedia's Tutorials

FlashKit great Flash resources from Internet.com, including lots of downloadable .fla files, Flash movies that can be opened in Flash to examine and learn from.

FlashZone, news, techniques, forums and links.

FlashPlanet, extensive info and resources

ExtermeFlash, info, resources and all
LiveMotion LiveMotion (see software above) is Adobe's Flash authoring tool.

C/Net's Builder.com's LiveMotion tips

>Adobe has some excellent online LiveMotion tutorials, as well as user forums. The best of the tutorials are their Quicktime movie LiveMotion training videos. To my mind Livemotion plus these videos is the quickest path to doing Flash animations.

If you're really serious, though, learn to use Flash, it's much more powerful at this point















Comic Book Art Techniques
 ComicColors.com, a wonderful site with contributions frm a number of people. Tips and tutorials on comic book coloring, penciling, inking, lettering and writing. Also includes galleries a message board, links to resources and more.

The Drawing Board, tips, techniques, tutorials, articles, advice, interviews and other resources for pencillers, inkers, writers, colorists, letterers, etc. Part of the Figma.com site which also includes 4-Color Review and The Launchpad, a webzine for aspiring comic creators.

Comic Book Art Tips, professional pencilling and inking techinques from Gerry Alanguilan.

Creating Comics, a terrific list of links to sites about writing, pencilling, inking, coloring, submitting, promoting and publishing comics, much more extensive than I can give here.

Larry Dempsey's Comic Book Inking Survey, questions asked of over 200 comic book inkers, plus tips, techniques and more.

Wahoo, (ComicBookWebsites.com) a comic book sites search engine. Here is their list of sites devoted to creating comics.

Draw Comics, interviews articles, gallery and more.

Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning, An offshoot of the school in New Jersey that is dedicated to teaching comic book art. They also have correspondence courses.