Links

Below is a list of links I have come across and thought you might find useful. They worked when I put them here, but I make no promises that they work now. (Let me know if they don't.)

Illustrator sites:

• Get to know Illustrator CC: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/ai-basics-fundamentals.html
• http://www.illustratortechniques.com/
• http://www.khulsey.com/main_english.html
• http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~yukio-m/intro/index.html
• Gradient mesh tutorial: http://www.creativebush.com/gmeshtutorial/
  
• Visit a forum or post your finished amazing vector art:
  http://www.illustratorworld.com/
• Beautiful art that appears to be done in Illustrator
  http://www.michaelschwab.com/
• The Bezier Game, a game to help you master the pen tool: http://bezier.method.ac

Photoshop sites:

• http://methodandcraft.com/ Way cool photoshop techniques and inspiration.
• Adding texture
  http://methodandcraft.com/videos/adding-texture-in-photoshop
• Create a suble grunge texture http://lostandtaken.com/blog/2011/2/15/how-to-create-subtle-grunge-textures.html
• Texture blog http://lostandtaken.com/
• http://www.bertmonroy.com/index.htm
• http://photoshopetiquette.com/ Do Photoshop right.
• A billion Photoshop shortcuts:
  http://www.keyxl.com/aaac987/148/Adobe-Photoshop-CS3-keyboard-shortcuts.htm

Web related sites

• Tiny Png - Make your PNG and JPG file sizes even smaller
• HTML Entity Lookup: http://entity-lookup.leftlogic.com
• Thoughts on mobile navigation: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/wayfinding-for-the-mobile-web/
• Responsive site device simulator: http://responsive.pixeltuner.de
• http://westciv.com/tools/ neat tools to help you with CSS3 code, such as the CSS3 Sandbox
• Let this site write your CSS3 corner radius code
  http://border-radius.com/
• Another site to help you write complex CSS3 code
  http://css3generator.com/
• Free placeholder images pre-sized: http://lorempixel.com
• A Dao of Web Design
  http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/
• Jeremy Keith - One Web
  http://vimeo.com/27484362
• http://lite.launchlist.net/
• Responsive web sites http://mediaqueri.es/
• Smush it http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg Watch a rapper giving advice about designing web sites. See if you can catch all his points.
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ Why is your site so slow?
• http://www.typetester.org/
• http://www.seologic.com/faq/title-tags.php Overthinking your page's title.
• http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/ Crazy CSS3 patterns

HTML5 sites

• gsnedders.html5.org/outliner will show your HTML5 outline structure.
• code.google.com/p/h5o/ Download a Chrome extension to show HTML5 outline structure on any page.
• code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ Add javascript to sniff out old IE browsers and force them to recognize HTML5 elements

CSS3 Sites

• http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/11/02/original-hover-effects-with-css3/ Crazy CSS3 animations.

Training videos and workshops

• http://www.creativelive.com/ Free on-line workshops, mostly about photography.

Portfolio sites

• http://www.nolinovak.com/

Tutorial sites

Check out these sites for loads of Adobe and Apple tutorials.

• http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
• http://www.apple.com/pro/
• http://tv.adobe.com/
• Free on-line training: http://creativelive.com/
• http://layersmagazine.com/

Mix up some color

These sites will help you come up with color palettes

• Create a color palette from a photo. http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php
• http://kuler.adobe.com/
• http://colorblender.com/
• http://colourlovers.com/

ebooks

• http://www.blurb.com/ebook/

Basic Macintosh skills site

Learn how to navigate the Macintosh environment.

• http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/

Mac Quick keys and tips:

• http://danrodney.com/mac/index.html
• Adobe Keyboard Shortcut Visualizer http://www.fastprint.co.uk/adobe-shortcut-mapper/#AdobeIllustrator

Editorial sites

• http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/
• Google doodles
  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6430953n&tag=related;photovideo
• http://igniteshow.com/videos/doodle-revolution doodling for retention
• http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts/aboutinspiration/ Are you stealing?

Just neat sites

• http://surlybikes.com/

Other

• A source for vector corporate logos
  http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/
• Google books. Full versions of public domain books.
  http://books.google.com/books
• Luminosity brain games
  http://www.lumosity.com/