Wordpress

intro to wordpress

Online resources for illustrator

on the pen tool:
adobe illustrator pen tool
pen tool basics (PDF)
photography and illustration

typography:
http://www.vectorials.com/tutorials/Warp-Type-in-Illustrator-68225.html
8 ways to improve type in your designs from smashing magazine
leading tracking & kerning explained
lorem ipsum generator
about typographic scale

color resources:
http://pourpre.com/colordb/?l=eng&t=tr
http://www.colorschemedesigner.com/
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html
http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
http://design.geckotribe.com/colorwheel/
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

other tutorial sites:
http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/best-of-the-web-september-2009/
http://vector.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/
http://www.aivault.com/
http://www.bittbox.com/
http://www.aivault.com/?cat=27
http://www.gomediazine.com/
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/archive-summary/category/Tutorials
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/top-10-sites-for-illustrator-tutorials/

more info:
adobe site
differences between raster and vector - based programs
and here

Online resources for photoshop

tutorial sites:
peachpit photoshop tutorials
oreilly photoshop tutorials
getting started (photography and illustration)
adobe site

Online resources for indesign

basics
margins
table of contents
paragraphs and margins
more on margins
grids

Online resources for DHTML

html editors:
smultron
text wrangler
bb edit
subethaedit
taco
textmate
crimson editor (for windows)
other editors for windows

ftp, sftp clients:
filezilla (all platforms)
fetch
cyberduck
fugu

html resources:
w3schools
info on doctypes postable
peachpit
html andxhtml basics (PDF)
head first dhtml and css (PDF)

css resources:
css cheat sheet
listamatic
more on navigation
box model
css mania
positioning
50-really-useful-css-tools
w3schools

color:
colour lovers
500+ colors
css basics
resources for web design
a list apart

typography:
typetester
typechart
csstypeset
8-simple-ways-to-improve-typography-in-your-designs
10-examples-of-beautiful-css-typography-and-how-they-did-it
textwrapper
lorem2
lorem ipsum generator

tutorials, free stuff, etc.:
zen garden
open source web design
20 Excellent Tutorial Sites for Web Designers
art of interactive narrative
particle tree
how to use ajax
authoring an interactive work (columbia)

intro to javascript and the DOM:
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/intro.html
http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/default.asp

Online resources for PHP

php.net
w3schools.com/php/
php coding guidelines | evolt
hotscripts
WAMP, MAMP
login script

Online resources for flash/as

adobe actionscript references
adobe getting started in flash
kirupa flash tuts
layers magazine flash tuts
motion tweening along a path
actionscript.org/
graphic mania flash tuts
importing sound to flash
good video tut for adding & syncing sound
adobe using sound in flash

More on gestalt

andy rutledge on gestalt principles
gestalt principles
more on gestalt principles
etc.

Additional reading

"the death of the author" by roland barthes, 1977 (link).
"Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl," by joline blais
"relational aesthetics," by nicolas bourriaud
walter benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936 (link)
"how to make a game" by chris crawford
"the society of the spectacle" by guy debord, 1967 (link)
elastic time and space
navigating the narrative in space, by mary flanagan
"the author function" by michel foucault, 1970 (link)
social realism in gaming, by alex galloway,
"why art should be free" by jon ippolito
the game, the player, the world, by jesper juul,
"database as symbolic form" by lev manovich, 2001 (link).
"aesthetics and immersion" by margaret morse, 2003 (PDF)
"information design: a unified field theory of design" by nathan shedroff, 1994 (link)
"rethinking identity through virtual community," by sherry turkle
frame, flow, reflection, by victor turner (pdf)
democracy now on may of '68 (link -- listen)
constituents of a theory of new media, by hans magnus enzensberger, 1970(PDF)
requiem for the media, by jean baudrillard, 1972 (PDF)

Relevant digital artworks and films

noah 6 yrs
turns
epic
mwesch
bauhaus
kota ezawa
josh on's they rule
sharon daniel
muybridge
christina mcphee
blast theory's can you see me now?
the wilderness downtown
blast theory's uncle roy all around you & day of the figurines

films:
inception
waking life
the story of stuff by annie leonard
century of the self
Helvetica
TED on graphic design artist paula scher
Jules ætienne Marey (and others)
existenz
memento
la jetee