This is a listing of all resources that were considered to be a head above the rest, and subsequently received 5 stars and were marked with the "cool" graphic.
Yahoo Mail! is an excellent free e-mail service with tons of features. Their free account gives you 100MB of email storage and the ability to send and receive messages up to 10MB. All incoming messages are scanned for viruses using Norton AntiVirus. They offer a SpamGuard service which helps alleviate the problem of all the unwanted e-mails we get these days. With Yahoo! Alert you can be informed of new incoming mail on your mobile phone!
The Astigmatic One Eye Foundry is a beautifully crafted website offering a sizable amount of free fonts for MAC and PC. All fonts are organized in alphabetical format. Each font listing contains a picture of the font in use and the option to download. By clicking on the font name, you can read an extensive description of the font by the author. Astigmatic Foundry is the creator my favorite font, Chicken Scratch!
Divide By Zero Fonts, created by Tom Murphy, is an exceptional resource for free fonts on the web! All fonts are created by Tom with the intent of free use. Fonts are divided into years, (1993-97) and (1998-present). All font listings include a picture of the font for download and a brief description of the font. Fonts are only for download on PC systems.
FontFace.com, founded by Steve Young, is an excellent font depository with over 1000 fonts! All fonts are organized in alphabetical order. Each font listing contains a picture of the font in use and the option to download in PC, MAC or TTF formats. Two sections unique to FontFace are Top 25 Fonts and Font of The Day. Check this site out!
The Animation Factory is home to the Internet's largest original animated clip art gallery! This website is a subscription based service. The reason this website is included in this section is because of the vast amount of sample animation graphics offered. I counted over 30 sections to choose from with an average of 6 animations per page. Animations on this website are the best you will find anywhere on the Internet.
Website Awards, founded by Don Chisholm, is home to the Website Awards Worksheet! This free resource helps you apply to hundreds of award sites around the world! The Website Awards Worksheet is constantly updated and all awards are ranked on a scale of one to five. Website awards are an excellent way to increase traffic and get your website noticed!
This guy is pure genius when it comes to graphic design! I remember when he opened up his first website years ago and I was just in awe of everything that he did. His website offers great Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator tips for download in .pdf formats. Some of his Photoshop tips include how to create steel text, how to slice a menu, how to create rounded buttons, and how to create a crack effect in your images. Check Designs By Mark out!
Anders Qvicker is another guy who just has skillz when it comes to graphic design! He offers free for use a collection of 43 excellent tutorials for Adobe Photoshop 4,5, and 6. His tutorials teach you how to layer/blend in Photoshop 4, how to create seamless backgrounds, how to create an innerbevel, how to create dynamic interfaces, and how to create silver coins, just to name a few. You will find tutorials here you will not find anywhere else!
