kinds of resources on this page:

academic programs (in digital communication)
campus resources
cultural studies
cyberculture communities

design isues
digital culture/comment
life on the Web

literary hypertexts

people

reference works

software
tutorials

visual culture
voice on the web

web-design services
writing resources

academic programs in digital communication and culture

Programs in Multimedia (courtesy Edward Lee Lamoureux, Bradley U.)
Michigan Tech Humanities Department
Graduate Program in Visual Studies (University of California, Irvine)
Literature and the Culture of Information (UC Santa Barbara)

campus resources at the university of minnesota-duluth

Blogging at UMD (free) through Uthink
Bobby (Accessibility Test Site for Web pages)
CGI scripts for Web Forms
"Creating, Storing, and Linking Pages to the UMD Web Site"
ITSS Equipment Checkout
Visualization and Digital Imaging Lab
Images Library (U of Minn)
Student Web Contest
UMD Lab Hours and Class Reserve Times
WWW Publishing Guidelines (U of Minn)
Word Mark Site (U of Minn)

cultural studies

Blackwell Publishing's list of cultural studies resources
T.V. Reed's Popular Culture Resources (Washington State U)

cyberculture communities & internet studies

Association of Internet Researchers
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (Virginia Polytechnic U)
Ctheory.net
GUIdebook: the Graphic Use Interface Gallery
Information Design Journal
Institute for New Media Studies (U of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Invent-l listserv in Gainesville, FL (University of Florida, Greg Ulmer)
Metafilter ("Weblog as Conversation")
Mithologies (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University, UK)
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (U of Washington)
Ryzome.org (art using new media)
SemanticWeb.org
theory.org (David Gauntlett, U of Leeds, UK)
trAce Online Writing Community (Nottingham Trent U, U.K.)

design issues (samples)

Screen Real Estate

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digital culture: comment and manifestos

Greg Ulmer's Electronic Monumentality site
Jakob Nielsen's Website
Jakob Nielsen's "The End of Web Design"
Cluetrain Manifesto
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (John Perry Barlow)
Celebrating Holiday on Web Sites (Jakob Nielsen)
Needing Science, Receiving Art (David Walker)
Persuasive Architecture (Bryan Eisenberg, see also "Uncovering...")
Competition for Links on the Web (David Pennock, et al.)
The Semantic Web (Tim Bernes-Lee, et al.)

Peter Morville on the ethics of labeling and granularity
Internet Scout Report
Copyright: Fair Use Exemption

literary hypertext resources

253 (Geoff Ryman's novel for the Internet)
Fall of the Site of Marsha (Rob Wittig)
Noon Quilt (trAce)
Three Hypertexts (Adrienne Eisen)
My Millennium (edited by Christie Sheffield Sanford)
Dark Lethe

life on the Web

Black People Love Us!
Flags of the World
site (Josh Parsons)
Forever Network (virtual cemetery)
- see also: HBO documentary The Young and the Dead

The Human Clock gives new meaning to clock watching.
Jump the Shark - when did you know your favorite TV show was going down hill?
Implementation by Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg

people

Michèle V. Cloonan (UCLA)
William H. Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute)
Lester Faigley (U Texas Austin)
Laura Gurak (University of MN Twin Cities)
Katherine Hayles (UCLA)
Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech)
Henry Jenkins (MIT)
Bill Keaggy (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Barry Mauer (U of Central Florida)
Christian Sandvig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
David Silver (U of Washington)
Alan Sondheim
Stelarc (Austrailian performance artist)
Sue Thomas (Nottingham Trent University, trAce)
Edward Tufte (Yale U)
Greg Ulmer (University of FL)
Rob Wittig (Univ of Minn Duluth)
Guru watch

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reference works online

Bartlet's Familiar Quotations
Dictionary.com
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

software

Eudora
A high-rated e-mail program avialable in free or low-cost downloads
WS-FTP
A good PC-based program for moving files via the Internet. It's free for non-commercial home users and employees of educational institutions.
Fetch
A free, Mac-based FTP client used for moving files via the Internet
Acrobat Reader
Adobe's free plugin for reading ".PDF" files

Dreamweaver download site
Download a fully working copy of Dreamweaver for 30 days
c|net.com's image editing download page
The Brain
This software graphically organizes ideas and documents in associative clusters callled "Brains." Free demo versions can be downloaded from this site.
Snow For Windows (screen saver)
Web Archiving Software (Frank Schaap)

tutorials for software and design

Adobe's Expert Center
Cascading Style Sheets (UMD)
Dreamweaver (UMD)
Dreamweaver (Designer Info)
Dreamweaver Basics (Lynda Weinman)
Graphics tutorial (Designer Info)
PageMaker 6.5 (London Coll of Music & Media)
PageMaker 6.5 (U of Illinois)
Photoshop (UMD)
Photoshop (Beginning, Designer Info)
Photoshop techniques from
Digital Mastery.
Photoshop techniques from
Digital Mastery.
Photoshop Madness from graphic-design.com
The Design Process (Desktop Publishing, Designer Info)
Safari Tech Books online (via UMD library)
Craig's Techniques Site.

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visual culture

Gallery of Data Visualization (York U, Canada)
Re-Visions of Minard (Michael Friendly, York U.)
Geovisualization and Minard's Map (what can be done with Minard's map)
HTML Color Names
O'Reilly's Color Names
"Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design" (Poynter.com)*
Color Matters
RGB/HSB Color Picker
Rich Franzen's Wheel of Saturation, Intensity, and Hue
article on logos (webreference.com)
Sage Visualization Group
Google's Image Search
Flickr (picture sharing site)

voice on the web

Black People Love Us!
Easties Update Blog

web services

WebSideStory search (formerly Atomz).[Choose Products > Express Search]
CGI scripts for Web Forms (UMD)
GIF and JPG Cruncher from Spinwave
flickr (photo-sharing site)
LiveJournal.com (free personal blogging)
Movabletype.org (blogging services)
PDF Converter available online from Adobe (five times' use free)

writing resources

APA Style (Ohio State University Newark)
APA Style (Maxwell Library)
APA Style (Vanguard University)
APA Style (Rensselaer University Writing Center)
MLA Citation and Documentation.(Purdue University Online Writing Center

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