Reallybig.com
This website is really big, with more than 1000 links to sites of specific interest to web builders. Included are the best places to find free clipart, animations, backgrounds, icons and buttons, as well as information about counters, CGI, Java, icons, promoting your site, and much more. Anyone who wants to develop pages on the Internet, from beginners to experienced web designers, will find helpful information and tutorials here. There are special sections on HTML, programming, web graphics and audio, website add-ons, web management, and other useful topics. All listed sites have been visited and reviewed. http://www.reallybig.com
Cyber Aspect
This website has helpful information for web page builders, including feature articles, hardware and software reviews, book reviews, industry news, and more. Topics include how to design the perfect banner ad; how to be prepared for server/hosting failures; and considering the jump to freelancing. The Web Builder Bulletin is an email newsletter with articles, reviews, and industry news. The Cyber Aspect Directory has links to recommended web builder tools, web hosting, and website designers. http://www.cyber-aspect.com
Kaliber 10000: The Designer's Lunchbox
This online gallery of web design features a different guest designer for each issue. There are also exhibits and links to examples of outstanding design, tips for website creators, and news articles. The site offers designers a good place to meet and view the work of others in the online design community. http://www.k10k.net/
Communication Arts Network
This communication arts site is a place for those striving for design excellence in print, television, Web, and other formats. It is divided into three sections: Design Interact, an information resource for creators of interactive media; Creative Hotlist, a career and jobs section for people in the design field; and Communication Arts, an online design magazine with articles, columns, and features. There are examples of excellent web design, monthly articles on interactive media firms and project overviews, coverage of new media leaders, and news. Find out about design companies, innovative designers, hardware and software, courses both online and offline, and legal matters for designers. There is a special section for freelancers. Forums provide a meeting place for creative individuals from around the world. http://www.commarts.com/
Project Cool
DevX's Project Cool is a collection of resources designed to give knowledge, guidance, and inspiration to Web designers and developers. This is a good place to find beginning and advanced tutorials, reference guides, and ongoing discussions about Web design. The site is divided into sections: Gettingstarted.net has tutorials for starting out; Developer Zone has an extensive library of Web development tutorials, covering all skill levels and technologies such as HTML, CSS, and XML; DevX Search is a search engine for Web developers; Sightings are daily examples of great site design. In addition the site has a bookstore with Web design books, and a software store with tools for programming professionals. http://www.projectcool.com
A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
"From pixels to prose, coding to content" is the motto of this website, which has a collection of great articles about Web design. Updated every Friday, the articles discuss the latest trends in design, technology breakthroughs, and the details of running a web design business. The site has a list of pointers to outstanding examples of website design and other useful sites for web designers. http://www.alistapart.com
Stranger Next Door
Stranger Next Door is a web design showcase and resource site. Updated weekly, the site showcases examples of excellent and innovative web design in DHTML, Flash, navigation, minimalist, hipster, and other categories. There is also a good list of links to tutorials and resources on Flash, fonts, Javascript, DHTML, programming, and CGI. http://www.strangernextdoor.com
Frenchspot
Free web graphics and some fun diversions are here. There is a library of original high quality left border backgrounds for web pages along with tiles, textures, and separators. Users will also find special seasonal and holiday clip art for desktop publishing. There are helpful HTML tips including how to add a countdown, drop caps, and special characters on web pages and how to hide your email address from spam collectors. For fun, visitors can draw a pig for insights into their personality and enjoy the "Treasure Bytes" section for motivational stories and more. http://www.frenchspot.com/
Netdiver
Netdiver is described as "a new media portal, resource and freelance community". There are links to design tutorials and tools, plus galleries of art and design examples, with the main emphasis on Flash technology. The "exploratives" section presents sites that are experimental, with new interface and navigational ideas and unusual or unprecedented use of code. There are examples of Flash interactive animactions, plus links to Flash books, tutorials, and discussion lists. In addition, there are links to "must-read" zines, design e-lists and trade organizations, script libraries, and font resources; and a "brainware" area for budding or professional freelancers. http://netdiver.net
Le Louvre
Here you can tour the Louvre online. Visitors can browse through the 350 rooms of the most famous museum in the world and view the world's great art and antiquities, including new rooms dedicated to Egyptian art. There are over 1500 pictures and descriptions. Here you can read about The Louvre's history, or get practical information such as access and admission charges if you're planning to go there. As a bonus, the site has a virtual guide to Paris with its shopping streets, haute couture, monuments, parks, and activities, even restaurant menus. The site is available in English and French. http://www.smartweb.fr/louvre/
Theatre on a Shoestring
This theatre education website has everything for drama teachers and students. There are articles to help actors prepare for auditions, classroom exercises, costuming tips, improv games, makeup ideas, stagecraft how-tos, synopses of plays for production, publishers, production photos, directing guides, reviews, and a glossary. In addition you can browse the Theatre Bookstore, join the discussion forum, and read articles on the life and times of Shakespeare. If you love theatre, you are bound to find something of interest here. http://www.geocities.com/musicthea/index.html
mother i
This website, a resource for mothers who want to achieve their creative or artistic goals, is seeking literary and artistic submissions from moms. All works by mothers, novice or experienced, are welcomed, but especially commentaries on the subject of motherhood and creativity, poetry, journal entries, and electronic photos of paintings, photography, sculpture and crafts. Tools to inspire the creative lives of mothers include a creative well-being quiz, a creative inventory questionnaire, a creative cycle calendar, weekly exercises, and "daily stones" to stimulate the imagination. http://www.motheri.com
The Cave of Lascaux
The Palaeolithic cave at Lascaux, France, discovered by four teenagers in 1940, is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. Here paintings from the cave walls are shown in a tour of the seven galleries from the Great Hall of the Bulls to The Shaft of the Dead Man. Here visitors can read the story of the discovery and learn about early painting and engraving techniques, how the artists created perspective, the lighting used, dating methods, and the work done by archaeologists on the cave. The site is available in French, Dutch, Spanish, and English. http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
FontFrame
This site has a freeware font archive with over 500 fonts, and features a free font of the day for Mac and PC. In addition there are tutorials, interviews with font designers, foundry spotlights, and articles on typography history. For an entertainment break, there are font games. http://www.fontframe.com
True Type Resource
This site has over 1600 links to font-related websites, as well as interviews with font designers and a section of fonts from defunct designers and foundries. Here you can find links to both Mac and PC fonts, including some available for free download. There are features like Font of the Moment, where a font is offered from time to time. The Font Talks explore the culture of typestyles and their design. You can join the True Type News Source mailing list to keep in touch with the latest developments in the world of fonts. http://members.aol.com/jr9er/index.html
The Costumer's Manifesto
This site is a great resource on costumes and the history of fashion. A Timeline of Costume History has illustrations of clothes worn by various classes and nationalities of people from ancient to modern times. There are links to many other sites on the Web that illustrate clothes worn in specific time periods, indexed chronologically from ancient times to the 1990s. Find links illustrating military dress and armor, jewelry, lace and needlework, ethnic costumes, masks, and makeup. The site has advice for costumers, sources of patterns, sewing and costuming instructions, dyeing and textile arts, plus a list of vintage clothing stores, costume shops, and costume designers on the Web. There is also a threaded costume discussion forum and a chat room.
http://www.costumes.org
Museum of Web Art (MOWA)
This virtual museum specializes in exhibiting art created specifically for the World Wide Web medium. Examples are a painting programmed with a Perl Script to change with the time of day; counters, buttons, and animations; wallpaper designs; examples of gateway web pages; and images that can be altered by the user through mouseovers and clicks. The tools used to create these artistic pieces include JavaScript, BBEdit, Adobe Photoshop, MetaCreations Painter, GifBuilder, Macromedia Director, Ulead GIF Animator, and others. Visitor's guide brochures that you open by clicking on them, a map, and navigation instructions help to create a friendly and inviting museum atmosphere. The kids' wing is a lot of fun. The Museum of Web Art was founded to make available examples of excellence and innovation in new, electronic media, displayed in a suitable environment.
http://www.mowa.org
PixelArt
This company from Denmark offers website hosting, design, maintenance, global advertising, HTML coding, custom scripting, integrated plugins, and custom graphics. The site provides a good example of innovative design and highly original use of CSS (cascading style sheets).
Le Centre du Silence Mime School
This website is all about the silent art of mime. Mime enthusiasts can find out here about workshops, performances, and books on the art of mime. There are articles to read about mime, mask work, the art of movement, acting, and theatre. The Cafe-Salon Philosophique is a place for interesting discussions; you can read excerpts here from the bi-weekly meetings. Samuel Avital, director of LCDS shares ideas about practical happiness and discovering your hidden powers.
http://www.indranet.com/lcds.html
The Euro Art Channel
The Euro Art Channel is a comprehensive modern art database dedicated primarily to European art. This website, available in German and English, aims at bringing different cultures and artistic expressions closer together to increase knowledge, understanding and respect for the creativeness of others. The Cyber Gallery presents work from contemporary artists, who are later displayed in The Cyber Museum. The Cyber Community offers a place for artists, galleries, institutions, and companies to display their art; users can search by country and category. The Foyer has a shopping center with art, art materials, books, music, and more; online auctions; an art market where you can buy or sell; and a section of children's art. The Global Village has links to international art resources. In addition to fine art, the site covers design, crafts, and antiques.
http://www.eurochannel.de/art/
Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
This website is not only a comprehensive and well-organized art resource, but also a fine example of how hypertext can be used to best advantage. More than 1,760 pages and 1,720 graphics are included in this website about Vincent Van Gogh's life, art, and letters. The gallery lists all of Van Gogh's paintings alphabetically and has reproductions of many. Currently there are 746 paintings available for viewing, plus an additional 256 sketches and watercolors. Each painting is listed with its title, time and place of origin, current location, and other information. A search page can help users who may not know the exact title. You can click on a world map to find Van Gogh paintings at museums and galleries in any location. Other treats for Van Gogh fans are some of Vincent's juvenile works, and photographs of Vincent, his family and close friends, and places that were important in his life. The site has a biography and chronology of Vincent's life, and the text of letters between Vincent and his brother Theo. Each letter lists the time and place it was written and is hyperlinked to relevant paintings. Visitors can download free a database of the complete paintings and an extensive bibliography. Visitors can also read about Van Gogh fakes and Van Gogh works on tour, and share ideas in the online forum.
http://www.vggallery.com
Joan Stark's ASCII Art Gallery
This website displays many examples of ASCII art, pictures made with only keyboard letters and symbols. ASCII art is found in email signatures, ezines, on BBSs, in IRCs, in MUDs, and in webpage design for text-only browsers. As well as simple ASCII designs, this site has some more sophisticated ASCII art using color, JavaScript animations, and attached MIDI files. In addition, the site has a history of ASCII art (along with some stunning pre-computer examples), a FAQ, tutorials, and many links to other ASCII art resources. Be sure to set your reader to a fixed-width font to view the pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/
Seiwa-en Japanese Garden Site
Enter here a world of teahouses and gardens, of rushing waterfalls and chirping birds; a world of beauty and peace. Take a walk through stone paths and over arching bridges. Ponder quotes from Zen masters found here and there along the path. Appreciate the placement and design of bamboo screens, lanterns, and natural objects like rocks and trees, all a reflection of the Japanese spare aesthetic.
ACM SIGGRAPH Online!
This page is for the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics. The SIGGRAPH page presents information on educational resources, professional chapters, art & design resources, publications, events, conferences & workshops, and the art & design gallery. The SIGGRAPH 94 Art and Design Show showcases some of the best recent works in fine arts, design, interactive installations, art-based or multimedia essays, and animation. Here you can also find links to other art resources.
http://siggraph.org/home.html
The Roland Collection
The Roland Collection is a stunning library of more than 600 films on art representing the work of over 230 directors from 25 different countries. Its over 2,500 web pages display JPEGs and GIFs of works by by Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, and hundreds of artists from pre-history to the present. Over seven hours of instant streaming video at all modem speeds allow users to sample 500 films. The films are indexed alphabetically, and a search engine makes it possible to locate films on the art of any time period, artistic style, age-range, or subject matter. Other indexes include the film directors, scriptwriters, narrators, composers, and awards. The website is in English and French; the listed films are all in English but many are also in one or more of 16 other languages. The text gives background on both the filmmakers and the artists portrayed in the films, making the website an entire multimedia art history course. In addition to drawing, painting and sculpture, these films explore varied subjects, including photography, architecture, artists' techniques, art preservation, art dealers, films for younger artists, and modern literature. Those who would like to order films from the Roland Collection can visit this web page for instructions.
http://www.roland-collection.com
The Museum of Counter Art
Here is an Internet resource for web developers who want to track visitors to their web pages. This website is a showcase for digit artwork used with web page hit counters. The free counters available here range from the highly stylized and artistic to the fun and frivolous. The Museum now exhibits nearly 500 different examples of counter art, with information about each artist and links to download each counter set. Chances are you'll find a counter here to suit your taste, whether you like the basic odometer, the natural materials look, '60s psychedelic digits, the Oriental look, fancy typefaces, futuristic styles, or something else. The site shows how to use counters and CGIs for all platforms; how to place a counter on your web page without installing a CGI; and how to use a ResEdit hack to display multiple-sized digits in the same counter.
The World's Largest Art Opening
Before the Internet was available, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco could only exhibit 3-4% of its collection at one time, leaving most of the works of art in storage. Following the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 the museums began a mammoth project to take inventory of the entire collection, photographing and digitizing each piece of artwork. The result was the Museum's new Web site, The Thinker. Now users will have access to all of the artwork all of the time; enjoy art in a new way, at home or in the office, searching the database by personal interest; and see some of the most beautiful artwork for the first time, works rarely seen or too fragile to display. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco houses a permanent collection of over 115,000 objects, with 60,000 works on paper -- the largest searchable art imagebase in the world. This web page provides a complete listing of past, current and upcoming exhibitions at both the De Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. There is information for visitors including hours, directions, a calendar of events, volunteer opportunities, news and press releases, staff, and history; plus membership information. Docent tours, children's art classes, exhibition lectures, and teachers' workshops are just a few of the programs available. Online resources include guides to African and American art, poetry anthologies, and a comic book.
http://www.thinker.org
The Marine Art Information Center
This website offers a picture gallery of marine watercolours and paintings with information on maritime art. The online exhibitions are indexed by subject and artist. Find announcements for auctions, gallery openings, shows, and events. There are marine art galleries and museums in the U.S., U.K., and online, plus marine art history, sounds, and photography collections. There are reference links to books on art and history; fiction; and WWW reference resources. Users can ask questions and help answer others' questions about maritime art and history.
http://www.marineart.com
Joseph Wu's Origami Page
Since the first century AD, when paper was invented in China, people have been folding it into shapes. The Chinese developed simple forms, some of which survive to this day. The secret of paper was carried to Japan in the sixth century AD by Buddhist monks. Paper was used in architecture, in the many rituals of everyday Japanese life, and in the Shinto religion. At this website, in addition to history and many photographs of origami masterpieces, visitors will find information on Japanese handmade paper (washi), how to backcoat paper, and how to wet fold origami. Users can view instructional video clips and download origami diagrams in various formats. There are also gopher and FTP sites, home pages of origami groups around the world, and lists of origami shops and suppliers.
WebMuseum Online
See the works of Cézanne, Chagall, Whistler, Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Kandinsky, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Renoir, and many other famous artists at the WebMuseum. Medieval, Baroque, Impressionist, Gothic, Renaissance and Art of the 20th Century are some of the styles represented here, classified by Artist and theme. The Auditorium section presents short music selections of Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Lizst, and others. Here you can also take a virtual tour of Paris.
http://www.emf.net/wm/
SITO Artchives and Collaborative Rituals
This web page has a huge collection of works by contemporary artists. The Gallery section has current exhibits. The Artchives contain thousands of images by hundreds of artists. Types of art included are media collages, executables, drawings, paintings, sculptures, kinetic sculptures and automata, puppets, dolls, graphics, raytracings, math-art, morphs, photographs, photo-manipulations, etchings, carvings, collaborations, animations, video, jewelry, body art, installations, quilts, weaving, fashion, architecture, publications, performances, ASCII text art, ANSI art, and xerography. Visitors can also find links to many other art websites.
African-American Home Page
This site contains an eclectic collection of African American Art, linking to several on-line galleries and other cultural locations on the Internet. Items of interest include events and happenings, a reading room, soul food recipes, fraternities & sororities,African American collectibles, and the Total African American Product Source Catalog.
http://www.lainet.com/~joejones/
