Exceptional
resources are marked by a gold star.
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HOW
TO USE TUTORIALS
Lynda and VTC are commercial sites that offer
step-by-step instruction on applications such as Photoshop and Flash.
Also listed are a number of free sites, offering random tutorials on
how to
do specific things. If you are serious about learning an application,
go no further. Pay the money either to Lynda or VTC, and get on with
your life.
This
page is a tutorials aggregator, offering nothing original. The
Curmudgeon vets each of the sites indexed, giving you some
degree of assurance that the tutorials are of value. Other
aggregators are also listed here. The quality of the tutorials these
other aggreagtors index is not
assessed by The Curmudgeon.
Find your own tutorials using Google. Type site:.edu
"subject" into the search box. Replace "subject"
with the subject that you want--e.g., "Photoshop".
Don't forget the quotes. This method will return educational sites that
quite often have detailed, free tutorials. One such site you might find
in this manner is Swinburne,
shown just below.
Del.icio.us
is a good source of information about
computer applications.
To use it, type your query into the search box at the top of the page
to get sites linked by others interested in a subject. Queries can be
very specific, as for instance a recent query by the Curmudgeon for AS3 filereference,
which yielded 31 links, many of which were pertinent to the process in
question, how to use Flash's fileReference class to upload files to a
server.
See also specific topics:
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 Lynda.Com,
a library of video
tutorials, is the best commercial tutorial site on the Net.
Subscriptions cost $25.00 per month. The first few in each category are
available for free. Lynda has the most comprehensive Adobe products
tutorial site available anywhere. |
 For $30.00 per month, VTC
is another good commercial source of video tutorials. The first few in
each category are available for free. |
 A
limited
number of free video tutorials, as well as
static HTML-based tutorials are available from Swinburne
University of Technology. |
 Video-Tutes.Com
provides a lot of free video tutorials, including some on Premiere and
After Effects.
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 The Adobe
site maintains a database of learning
resources for Adobe products, as well as a library of video
tutorials.
See also:
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 A comprehensive
overview of HTML
and
Web content creation is available from the W3C, a nonprofit
organization for establishing and maintaining Web standards. |
 Web
Design Library is an internationally
refereed resource that provides a platform for the dissemination of
design thinking and research. It covers all theoretical and
practice-oriented aspects of the effective, efficient and attractive
presentation of information on-line.
Web Design Library is
committed to:
- Providing in-depth analysis of the events most
pertinent to the web design world;
- Giving its readers a behind-the-scenes look at
the people, companies and events making headlines;
- Advancing the web design industry's most
comprehensive view at what's hot, what's not and what it all means;
- Examining all aspects of technological
innovations relevant to all sectors of the Web design industry;
- Reviewing
the latest developments in network hardware and software, along with
expert analysis of what's new and why it's necessary;
- Raising
the standards of web design by giving awards dedicated to the best web
design solutions in an inflexible striving to achieve the highest aims.
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 TipClique
was conceived and born out of frustration with the sheer
number of tutorial sites available on the ‘net that seemed to
focus on
quantity rather than quality. The issue with quality is that it is
purely a subjective thing, so that’s where you come in. We
believe that
making the TipClique’s content a democratic process will
result in
better quality for all users. So if you see a tutorial you like, be
sure to “Clique It” and it will become more
popular. If you don’t like
a tutorial, just ignore it and if the rest of the community does the
same, it will eventually disappear.
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 Tutorialized.Com
hundreds of
tutorials on Web publishing and imaging.
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 HV Designs
Flash, Photoshop HTML and CSS tutorials. |
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 Pixel Groovy
is the community driven way of finding and sharing the
best computer learning resources & tutorials out there. Built
on
the idea that not all tutorials are created equal, the goal is to
create a place where people can find geniune, reliable and informative
resources.
What does this do for you?
Say you
find a really good Photoshop tutorial or a really cool trick in Mac OS
X, just submit it to Pixel Groovy, people will find it and if enough
people groove the information, it will be promoted to the homepage so
the masses will enjoy the information. In return, you will be able to
learn from the tutorials other people submit. So if you haven't
already, register to get a free user account and start to submit,
groove and most importantly learn.
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 Tutorial
Dash: Webmaster tutorials and guides in a wide selection of tutorials
in a variety of categories such as
Photoshop, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, 3D Studio Max, Flash and
more. |
 HTML Dog
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 The Tutorials Section
of Layers Magazine. This site has an extensive collection of tutorials
covering a number of Adobe products.
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 YUI
Theater. A series of videos on programming, many on
the topic
of Web programming. The collection includes an excellent series
on JavaScript by Douglas
Crockford. These lectures are also indexed here,
along with other video lectures on javaScript.
See also:
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ArsDigita University, Web
Applications This course teaches basics of
designing a dynamic web site with a database back end, including
scripting languages, cookies, SQL, and HTML with the goal of building
such a site as the main (group) project Emphasizes computer-human
interface and the graphical display of information. Crucial to the
project is the identification of a client with whom the group must work
with throughout the month, designing specifications, implementing them,
reviewing and evaluating, and testing. This is a real-life client who
intends to host the site for the purposes of building a community.
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 University of
Washington, Seattle
CSEP 545:
Transaction Processing for E-Commerce, University of Washington, Winter
2005
LARC 440
: Computing in Landscape Architecture @ the University of Washington,
Seattle. This course includes tutorials on Photoshop, Illustrator,
Indesign, and Google Sketchup.
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 Purdue University Computer Science Department streaming video lectures, including material on Web development and Web programming. |
 The
Flash Enabled Blog,
tutorials on 3D, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe AIR, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe
Flash, Adobe Flex Tutorials , Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Media Player,
Adobe Photoshop, Away 3D, Fireworks, Flash Lite Tutorials Papervision
3D, PHP, Sandy 3D, SilverLight. At the time of this indexing, the
linking structure to the tutorials was a bit confused. However,
clicking aroung in the tag cloud will lead you to a wealth of material.
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 Good Tutorials--Flash
9, Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, HTML, PHP, and Javascript.
This site is an aggregator of scores of good tutorials on AS3,
unfortunately mixed with many more AS2 tutorials.
See also:
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 Design Vitality--a
tutorial aggregator.
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 An comprehensive aggregator
of video tutorials on a number of topics, including Flash, Photoshop,
GIMP, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
and
many others.
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Aggregators, see also:
Further
Reading:
- Become
an Autodidact: 10 Ways to Become a Self Taught
Master
Some
of the greatest people in history have educated themselves to a large
degree using a process known as autodidacticism. This is something
that's more easily undertaken these days with the great wealth of
online tools available to anyone.
- Discover the .EDU Underground
on Lifehacker.
Little
appreciated outside the world
of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with
incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of
these sites won't pop up to the surface of the average search engine
quest, and so they wait, neglected and underused...until now. Keep
reading for a quick tour through the mysterious underground world of
.edu.
See Also:
- Google
is, of course, the best source of tutorials. New tutorial sites become
available from time to time, all indexed by Google.
- The learn list
is a super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and
book links from all over the web.
- Media
Arts and Sciences, MIT Courseware.
- Tutorial Blog
provides tutorials on various graphics applications.
- Photoshop
User TVli>
- Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy.
- The DVC
online guide is designed to help you become a more
successful
student. It includes a Learning Style Survey that will help you
identify your learning style. It also includes learning strategies that
will help you study in a productive manner, one that matches your
unique learning style.
- Biorust,
resources and tutorials for Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator.
- TutorialStuff.Com--miscellany
on Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and PHP.
- zoom in online,
various random tutorials on Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and
Flash
- Tech Tut.Com--
a random selection of tutorials.
- LearnIt 2--Photoshop
and Illustrator tutorials.
- LearnFlash.Com
video tutorials. More here
and here.
- Tutorials DB--
an aggregator.
- Kaoz, an
aggregator for Flash, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript.
- Miguel Mendo's tutorial
aggregation site. This site specifically indexes
other tutorial sites, rather than a mashup of tutorials.
- Tutorials Street--an
agregator for Photoshop, PHP, Javascript and XML.
- Edumax
provides free “virtual classrooms” on various subjects for free--a
series of easy to understand lessons prepared by experts. The “virtual
classrooms” provide step-by-step guides from the most basic concept to
the advanced theories. Includes XML, programming basics, Web
development, Perl, Photoshop, databases, and miscellany.
- Massive Resource List
for All Autodidacts.
-
Jimmy R's Free Online Education
list.
- 2007 Hand-Picked Tutorials
Posted in: Tutorial, How To's
- 60+ Killer Open [University]
Courseware Collections for Web Designers
- Woork,
contains tutorials about webdev, programming, css, frameworks,
database, project management and design.
- Web Design TV--a
series of tutorials on Flash and Web development in MP4 format.
- 15 Awesome Tutorial Websites You
Probably Don't Know About, on Dumb Little
Man.
- ScholarSpot, and aggregator with a technology section.
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Adobe
Indesign Tutorial Sites
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See also:
- Computer Technical Tutorials--Adobe
Indesgn section, an aggregator of tutorial sites.
- The Adobe Creative Suite Podcast
with tips and tutorials by Terry White. Learn how to unlock the power
and potential of the Creative Suite with the visual examples--emphasis
on InDesign and Photoshop.
- Adobe's InDesign and XML
In much the same way that CSS
provides a way to abstract the appearance of
an XHTML document,
InDesign
CS' XML-compatible
layer provides a powerful way to separate the content
and style of print documents that, in the past, have typically had
their content and presentation tied up in a knot. Essentially, this
layer allows you to define the template of your
document from within InDesign, and to develop the content of the
document in any text editor. Once the template and content have been
finalized, it is simply a matter of merging the two together, and
exporting the final work to the format of your choice.
- Automated publishing with XML and
scripting
The flexible XML options and rich scripting support in Adobe® InDesign®
CS3 allow you to create powerful automated workflows for publishing
content across various systems and output media. This area provides
in-depth information about the XML and scripting support in InDesign to
help you create a strong foundation for custom solutions that meet your
unique publishing requirements.
- InDesignSecrets.com
Developed by page-layout guru David Blatner and “DesignGeek” Anne-Marie
Concepción [of Lynda.com fame], InDesign Secrets is your one-stop shop
for all things InDesign.
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