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Adobe

Adobe website
Publisher of the popular Creative Suite which includes Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and lots more

Adobe Labs website
Stay up to date on all the latest technology from Adobe. You can often find new product and technology info here before the general release.

Learning

lynda.com
"lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists."

Animation World Network
"The Hub of Animation on the Internet"

Web Development Resources

CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden was a ground-breaking site that showed the world that CSS design can be creative and beautiful. It also illustrates the power of separating content from structure on the web. Dozens of widely varying site designs can be viewed — all of which are based on exactly the same HTML. Only the CSS and images vary from one site to the next.

W3C (WorldWide Web Consortium) Link Checker
Check your web pages to make sure that you don't have any broken links.

W3C Markup Validation Service
Check your web pages to see if they contain valid HTML code. Can be very helpful when debugging your pages. When something is not working right, make sure the code is not broken first!

W3C CSS Validation Service
Check your web pages to see if they contain valid CSS. Also helpful when debugging

Firebug
The web developer's best friend!
"Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page."
Also offered is Firebug Lite for Internet Explorer.

YSlow for Firebug
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:

  • Performance report card
  • HTTP/HTML summary
  • List of components in the page
  • Tools including JSLint

Install Firebug first.

CSS Beauty
Info on designing with CSS and a portfolio of inspirational websites

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Digital Video

The Digital Video SIG brings together presentations on video editing and special effects software. The DV SIG meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Visit the DV SIG page.

Flash

OC Flash deals with all aspects of development using Adobe Flash. OC Flash meets on the first Tuesday of each month. Visit the OC Flash website.

Web Video Crossroads

The Web Video Crossroads SIG addresses all aspects of video on the web and mobile devices. Web designers, web developers, and video/audio producers are welcome to discuss the latest developments in this fast-changing industry. The Web Video Crossroads SIG meets on the second Thursday of each month. Visit the Web Video Crossroads SIG page.

ColdFusion

The OC Cold Fusion Users Group meets the third Wednseday each month to discuss server-side development using Adobe's ColdFusion language. Visit the OCCFUG website.