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Six Revisions has created a great list of 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources.
In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.
Check out the 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources at Six Revisions.

Tripwire Magazine has compiled 35+ very Useful And Powerful CSS techniques. In addition to the 35+ CSS techniques there is also a nice introduction to CSS.
Here are ten CSS techniques that students frequently ask “how do I…?” in class:

CSS Tabs
Create Resizable Images With CSS
Making web pages extend to the bottom of the window
Prettier Accessible Forms
Multi-Column Lists
Optimizing Your Website Structure [...]

Noupe.com, a wonderful news source for designers and developers, has gathered 40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files. Fireworks is an great program for creating Web graphics. It is currently produced by Adobe, but was originally developed by Macromedia. If you don’t already own Photoshop and/or Illustrator you may want to download a trial version of [...]

The Joomla unit is done.  We will be using Joomla! A User’s Guide as the course text. Because the software version of Joomla! has changed since the book was written, I have written extensive notes on the assignment sheet to accompany the book. The second edition of the book is supposed to release Q1/Q2 2009. Until then you can use [...]

My Web sites have been moved to my new hosting company, Host Gator. I was very pleased with Host Gator’s service and help with moving my Web sites.
Free student Web hosting for students enrolled in the ROP Web Development Program is back online. This hosting program is not available to the general public. All current students will have to sign [...]

This is an amazing set of resources for anyone who uses Photoshop or wants to learn Photoshop. You must bookmark this.
This is the ultimate Photoshop Toolbox, it is not a list of random resources, it is a list of the BEST and most resourceful PS sites available.
The list is separated into the following categories: Free PSD Files Sites, Free [...]

This is a outstanding showcase of vector based Web designs.
Implementing bright and crisp vector graphics into your web designs can really add some visual kick. This collection of 50 insanely good vector-based web designs showcases the best examples of vector use including landscapes illustrations, abstract collages and character/mascot designs.
Continue reading 50 Insanely Good Vector-based Web Designs
After checking out the designs [...]

This is a terrific collection of CSS galleries for inspiration and education. As you view the sites be sure to use the Web Developer toolbar in Firefox to view the source code (View Source > View Source) and to view the CSS (CSS > View CSS).
Now days CSS Galleries are great for improving your website’s traffic and pagerank. Getting [...]

Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the most indispensable tools for web and graphic designers. For those of us who are always looking to learn more and improve skills, there are plenty of great tutorials out there for each of these programs.
Most designers feel a bit more comfortable in one over the other as a result of more experience or [...]

Lovely Charts is a cool, online tool for creating Flowcharts, Sitemaps, Network Diagrams, People Diagrams, Basic Symbols, and Wireframes. These charts can be exported to PDF, jpeg, and PNG and then they can be imported into other applications like Word or Excel for printing. Charts can also be saved on the Lovely Chart site. This is a free service, [...]