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The following are a few sites I've bookmarked over the years. If you have a site you visit regularly that should be listed here, please contact me. Please visit the following subsections as well:

Book Publishers

New Riders
Peachpit Press (especially the Visual Quickstart Guides)
O'Reilly


Design

CoolHomePages
"The Only Known Cure for Designer's Block."

Web Page Design for Designers
"A site about designing for the World Wide Web, with a particular emphasis on graphic design and content rather than on technology."


Development

Builder.com
"Solutions for site builders."

DevGuru
"A premier developers' resource featuring over three thousand pages containing comprehensive quick reference guides, tutorials, knowledge base articles, and useful products to serve a wide range of developers' needs."

4GuysFromRolla.com
Excellent ASP advice.

JavaScript Source
"The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your web pages. All for free!"

Lissa Explains
Design and development resource for kids, but adults can learn here too.

NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
"...a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web."

Webmonkey
Excellent Web developer resource. Also has section for kids.

WebReference
Another excellent Web developer resource.


Organizations (DFW Area)

The Association for Women in Communications
The Association for Women in Communications is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.

Alliance of Technology and Women
The Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW) is a non-profit organization that supports women and men worldwide who share the common interests of empowering women in technology, increasing the number of women in executive roles and encouraging women and girls to enter technology fields.

Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas (EGAD)
EGAD is a computer user group for professional graphic artists working in the advertising, marketing communications, and graphic arts industries.

GeekMeet
The purpose of Geek Meet is help build a sense of community among the professionals in the technology sector by providing entertaining environments where the innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial of the Internet and technical fields can gather and interact. Happy hours are held in Dallas, Richardson and Fort Worth.

North Texas PC Users Group
North Texas PC Users Group, Inc. is an educational resource for all your computer questions and needs.

North Texas Technology Council
The North Texas Technology Council promotes the technology industry in North Texas; fosters collaboration among technology organizations; drives the success of member companies in their fields; and provides a diverse forum for building recognition of North Texas as a global leader in technology development and application.

Project Management Institute
PMIŽ is the leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional. Visit either the Dallas Chapter or the Ft. Worth Chapter.

Society for Technical Communication (STC), Lone Star Chapter (LSC)
STC is a membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication - it is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its 25,000 members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, videographers, multimedia artists, Web and Intranet page information designers, translators, and others whose work involves making technical information available to those who need it.

Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
The Usability Professionals' Association was formed to provide a network and opportunities through which usability professionals can communicate and share information about skills and skill development, methodology used and/or proposed in the profession, tools, technology, and organizational issues.


Training & Testing

Brainbench
Measure your skills with these free tests.

FindTutorials.com
"A Web index and search engine dedicated to bringing you the best of the Web's tutorials and online courses."


Miscellaneous

SpamCop
A free service, SpamCop helps you punish spammers for sending you their junk mail.

WhatIs.com
An IT-Specific encyclopedia. Excellent resource!