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Our Resource Section

Welcome to the Creative Fusion Pro *Beta* Resources Section. Here we try and provide you with links to some of the best resources on the web for any project or situation you might find yourself in. We are constantly adding to this section and would love to take any suggestions you may have. Please feel free to send us more link and resource suggestions on our contact form here

Resources

Tutorials

An excellent resource for some truly superior photoshop tutorials.

This site has only been around for about 2 years but it has an excellent selection of very thorough tutorials.

Teachers and experts coming together sharing their knowledge with some really great tutorials at no cost to it's users.

Truly inspirational, Abduzeedo is teaching some truly revolutionary techniques.

Tutorials for photoshop, 3D, web design, and photography.


Design Blogs

Six Revisions is a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers.

Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design.

Most people find that true creativity isn’t a constant presence in their lives, no matter how much you fool yourself into thinking that. We’d like to introduce you to Fuel Your Creativity.

Boagworld is now the longest running and most popular web design podcast. The emphasis is on news, features and interviews, intended to help those running websites as well as designers and developers.

Creative Curio is about exploring and discovering (or rediscovering!) the world of graphic design and how exciting it can be to create!


Programming


The W3C HTML/XHTML Validation Service is a free software created by the W3C to help Web designers and Web developers check HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.

The W3C CSS Validation Service is a free software created by the W3C to help Web designers and Web developers check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

The W3C mobileOK Checker is a free service by W3C that helps check the level of mobile-friendliness of Web documents, and in particular assert whether a Web document is mobileOK.

THE LARGEST WEB DEVELOPER SITE ON THE NET - Full Web Building Tutorials

Top 10 tutorials for devloping iPhone apps.

Dream.In.Code (DIC for short) is a leading online community for programmers and web developers.

Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!


Freebies

Brusheezy.com is a place for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns on the internet!

Brush King is a collection of high quality Photoshop Brushes. You can download them for free and you can use them for your website design or other graphic creations.

PSD Goodies is a site where you can find everything you need for a nicer work in Photoshop.

Just another cool website for Web designers.

Icon Archive is a categorized collection of high quality desktop & web icon sets. We currently host over 29,600 icons in 1030 sets from 244 icon authors. Icons can be used for Windows (XP, Vista, etc.), Macintosh (OSX, OS) and Linux (as PNG Files).

Resources

Working In-House

HOW’s InHOWse blog created with the commitment to support, inspire and entertain the in-house design community.

AIGA, the professional association for design, stimulates thinking about design, demonstrates the value of design and empowers the success of designers at each stage of their careers.

The best online games, absolutely free! Grab your mouse and keyboard and get ready for fun. We have thousands of free flash games available. Play from anywhere, even work. The best time you'll waste all day, guaranteed.

A hilarious site to surf on when bored or feeling down. You thought your life was bad? Check out what's goin on with other people round the world.


Blog sharing horror stories from both freelance and in-house clients and the hilarious situations they seem to secretly enjoy putting us through.



Running Your Business

An excellent resource for how to establish your business in an easy step by step manner.

You'll find helpful annotated resources for planning, running, managing a Web design business; handling finances, such as accounting, invoicing, billing, pricing your work; legal issues, such as contracts, trademarks, intellectual property, Internet law, and related attorneys; your office, such as planning, designing your office space, office ergonomics, preventing or reducing computer injuries, office furniture, office equipment; recommended books; related software, and more.

Excellent resource for free or almost free ideas for self promoting your freelance or design business.

Fantastic resource full of tips and links to magazines and other articles covering what you need to set up and run a web design business.


Students Only

Curious to what you could make as a designer or developer? Get accurate, real life stats of what others like you are making in the industry through Pay-Scale. Stop guessing, and really know what you are or will be worth.


If you're interested in learning graphic design and don't know where to start - check out the art institutes. They offer both in person and online classes to work with your schedule.


Fill out a free application to qualify for Federal Student Aid (US residents only). Get the help you need to get back to school.


Interested in signing up for school? Find reviews on some of the most popular schools for learning the trade.



Legal Resources

A VERY good article on protecting your intellectual property.

We in the Copyright Office are proud to be part of a long tradition of promoting progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors.


Providing high quality and timely examination of patent and trademark applications, guiding domestic and international intellectual property policy, and delivering intellectual property information and education worldwide.


These guys specialize in intellectual copyright laws. If you've got a problem, try them out.