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The Multimedia Library’s List of Recommended Online Resources for Multimedia Developers

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  • HTML Resources
  • JavaScript Resources
  • Java Resources
  • Web Graphics Resources
  • Developer Resources - Graphics
  • Developer Resources - Music and Sound Clips
  • MIDI Resources
  • Shockwave Resources
  • QuickTime and QTVR Resources
  • MPEG Resources
  • DVD Resources
  • VRML Resources
  • Font Resources
  • Hardware and Software Resources
  • Organizations
  • Museums
  • Copyright Information
    • HTML Resources
    General HTML http://www.multimedialibrary.com/Education/HTMLHelper/HTMLHelperTop.asp
    Pocket Guide to HTMLhttp://computing.net/html/pocket.html
    Selected HTML Exampleshttp://www.ozemail.com.au/~dkgsoft/html3/index.html
    HTML Noteshttp://www.webdiner.com/annexe/classes/basics1.htm
    Hints for Making Tableshttp://www.botany.hawaii.edu/tables/hints.htm
    Latest HTML Specificationshttp://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-html32.html
    How Do They Do That with HTML?http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/index.html
    Electronic HTML Referencehttp://www.coolnerds.com/refs/htmlref.htm
    A Compendium of HTML Elementshttp://www.synapse.net/~woodall/icons/html.htm
    HTML Guidehttp://web.ukonline.co.uk/members/claire.weekes/mjm/html.htm
    Internet Glossaryhttp://www.highway57.co.uk/glossary.html
    HTML Glossaryhttp://www.w3-tech.com/crash/Glossary.html
    Basics of HTMLhttp://www.w3-tech.com/crash/Basics.html
    Official List of MIME Typeshttp://www.iana.org:80/iana/overview.html
    Freeware HTML Editorhttp://www.barebones.com/
    HTML 3.2 Referencehttp://www2.wvitcoe.wvnet.edu/~sbolt/html3/
    Beginner's Guide to HTMLhttp://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
    Creating HTML - A Simple Guidehttp://www.netusa1.net/~jbornema/html.html
    Elements of HTML Stylehttp://www.book.uci.edu/Staff/StyleGuide.html
    HTML Style Guidehttp://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html
    Guide to Publishinghttp://www.interlink-2000.com/guide-to-publishing-html.html
    Netscape Preview Technical Documentationhttp://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/communicator/index.html
    HTML Helphttp://www.obscure.org/~jaws/htmlhelp.html
    HTML Assistancehttp://www.ipr.nl/developr/roland/assist.htm
    Wade's Web Tutuorialhttp://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/w/s/wsmart/WEB/HTMLtutor.html
    Bare Bones Guide to HTMLhttp://werbach.com/barebones/
    The Web Developer's Virtual Libraryhttp://www.Stars.com/
    Webmaster's Encyclopediahttp://www.Stars.com/Reference/Index/
    Web Browser Differenceshttp://www.iuma.com/IUMA-2.0/help/help-differences.html
    Creating Net Siteshttp://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/
    Cascading Style Sheetshttp://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1-960220.html
    Yale Web Style Manualhttp://info.med.yale.edu/caim/StyleManual_Top.html
    HTML QuickReferencehttp://sdcc8.ucsd.edu/~m1wilson/htmlref.html
    HTML Referencehttp://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html
    HTML Crash Coursehttp://www.w3-tech.com/crash/
    JavaScript Resources
    The JavaScript Guidehttp://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/index.html
    JavaScript Helphttp://www.freqgrafx.com/411/
    Electronic JavaScript Referencehttp://www.coolnerds.com/refs/javaref.htm
    The JavaScript Sourcebookhttp://gmccomb.com/javascript/
    The JavaScript Guidehttp://web.ukonline.co.uk/members/claire.weekes/mjm/jtext.htm
    JavaScript Sampleshttp://www.loginet.com/users/d/denise/javascript.html
    Introduction to JavaScripthttp://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/js/script.htm
    The JavaScript Resource Centerhttp://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/js/script.htm
    The JavaScript Tip of the Weekhttp://www.webreference.com/javascript/
    JavaScript Quick Referencehttp://webreview.com/97/01/10/wian/index.html
    Useful JavaScript Sourcehttp://icse1.ucsd.edu/~gcohen/javascript/
    JavaScript Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.freqgrafx.com/411/jsfaq.html
    Non-Programmer's Guide to JavaScripthttp://www.w3-tech.com/crash/javascript/NPGuide.html
    Java Resources
    What is Java?http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/browserkit/java.html
    The Java Developerhttp://www.digitalfocus.com/digitalfocus/faq/howdoi.html
    Java Sourceshttp://www.gamelan.com/
    Java Sun Pagehttp://java.sun.co/
    JavaSofthttp://www.javasoft.com/
    JavaWorldhttp://www.javaworld.com/
    Java Infohttp://www.jars.com/
    Java Languagehttp://www.comp.lang.java/
    Java Softwarehttp://www.Stars.com/Software/Java/
    The Java Serieshttp://www.aw.com/cp/javaseries.html
    The Java Boutiquehttp://www.j-g.com/java
    Java Crash Coursehttp://www.w3-tech.com/crash/java/Intro.html
    Web Graphics Resources
    The Browser Safe Color Palettehttp://www.lynda.com/hex.html
    More on The Browser Safe Color Palettehttp://the-light.com/netcol.html
    Netscape Color Palettehttp://www.connect.hawaii.com/hc/webmasters/Netscape.colors.html
    GifBuilder for Creating Animated Gifshttp://www.pascal.com/mirrors/gifbuilder/
    Making GIF Animationshttp://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm
    GIF Animation Toolshttp://webreview.com/current/bad/index.html
    RGB to HEX Converterhttp://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/guide/color/dec-hex.html
    Client Side Image Map Editorhttp://miso.wwa.com/~myc/csime/
    NCSA Imagemap Tutorialhttp://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/imagemapping.html
    Color Tableshttp://mrlxp2.mrl.uiuc.edu/~www/rgbtbl.html
    Preparing Graphics for the Webhttp://www.servtech.com/public/dougg/graphics/
    Graphic Tips and Tutorialshttp://www.mccannas.com/pshop/menu.htm
    The Pixel Foundryhttp://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/KPT.html
    The Ultimate Compendium of Adobe Photoshope Siteshttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/~pitharat/photoshop/
    Graphic Design Tipshttp://www.graphic-design.com/
    Animation Tipshttp://webreview.com/96/02/16/edge/index.html
    Page Color Composerhttp://www.sci.kun.nl/cgi-bin-thalia/color/compose
    Get Animated - GIF89a Animationhttp://www.webdiner.com/annexe/gif89/snowstp1.htm
    Killer Web Siteshttp://www.killersites.com
    Creating Graphics fo the Webhttp://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/
    Apple Web Design Guidehttp://www.cybertech.apple.com/HI/web_design/intro.html
    Director/Photoshop and Digital Audio/Video Basicshttp://www.TIMEDIA.com/tipstech.html
    Developer Resources - Graphics
    The Multimedia Library Royalty Free Digital Stock Photographyhttp://www.multimedialibrary.com/FRAMESML/developer.html/
    Royalty Free Digital Stock Photographyhttp://www.photodisc.com/
    Stock Photographyhttp://www.publishersdepot.com/
    THE Source for ClipArt on the Webhttp://www.barrysclipart.com/
    Index of Icons and Graphicshttp://www.webcom.com/html/icons.html
    Icons, Background Tiles, and Animated GIFShttp://pixelplace.com/
    Buttonshttp://www.artbeatswebtools.com/frdoor.html
    More Buttonshttp://www.demon.co.uk/Tangent/buttons.html
    Texture Land - Backgroundshttp://www.meat.com/textures/aindex.html
    The Background Samplerhttp://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html
    The Wallpaper Machinehttp://www.cacr.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/wallpaper.pl
    Free Clip Arthttp://www.sausage.com/clipart.htm
    Clip Art Collectionhttp://metatoys.metatools.com/
    Background Patternshttp://www.netcreations.com/patternland/
    TextureLandhttp://www.meat.com/textures/
    Web Page Templateshttp://www.webdiner.com/templates/webtemp.htm
    Developer Resources - Music and Sound Clips
    The Multimedia Library Royalty Free Sound Serieshttp://www.multimedialibrary.com/FRAMESML/developer.html/
    Audio Clips to Downloadhttp://www.geek-girl.com/audioclips.html
    CBC Radio Archiveshttp://www.radio.cbc.ca/
    Internet Underground Music Archivehttp://www.iuma.com/IUMA/help/
    MIDI Resources
    Sources of MIDI Fileshttp://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/files.html
    MIDI Fileshttp://www.midifarm.com
    MIDI Cityhttp://www.midicity.co.jp
    Standard MIDI Files to Downloadhttp://alpha.science.unitn.it/~oss/softwaree.html
    Recent Standard MIDI Files On the Nethttp://http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/sub/smfs.html
    Shockwave and Lingo Resources
    Shockwave and Director Developer Toolshttp://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/devtools.html
    Director and Shockwave Click Zonehttp://www.ddce.cqu.edu.au/imu/tools/director/xtras/
    Shockwave Streaming Audio Pagehttp://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/audio/audio.html
    Shocking the Webhttp://www.shockingtheweb.com
    Download-O-matichttp://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/director5/moviedocs/download.html
    Shockwave Error Codeshttp://www.macromedia.com/support/technotes/shockwave/developer/troubleshoot/
    Ink and Image Shockwave Sitehttp://www.inkimage.com/
    Direct-L Director/Lingo/Shockwave Inquirieshttp://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/digest/index.html
    unLingo Dictionary - Undocumented Features of Lingohttp://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/tips/unlingo/index.html
    Dr. Lingohttp://www.zeek.com/drlingo.html
    Dirigo Multimediahttp://www.maine.com/shops/gpicher
    Director Webhttp://www.hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/index.html
    Click Zonehttp://www.ddce.cqu.edu.au/imu/tools/Director/home.html
    Castle Productionshttp://www.best.com/~mcastle/
    QuickTime and QTVR Resources
    Apple's QTVR Virtual Tutorhttp://devworld.apple.com/dev/devtraining/QTVR_Web/index.html
    The QuickTime WebMaster's Pagehttp://quicktime.apple.com/dev/devweb.html
    The Virtual Studios of France 3 Lyonhttp://www.evm.fr/evm/lyon/lyon.htm
    Hypnagogue QTVR Nodehttp://www.hypnagogue.com/QTVR1.html
    Digital Zen QTVRhttp://xtb.com/zen
    Image Engineering QTVRhttp://www.ImageE.com/
    University of Wisonsin QTVRhttp://www.virtualproperties.com/qtvrfinal/virtualmadison.html
    Vancouver QTVRhttp://www2.portal.ca/~raymondk/Spider/QuickTime2/van.html
    Chenenne Old West Museum QTVRhttp://www.state.wy.us/state/tourism/cfd.html
    Apple Computer QuickTime VRhttp://quicktimevr.apple.com/
    Santa Cruz QTVR Panoramashttp://www.research.digital.com/PA/maps/qtvr-list-text.html
    California QTVR Panoramashttp://www.scruz.net/~rcasady/Pano/PanoIndex.html
    Hawaii QTVR Panoramashttp://hotspots.hawaii.com/h4qtvr.html
    QTVR Workbookhttp://solutions.apple.com/pub/quicktime-vr/jcannon/Workbook.html
    EZ QTVR for Directorhttp://www.imaginet.fr/~davidh/EzQTVR.html
    QTVRhttp://w3.qtvr.com/qtvr/
    Travel Technologies QTVRhttp://www.ttivr.com/samples.html
    Palo Alto and Santa Cruz Mountainshttp://www.outre.com/qtvr/
    Apple QuickTime VR Developers Info pagehttp://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/author.html
    Joel's QTVR Workbookhttp://solutions.apple.com/pub/quicktime-vr/jcannon/Workbook.html
    International QuickTime VR Associationhttp://www.iqtvra.org/
    Andrew Nemeth's Quicktime VR Pagehttp://www.zeta.org.au/~aznemeng/QTVR.html3
    The Stitcher's HomePagehttp://w3.qtvr.com/qtvr/
    The QTVR Aurhoring FAQhttp://met.open.ac.uk/group/cpv/qtvr_faq.html
    MPEG Resources
    How to Make MPEG Movieshttp://www.arc.umn.edu/GVL/Software/mpeg.html
    MPEG Pointershttp://www.bok.net/~tristan/MPEG/MPEG-content.html
    DVD Resources
    DVDhttp://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/
    DVD Overviewhttp://www.c-cube.com/ftrstry/dvd.html
    Compcore DVD Pagehttp://www.compcore.com/DVD.HTM
    The World of DVDhttp://eiplaza.toshiba.co.jp/dvd/e/news/front.htm
    DVD Specificationshttp://www.accent.net/m_mario/dvd.htm
    DVD Search Sitehttp://www.dvd.com/
    DVD - Hope or Hypehttp://www.hyperstand.com/NewMedia/97/02/fea/DVD_Hype_Hope.html
    VRML Resources
    VRML Toolshttp://vrml.sgi.com/tools/
    VRML Consortiumhttp://vag.vrml.org/consort
    VRML Repositoryhttp://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/
    VRML for Rocket Scientists, Astronomers and Truck Drivershttp://www.Stars.com/Authoring/VRML/
    VRML 2.0 and Samples and Linkshttp://www.elim.net/~vrml2
    VRML Modelshttp://www.bldgsite.com/journal/vrml.htm
    Virtus Voyagerhttp://www.virtus.com/
    VRML Scouthttp://www.chaco.com/vrscout
    The VRML Forumhttp://vag.vrml.org/www-vrml/
    Construct VRML Pagehttp://www.construct.net/tools/vrml/index.html
    Font Resources
    The Internet Font Browserhttp://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/Fonts/
    Font Tagshttp://www.webdiner.com/annexe/font/font.htm
    Hardware and Software Resources
    TuCows Sharewarehttp://www.surfnj.net/tucows/mac/
    Shareware.comhttp://www.shareware.com
    Mac OS Software and Hardware Guidehttp://www.macsoftware.apple.com/
    Mac OS Informationhttp://www.macos.apple.com/
    Apple Developer Cataloghttp://www.devcatalog.apple.com/
    Organizations
    Interactive Multimedia Associationhttp://www.ima.org/
    International Interactive Communications Societyhttp://www.iicsny.org/
    New York New Media Associationhttp://www.nynma.org/index.html
    InterNichttp://rs.internic.net
    Museums
    Leonardo da Vinci Museumhttp://www.leonardo.net/museum/main.html
    Picasso Museumhttp://www.clubinternet.com/picasso
    Andy Warhol Museumhttp://www.warhol.org/warhol
    Salvador Dali Museumhttp://www.highwayone.com/dali
    Museums of Parishttp://www.paris.org/Musees
    Le Louvrehttp://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/
    La Reunion Des Musees Nationauxhttp://culture.fr/
    The Whitney Museum of American Arthttp://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/
    Los Angeles County Museum of Arthttp://www.lacma.org
    Smithsonian Institutionhttp://www.si.edu/
    Pushkin Museum of Fine Artshttp://www.rosprint.ru/art/museum/pushkin/
    The Web Museumhttp://watt.emf.net/wm/net/
    The Metropolitan Museum of Arthttp://metmuseum.org/
    The Museum of Modern Arthttp://www.moma.org
    The National Gallery of Arthttp://www.nga.gov
    The California Museum of Photographyhttp://www.cmp.ucr.edu/
    The Library of Congresshttp://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
    The Smithsonian Institutionhttp://www.si.edu
    The Palmer Museum of Arthttp://cac.psu.edu/~mtd120/palmer
    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumhttp://www.guggenheim.org
    The Metropolitan Operahttp://www.metopera.org
    Lincoln Center for the Performing Artshttp://www.lincolncenter.org
    Copyright Information
    U.S. Copyright Act of 1976http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc/17/overview.html
    U.S. Copyright Officehttp://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
    Multimedia Law Handbookhttp://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/multimedia-handbook
    Multimedia Law Pagehttp://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/
    Copyright Fair Usehttp://fairuse.stanford.edu/
    Copyright Clearance Centerhttp://www.copyright.com/
    Copyright Websitehttp://www.benedict.com/
    Copyright and Intellectual Property Resourceshttp://www.nic-bnc.ca/ifla/ll/cpyright.htm
    Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark and Copyrighthttp://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/
    Copyright in Visual Artshttp://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/CopyVis.htm
    Nolo Press Copyright Articleshttp://www.nolo.com/intprop.html


     



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