LINKS & RESOURCES

Register your domain name

• www.domainscanada.ca - company located in Calgary .ca only
• Internic - world database for domain names
• who is who on the net whois index

Top Search Engines

• Google
• MSN
• Ask Jeeves - type your question
• International directory of search engines

Submit your Web site with the following "free" Search Engines

• www.google.com
• msn.com
• www.dmoz.org - directory - free
• www.FoundLocally.com/ - Calgary directory- free
• www.jade.com - free
• www.searchit.com/addurl.htm - free
• www.canadiancontent.net/corp/suggest.html - free
• www.addme.com - free 14 search engines
• website submit free
• Gigablast free submission
• Entire web - free submission
• Yellow pages - free submission
• SEO - free submission
• @submit - free submission
• Scrub the web - free submission
• Australian web directory - free submission
• Yahoo - have to register and jump through lots of hoops

• Google tips for SEO
• Google AdWords - purchase keywords
• Search engine optimizaiton tips from Microsoft
• SEO tips
• Optimizing your meta tags - tips from Microsoft
• SEO tips from Web Developer's journal
• Controverisal SEO techniques - beware
• SEO facts by Wikipedia

• Freeware and shareware programs www.tucows.com
• Atomz - a free search engine you can add to your web site
• Flaming text and fonts
• Anfy java applets
• Font Garden - many free fonts
• 1001 Free fonts
• Star Office - Word processor, spreadsheet etc
• Free Photoshop Brushes

Sound Effects and music files

• Sounds of Nature, birds, frogs and insects
• Free sound effects & royalty free sounds
• Free sounds
• Sound rangers- purchase wide variety of sounds
• Fonts for sale
• Adobe fonts for sale
• Free fonts
• Free fonts 2
• Free fonts 3
  

Computer Books, Web Magazines & Research

• Peachpit Press - Visual Quickstart quides - excellent
• Communication Arts - Graphic and Web Design e-zine
• Eye Tracking suggests how to improve multimedia design
  

Software and Utilities

• AVG free antivirus program
• Run aware run software virtually without installing!
• Visitor Counters - the counter.com

Cool Flash Based Web sites

• Hillman Curtis
• eye4u.com in Germany
• Joe Cartoon animations Frog and Gerbil
• How stuff works good use of Flash for education
• Becoming Human
• Swift 3D program - 3D in Flash format

Miscellaneous Links of Interest

• Beauty of Beer Crystals under polarized light
• World of Optics and microscopy
• Prizes for Art and Science by L'Oreal - neat stuff!
• Color virtual musuem
• Hubble Space Images - spectacular

Selected Web sites by former students

• Annik Thiffeault - Monarch Graphic Design
• Sheila Rusnell-Newton - Peanut Aware
• Shannon Gaye - Musician

Educational & Fun Sites

• World Mysteries
• Exploratorium
• Calgary Science Centre
• Royal Tyrell Museum of Dinosaurs
• National Geographic
• Canadian Geographic
• Space weather.com - info on sun spots and northern lights
• Virtual microscopy