Links

Linkdin

Linkdin is a social networking site that is a good place to connect with other people in your industry. This link will take you to my page on linkedin.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/doncarnes

These are the tools of the trade.

I am curently using Adobe Design Premium CS4 on a Mac G5 dual processor. I have not used Quark (4.1) on a regular bases since inDesign 2.5 was published.

Reference Sources

Were to go when you need inspeiration, are stuck or need to learn something new.

Safari Books Online - For a monthly fee you get access to all of O'Reily's Technical books as well as the books and videos of many other publishers.
Adobe Design Center
Adobe Labs
W3schools - Great reference site
Google Code, Maps
PHP - Everything php
A List Apart - This site is deadicated to great design
Practical E-commerce - Their tag line is "Insights for the online merchants"

Shopping Carts

I have used Zen Cart for many e-commerce projects. It dose it all, in several different languages. Magento is the cart I will use on a future project.

Useful Programs and Add-ons and Frameworks

These tools will speed up the web development process. Contrary to popular belief, you still need to understand code to use them.

Jquery is one of several JavaScript that speeds production by invoking an object from the Jquery library. http://jquery.com/
Quickly an easlily install a LAMP Server on your Mac. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/
Web Assist will do a lot of the programing for you. Sometimes to much so you need to pay attention. http://www.webassist.com/

Stock Photos, Illustrations, and Flash Objects

Where would we be without stock art. This list contains sites that sell royalty free photos and illustration, etc. for very reasonable prices. They also sell audio files and flash content.