Resources
For Everyone:
BLUEHOST - Excellent web hosting company, unbelieveable service for just $6.95 a month for 200Gb space - Unlimited domains - 2,500 POP/IMAP email accounts. (Bluehost improves their services and offering so often, it's hard to keep up with them.)
FRESHBOOKS - Simple online invoicing and time tracking service. Pain-free billing, late pay tracking, time managment and reporting for the accountant challenged.
ISTOCKPHOTO - Stunning stock images starting at $1. If you can't afford a photographer, this is a very decent resource. As an example, check out the pages and pages of search results on ISTOCKPHOTO for CAT. And if you are a photographer or designer, you can easily get your own work up and start selling it.
Clay Bartel - Looking for a professional copywriter in the DFW area? Go to Clay. Do it now!
Ricky Munks - The man, the myth, the marketing copy master... You're invited to take a look at Ricky's written work.
Neo Camerata - Looking for a professional composer or need help recording music for your project? Check out Mark Landson, he's well versed and rehearsed in Classical, Crossover, Pop and Rock.
James Bland Photography - Did you say you want to find the best photographer in Dallas? Look no further, you've just discovered James Bland.
Donovan-Gilhooley - Need a graphic designer in Fort Worth? Check out Scott Anderson, he's the King of America and the fastest mouse slinger West of the Trinity!
For Designers:
Art Director's Tool Kit - Awesome tool for print and Web designers! (If you're on a Mac w/ OSX 10.3+, V3 is probably already sitting in your apps folder) Helps SO much for mathematic conversions, good scale and column tools, has symbol and typeface charts and more.
Color Blender - Free online tool for color matching and palette design. Good for playing around with color and coming up with atypical, but beautiful palettes.
Ban Comic Sans - Good free handwritten fonts created by designers who just can't take Comic Sans any more.
Mandarin Design - Useful Web design tips and tricks type periodical.
CSS Zen Garden - Learn incredible CSS techniques; positioning, layout and design from CSS sensai, Dave Shea.
A List Apart - For people who make websites - from Web gurus, Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and cohorts. This site even includes advice on great copywrting techniques and ideas to improve usability and accessability.
The World Wide Web Consortium - THE guys who set THE rules. In their own words: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
For Fun:
Threadless - Awesome t-shirts. Brilliant business model. Buy t-shirts, submit designs, rank designs...it's ALL good!
Jonathan Levine Gallery - Great gallery in Chelsea...we'd go so far as to say a favorite.
Bathroom Grafitti Project - Our pal Unity Stoakes is looking for great picts of better bathroom grafitti.
A list of different people who've illustrated the Alice in Wonderland books - Apologies to the beloved illustrator, Bessie Pease Gutmann, but we can't support her gryphon, don't even look at it, it's just wrong.
Pandora - The Music Genome Project - Create "stations" based on your personal preferences and be dazzled and amazed by what Pandora recommends.
Yehoodi - For hardcore hepcat swing dancers only.
Rhyme Zone - Inspired to write poetry, but can't find the right rhyme?
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