Over time I collected many useful links to different web sites all over the net. I'm sure you know how hard it is to remember them. I thought it would be a good idea to have useful links online so I can just access them from my own web site and they might be useful to you too.
Boris' Useful Links Collection
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Anji Design Beautiful and art works. Web site not the best, but art work is very inspiring. I very much enjoyed exploring. If you are looking for a modern art works from realistic, fiction and abstract styles then this is your place. |
Sophie Griotto Moving fast is the style of this web site combined with fast brush. Good use of Flash to create fast motions that compliments the brush work. Web site is in foreign language, but art work is so good that you don't need to understand the text. |
Still Effects Studios Company web site for a classmate of mine Camilo Sanz, from AiW. Good use of only one single web page with multiple different information. Single source for multi info. |
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Nightwish Band I would like to present to you one of my favorite bands, Nightwish. This is a European Metal band with each story which reminds me of Lord of the Rings. |
Energy Race Found this while going though design portfolios for inspiration. This is a web site allows user to calculate how much pollution you have decreased over time. It also allows you to recruit your friends and keep track of it all on a nice tree interface. However if u add car in, you can't take it out. |
Disco Ocko Beautifully designed European Disco club web site. Greatly implemented design with directional lines and good color pallet choice. Very pleasing to the eye web site that I enjoyed going through and recommend it to you as well. |
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Keepers: Key of Life Beauty in the of the beholder, it is something that is so hard to find these days. Is it not? This is a web site for a fantasy game created by a company who's site is already in this section. It is the beauty. Only its in russian, so enjoy. |
Honda Racing F1 One plane of existence come to one site. Honda Racing Formula 1 created a very interesting web site. When you are visiting this site it is as if you are looking into one plane and when changing position you change angle of view and more. |
Mail Box Map So you need to sent a letter, but you have no idea where is the mailbox? Here comes Mail Box Map, a web site that uses Google Maps API plus your zip code to find all of the mail boxes in your area! You can even find mail pick up times. This is a great resource to drop off your mail without any problems. |
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Dragon Force Band This is a very good rock band. Their web site is not the best and I think they deserve a better one really. I like their music and thanks to my friend Willy, I now can enjoy and learn more about this band. |
TrueNuff TV MAC Many of you seen those MAC vs PC ads on TV. This is a hilarious web site with collection of parody advertising that not just show PC and MAC, but also combined UNIX and other technology. I find this very funny and go and watch. |
How Stuff Work Ever wondered how something works? Have you wondered how to make a Jedi Lightsaber? or how to lock pick? Here is a site for you that contains vast verity articles that enplanes how anything anywhere works. |
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Clairvoyant Music is something that can serve as bridge between us all. I would like to show you this site I found online of a very nice group called "Clairvoyant." I really like their music and their site looks great. |
Easter Bunny Hates I always wondered, what does easter bunny do when there is no easter holiday. Now I know the answer. Check out this hilarious video of the Easter bunny when he gets bored. So cute and yet so dangerous. |
Very Funny Ads Saw this very funny TV program "World Funnies Ads" and got their site link with even more funny ads from all over the world. Check it out and get a laugh from it. |
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Chat Acronyms If you are confused by all the BRB and LOL while you are chatting together with your friends Then this is your web site where you can learn about all the acronyms used in the current digital age. |
Dudes Kajeet They come in cute shapes, sizes and colors. They are cell phone buddies, aka cell phone thignies :-) I saw ad for them on tv and they looked too cute not to check out their site. So here is the cute site. |
Leek Spin Have you ever heard one of those songs that would just get stuck in your head? Leek Spin is a never ending song that is actually in Dutch or same language of that region with a very cute animation. |
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Orneryboy Comic Love this one, this is an online Comic book by Michael Lalonde. This is a hilarious adventures of Orneyboy, his girlfriend Dirtygirl and pet Brain. :-) I enjoy reading this funny comic and recommend everyone to have a big laugh. |
Day of Silence If you want everyone to hear you please or views, then the best way is to do a silence action. Thank you to my good friend who gave me this link. This is a great site and the design of it is awesome. Check out this site and perhaps join them in their work. |
Wiki Quote I love quotes from famous people, movies, anime, books and just people. Thanks to my friends who gave me this link, here is a great source of quotes from famous Wikipedia network. |
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Ses Inc e-store I love fashion an Japanese street fashion is something I would love to see in person someday. Here is a site that contains Japanese street fashion clothing for sale, too bad they don't deliver to USA. Still it worth checking out. |
Sunsad This is a very interesting, pretty and well designed web site. At first its hard to say what its about since its all in German. After some research I found that this is a music band and a good one too. |
Heroes (TV) This is a nice flash site, not too great, but the series is very nice. Now being shown on Mondays at 9:00PM EST on NBC 4 and also Fridays at 8:00PM EST on Sci Fi. I'm enjoying this series and love the artist who gets high and paints the future. |
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Trek Core Enter into the world of Star Trek from an amazingly designed web site. Focusing on the Star Trek series and new games like Star Trek Online from the ever loved Star Trek Universe. Sadly to say the site has some lacking in its usability. |
Renaissance Fair Great place to go and have some fun in Maryland. Engulf yourself in the midevil times with knights, knobble, flower girls and much more. Maryland Renaissance Fair is a lot of fun and if you can, go and visit for some fun. |
Lets Talk.com I've being looking into various cell phones and plans and I found this site to be very useful. Here you can compare companies, panes, cell phones, prices and just everything. Great site if you need help to pick your new cell phone and plan. |
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Lets Talk.com I've being looking into various cell phones and plans and I found this site to be very useful. Here you can compare companies, panes, cell phones, prices and just everything. Great site if you need help to pick your new cell phone and plan. |
2000 Coach This site is mostly for people who live Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York. Here you can buy tickets for a very cheap bus. I mean its very cheap and bus is good. People tend to call this Chinese Bus. I'll be using it to travel. |
Another Century's Gundam and Robotech all together in this great new game Another Century's Episode 2. The site is very good and my kind of site. I would check out their movie section its very fun. :-) If you are not a fan of this kind of game, then just check out the site. |
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Serge Devant Its a music+digital age and here is another site of a musician; Serge Devant. He is new to me and I hope to learn more about him soon. I really like his web site and he uses that open Source Flash MP3 player. |
Samgoody Online One of the places where I buy my music. They have a good in store and online collection. I like to shop there, especially when friends give me gift cards. |
Maritini.com OK, I'm not promoting alcohol here, lol I really like their site. If you see each page has cuts from different commercials arranged in a very nice way and different on each page. |
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Sci Fi London I was just bored and searching for some sci fi inspiration when I found this. This is a site for London's Sci Fi Festival. I found some very interesting new movies reviews and trailers. This is Must Check out site for everyone. |
Troika Party Club Troika is a russian night club with some of the best parties in the area. You can check out the pictures they have of people having fun and some of my friends are on those pictures. |
Production IG Anime fan? Here is a place where anime is born. Production IG is one of the leading anime creation companies. Check out their site for the latest releases. |
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Go Red Car Game This is a very fun little flash game, but a hard one. Here you have to be able to park your car into designated area in a limited time. Can you pass this Flash Driving Test? I must say that I failed and it seem I will never get a license now. |
Elysian Anime Another anime site. This site has a very good design, well balanced layout and good work on site banners. I found some database code is not working for voting, but i hope they will fix it soon so there will not be an error message. |
What's Up RSS I've seen many sites using RSS to bring news to their online visitors and most of those designs are very simple. Just text and maybe some buttons, but mostly just text. Here comes the next step in RSS designs. Flash combined with some hardcore coding. |
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Jamiroquai Band This is a British band that a friend of mine really likes. I really like their navigation bar, its unique in its design and in its functions. :-) There is also a funny game on this site. |
Star Trek Online Pre Are you a Trekky fan? or just a Sci Fi fan? Then here is a place for you. We all heard of World of Warcaft and Guild Wars now awaits a new universe called Star Trek Online. |
Guild Wars Web site for a Guild Wars online game. The illustrations are great and game is very nice too. It cost about $50 USD, but no monthly fee. |
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Panda Video Cam Check out this live feed from a panda habitat in the Smithsonian National DC Zoo. Panda Baby so cute. |
Craigslist DC List of free stuff you can get around the Washington DC Metropolitan area. Site is a bit cluttered with too much info. |
GunZ This is a free Korean online first person shooter game. Graphics is not very good, but its a fun game and you will enjoy it. |
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Battleon RPG Very nice free flash based RPG. Impressive flash works and good RPG. After a while this RPG can get boring.> |
Japan-Zone Good site to learn more about Japan and Japanese culture. Contains various information and very nice image gallery. |
Dream Gazers.com Great site created in flash with very good graphics. This is a site of the game that is still being developed. |
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Stargazer Online European sci fi web site about Star Trek, Star gate, Battle star Galactic and Babylon 5. I've made their graphics: banners and buttons. |
Anime Adrenaline An Archive of Anime series, information and images. Extensive collection of information about Japanese anime. |
Digital Art.org One of the biggest image archives online. it contains an extensive, fantasy art, sci fi art and other images by the visitors. |
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ADV Films.com Good site that contains Japanese Anime and this site is well designed with nice features. Also, contains good Anime/movies sites. |
Massassi Order One of the biggest collection of Star Wars images from the movies and information about the Star Wars Universe. |
IMD Movie Database A usefully web site database to find information on any movies and actors in them. |
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Peter and Company Web site contains comic book like graphics created by the author of the site. |
Star Trek Gallery An extensive image gallery from Star Trek Series. Most of the images where created by fans. |
Stance Dance Hilarious page for all those you are big fans of "strange" dancing. Thanks to my friend Will for giving it to me. |
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Stephen Bair, Blair Welcome to yet another web designer I know. He is very talented and his work is great. There are some nice features on his site, like selecting different colors for the web site and many more. |
Digital Science I would like to present to you one of the best web design company web sites. This is a very good site and I recommend you all to check it out. This site rocks my world. Combination of Flash and 3D is great. |
N-Design HTML and N-Design Flash Great Site about a great designer. One of the best I've seen with very usefully information on his web site. |
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179 Media I found this site during my random surfing and its very nice. While it does not contain a lot of information on it. The layout of the site is very nice. Its very minimum, but its size and use of very little amount of various elements is what makes it a good site. |
Off The Floor Ink This is Jason Summers' new flash web site. He is probable one of the best Graphic Designers I know. Go to his site and offer this God your offering. :-) Check out his new site and work. |
Fubon: Two Tales Amazing is not enough to describe this site. Its just GREAT. You must see this awesome flash web site by a Russian based Design Firm. When I saw it I was like OH MY GOD. Its a great site and so interesting. |
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Arcane Machinist Site of a talented Animator/Web Developer from my school. Very nice site with good content from nice coding to tutorials. He just got a new job with a design firm who's web site will be added soon. |
Art World Store This is a class mate's web site from Scripting class that I'm taking right now. He has some good work there and he has a unique style. |
Feng Zhu Design The best Graphics Design web site I've seen. The images on this site are great. This is number one inspiration site i've seen. |
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Dream Like Reality Web site of the IMD student from the Art Institute of Philadelphia. |
Eyeball Design Design company web site and also contains photoshop tutorials. |
MLA Citation Style This site contains good information on how to cite the information that was taken from other sites, books, magazines, and etc. |
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Soul Groove and Gian Cruz Portfolio I would like to present to you a portfolio/blog site of my good friend, classmate and fellow designer Gian Cruz. Check out some of his great work and music. He is a very talented musician. |
Octavez Darkness meet the light open your gaze. Talk about the best designs I ever seen. This is a great combination of dark colors that slowly going into light. Also, uses nice JavaScript code for some nice tricks. |
X-Pell Awesome 3D+Flash design from Europe. I just love when there is a combination of high resolution 3D with animated Flash web designs. Just like any good flash sites, this one also has html version. Great job designer of this site. |
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Portfolios.com Have a portfolio to show off? Here is a place that you can use to show of you portfolio for people who are looking for designers. You have a choice from selecting various plans for a fee, but current they have a free Basic Plan. I recommend that so its free. |
Matt Howell To find a designer is easy, but to find a good one is hard. Here is a web site for another web design by the name Matt Howell. His front page is very catching especially the girl with the focus on the eye. |
Five Elements Five Elements Animation is a portfolio site of my good friend Brent Mellecker from AIW. There you can find 3D, 2D, Animation and Sculptures. Check out his site. |
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Pez Lady Portfolio site of the AIW's Animation student. She is great and has some fun stuff at her site. Congrats to her graduating. You go girl. |
trabia-garden.net A personal site with a great layout design and good links. Very nice site that worth looking into. |
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Logopond Impressive showcase of logo designs from all over the world from all kind of industries. Great place to gain inspiration and see those amazing tricks that people can come up with. |
Command Shift 3 If your design was thrown into battle could it beat others? Could the weapons you gave to the design bring it victories? If you want to find this out then go to this web site. |
Most Inspired Inspiration is a hard thing to come by sometimes. Answering the needs of your inspiration come and visit the latest most inspired selection of the web site. |
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Best Web Gallery become best of the best with this web showcase for flash and css designs. Created by Nick La from NDesign-Studio and Web Designer Wall. Designers judge by one of the leading and most known designer online. |
Light on Dark Darkness is your friend and Light is your companion in this web design showcase. Specifically focusing on most striking designs are added here. This is the first design showcase sites to feature ImagineBoris. Which means this site is great in my book. |
CSS ReMix One of the best ways to create something amazing is by finding something that is already amazing. Here it is, a collection of the best CSS Web Sites from many countries. I recommend this site to everyone, even myself for inspiration and learning nice tricks with CSS. |
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Alexa Traffic Information Need to know how well your web site is doing? Alexa will provide you detailed information about your web traffic and compare it to other sites and see how well you are doing against them. |
53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without I say this. GO HERE. This is the place for css tutorials from around the web. |
For Web Designers A very useful web site that contains large number of links for web design and development. A well designed and entertaining web site with lots of fun things I will be using in future projects. |
| Bust a Domain Name It is so complicated now to come up with a good web site domain. Almost everything is already taken! It is a sad truth, but there is this web site, Bust a Name, which allows you to enter many words to create suitable domain that is not taken yet. |
Gmail, 10 Things to Know I never thought Gmail had such a cool new and old things in it. These a gmail blog that contains 10 Little Known Gmail features and when I read it I started using them I think I knew about half of them, but I never knew I could send emails with other email address via gmail. |
Google Keywords Tool Having problems creating relevant keywords for your site? Well, you are not the only one. Google to rescue (as always) with Keywords Tool that helps you create best keywords for your web site and increase traffic though search engine. |
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Free Screen Reader It must have taken me ages to find a good stable free screen reader. This is Thunder and Web IE Free Screen reader for blind. It is very good and easy to use. I have it myself and now use it for section 508 work. make sure to use Web IE that is installed with this file. |
Cam Studio Ever wanted to capture something off your screen as a video? Lets say surfing the net? Here is easy and fast solution. Cam Studio allows you to record what is happening on the screen. This is only for PC, not for MAC. |
Favicon You know those cool small icons that appear by a site address in url bar in your browser? Well, here is a great online tool for you to convert an icon you want to use into .icon format. Only this format works and no need to download anything. |
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Lorem Ipsum I keep on forgetting this site's name, so here it is now in my links section. This is a best site to get filler text for your project. I love this site for getting an example text for my various projects. |
Free Primo PDF Are you annoyed by not been able to make PDF files from MS Word. Fear not here comes Primo DPF. Its a free Plug in that will allow you to Print to PDF from your Word document. This is a great function to have. Check it out. |
FACE: Project CSS is becoming more and more powerful tool on the net. Here is a new way of coding called FACE that combined CSS and JavaScript to make animations. Thank you to KuraFire Network. By the way do they know that Kura means Chicken in Russian. |
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JavaScript Source Good source of Javascript for your web site. Also, contains a forum where u can post your questions about the javascript. |
Photoshop Lover Collection of a big number of tutorial for Adobe Photoshop. |
Dynamic Drive Very big collection of Free DHTML codes to build up your site. Good way to start making your site more interactive. |
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W3 Schools Online Web designer tutorial from html to advance PHP. Come and learn it. It contains good tutorial for u to learn some nice web stuff. |
Aplus Domain.net Cheap domains for sale the current sale price is $7.95 That's cheap for the domain. Sorry the price went up. |
Find My Host If you are looking for a web hosting here is the place for you. This is the Google of the Web Hosting, where you can set specific search options to find the best hosting. |
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Google AdSense One way to make money off your site is though advertising, but how do you get relevant ads to your site? Easy, you sign up for Google AdSense and have ads on your site. Per every click you will get money. Its easy $ |
Google Code Google is slowly taking over the online world. Why not join and submit to its supreme rule. :-) What I mean is that, this site is where you can find all of the free codes for your web site. Some codes like having Google Maps appear on your page. |
Slide Show Pro Thanks to my friend Jason, this is a web site for a great flash program. You can create your own extensive gallery of images, art works and photography. This is a very easy program for people who rather not design and program their own. |
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Flash Loaded While searching for free flash cool things I got to this site. However this is not a site with free stuff. Actually you have to pay for files off this site. Though this site contain some of the most amazing flash creations I've seen. Perhaps even worthy to be bought. |
Go To and Learn Simply the best web site to learn something from. This is of coarse an online school like place with video tutorials. I used some of their tutorials and they are very good with detailed information and instructions. Go to and learn. |
Fam Fam Fam First of all, great site name. Talking about simple and clean as the best design. This is a site where you can get royalty free icons for your site. Don't forget to yell out Fan Fan Fan loud and clear. |
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You Send It Great site for those people who can not send emails with file over 10Mbs. Often I have to send design comps and they are quite a big size. You Send allows you to send a file via their site and file will be stored on their server for you friend to access. |
Custom Scrollbar If you want to have a custom colored scrollbar on your site but know that not all the browsers support it here is your solution: Costume Scrollbar. This is a tutorial for Flash 8 to make your own fansy scrollbar. I will make one for my site soon. |
Dreamweaver 8 If you have Dreamweaver 8 and Internet Explore 7 then you might have some problems with you Dreamweaver 8 FTP. The problem is that it won't remember remote server's information. Annoying indeed. This is an update that will fix this. |
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One State.com Good web site tracker for your site. You can see who visits your site, with constant recording log, statistics and more. |
Google Keywords Tool Having problems creating relevant keywords for your site? Well, you are not the only one. Google to rescue (as always) with Keywords Tool that helps you create best keywords for your web site and increase traffic though search engine. |
Yellow Icon I love to have different cool Icons for sections for my computer. Here is my ultimate source of such icons. Download free very stylish and detailed icons that will satisfy any taste. Great site and so go and use it already. |
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iCapture We web designers have to designs sites that work on both PC and Macs, but what if you don't have Mac? Here come iCapture. Type in a link and get a screen shot of how will your design look on Mac. I recommend saving this url for web designers. |
xentrik web shopping Another very useful site. This company provides nice free scripts for anyone to use. I'm going to check them out and see if I can learn some great new things from them. |
Logo Lounge Logo design is one of the busiest areas of the design industry. Everyone wants to have a memorable logo that anyone can recognize in a second. This site has the most famous logos u can find. |
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Ultra Shock One of the best sites you can ever visit. This site has a lot of flash files in .fla format for you to download and learn how they did it. |
Ningen's Wallpaper Web site contains some Photoshop tutorials and very nice anime wallpapers. |
Brands of the World Want to see logos of the world? This site has a collection of logos from all over the world. See away with this great web site with "Brands of the World." |
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Freelayouts Good freelayouts for your site if you are not worried about the ads. Also, a nice site to get inspiration. |
PC-Wallpapers Collection of wallpapers for your PC Desktop. |
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/\\/ Fonts Collections and Stock Photography
| Morguefile Its hard to find a good stock images source. Here is another one that a lot of people recommend me. I have not tried it yet, but will poke around as soon as I have some more free time. Enjoy new source for free stock images. |
Stock.XCHNG Web site contains great high quality stock images that you can use for free in your projects. I really like this site and recommend it to all designers. |
iStock Photo Another great stock photo web site. Contains very high quality images, but does requires a small fee for different resolution photos. |
| Bluevertigo Stock images here I come. No this is not another stock images site, but this site lists hundred of stock images out there in the vast web. Also, I love the way this site is designed. very beautiful, and its horizontal unlike to standard set. |
Image After Yet, another free stock photos and texture images. Thanks to my friend Will for this link. This site does not have an extensive archive for domestic images. |
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Font.com Very big collection of free fonts for PC and MAC. This site contains lots of various fonts designed for a specific task for you to use. |
Da Font.com Very big collection of free fonts. Contains fonts from TV series and any other font you can imagine |
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Thayer Avenue Silver Spring blog created by my coworker covering events around and in Silver Spring, Rockville and Bethesda, Maryland. |
Brainstorms Came across this blog while researching section 508. Interesting place to learn about latest web design things and just a good blog to read. I recommend this site for its useful information about all kind of web related topics and insightful information. |
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Cycle Posers I would like to present to you my friend Ricardo's new online community web site. This is one of the fastest growing communities dedicated to everything about motorcycles and people who ride them. |
Danny Choo Great web site about a Japanese web designer who is originally from UK. Very interesting web site with some great information. |
Blogger Need a free blog? Try Blogger.com with its free features to create your own free blog for any purposes from personal to development. Join all those who are bloging and be one with the blog. |
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Chevron26.com One of the best Stargate fan sites. Contains a Gauld dictionary to which with help of my sister we added some words. |
USS Miranda RPG one of the biggest online RPG about Star Trek. Contains an impressive graphics made for this site. |
Paula's Choice This is a very useful site for those who want to take care of their skin. Here you can find reviews by a well known professional Paula Begoun - The Cosmetics Cop. The site is also very well designed. Check it out. |
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Beta Watcher Ever wanted to be the first to try new games? Here is the best web site to get latest info on open and closed betas. I actually got to test new online multi player Beta from this site. It was fun to be the first. |
iBlog.Chubzz The only reason I'm adding this site is because of its great short news/updates section on the right. Its a great combination of iframe which they are hiding and a great javascript. |
Yuna Personal Site Very good web site by and about my friend from AIW. She did a great job on this site and I told her that she should be doing web. |
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