Links to training related resources and useful web sites

Software Companies
If you need to download a demo of the software, get updates or information about the software, try these first.

Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash

Quark
Quark XPress

Magazines and useful resources

Computer Arts Magazine

Freelancer's Network

Creative Lattitude

Training web sites

Underoak - The UK Training Index
A directory of training courses and training consultants for all areas of management development and IT skills training. The Directory holds details of over 25,000 training courses offered by approximately 1040 different training organisations.

Coursefish

UK Training News: Articles, resources and discussion for the UK business & industrial training community

Design Directories

Creative Route Map
creative directory for those involved in design, graphics and training in Birmingham

Web Design Info and Tutorials

W3C
World Wide Web Consortium

WebDeveloper.com
A variety of information relating to web page design

Web Pages That Suck
Bad web sites and mistakes that you shouldn't make when when designing a web site

Cool Homepages
Some of the best web site designs are listed here

Web page templates :
Sites which supply free to use web page designs.

www.openwebdesign.org
www.oswd.org

Search Engine Optimisation

Submit Corner Online
Tutorials and guides to improve your ranking with search engines

SelfPromotion.com
Resource for do-it-yourself web promotion

SEO Chat
articles and tools for search engine optimisation of your web site

Meta Tag Analyzer Tool
Check your keyword usage

Various Web Design

Smart IT Consulting Services
They have articles on web site management and search engines.

Taming the Beast
Internet marketing resources, web site development tutorials

.htaccess tutorial
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

Desktop Publishing & Design information and tutorials

Mike's Sketchpad
Free Photoshop Tutorials and Graphics Tips

Desktop Publishing and prepress tutorials and info

Photo Editing and photo design

PowerRetouche
Photoshop Plugins and photo related information

Design JH
Web Site Design & Photo Editing Services