Education Sector Relevant

• Consultants
  • mStoner -- Well known communications consultant. Contains various articles on developing Websites for universities. Their blog was added 6/18/2003.
  • LiquidMatrix - Though a bit flashy, I added these guys because they seem to get good results.
• Blogs
  • UT Staff Blog - From the Center for Instructional Technology, this blog is well updated with interesting industry news and related.
• Site Design
  • UT Web Redesign 2001 - Well documented insight into the redesign of a top tier University's Web site.

Search Engines

• Google
  • legooG - Categorized links with some great Google tools
  • DMOZ Google Category - the Open Directory Project page

Web People

• Pixelcharmer.com - Practically academic insight into the problem(s) of Webdesign. The author is also from Missouri and Texas (in that order) like me.
• Zeldman.com - New York web designer Jeffrey Zeldman gives industry relevant talk and design.
• CookieCrook.com - Austin based accessibility developer James Craig's personal site. He works with Austin based Knowbility.org.
• CamWorld.com - Informative and perosnal from Cameron Barrett.
• MeyerWeb.com - Eric Meyer, CSS Guru
• Jeffrey Veen - Authored The Business Value of Web Standards
• Make the Waves - Ben Gremillion, San Antonio based standards advocate that teaches at San Antonio College, sister school to Northwest Vista College, where I teach.

San Antonio

• Web Designer's Directory

Web Design Must Reads

• Web Design:
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
    • Three Column Layouts - Comprehensive, from the CSS Discuss List
    • CSS Layout Techniques - Glish.com's simple guide
    • The Layout Reservoir - Bluerobot.com's simple guide
  • The Foundations of Web Design - Excellent article on best practices.
• Information Architecture
  • 7 Pitfalls to Avoid in Information Architecture - Just keep these in mind for good information architecture.
• CSS Discuss Mailing List - The best place to get advice and free testing of your CSS related design issues.
• Standards
  • The Business Value of Web Standards
• Graphic Design
  • Great Logos and Why

News Sources

• Slashdot - Tech news from the tech.
• Wired - The magazine that took techno culture seriously.

Education Sector Enterprise Applications

• Content Management Systems
  • CMS Evaluation Lab - Unbiased testing of CMS tools out there. Bob Boiko is the director, whom also wrote the Content Management Bible.
  • Gerry McGovern - Measuring the cost of your content.
    • Do You Know How Much your Content Costs
    • Content Management: Critical Skill of the Modern Manager
    • Start Measuring the Cost and Value of your Content
  • CMS Solutions:
    • RedDot.com - I find it to have a very intuitive front end experience.
    • Merant's Collage - Appears to have excellent business process workig behind the scenes.
    • Documentum.com - Partnered with SCT.
• Course Management Systems
  • WebCT - The University of Texas at San Antonio uses this.
  • Blackboard - An industry leader.
• Customer Relations Management
  • Live Person - I thought this was spam at first until I actually got a chance to use it (a window popped up with no logo). It was conveniant to be able to chat with a person right away. I was able to avoid having to find information on the site.

Photoshop

• Good-Tutorials.com - Links to 25 solid photoshop tutorials