Links

Below are a collection of links to websites that I frequent or contain valuable and interesting information. The websites have been categorised into General Websites, Website Design & Development and Free and Open Source Software. It is my intention that the information contained within these websites may be of use to you, as they certainly have been for me.

General Websites

I.T. Websites

Website Design & Development

General Websites:
Specific Tutorials:
  • CSS Little Boxes – A Problem & Workaround Set for a series of CSS Boxes going from a simple single box, through 3 columns with a full width top box, all with variations
  • Listamatic – Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list options for navigation
  • Min-height: fixed; – Mezzoblue presents a solution to the min-height problem and cross-browser compatibility

Free and Open Source Software

Distributions and Communities:
  • Arch Linux – A general purpose linux distribution that can be molded to do just about anything. It is fast (i686-optimized), lightweight, flexible, and most of the parts under the hood are quite simple to understand and tweak.
  • BSDForums.org – An online forum community for discussion of various BSD's
  • FreeBSD – The power to serve
  • Gentoo Forums – Undoubtedly, the best linux community forum on the internet
  • Ubuntu Australian LoCo Team – The Australian team focuses on distributing, advertising and demonstrating Ubuntu within Australia. Through the development of our projects we focus on the areas of schools, business and home users
  • Ubuntu Forums – An Ubuntu specific online forum community that provides support and discussion for Ubuntu and Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux – Ubuntu is an exciting distribution that works out of the box. Developers place a special emphasis on usability and attempt to make this the easiest distribution of linux to use
Applications/Programs:
  • Braseo – Designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. A competitive rival to K3B
  • Gaim – A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client
  • Gedit – The official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
  • GNOME – The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop
  • Irssi – A powerful text-based IRC client
  • Mozilla Firefox – The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy
  • Mozilla Thunderbird – Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views
  • Music Player Daemon (MPD) – A lightweight, server/client based music player
  • Openbox – A standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager
  • OpenOffice.org – A free and complete office suite
  • Rockbox – Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. No more iTunes!
  • Quod Libet – An audio player and music management software, similar to iTunes but without the bloat
  • Sonata – An elegant music player for MPD
  • Sylpheed – A simple, light-weight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client
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