WEB DESIGN RESOURCES-4

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “HTML Web Publishing”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Java Applets Resources: A Java applet program can be included like a graphic image in an HTML page. When a Java-compatible browser is used to view a page with a Java applet, the applet's code is transferred to your system and executed by the browser.
The Source for Java— http://java.sun.com/applets/index.html
(Applets developed at JavaSoft & other sources of Applets)
Applets from JavaSoft— http://www.javasoft.com/applets/js-applets.html
(Some 30 demos of applets for web pages, games, education, utilities, & programmers)
Java Boutique: A Collection of Java Applets— http://javaboutique.internet.com
(Mecklermedia's Java Boutique has over 140 working Applets with instructions for downloading
them to your web pages. Neatly organized in categories, index, and Java resources)
JARS JavaScript Resource Listings— http://www.jars.com/listing-JavaScript.html
(65 listings: Business, Multimedia, Web Sites, Financial, Science, Utilities, Games, Programming, WWW)
Gamelan Staff Picks: JavaScript at Home— http://javascript.developer.com/special/Archivepicks/0604_picks.html
(Personal web pages with interesting JavaScripts: Yellowstone Photo Collection & JavaScript Art Gallery)
AppletAce Known Issues & Workarounds— http://www.macromedia.com/support/appletace/ts/documents/issues_workarounds.htm
(Handy reference on Macromedia's AppletAce bugs & how to work around them in creating applets)
Java PowerApplets: Frequently Asked Questions— http://www.macromedia.com/support/appletace/ts/documents/javapafaq.htm
(FAQs on running Macromedia PowerApplets)
Audio Resources: Digital audio doesn't compress as easily as text or still graphic images do on the Internet. However, more recent compression & browser technologies have made sound more feasible on the Web.
Classical MIDI Archives— http://www.prs.net/midi.html
(Pierre R. Schwob's award-winning site of over 4000 classical music files in MIDI format)
Royalty-Free MIDI Files— http://www.sseyo.com/freemidi.html
(SSEYO Ltd provides free ambient & beat music for your web page if you link back to their site)
RealAudio— http://www.realaudio.com
(streaming sound plays while you're downloading their files)
Dev Zone— http://www1.real.com/devzone/index.html
(RealAudio's "Developer Hints" for streaming media to add depth & interactivity to your web site)
Electronic Music Interactive— http://nmc.uoregon.edu/emi/emi.html
(University of Oregon New Media Center uses embedded Shockwave application to display
the theory & practice of electronic music & digital audio with numerous audio & video clips)
Graphics and Sound File Formats— http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/publications/netnotes/notes24.htm
(Read the second section on Sound File Formats & MIDI files from the National Library of Canada)
Syntrillium Software: Cool Edit for Windows— http://www.syntrillium.com/index.htm
(Cool Edit is a digital sound editor for Windows. It lets you "paint" with sound: tones, pieces of songs, voices, or noises. Wind Chimes can simulate the sound & behavior of real Wind Chimes. These sharewares cost $25-$50. Cool Edit Pro is a 64-track digital audio recorder, editor, & mixer commercial software for Windows costing $399.)
SoundEffects— http://www.riccisoft.com/soundeffects (A $15 shareware sound editor for the Macintosh. A commercial version, SoundMaker by the same author is available for $100 at http://www.allegiant.com/soundmaker)
Bird Songs from Cornell— http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/wqed/bird_songs.html
(Cornell University Ornithology Lab's sound clips of bird songs for you to download.)
Computer Music Journal— http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal
(MIT's quarterly covering topics relating to digital audio & electronic music; includes sound files
of computer music, source code of software, reference citations, and computer music web links)