Web Developer Resources

i-StockPhoto
Hands down the best place to find affordable stock photography on the web. You can usually find something that will work on the downside you have to weed through a lot of armature photos.

Flash Kit
Great flash tutorials, download flash files, sound fx and fun developer forums.

W3Schools
Over the years this free site has proven to be an invaluable reference for JavaScript, VBScript, AJAX, referencing the DHTML DOM and almost everything else related to web scripting.

Who's We Design Studio
A motivating site that fueled my excitement for flash.

Phong.com
An amazing mind boggling site that taught me a lot about Photoshop and humbles my ego when it comes to interactive Flash development.

Software Providers

Microsoft
Microsoft has the best main stream office productivity applications, web servers and enterprise strength databases period. To use any other office productivity platform or database other than Access for small projects or SQL server for mission critical applications would be a major brain fart. Great software, no bugs, although their software is not free it is well worth the cost for quality and time saved on projects. They have great office resource like invoice templates, workout templates and customizable power point template presentations.

Adobe / Macromedia
The ruler of the photo editing and web development space. I love using Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash on a daily basis. Macromedia's site is a great resource for trial downloads of their software and their developer forums are second to none. They usually have a cool homepage flash animation to boot.

Online Payment Partners

Wells Fargo / Authorize.Net or USA ePay
Great for processing real-time online payments for shopping carts. Offered by Wells Fargo so where ever you live you can talk to your local branch about setting up a merchant account (we have the code to integrate your site with Authorize.Net or USA ePay).

PayPal
Hands down the fastest setup time, 5 minutes, no monthly fees, processing fees comparable to the lowest you can find, very easy to integrate with a new or existing website (we have the code to integrate your site with PayPal).

Authorize.net
Similar to Authorize.Net or USA ePay although you need a separate merchant account from your bank it's not one simple back end like Wells Fargo and Authorize.Net or USA ePay and also a little more advanced to integrate (we have the code to integrate your site with Authoize.net).

Crystal Tech
The most reliable hosting company I have found. They have the industries best end user web server management tool that allows advanced users to add extra domain names, add email accounts, review site traffic, set file permissions, create data Data Source Names you name it they built it into their customer control center. After managing servers manually I'm very pleased with the functionality provided and don't feel there are many tasks I cannot accomplish with their web administrator tool.

GoDaddy
A domain name is a domain name and doesn't really matter who you buy it from and GoDaddy is the cheapest place I've found.