Here is a collection of music and design sites I visit daily. These links will be modified often. So make sure you check it often.

Last Updated: 7/14/08

FL Studio Sites

• War Beats - Great online community and tutorials. Plus you can download free drums and FL Studio remakes of professional songs
• Image-line Forums - Official FL Studio Forum
• The Flip Side Forum - Good community of FL Studio users
• FL Studio Wiki - Wiki for FL Studio

Reason Sites

• Reason Station - Download thousands of Reason presets
• Reason Forum - Good community of Reason users

Music Forums

• Future Producers - One of my favorite forums
• Roc Battle - Participate in beat battles, sell beats, and learn in the forum
• Ill Muzik Forum - Over 18,355 Threads
• Mpc-forums.com - Great help for MPC Users
• KVR Audio - Great forum and plug-in database
• Gear Slutz - Over 171,485 threads
• IDM Forums - Great forum for techno lovers
• MV Nation - Community of Roland MV8000 users

Music Tutorial Sites

• Online Beat Tutor - Youtube for beat makers
• TodaysBeats.com - Great music tutorials

Music Producers Blog / Sites

1. Kanye West - Blog
2. Just Blaze - Blog
3. Mysto & Pizzi - Video Blog
4. Ryan Lesie - Site/ Blog
5. Dark Child - Site

Music Blogs

• vadj.com/ - Advice to Break into the Music Business and Become Famous
• Kreative Sounds - Tons of great resources and tutorials
• Create Digital Music - Great hardware / software reviews and previews
• RemixMag Blog - Music News
• Crate Kings - Music Production Resource
• YouProduce - Tons of refills, and music production tutorials.
• Famous Beats - Music Production Blog

Distribute Your Music

• CD Baby - CD Baby is a little online record store that sells albums by independent musicians
• Sound Click - You get unlimited web space for your band. You can have your music in mp3 format or in streaming audio
• Snocap.com - Snocap gives you an audio player to embed into your myspace page or website. You can set your own prices.
• Tune Core - You get 100% of the money that your music earns from digital distribution.

Random Music Sites

• Boxden Articles - Find production credits.

Hip Hop Sites & Blogs

• All Hip Hop
• XXL Magazine
• Ill Doctrine
• Hip Hop Game - Rapper and producer interviews
• Ill Seed
• Sohh.com
• On Smash - Video site
• Nah Right
• Think Twice

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Design Tutorials Sites

• PSD Tuts - Some of the best tutorials around
• Pixel Mana - Pixel Mana is geared to be a primary source for Photoshop tutorials.
• Good-Tutorials - Over 23,019 tutorials listed
• Pixel 2 Life - Great tutorials in photoshop, web design and 3D
• Photoshop Roadmap - Adobe Photoshop tutorials and downloads
• Adobe Tutorialz - Adobe Photoshop tutorials

Design Blogs

• Bitt Box - Design resources and tutorials
• Smashing Magazine - Great blog for alot of tips and resources
• Web Designer Wall - A wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials
• You the Designer - Graphic design blog dedicated to providing you with quality graphic design tips, graphic design resources, graphic design news and much more!
• Deziner Folio - Cool design resources
• Go Mediazine - Great design blog with free resources
• Vitamin - Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs
• Fuel Your Creativity - Design Blog
• Just Creative Design - A graphic design blog to inspire and motivate you.

Free Fonts

• 1001 Free Fonts - Over 33 categories of free fonts
• DaFont - Both Mac & PC fonts available
• Urban Fonts - Over 8,000 freeware fonts
• You Font - Easy way to pick out some good fonts

Stock Photos & Textures

• Stockvault - Free stock photos
• Every Stock Photo - Free stock photos
• Free Range Stock - Over 2,236,540 free photos
• Image After - Image After is a large online free photo collection
• Yotophoto - Well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, and various other ‘copyleft’ images
• iStockphoto - Some of the stuff is a little pricey, but still a great source of inspiration.
• Texture King - Free textures
• Urban Dirty - Free textures
• Big Stock Photo - Choose from over 1,839,000 stock photos. As low as $1 each.
• Fotolia. - Starts at $1 a image

Free Vectors and Shapes

• Official PSDs - GREAT SITE!!!, tons of photoshop elements for cd covers, banners and more
• Brusheezy - Free Photoshop brushes
• Vecteezy - Free vectors
• Freevectors.net - Free vectors

Website Galleries

• Design Meltdown
• The Favorite Website Awards - One of my favorites for inspirations
• Web Creme
• CSS Remix
• CSS Elite
• CSS Drive
• CSS Vault
• CSS Collection
• Screenalicious - Over 9900 sites
• CSS Heaven
• The Best Web Gallery
• Inspiration King
• Unmatched Style
• CSS Tux
• Design Shack
• ALA Brasil
• The Best Designs

Web Templates

• Dull Canvas
• OS Skins
• TFs.com - Forum with Wordpress, Vbullentin, Drupal Templates and more.
• Template Feed - over 200 Templates
• Wordpress Themes - Free Wordpress Themes
• Free WP Themes - Free Wordpress Themes
• Themes Bass - Wordpress, Vbullentin, Drupal Templates and more.
• Fresheezy - Collection of wordpress themes
• Free CSS Templates - Over 306 free CSS templates

CSS Menus

• IzzyMenu.com - Free CSS Menu Builder
• CSS Library - Vertical and Horizontal Menus
• 13 Styles
• Exploding Boy
• Free Menu Designs
• ADx Menu - CSS Drop Down Menu
• CSS Vault
• CSS Tab Designer - Free program to download to do a CSS menu

Web Coding

• Javascript Kit - JavaScript tutorials, scripts, and more.
• Yet Another Multicolumn Layout - CSS layout helper
• Dev Kick - CSS photo gallery
• Dynamic Drive - Original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!

Free Icons

• Silk icons - Over 700 Icons
• Sweetie Base Pack - 182 Icons
• Tango - Nice collection
• Milky - a free vector icon set
• Ico Joy - 60 Icons
• Function - 128 Icons
• 300 images from 1800 sites - 300 icons

Online Generators

• Stripe Generator - Free stripe generator
• Web 20 Badges - Web 2.0 graphic generator
• My Cool Button - Button Makers
• Glassgiant.com/ascii - Ascii generator
• Favicon Generator - Favicon generator
• Izzy Menu - CSS Menu Maker

Colors Scheme Helper

• Color Combos - Color Combinations and Color Schemes…
• Colour Lovers - This site can help you come up with color schemes
• Colr.org - Upload a image, and pick colors from it
• Color Jack - This site can help you come up with color schemes
• Color Blender - Color picker
• Color Mixers - Mix colors for new colors
• DeGraeve.com - Color Palette Generator

Sound Effects

• Sound Snap - Search though thousands of sounds

Random Sites

• Flash Den - FlashDen.net is a site where you can buy and sell items to use in your creative projects. Great flash files, I use some of them on this site.
• Online Photo Tool - Online photo editor
• Flash Kit - Flash help, sound effects, and tutorials
• For Web Designers - Collection of design resources. Very helpful
• Kuler - By Adobe, this is a color picker to help you come up with color schemes
• Web Blog Tools - Wordpress blog video training
• wikiHow - Tons of great articles
• Free Lance Folder - Helpful articles on a variety of topics
• Freelance Switch - A blog to help you with your business.
• Web Resource Depot - Blog updated daily with great resources.
• Squid Fingers - Free background patterns

Sites I check daily

• Digg - Social news site
• Media Take Out - News and rumor site
• PSD Tuts - Photoshop Tutorial Site
• Design Float - Digg for graphic designers.
• Future Producers - Music Forum
• MPC Forums - Music Forum