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Music
- Musicians, bands and services
- Brenton Broadstock - well known composer and my old teacher!
- Daryl McKenzie - composer, arranger, conductor and trombonist
- Matt Amy music - trombonist, composer and arranger
- Liz Bennett - musician and music teacher
- Esstee Big Band - great big band
- Really Big Band - Matt Amy's big band
- House of Horn - musical services
- Entertainment Now - corporate events and music
- Muso's Media - Australian band music publishers
- The Music Place - Your premium source for woodwind & brass instruments
- Future Music - instruments, music, educational supplies
- Wrights Music - another good store like the above
- Billy Hydes - and another!
- Musicorp - huge range of rental instruments
- Brass n' woodwind - repairs and instruments for sale
- Organisations
- DRMC - Dandenong Ranges Music Council
- Artshub - news and jobs online for the arts industry
- APRA - Australasian Performing Rights Association
- MAGA - Music Arrangers' Guild of Australia
- FAC - Fellowship of Australian Composers
- MCL - Melbourne Composers' League
- VBL - Victorian Bands' League
- AGSC - Australian Guild of Screen Composers
- Box Hill City Band - brass band for hire
- Choralnet - contact point for choral world
- Victorian Eisteddfod Societies - a list of them
- Australian Music Centre - The focal point of Australian art music
- Music Council of Australia - funding and advisory body
- ABODA Victoria - Australian Band and Orchestral Director's Association
- Resources
- Brass instruments - basic info for your brass students
- DRMC resources page - including an online musical terms dictionary
- Finale Forum - large forum covering most Finale issues
- Audiomastermind - sample CD's
- Free sheet music - collection and directory of free sheet music
- Djsamples - free samples
- How to use VSL - Vienna Symphonic Library tutorial
- Free VSTs - for PC Steinberg Cubase
- VST free plug-ins - cross-platform, good quality
- VST to RTAS adapter - fxpansion (not free)
- Internet Music Resources - links from Indiana University
- www.classical-composers.org - wealth of information
Web design
- HTML, XHTML and SHTML
- Draac.com - "building a better internet"
- HTML Goodies - HTML help on most major tags
- HTML kit - free HTML editor
- 1st Page 2000 - Evrsoft's excellent free web editor
- Codeguru - like he says, he's a guru
- Visual CHM - build your own Help Files
- Code_Punk - excellent tutorials on HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Dave's HTML tutorial - good all round beginning
- Web publishing reference - SHTML and Server Side Includes
- Echo variables - complete list of environment variables for SSI
- SSI Echo environment variables - another list of same
- evolt.org - browser archive
- Javascript and CSS
- DHTML & Javascript Library - good resource for snippets
- Javascript Kit - lots of free javascripts
- Java-Scripts.net - more of the same
- Free-Javascripts.com - literally hundreds of free scripts
- Beginning Javascript Tutorials - as it says!
- A List Apart - very advanced CSS centre
- Accesibility and Standards Links - CSS standards resource
- Zen Garden - graphic art meets CSS-P
- www.w3.org - the standards compliancy people
- glish.com - CSS layout techniques
- CSS Tutorials - a few good tips on specific situations
- Maxdesign.com.au - advanced tutorials on CSS layout
- BlueRobot - layout reservoir
- Andreas Viklund - free templates
- Intensivstation - CSS templates
- The Hunting-ground - free scripts
- Website graphics
- gifanimations.com - cool online animated headers
- GIFworks - create your own animated gif
- WebDeveloper.com - treasure trove of resources
- Ender Design - free graphics and more
- GoGraph - everything, all free
- Cool Text - make your own logo
- Boogie Jack's - mountains of stuff
- Big Grpahics - backgrounds etc
- Image kits - from elated.com
- JAC clipart archive - large archive of images
- Photoshop tutorials - from the same spot
- Pegaweb - more Photoshop tutorials
- Free backgrounds - lots of seamless backgrounds
- Web Developer's Virtual Library - that's what it is
Education
- Organisations and institutions
- Department of Education - huge portal for teachers, students and parents
- Box Hill TAFE Centre for the Performing Arts - one of Victoria's best
- Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne - Victoria's oldest music institution
- Monash University School of Music - very diverse program
- Victorian College of the Arts - music school for classical and jazz musicians
- Melba Conservatorium - small but vibrant
- The Australian National Academy of Music - post graduate only
- Individuals
- Joachim Matschoss - writer, director, poet and teacher of theatre
Passing time
- Games
- Miniclip.com - vast collection of Flash games, many can be downloaded
- freeonlinegames.com - more of every variety, plus website content
- shockwave.com - online games
- freearcade.com - arcade related games
- fetchfido - flash and java games
- freeworldgroup - so called "addictive" games
- Second Life - Huge virtual world
- Newgrounds - 1000's of Flash games
- Coffee Break Arcade - cute little online arcade
- World of Free Games - say goodbye to your free time
- arcadetown - free online games
- 123games - wide variety of online games
- 1001onlinegames - I didn't bother counting them
- Free online games - lots of screenshots etc
- yogames.net - lots of fun stuff
- Runescape - one of the world's most popular online games
- Trivial Pursuit - online version
- Playstation cheatcentre - as it says
- Online hobbies and interests
- Four Word Film Review - review movies using only four words
- Internet Movie Database - everything to do with the movies
- The Superconverter - convert things into other things
- Anagram generator - as it says (try your name)
- Albinoblacksheep.com - very flash Flash
- The Bladder - Aussie sports news as you've never seen it before
- cricinfo - home of cricket
- afl.com.au - official Aussie Rules home
