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Net Tools
WEB DESIGN
Lynda.Com
http://www.lynda.com
A very valuable resource for info on design and color.
Webmonkey
http://www.webmonkey.com
Web Page Design for Designers.
Desktop Publishing Superpage
http://www.desktoppublishing.com
An extensive, very valuable resource.
Developer.com
http://www.developer.com
Programmers and developers resource.
Web Developers Virtual Library
http://www.stars.com
The Original Encyclopedia of Web Technology. Extensive resource for web developers, including tutorials on a variety of topics.
Web Page Design For Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm
Information for web designers by Joe Gillespie. Ideas, tips and tricks for graphics and palettes, web pages, navigation, web design, includes numerous links
WebReference.com
http://www.webreference.com
Many excellent tutorials here on graphics, design, e-commerce and javascript.
HTML
The W3C
http://www.w3.org
The World Wide Web Consortium are the folks who brought you html.
This site contains all of the official documentation on HTML, XML, DHTML....anything
you can think of that ends in ML. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is the standards
body created to manage the standardization of languages used on the WWW.
GRAPHICS
101 Links to Buttons, Bars, Bullets and Backgrounds
http://38.249.11.2/graphics/index.htm
A comprehensive site for graphics.
Barry's Clip Art Server
http://www.barrysclipart.com
Most of these graphics are free.
The Clipart Connection - East
http://www.acy.digex.net/~infomart/clipart/sandra.html
Great links to clipart.
Clip Art Universe
http://www.clipart.home.ml.org
Lots of graphics at this site -- animated .gifs, pictures, buttons, bars, backgrounds.
The Graphics Gallery
http://members.aol.com/Yschneller/graphics/index.html
Has some good graphics for business sites.
UCB
Web Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Images
Great images.
Bimsan's Web Graphics
http://bimsan.net
Some terrific graphic sets. Some for home pages and some for business.
Hey-You Graphics
http://hey-you.com/graphics
High quality graphics with over 50 sets. A set usually includes a background, header and buttons.
Infinite Fish
http://infinitefish.com
Great background graphics. Demonstrates how text looks on background graphics.
Jelane's Free Web Graphics
http://www.erinet.com/jelane/families/index.html
Beside graphics this site gives good basic instructions on how to create graphics with links to software.
Moyra's Web Jewels
http://moyra.com/jewels
A unique collection of website graphics sets.
GRAPHIC SOFTWARE
JASC Home Page
http://jasc.com/index.html
One of the most popular down loadable graphics tool software, Paint Shop Pro. A very reasonably priced program
FREE WEB SPACE
Xoom
http://www.xoom.com
Xoom is a large community that offers 11mg of free web space. In exchange a banner is displayed on your page.
They also offer free e-mail and chat rooms.
Hypermart
http://www.hypermart.com
Hypermart offers free webspace to business. You can also get free web space using a domain name. You are required to display a banner for this free space.
HELPFUL TOOLS
SiteInspector
http://siteinspector.com
Enter your URL and have SiteInspector diagnose it for spelling, search engine readiness, broken links, HTML, popularity, load time. Submit your URL to 7 search engines at once, monitor your site's ranking with several search engines, and create meta tags for your website. Good information and helpful resource.
SiteOwner
http://www.siteowner.com
An all-in-one website that has tools to help your website all at one stop: SiteInspector, LinkFinder, SubmitIt!, Merchant Planet, Position Agent, ListBot, ClickTrade, FastCounter, and more.
Web Site Garage
http://www.websitegarage.com
For website maintenance, run diagnostics on your webpages, see how your webpage looks on 18 different browsers. Also has website promotion and analysis tools.
Website Guestbook Program
http://www.lpage.com
This site offers a free guest book for your website.
MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES
Search Engine Watch
http://SearchEngineWatch.com
The best website on the Internet for information about search engines. An excellent reference and resource of information on how search engines operate, how to work with the information to increase your search engine rankings, how to build your website to be the most benefit from search engines, and more.
Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.com
One of the most popular and fastest search engines. Great site, extensive, easy to use, provides summaries of search sites, if desired.
Excite
http://www.excite.com
This is an extremely easy, very comprehensive search engine and directory.
Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com
Easy to use.
Hotbot
http://www.hotbot.com
Another of the major search engines. Easy to use.
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
One of the earliest search engines.
Magellan
http://www.mckinley.com
Provides summaries of search sites. This search engine also lists "safe" sites for children, people finder, news and weather and sports
Search.Com
http://www.search.com
It features 15 top major search engines, has specialized searches, such as BigBook and USA Today.
Starting Point!
http://www.stpt.com
This site enables you to search the web's most extensive databases using one central search resource.
Webcrawler
http://webcrawler.com
Webcrawler is extensive, easy to use, provides summaries of search sites. This enables you to search 50 on a page at once.
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
This is a very popular and helpful directory. The difference between a search engine and a directory is basically all entries are hand entered
in a directory. Search engines send out webbots to retreive info from your site and automatically place it.
PLACES TO ANNOUNCE YOUR WEBSITE
Postmaster
http://www.netcreations.com/postmaster/index.html
An all-in-one submissions page to announce your website. Fill out details for more than 25 web indexes and directories.
Simplenet: The Low Cost Web Hosting Service (LINK EXCHANGE)
http://www.linkexchange.com
Increase your website's exposure for free. Offers free banner creation help for your website. Also has links to other helpful sites.
Submit It! Website promotion and marketing services
http://www.submitit.com
Webstep Top 100
http://www.mmgco.com/top100.html
WebStep Traffic. Award for Top 5% Website Point. 100 master index of the best free places to list your website.
Yahoo! Announcement Services
http://www.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/internet/world_wide_web/announcement_services
Announce your website by registering at any of the dozens of host sites listed at this website, most of which are free.
WEB PUBLISHING SOFTWARE
HomeSite HTML Editor
http://www.allaire.com
HomeSite is a highly recommended website builder, editor by many web consultants. Great interface, easy to use, has frames wizard and other wizards, built-in spelling check, many time-saving features and much more to offer.
DOMAIN NAMES
The Internic
http://www.internic.net
For registration of a domain name and to find out if your choice is currently available.
SMALL BUSINESS INFORMATION
American Home Business Association
http://www.homebusiness.com
Informative, helpful site.
Small Business Administration Home page
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/index.html
Check the U.S. Government's Small Business Administration site for their latest information and links.
Small Business Development Center
http://www.inreach.com
Whether you are just starting out or have a business already, this site has information to assist you. Links area covering taxes, government regulations, resource books, marketing, financing, licensing and permits.
Small Business 2000 Website
http://www.sb2000.com
The popular PBS show's website, with Hattie Bryan, author of Beating The Odds.
INTERNET SAFETY
SafeKids.Comhttp://www.safekids.com
Teen Safety on the Internet
http://www.safeteens.com/index.html
NetParents
http://www.netparents.org
Resources for Internet Parents
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids:
http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites
Developed by the American Library Asssociation
Voter Telecommunication
Watch Guide to Internet Parenting
http://www.vtw.org/parents
A partnership of the
Interactive Services Association, the National Consumers League
and leading online and Internet companies to help consumers get
the most out of going online.
Platform for
Internet Content Selection
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS
Information from the consortium of companies working to develop
technology solutions to protect children.
RSAC (Recreational Software
Advisory Council) Rating Service
http://www.rsac.org
Adequate.com
Rating Service
http://www.adequate.com/adequate/ratings