Personal Links

All Free Help on Web Page Publishing -- Steven's Web Page --

Outta Site! The Best Web Authoring Tools for Your Needs

CAST: Bobby (Disability Access/Browser Compatibility check)

"Bobby is a free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible to people with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers."

Boersma, J. Page, Web (Good Site for HTML, OnMouseOver, WebPaper,...)

C|Net's BUILDER.COM

CNET features - how to - HTML tips and tricks

CNET features - how to - 20 questions about e-commerce

CNET features - copyright/trademark/...

The Copyright Website

10 Big Myths about copyright explained

1st JAVATree - Main

Developer.com

Electronic Advertising

Elemental Software (Dev. tools)

Gamelan's Java Software Directory

The HTML Writers Guild

Welcome to The HTML Writers Guild Website, the first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing Professionals. Guild members have access to resources including: HTML and Web business mailing lists, information repositories, and interaction with their peers.

HTML Writers Guild: WWW Resources

Story: If You Don't Have These HTML Tools, You're Working Too Hard

MerzCom (Image Mapping s/w)

Image Mapping

JScape Corporation

PC Magazine's InternetUser - Internet Toolkit (Dynamic HTML)

Java Home Page

JavaWorld (IDG's)

Netscape Gold Rush Tool Chest

"Look inside the Tool Chest for valuable resources to help you build an engaging Web page. In addition to the links listed, try the Page Wizard, Netscape's powerful Web page creation tool, and also a series of preformatted templates that will help you organize your ideas and your content. Check back often for an increasing array of Web tools, tips, and techniques."

Pandesic (E-Commerce)

Technical Resources - NetscapeWorld

"The editors' (of Netscape World) favorite sites for Web developers & Webmasters."

Story: Tips and Tricks to Get Your Web Site Noticed

The top 15 Web design irritants & how to avoid them - NetscapeWorld - July 1997

Traffic Whiz - Increase the hits to your site today!

the ultimate electronic publishing resource

Ultimate Web Publisher's Guide! (Dezines)

Web Design Group - HTML Help

"The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide."

The Web Developer's Virtual Library (Stars.com)

"A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology, The WDVL is a well-organised goldmine of tutorials, examples, and links to great resources. It's for webmasters and Internet developers who are creating web sites with HTML, CGI, Java, JavaScript, graphics, VRML, multimedia, animation, etc."

Web Publishing Resource Guide

"The Web Publishing Resource Guide (WPRG) is a jargon-free jumping-off information base for those creating World Wide Web sites." - (per author)

webreference.com (sm) - The Webmaster's Reference Library

WebWerks - Java Applets - Applets

Whole Web Catalog (ZDNet)

Story: Web Site Design Tips From AnchorDesk's Art Guru

The OFFICIAL 216 CROSS-PLATFORM BROWSER-SAFE COLORS

 

Reference Information

@vantage

"@vantage is an interactive environment that provides business professionals with access to the highest quality, up-to-the-minute information technology (IT) research, analysis, products and services. @vantage integrates high value, actionable advice from a broad range of top-caliber research providers selected to deliver multiple viewpoints. Through @vantage, users surfing across the WWW can register for the site, gain access to sample research from all the @vantage Content Partners (CPs), buy annual subscriptions to CP research as well as purchase individual documents using a credit card. It is a forum for people with similar interests to interact online with analysts, experts, opinion makers and business and IT professionals."

Gartner Group Research

"Gartner Group, Inc., is the world's leading independent advisor of research and analysis to business professionals making information technology (IT) decisions, including users, purchasers, and vendors of IT products and services."

InternetSourcebook.Com

"InternetSourcebook.Com is a great resource if you are: 1. Looking to purchase Internet-related products and services; 2. Seeking critical industry information; 3. Considering a career in the Internet industry;4. Interested in investing in an Internet company; 5. Researching an alliance, partnership, merger, or acquisition"

InternetWeek (CMPnet)

ZDNet Webop�dia (glossary of terms)

"ZDNet Webop�dia is the quickest way to keep up with the constantly expanding language of technology. You can search our extensive glossary of terms to find succinct definitions in a broad range of categories. You'll also find links to sites and definitions related to your inquiry."

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Software

Browsers.com (CNet)

latest Browser news & info, plug-ins,...

Jeff's Internet Adventures: Finding good help for Communicator isn't easy

Patches and Drivers (ZD Net)

PC World Online: Browser Secrets (8/97)

Software Publishers Association

"Don't Copy That Floppy!" How to keep up on software copywrite laws, audit system software, report violators,...

WEBsaver home page

Software for downloading entire Web sites for viewing offline. Demo available. $10 registration fee for full version.

Fonts

Astigmatic One Eye

The typeface designs found here have an edgy and techno look. Used judiciously, they'll give your documents and Web pages a sophisticated, cutting-edge appearance. Look for ideas from the site itself. (PC World - May 1997)

Chankstore Fonts (Caution/Offensive!?))

Chank Diesel is one whacked-out font designer. His scribbly, handwritten fonts have shown up everywhere, including ads for McDonald's and IBM. Here Chank gives away manuy of his creations. Note: If you're easily offended, you may want to pass - Chank's fonts and ramblings won't meet everyone's standards of decorum. (PC World - May 1997)

Ray Larabie's Freeware Typeface of the Week

unusual without being too grungy or radical (PC World - May 1997)

TrueType Fonts, Utilities & Typography For Windows - Pyroglyphics

Graphics

250,000 FREE!!! Cool Graphics: Clip Art, Backgrounds, Animations, Icons

Andy's Art Attack

Dozens of useful and entertaining backgrounds, bullets, buttons and animated GIFs. (PC World - May 1997)

Animated Gif Collection (Mike Shaikun's)

Animation Zone (animated GIFs)

The Design Shoppe

Collection of distinctive bullets, dividers, arrows, icons, and backgrounds courtesy of Fat Cat Computer Works in Victoria, British Columbia. They're all small GIFs-perfect for use in Web Pages-and have a more polished look than most free clip art collections you'll find. (PC World - May 1997)

Ender Design: Realm Graphics

"Realm Graphics has over 330 textures for fills and page backgrounds... even see what it looks like on a page with TextureView and TextShow! This, and now over 380 bullets and over 130 buttons and while we're at it let's include over 150 icons and 350 lines... Realm Graphics is truly the One Stop Shop for web development images!"

The Dog Hause (animal grapics...)

Font F/X (3D rendering)

"Font F/X is a full 32-bit, OpenGL based, 3D text rendering program for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Font F/X utilizes TrueType fonts as the raw material for stunning 3D text images."

GIF Animation on the WWW

gif files, gif downloads, animated gifs,....

GrafX Design -- Digital Graphics and Web Graphics Tips, Techniques and Tutorials

Graphic Maps

"...collection of original cartography including cities, continents, countries, exotic travel destinations, globes, flags and world atlas images."

icons

Laurie McCanna's Free Art Site

Some very good artwork prepared by Laurie. To use these graphics you must provide a link back to this site. Good assortment and I "highly" reccommend taking a look!

MediaBuilder - Image Library

Paint Shop Pro

This popular, powerful image-editing program boasts a wide range of feaures. It's even compatible with Adobe PhotoShop plug-ins. Windows 95 or NT 4.0; 2.8MB; $69 fee. (PC World - May 1997)

Pambytes Free Web Graphics

"These images are freeware. You are licensed to use them in any way you wish with the following restriction. Gibson Grafx retains copyrights to these images. They may not be included in any collection for distribution, either online or on any electronic media."

PC WEEK: Jeff's Internet Adventures Getting Web graphics right the first time

Software Library - Dewdrops Mini Icons

Software Library - Elementals

Ultimate Web Publisher's Guide! (Dezines)

Web Design by Rita Peitz

Very nice collection of web graphics. Well Done!

Windy's Fashionable Page Designs - FREE border backgrounds, sets, designs, graphics, icons, buttons, bars and tiled backgrounds for your homepage!

Plug-ins

BONZI Voice Email

Formula

Macromedia: Shockwave

Narrative Enliven

Netscape: Inline Plug-ins

Norton:Anti-Virus

RealAudio!

Utilities

Adobe: Acrobat Reader

Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most popular ways to transmit, read, and print formatted documents electronically. Windows 3.1, 95, NT, OS/2, or UNIX; 4MB; Free. (PC World - May 1997)

Anonymizer

Every Web site you visit collects information about you - more than you may want them to know. Skeptical? Check out Anonymizer.com's "Don't Believe Us?" at www.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/snoop.pl, which will tell you what browser you're using, what kind of computer and operating system you're running, and even your company (or ISP) and geographic location. (Just be prepared to wait - Anonymizer can take up to a minute to analyze your browser data.) If all that snooping bothers you, surf the Web via Anonymizer, which blocks all that information and preserves your anonymity, On the downside, Anonymizer adds its toolbars to every Web page you view, and slows down your surfing somewhat. (PC World - May 1997)

BONZI Voice Email

"Voice E-Mail 3.0 is the revolutionary new "add-on" software for Netscape that lets you now talk through e-mail. That's right, you can now speak your e-mail messages rather than having to type them! This means you can hear the voices of your friends, business associates, and loved ones all over the world -- right from within Netscape!" $29.95, July 1997.

Compass - (BookMark Organizer)

Helps organize Netscape Bookmark file - for Windows 95.

Drag and View

Lets you quickly look at many types of documents and graphics files by dragging the files onto its icon. 9000k; $35 fee. (PC World - May 1997)

Information Transfer Professional 1.1.2

This handy e-mail utility makes attaching and detaching binary files a breeze. It handles UUencode, Mime, BinHex, and other encoding formats. Windows 3.1, 95, or NT; 140k; $14 fee. (PC World - May 1997)

NetMon (Win95 modem x-fer rate status)

displays the rate of data received and transmitted over your Internet connection. the graph is updated every second and the average throughput is calculated over a 5-minute interval. Windows 95; 149k; free

PassKeeper

Once you've registered at a few Web sites, it can get hard to keep track of all your user names and passwords. PassKeeper stores them for you in an encrypted database. Windows 3.1 or 95; 86k; free. (PC World - May 1997)

RAS+

If you use Windows 95's Dial-Up Networking tool to connect to the Net, RAS+ will make your life easier. It handles multiple Internet accounts, tracks your online time, and more. Windows 95; 1MB; $30 fee. (PC World - May 1997)

Software Library - textHELP ScreenReader

Software Library - TogglePING+ Web Analyzer

WebCounter Pages

WinZip

A key part of any online user's toolkit, WinZip compresses and decompresses ZIP files and handles files encoded for transmission via e-mail. Windows 3.1, 95, or NT; 630k; $29 fee. (PC World - May 1997)

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Technical Support

CMP - TechHelper

TechHelper is the ultimate (their word) online help desk - a comprehensive, searchable guide to tech support resources on the Web. Its features include FAQs, online documentation, helpline listings, links to vendor pages, threaded chat and more. And it's all free!

CMP - TechWeb

Experts Exchange

"A community where experts answer difficult questions"

Microsoft's Knowledge Base

If your're having trouble with DOS, Windows, or any other Microsoft product, look for help at Microsoft's venerable Knowledge Base. This is the ultimate repository of technical information, bug fixes (though Microsoft doesn't call them that), and tips on a huge range of software. It has an easy-to-use search interface that lets you scan the entire database or browse by operating system and product. Many articles contain information you simply can't find anywhere else, which can save you hours of waiting on hold for technical support. And it's free! Does Bill know about this? (PC World - May 1997)

Netscape - Knowledge Base - Index of all client articles

SupportHelp.com

Unofficial Netscape FAQ

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