David Wright's Web Resource Links Page

Resources for web site builders

This page lists some of the resources I have found on the web since I started designing my web sites. Many of these are free. If you want , you can build a web site with free tools, have it hosted free, and promote it for free. There are also free tutorials and free examples of how to do it.

How to do it

Writing HTML

• Guide to Writing HTML
• HTML Questions and Answers
• Toironto University's Introduction to HTML and URLs
  • The Official Documents Defining the Web
• W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
  • The official HTML 3.2 Reference Specification at www.w3.org
    Follow this if you want your pages to be viewed in full by browsers old and new
  • The official HTML 4.0 Specification at www.w3.org - follow the new standard
    "HTML 4.0 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities, and
    documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities."
• The Compendium of HTML Elements — A Reference Manual of the HyperText Markup Language

How to use it - and lots of clever things you can do with CGI and Javascript too

• BUILDER.COM Web Authoring Resources
• BUILDER.COM - Stupid Web Authoring tricks
• BUILDER.COM - Mouseover machine by Charity Kahn
• Developer Shed - Tools To Build A Better Website HTML, CGI scripts and site testing tools, including links to
  NetMechanic to test out your web site, check your links, and shrink your GIFs.
• The I.S.L.A.N.D. The Internet Source for Learning And New Development
  "A complete tutorial on multimedia webpage design."
• Ventana: HTML Publishing on the Internet for Windows Online Companion
• NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
• HTML Tutorial: Table of Contents
• Bandwidth Conservation Society
• Guide to Writing HTML
• HTML Questions and Answers
• Creating Net Sites
• Dmitry Kirsanov's Top Ten Web Design Tips
• How to define Transparent Background Images

Create it

• Tripod's Homepage Builder
• Web Site Banner Advertising: Ad Networks, Brokers, and Exchanges (Mark J. Welch)
• Creating Net Sites
• Making a basic client-side image map using Map This
• WEB Wizard for Windows
• WebTechs Validation Service
• Adobe PageMill This site is mostly written using Pagemill - though I use PFE32 and vi too!
• Sausage Software - makers of HotDog HTML Web-editor
• The Internet Link Exchange: Home
• Q&D - Webforms, WebMania editors
• LPAGE Guestbook server

Promote it

• Submit It!: The Web Site Promotion Tool
• LinkExchange: Home
• Line Around the World
• Two Clicks Instant Tables
• Color Manipulation Device
• Analog: a WWW server logfile analysis program

Browse it

• Opera Software - Bringing speed and fun back into Internet browsing
• Directory of /pub/communicator/4.05/shipping/english
• RealAudio Product Information
• Free Agent
• Progressive Networks, The Home of RealAudio
• Crescendo 2.3 MIDI plugin for Netscape
• Gamelan official Java directory
• IBM techexplorer (TeX addon)
• Download Starfish Internet Sidekick Lite
• Lynx Now!

Find it

• United Kingdom Based WWW Servers.
• WebCompass 2.0; It's Here
• World-Wide Web Servers: Summary

Web Graphics

• Equilibrium - Equilibrium DeBabelizer HOMEPAGE
• Background Textures Archive: 800+ Tiling Background Textures for Web Pages
• Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers
• devshed.com | More Buttons
• The 216 Non-Dithering Colorsby Value
• Web Graphics on a Budget - Free Web Page Graphics
• Beseen.com free Counters, Chatrooms, Ima
• GIF Wizard from Raspberry Hill Publishing Inc.
• Marble made - Webstore
• Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar - Dots, Cubes and Diamonds
• Webgifs - Home Page
• Balls_Icons_Bars
• WebGraphics
• Psyched Up Graphics
• Free web graphice (JPG)
• Copyright Free MIDI files

Free Web Sites, Free Mail, Free milk *

• Yellow Internet Europe@Home
  Used to have free web pages for Europeans, including the first version of my site. No longer free.
• GeoCities Free Web Pages
  More free pages than anywhere else: 2 million homesteaders. But watch out for those floating windows.
• Angelfire Communications
• The Phrantic Project inc free home pages
• FreeYellow free web pages Yellow Pages on the web
• Vixie offer free WWW, Gopher, or FTP server space to causes we deem worthy
• I.S.L.A.N.D. The Internet Source for Learning And New Development
• The Amazing Free Stuff Page: free services, free information, free software, free samples and other free products.
• De Digitale Stad ® DDS Centraal
• DDS Context-help
• bounce.to Free Web Redirection Service
• Kostenlose private Homepages
• Page4Life - Gratis Homepage-ruimte voor iedereen, voor altijd !
  In case you don't speak Nederlands, that's "Free Homepage space for your ideas, forever!"
  Was http://www.page4life.nl/, but that was taken over by another company, and now does not exist at all. Sad. Forever is quite a short time on the web.
• Joe's Instant Home Page Form
• Peter da Silva's Free Pages list
• NetherWeb Central Free UNIX, Free Web, Free ...
• Free Web Site!
• GeoCities Homesteading - free mail and web pages
• LookSmart / Geocities
• Homestead 2000
• web Publishing: Sites that offer FREE WEB PAGES
• Angelfire Free Home Pages
• Europe@Home FAQ
• Freetown Free Web Page Form
• Personal Homepages --- More than 1Mb (or no limit).
• The Sprawl, Worlds First Public Access Web Server and Multi Media MOO
• web Publishing: Sites that offer FREE WEB PAGES
• The Tardis Project

* The bit about free milk isn't true, Mrs T took it away.

Other Web Related Sites

• Amatuer Radio homepages
• Virtual 3D Web
• Tony Shepps: an anti-home page home page
• GoldSite Europe
• Zippy meets Meta-HTML
  or how to do horrid things to dull text on a pretentious web page
• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) The W3 way to label your pages
• and finally - Build It - with even more links than this page!
  

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