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An Educators Introduction to HTML - An HTML Tutorial created with educators in mind.

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Graphics Links | Fonts


Shareware/Freeware Sites

Download.Com
http://www.download.com/
Reviews and free downloads.

Galt Shareware Zone
http://www.galttech.com/
Games, screen savers, internet and non-internet programs alike.

Jumbo
http://www.jumbo.com/
Over 83,000 shareware and freeware programs to choose, from chat, games, internet and www utilities to desktop and education programs.

Shareware.Com
http://www.shareware.com/
One of the best out there, this site will definitely have what you are looking for.

Tucows
http://www.tucows.com/
Over 40,000 titles and reviews.

ZDNet Downloads
http://downloads.zdnet.com/
Downloads for work and play.


Web/HTML Editors

Adobe GoLive
http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/index.html
"AdobeŽ GoLiveŽ CS2 software lets you unlock the power of CSS with intuitive visual tools such as prebuilt CSS objects that you can drag and drop to build sophisticated sites. Jump-start your designs by easily converting Adobe InDesignŽ layouts into Web pages. Or, design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment."

Macromedia HomeSite
http://www.adobe.com/products/homesite/
Homesite has a wonderful HTML editor currently being used by OLRC staff. They have a great extended search and replace that helps when editing a large number of files with the same changes/additions.

Mag's Big List of HTML Editors
http://www.cyberpresent.de/History/Eikon/WWW/about-ed.htm
No reviews of the editors but the list is extensive.

Microsoft FrontPage
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx
"FrontPage 2003 provides the features, flexibility, and functionality to help you build better Web sites. It includes the professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools needed to create dynamic and sophisticated Web sites."

Sausage Tools
http://www.sausage.com/products.html
HotDog editing tools.


Web Page Design and Editing

Bare Bones Guide to HTML
http://werbach.com/barebones/download.html
This document is designed to serve a particular niche. It is intended as a concise "cheat sheet" that you can use to look up the correct forms of tags as you are creating Web pages.

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/
This tutorial is for anyone who is serious about learning HTML code. Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire web site. Perhaps you're setting up a web site for your business or organization. You've come to the right place.

HTML Code Tutorial
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

Sucky to Savvy
http://jeffglover.com/ss.php
Jeffrey Glover has some interesting information here about what could make or break a site. This isn't a do's or don't list, just some things to think about while creating your web pages.

The Top Fifteen Mistakes of First Time Web Design
http://doghause.com/top15.asp
A great list with examples as to what you should not do with your pages.

Web Pages That Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/suckframe.htm
These guys will show you examples of pages that suck and give their reasons for choosing that page.

Web Style Manual
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
The advice here is aimed at the practical concerns of bending and adapting a relatively primitive authoring and layout tool (HTML) to purposes it was never really intended to serve (graphic page design).

Tips for Writers and Designers
http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/index.html
Web Wonk has a good site here filled with information to help you along with your own web pages.


Scripts

Javascript.Com
http://www.javascript.com/
The Definitive JavaScript Resource: JavaScript Tutorials, Free Java Scripts, Source Code and Other Scripting Resources.

JavaScript Kit
http://javascriptkit.com/
Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials and over 400+ free JavaScripts

The JavaScript Source
http://javascript.internet.com/
This site has a good collection of freeware cut-and-paste javascript

JavaScript Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

Matt's Script Archive
http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/
Matt's Script Archive has it all, guestbooks, counters, countdowns. All these CGI scripts are free (as long as you keep the copyright information in it).


HTML Utilities

Color Specifier for Netscape
http://www.users.interport.net/~giant/COLOR/hype_color.html
HYPE Electrazine has a nice site here to help you decide what the hexidecimal numbers are for the color you want to use.

Guide to Publishing
http://webcom.com/html/
Web Communications is a great resource for tutorials, hints, reference, public software tools and much more.

How do they do that with HTML?
http://www.tashian.com/htmlguide/
Carl Tashian has information on backgrounds and fonts to meatier things like access counters and background sounds.

HTML Tools
http://www.w3.org/Tools/Overview.html
World Wide Web Consortium


Internet Information for the New User

Ask Dr. Internet
http://promo.net/drnet/
The guide to help answer your questions about the internet and everything that goes along with it.

Newbie.org
http://www.newbie.net/
This is a great site to help you along if you're just starting out with the Internet. Fun to read and informative!


Internet Information

The Anti-Spam Home Page
http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/antispam.html
Tired of wading through all that junk mail? Learn how to stop the spammers -- here are instructions to automatically filter your e-mail, defend your site from exploitation by the spammers, and get involved!

Computer Viruses
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/compvirus.html
Before you foreward that email about a "new computer virus" please check out the information on this page first! That virus warning you are about to send to hundreds of people is probably just a hoax! Check here first!

ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Don't know Internet lingo? This site has an A to Z dictionary of net terms.

Netiquette Home Page
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html
Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace. This page provides links to both summary and detail information about Netiquette for your browsing pleasure.

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
http://www.netlingo.com/
This site contains definitions of hundreds of words which are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

The WWW Security FAQ
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
You should be able to find the answers to any security questions you may have about the World Wide Web.


Graphics Information

About.Com - Adobe Photoshop
http://webdesign.about.com/od/photoshop/

Adobe Systems Incorporated
http://www.adobe.com/
The nice people that brought you Adobe Photoshop.

Alchemy Mindworks Inc
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
You can find the GIF Construction Set here along with some gif animation information

Imagemap Help
http://www.ihip.com/
This page is an educational resource intended to provide assistance with the implementation of imagemaps.

Imagemap Tutorial
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/imagemapping.html
This document is a step-by-step tutorial for designing and serving graphical maps of information resources with either the external imagemap CGI script or with the built in imagemap support in NCSA HTTPd 1.5.

Making Animated GIFs
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm
Royal Frazier has a great site here to help you make GIF animation.

Mapedit
http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/
This is a great program which helps you make client-side imagemaps. Download a trial version and see what you think!


Web Graphics Links

#1 Free Clip Art
http://www.1clipart.com/

Clip Art and Image Paradise
http://www.desktoppublishing.com/cliplist.html
DesktopPublishing.com

CoolArchive http://www.coolarchive.com/

Graphics By Dezign
http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/
An ever growing offering of original, FREE, quality web graphics for web page development and design.

Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media
Clip Art and Media


Fonts

1001 Free Fonts
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
1001 free fonts first opened its doors in December 1998 and has since grown to become the most popular free fonts archive online.

Chank: Free Fonts
http://www.chank.com/freefonts.php

Font Source Paradise
http://desktopPublishing.com/fonts.html
From DesktopPublishing... links to all kinds of font sites from commercial to freeware and shareware.

Free Fonts
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html
These are all totally free TTF fonts made to work with any PC or Windows Operating System.

Simply the Best Fonts
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/


Last updated: 8/15/2006

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