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BulletShareware/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.

  • MajorGeeks.Com
    http://www.majorgeeks.com/

  • 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.


  • BulletWeb/HTML Editors

  • Adobe GoLive
    http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/index.html
    "Adobe GoLive 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 InDesign layouts into Web pages. Or, design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment."

  • Bluefish Editor
    http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

  • CoffeeCup HTML Editor
    http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/

  • Free HTML Editors / Free Web Editors
    http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml

  • 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.


  • BulletWeb Page Design

  • Web Style Guide
    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).

  • HTML Bad Style Page
    http://jnocook.net/html/badstyle.htm
    A collection of don'ts for HTML.

  • KillerSites.Com: Web Design Resources
    http://www.killersites.com/

  • 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).


  • BulletScripts/Flash

  • 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://www.scriptarchive.com/
    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).


  • BulletHTML

  • 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.

  • Color Specifier for Netscape
    http://www.fizzylogic.com/users/bulbul/ColorSpecifier.html

  • 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/

  • HTML Goodies
    http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

  • HTML Help by the Web Design Group
    http://htmlhelp.com/
    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. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings.

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


  • BulletInternet Information for the New User

  • Internet 101: the Fundamentals Every Internet User Should Know
    http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/Internet_101_the_Fundamentals_Every_Internet_User_Should_Know.htm
    Here is your "Internet Primer": a collection of Internet 101 tutorials, tips, help and advice for new Internet users.

  • Internet Netiquette
    http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm
    Netiquette primarily involves any communication you may send out or receive from the net.

  • Internet: Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

  • The New User's Directory
    http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~calvarez/newuser.html
    "I wanted to find out more about ... "

  • User's Guide to the Internet
    http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/internet-users-guide.html
    A User's Guide to the Internet was compiled in 2002 by Vivian Hutchison, an ALIC student library technician from the College of Information Science at the University of Maryland.


  • BulletInternet Information

  • 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.


  • BulletGraphics Information

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

  • 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

  • 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!


  • BulletWeb Graphics Links

  • All Free Original Clipart

  • Classroom Clipart

  • 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.


  • BulletFonts

  • 1001 Free Fonts
    http://www.1001fonts.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

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





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