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General
Web Design
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| Web
Pages that Suck - Shows
how to do good design by showing how to do it wrong. Very entertaining
and easy to follow. |
| Dmitry's
Design Lab - A bit
more technical but explains design elements from a technical point
of view rather than "opinion." Not for the beginner
but once you feel comfortable with your site and want to improve
it, check this out. |
Web
Developer's Journal -
For the advanced types. This covers everything including the business
of being in business as a developer.
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Tutorials
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| HTML
Goodies - for the beginners, this site as a series
of great tutorials on html and more. |
| FPT Tutorial - A quick start tutorial for
using the WS FTP program. |
| NCSA
Beginner's Guide to HTML - Free and online from the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is pretty comprehensive
and pretty good too. |
| HTML
Primer - A very basic tutorial excellent for the
brand new, "this stuff is complicated" webmaster. |
| Web Diner Forms Tutorial - Probably the most
annoying part of HTML is getting forms to work the way you want.
This will help. |
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Tools and Resources
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| irfanView
- a small yet powerful image editor. Allows you to resize and
compress jpgs, one by one or in batches. Open just about any image
format... Also available from www.freeware.com |
WS_FTP
- Probably the best known tool to upload files to the server.
It is very easy to use.
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Resources
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| HTML
Goodies - Also mentioned
in the tutorial section, for advanced users it is a excellent
source of Javascript information. |
| JimTools
- Has just about everything to test your site. Really easy to
use. |
| Doctor HTML - On-line site analysis to find
broken links and if you did anything wrong. |
| Search Engine Watch - The most authoritative
source about search engines. Though a pay site, the free area
contain plenty of free stuff. |
| The
Webmaster's Reference Library - A little of everything
for the intermediate to advanced. |
Color
Picker - This page is part of a larger site but this
utility lets you easily see color combinations. It can also be
downloaded for free.
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Counters and Traffic Analyzers
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| Web-Counter |
| FastCounter |
| WebTracker |
| MyComputer.com |
| Extreme Tracking |
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