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Web
Developer's Journal
An easy to read UK Web magazine with a site that includes tips on Web page
design, HTML, graphics, Web audio, Internet business, e-commerce, Web
development tools, Java, Javascript and CGI. Like any good magazine there
are also reviews, tutorials and discussion groups.
Cybersavvy
UK
Another British website letting you into tricks of the website design
trade. The site also offers advice on all aspects of web pr, online
promotion and website marketing plus Internet tips and tricks for new
users.
UseIt
Jakob Nielsen is a recognised guru of Web marketing and design. At
useit.com, Nielsen mixes good writing on Web usability, usability
engineering, design and his famous minimalist approach to Web quality.
Usability
This site is actually maintained by the USA National Cancer Institute for
improving health and patient-related Web sites. However, the information
provided is excellent for any website designer from the basic to the
sophisticated.
Despite the ponderous title, this excellent website from UK's Design Council is a valuable tool to help small and medium sized businesses manage the process of designing a web presence. It is especially good for advice on writing the design brief and on finding the right web developer.
Madiros
Advice on how to build a web site on your own or using online website builders from the Romanian company with the British website. Excellent down-to-earth suggestions for the DIY designer.
TechWeb
Top quality answers, references, links and a superb directory of the
answers to all kinds of IT tech questions in this site.
Windows
Users Group Network
WUGNET, founded in 1988, and launched officially on CompuServe in 1989, is
the oldest and largest independent online organization supporting the
Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, and NT (including Windows 2000)
environments. The site provides technical support in the areas of Windows
operating systems, Internet, email, shareware, hardware, games and
software development.
SiteCritique
SiteCritique gives you the chance to submit your Web site for criticism.
The site is a community of webmasters, designers and developers that
review each other's projects. Rankings are given to all sites submitted
and compared against the community. You have to join to review or submit a
site for review, but the membership is free.
Web Design Tutorials
A UK web designer with some excellent advice on how to build a web site on your own and on using online website builders - great tips.
eSocrates
eSocrates.com is a distance learning and corporate training company, with
a heavy emphasis on learning how to use the Internet. eSocrates
specialises in academic courseware platforms and custom training
solutions.
Boogie Jack's HTML Tutorials
From a beginners guide for making your first web page to outlining an
entire site, then on to individual tutorials that expand your knowledge
and skills. As Boogie Jack says himself:: "you'll find my tutorials
easy to use and learn from. If not, send me a dollar and apologize. Gosh
darn it, anyway."
Lynda.com
- web design training
This is a homepage for Web designers and publishers. Lynda concentrates on
good design with some excellent tips and ideas. Have a look at her hues
page to see what Web colours are around.
.net
magazine
The home page of .net magazine, which claims to be the UK's best-selling
Internet magazine. Free software to download, Internet lifestyle and web
building features and tutorials online. A veritable cornucopia of web
design resources.
PageResource
A good selection of material including an HTML tutorial, javascript
tutorial, tips, tricks, and links to numerous web design resources and
other html tutorial sites. Helps you to design your own web site.
Webmonkey
Part of the Lycos Network, Webmonkey is a good web developer's resource.
Its full of guides, articles, tutorials and how-tos for the webmasters out
there. Its fun and well written too.
WebNovice
Internet how to in plain English - so says Webnovice. A good mixture of
how-tos, tips and tricks and tutorials along with a substantial archive of
articles make this a good reference site.
Web
Tutorials
The University of California maintains this directory of tutorials and
guides to designing in the new media. Includes HTML, Javascript, CGI/Perl
and content design.
Educorner
The key to excellence in website design is Information
Architecture and Educorner by Addwise is an interactive tutorial site that
provides an interesting Introduction. The tutorial includes readable text,
interactive exercises, and useful examples.
Usable Web
More about Information Architecture from Keith Instone. Usable Web is a
collection of links (over 1400) about information architecture, human
factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World
Wide Web.
ASP
Tutorials
The extraordinarily named ASPHole.com is a centralised source for all ASP
Developer's needs. Topics range from free source code and components, to
tutorials, reference, and authoring opportunities.
JavaScripts
EarthWeb's Javascripts.com website looks like the largest JavaScript
repository online, containing over 7000 JavaScripts. Each script available
to download free. Follows EarthWeb's philosophy to feature the best code,
tutorials, and information for Web developers.
WebCoder
The WebCoder site will teach you JavaScript and Dynamic HTML and give you
the power to weave a more interesting Web. Lots of how-tos and tutorials.
Web Design Tools
Lockergnome
We are told that, from the husk of the Silicorn Valley (Des Moines, Iowa),
Chris Pirillo distributes one of the world's hottest free e-mail
newsletters (over 200,000 readers). He covers software, sites, and stuff
related to Microsoft Windows and the Internet. The quirky but excellent
newsletter includes 32-bit downloads (freeware & shareware), websites,
games, media, fonts, updates, patches, themes, tips, tricks, computer news
and more for those with Windows.
ZDNet
Developer
ZDNet appears a lot in this directory in different guises. There's a good
reason. They really know their stuff and they deliver everything really
well. This site is full of invaluable coding and design tools and
resources for you to download.
Bravenet.com - Free Web Tools for Webmasters
With free guestbooks, message boards, chatrooms, greeting cards, instant messenger, classified ads, email form processing, e-commerce and many more tools and utilities, Bravenet has one of the best selection of free tools for webmasters
Hits4Me
Visit this site for free Tools for Webmasters - includes guest book,
search engines, promotion, affiliate and associate programs, web hosting,
newsletters, sponsors, banner exchanges, pay per click, pay per lead, and
pay per sale programs.
NewApps
Like ZDNet this website comes from one of the consummate professionals -
the wonderfully named Internet.com. They appear with many sites through
the directory because they deserve to. NewApps is full of downloadable
applications, tools and other Internet utilities for the Webmaster in your
life.
CWSApps
This is an alternative Internet.com download site for comprehensive file
listings, free software downloads, expert ratings, and extensive software
reviews for the best Windows applications. CWSApps
prides itself on offering the most up-to-date information for new software
releases, which means if an app has been updated, you'll always find
information on it - and a download.
NetMechanic:
Power Tools for Your Web Site
NetMechanic claims to be the largest independent provider of Web site
tools. They provide an integrated suite of low cost site maintenance
services for small businesses on the Web. The tools are designed to be an
expert system for detecting problems and repairing your Web site. They
check and repair html code tags, find broken links, and check spelling.
Microsoft
bCentral
This large Microsoft site has lots of free utilities to check your
website, as well as tools, information and resources designed to improve your businesses' bottom line. A great online toolkit to help verify and improve the reliability of
enterprise Web applications. WebKing provides a wide variety of tools and
testing techniques that thoroughly exercise Web applications to prevent
and expose both server-side and client-side errors. Webmaster Lynx
This is a webmaster resource supersite covering code advice, free code and
support in HTML, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Perl and ASP.
Kaspersky
Anti-Virus
A privately owned international data-security software-development company
headquartered in Cambridge (UK), Kaspersky concentrates its efforts on the
development, marketing, and distribution of cutting-edge anti-virus and
data-security technologies and computer software. Kaspersky also provides
free online security-related Internet information services.
This British site offers free ecommerce - a full featured shopping cart with access to all the important features that are required to start selling goods and services on the internet. There is also a more sophisticate paid version, the Premium account.
This North American site claims it is the simplest and easiest way to build your online retail store. There are no complicated templates or burdensome installations to complete. You may even qualify for a free ecommerce shop.
Merchant Site is a collection of articles, information, resources and tools put together by UK online store owners, designers & e-commerce consultants for the benefit of other UK online store owners.
Word
Counter
This useful site just does what it says, it ranks the most frequently used
words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse,
or maybe just to find some keywords from a document. Paste in any text and
get immediate word frequency feedback. Really helpful when you are putting
together website text.
Tiny URL Dynamic Drive HomepageTools PC Doctor GIF Wizard! ButtonMaker ZSPC Super Color Chart What U Seek Tucows - Software Jumbo Free & Shareware Pricelessware Free Webmaster Tools Free Site Builder City-Centre Master.com Update BugNet WindowsTracker Clip Art Review MediaBuilder: Animation
Factory Bugtown Clipart.Com Corbis Images Foto Search Stock Photography allows you to search and purchase from more than fifty quality stock photography vendors at one site. You can find the perfect photo very quickly and save a lot of time. Symbols
This simple but clever website allows you to paste a long URL
into TinyURL's entry field. One click and you have a small, manageable URL
that redirects to the longer address you entered.
For really handy design tricks and tips for Web and Intranet sites try
Dynamic Drive. This website offers a range of free, original DHTML scripts
and components to enhance your web site. All scripts use the latest in
JavaScript and DHTML technology.
There are a few free web tools for webmasters and web developers on this
site. Tools include a message board system, polls, surveys, guest books,
counters, your own search engine, free email, website promotion, web
search and various other free tools.
PC Doc Pro is a registry fix-it tool that allows you to repair PC problems
instantly with one click of your mouse.
One really useful site, GIF Wizard provides real time image editing and
compression based on user line speed and device type through a Content
Delivery Network. Tools include resize, crop, rotate, color adjust and
compress. Daily Q/A reports for broken links and bloated graphics. A free
website analysis helps you to reduce the size of GIFs, JPGs and BMPs up to
90% without sacrificing quality.
ButtonMaker is a neat little service form MediaBuilder. It allows you to
create free buttons for your web pages. ButtonMaker can turn any GIF image
into a nicely beveled button. It even works on animated GIFs. And, best of
all, it is free - along with a range of other valuable Web tools.
This Japanese website includes a simple but valuable guide to Web colours
and how they appear. You select the text and background colours and the
chart shows you the result.
WhatUseek claim to have search-enabled close to 200,000 small to medium
sized Web sites, providing their visitors with enhanced site navigation
through search. Good site search engines were previously too complicated
and cost-prohibitive to provide for many small and medium sized websites.
WhatUseek say they can provide affordable site search and reporting
infrastructure in minutes.
This is a vast software, music, themes and games download site. Tucows
claims over 45,000 software titles for download including freeware,
shareware, demos, e-mail tools, html tools, Internet software, multimedia
software, network software, online services, security software, server
software, and utilities.
Jumbo is one of the best websites for free Mp3 files, computer games,
desktop themes, screen saver and the latest computer software. Jumbo will
probably satisfy all your computer software needs - at least for freeware
and shareware.
More excellent freeware, aimed at Windows users. The website selects the
best available freeware in eight categories ranging from business to
systems and security. Pricelessware features a truly comprehensive set of
links to quality freeware.
A Webmaster's directory of free tools to help build, promote and maintain
websites. Includes over 1000 free website tools such as website graphics,
Perl/CGI, java, DHTML, HTML, logos, utilities, promotion, visual basic,
music, editors, tutorials, VRML, online tools, websites and much more.
This British site is a user-friendly
location for Web advice and tool links. The wealth of free goodies
includes programs, links to sites that have free graphics or software,
pointers to handy tools, addresses of ezines and newsletters that will
help you, links to forums and message boards where you can ask the
experts, as well as tutorials and links to tutorials on other sites.
This UK-based business offers micro-site technology for the small business
market. Even the smallest business can afford a strong Internet presence
with their easy to use web site building program.
This service
delivers free application services to an
existing web site. Offering users everything from a message
board or auction site to your own custom polls and forms. Get your
own search engine, search-enable your web site, or increase your site's
interactivity. There is no software to install and, best of all, it's
free.
from the superb ZDNet stable, Updates.com is a free service for updating
your PC. The site looks at thousands of web sites for updates to software,
games, and hardware drivers to offer a complete and up-to-date list of
updates. The site even has an automated tool that searches your computer
and presents you with a customized list of software needing updates.
This site claims to be the world's leading provider of software bug fixes.
Each month they provide in-depth analysis, commentary and over 300 new
software bug fixes from top vendors, including Microsoft, Netscape,
Novell, Lotus, Apple, Adobe, Red hat, and Sun Microsystems. Between
monthly issues, they also deliver up-to-the-minute bug alerts.
This site is part of the TechTracker Support Network, a resource for
Windows software support information. Their goal is to help you keep your
PC up-to-date and running smoothly. They also make it easy to discover new
software you never knew about, from games to high end networking tools.Art and Animations
This website is a guide to free graphics on the Web, including: icons,
clipart, backgrounds, textures, animated gifs, buttons, bars, lines,
rules, bullets, clip art.
On this site you'll find a free animated gif library of over 30,000
original animations and designs for use on web pages, email and
presentations. The site also contains other tools including a free banner
maker, a button maker and a 3D text maker.
Hundreds of strange and wonderful images and concepts in Photoshop,
Javascript, and DHTML offered to the enthusiast by the improbably named
Swedish developed Doc Thaddeus Ozone. A quirky but fascinating site.
This site offers some of the Net's best clipart, font, photo and web
graphic links, ranked by traffic and quality. With over 1,500 original
free clipart images and graphics, sorted in over 125 categories.
Corbis sells traditionally licensed and royalty-free stock photography.
Here you can search, preview, download comps and purchase from their
collection of 1.4 million images rights-protected images.
Probably the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols,
Symbols.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54
groups according to their graphic characteristics.
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