Web Page Design Tools

 

Creating a Successful Web Site: Step by step tutorial on how to create a successful web site.

Resources for Developers: A collection of sites that contain graphics, images, icons, and other graphics for web page designs.

The World Wide Web Help Page: This page provides links to site which will help you develop your own web pages.

Site Central: Site central is a free service for creating your own web page with ease.

Special Characters: A list of special characters you can create in HTML documents.

Web66 Classroom Internet Server Cookbook: A "cookbook" of "recipes" to help you create your own web page. Each recipe includes links so you can download everything you need for Macintosh, Windows 95, and Windows NT systems.

Top Twenty Tips for Macintosh Webmasters: (Macintosh Systems) Useful tips to help with your web pages.

 

Java Script

 

The Java Script Primers: Thirty lessons to help you get started with your Java Scripting.

Java Script for the Non-Programmer: This tutorial will take you step by step through the fundamentals of JavaScript. You will learn how to write functions, use data from text boxes, create IF-THEN conditionals, program loops, and generally make your web page "smarter."

 

Counters

 

Site Tracker: Keep track of visiting host, visiting countries, visiting IP addresses, screen resolutions, screen colors, hourly traffic graph, stats based on your time zone, search engine breakdown, JavaScript compatibility breakdown, tracks most popular hour/day of week, graphical counters, referring web pages/ URLs, average load time of site, average time user stays at site, keeps stats for a full 7 days, browser breakdown, operating system breakdown and tracks total hits/visitors by day or month.

Fast Counter: It's fast, reliable, and best of all, FREE. Setup takes only 5 minutes. Receive stats updates via email. Choose from several different counter styles.

Aaddzz: Provides: FREE counters in hundreds of font styles. Also provides FREE access reports on pages with an Aaddzz ad space or tracker. These reports show information such as what part of the country your visitors come from, what size screen they have, and other useful information.

NedStat USA: Free for pages with up to 10,000 visits per day. Compiles information about visits, such as: Number of hits per hour, per day of the week, and where the person who visited you site is from.

 

Free Web Site Hosting 

 

EasySpace.com: FREE 25 MB Web Space, FREE Web Email Account and cgi-bin.

FortuneCity: An online community that gives you the opportunity to move into a home and immediately receive 20 MB of free web space and a free email address. You have the choice of using their Home Builder to help you or you can upload your own files and graphics using their File Manager or FTP.

Xoom: Offers unlimited free space. You can build your site using Easy Page Builder and templates and you won't need to know anything about HTML or scripts. Pick out the clip art you want to design and decorate your page from their unique collection of 150,000 web objects. Add a chat room. If you have created your site using other tools, you can FTP it to our server using their convenient tools.

FreeServers.Com: More features than many paid hosting services: 20 MB of web space--plenty of room for your web site! Customized domain name, unlimited email addresses, direct FTP access, free access counter, free guest book, and easy file manager.

 

Guest books

 

FreeGuestbook: Customize your own guest book with options such as background wallpaper, back link, midi music. Easy to install and setup including free support.

Guest World: Guest book is FREE and easy to set up. No programming is necessary and guest book can be used on any web page on the Internet. They have a deluxe version that requires advanced HTML.

Bravenet Guest books: Your Own Personal Guest book so all your visitors can leave messages on your site. Customize it with your own colors, fonts, images and questions. Turn on e-mail notification and/or swear checking! Use the guest book wizard to build a guest book.

 

Color Charts 

 

Rainbow! Version 1.0: Also know as Triple Sine Wave Color Blend. There is also a digital version for true color located at this site. Link to help on how to use at bottom of page.

Color Maker: ColorMaker makes it easy to create colorful web pages without having to bother with confusing hexadecimal numbers. Provides instructions on using ColorMaker and links to other web pages that are relevant to color design.

Color Page Builder: You plug in your RGB values to convert to hex codes. This application makes the assumption that you are choosing your RGB values from a paint program such as Photoshop. What this page does is show you what your colors will look like together on a web page as well as provide you the correct code to plug in.

HTML Color Value Chart: The Color Values chart below consists of two sets of values: the "string literal"--the color's actual name (i.e. aliceblue) and the hexadecimal triplet (i.e. F0 F8 FF)

 

Help with HTML

 

Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating WWW Pages: A very helpful tutorial for a beginner at setting up web pages. It has a lot of good helpful information. Easy to understand, and good examples.

Introducing HTML 3.2: The guide is a good start to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. It is an introduction and does not offer instructions on every aspect of HTML. Links to additional Web-based resources about HTML are provided at the end of the guide.

Doctor HTML: Doctor HTML is a Web page analysis tool which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds.

Site Inspector: Inspect your site! Includes HTML check, spell check, etc. Free!

Web Site Garage: This site checks page loading time in 5 speeds, page for dead links, shows sites linking to your page, checks spelling errors on your page and checks page for HTML design errors.

HTML Cheat Sheet: All the basic tags, what they are and what they do, in one easy-to-bookmark place.

HTML Basics: All your basic HTML Qs will be answered and explained here.

 

Animation Libraries, Buttons, Clip Art, Backgrounds, and Icons

 

Animated Gif.Net: A large collection of animated gifs on the Internet, free graphic web images.

Espresso Graphics: Dozens of links to Gif animation sites on the web.

Buttons and Icons: An excellent resource for buttons and icons.

The Graphic Station: Find almost everything you need for your web page.

Free Buttons: Custom graphic buttons to suit your web page needs.

A1 Icon Archive: A site with access to over 300,000 free clip art images such as icons, animated gifs, backgrounds, clip art, and pictures; all free for you to download.

All Free Clip Art: 1000's of the best quality Clip Arts, Animations, and Web Graphics. All Clip Arts are Completely FREE for use.

The Clip Art Directory: Links to animation, clip art, and 3D animation.

Absolutely Free Backgrounds: Free-Backgounds.Com, the Web's top resource for FREE, original, background graphics.

Creating an Animated Gif: Step by step instructions to help you create your own animated gifs.

 

Multimedia

The Multimedia Archive: TheMultimedia Archive contains sound and video files from music to sports and everything in between. All files on this page are in AVI, QuickTime, MPEG, AIFF, WAV, or AU format.

The Wav Place: A good source for wav files.

Builder.Com: Information to help you add sounds to your web page.

Multimedia Sounds: An index of various sounds.