Over 50 Webmaster Resources
- by Dyanna S. Culp, Temos
Webmasters, due to the competitive nature of their business, usually
keep their treasured resources under close guard. Temos would like
to share with you a small sampling of her treasures.
Graphics
Please note many of these graphics are free for personal/ non-profit
uses, but some require payment for professional use. Not paying, when
payment is required, is a legal violation of copyright law.
1. Adobe Expert Center: Free tutorials and trial downloads for everything
from Acrobat to Photoshop. Try it out before putting out the cash,
but you can't go wrong with Adobe. (studio.adobe.com)
2. Adobe Photoshop: Detailed site concerned strictly with the functions
of Photoshop. (adobedoc.kanisasolution.com/Photoshop6/)
3. Andy's Art: Completely free web graphics including backgrounds,
textures, wallpaper, and bullets. Select whether you wish for them
to have a dark or light background before downloading. Warning- the
pages on this site from the UK load very slowly. (www.andysart.co.uk)
4. Art Today: Photos, Clip Art, Fonts, Web Art and more. Claims to
be the Web's largest subscription based graphics source. Members have
unlimited access to more than 2,500,000 graphics. Pay by the week
for a one-time use, or get lower weekly rates with a year subscription.
(www.arttoday.com)
5. Corel Draw Tutorials (www.grafx-design.com/coreltut.html)
6. Graphics Search: Icons, animated GIFs, photographs, Clip Art, Wallpapers
and Interfaces from a variety of graphic artists/ companies. Free
for personal non-profit use. For professional business purposes you
must purchase a license to use the image. (www.graphsearch.com)
7. Photoshop/ Paint Shop Tutorials and Tips (www.mccannas.com/pshop)
8. Royalty Free Photos: A large collection of "reasonably priced"
photos offering a better quality selection than most free options.
(www.royaltyfreephotos.com)
Animated Graphics
Please note many of these images are free for personal/ non-profit
uses, but some require payment for professional use. Not paying, when
payment is required, is a legal violation of copyright law.
1. Aardvark Animations: Free animated graphics and page design templates.
(www.123graphics.com/animations/)
2. Animation Factory: Over 3,000 free animated gifs. Become a member
and have access to over 200,000 animations and graphics with new images
added monthly. One-year memberships range from $59.95 to $99.95. (www.eclipsed.com)
3. Animation Library: Over 13,000 free animations. Offers the time
saving ability to download whole categories at a time. (www.animationlibrary.com)
4. Best Animations: Almost all of these animations are completely
free to use. Those few that require payment are marked with an asterisk.
A massive collection arranged into easy to navigate categories. (www.bestanimations.com)
5. Making Animated Gifs: Learn how to make your own web animations
with this tutorial. (www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/animate.html)
6. Web Promotion Propak: Licensed use of custom animations. (www.webpromotion.com/stock.html)
Web Design
1. Builder.com: Massive Web building e-zine has something for everyone,
with up to date webmaster news and "beginner-to-expert" white papers
and tutorials covering all major design programs. (www.builder.com)
2. CGI Scripts: Learn how to write CGI scripts in Perl. CGI script
has a myriad of uses including site visitor counters, online contact
forms, and advanced options, such as database interfacing and shopping
cart storefronts. (www.cgi101.com/class)
3. Design Templates: Too busy, or creatively challenged, to develop
your own theme design? Free Web design templates in eight categories
including Flash and Dreamweaver at www.freesitetemplates.com - or check out www.websitetemplates.com for over 70 categories including Flash, Dreamweaver, PHP-Nuke and more.
4. Ipswitch FTP: There is a reason why this is the most popular FTP
program for loading Web sites. Free download trial versions. (www.ipswitch.com/products/file-transfer.html)
5. Legal Issues for Webmasters: Contracts, copyright and trademark
issues, domain name disputes and other articles relating to the expanding
legal arena for webmasters. (www.ivanhoffman.com/web.html)
6. Mag Portal: Add magazine articles (updated daily) and search engine
capabilities to your site. Search from the categories available for
articles of interest. Categories include: Business, Computers & Electronics,
Education & Reference, Entertainment & Leisure, Family & Home, Finance
& Investment, Health, Internet, Pets & Animals, Science & Technology,
Society, Politics & Culture, and Sports & Recreation. Services range
from a basic free feed, to advanced customized programs. (www.magportal.com)
7. Meta Tag Analyzer: Free advice on tag construction and an online
tool to analyze for problems before you submit to the engines. (www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html
8. Web Development Tools: Everything from Active X to E-commerce to XML. News,
tutorials, and downloads at www.webdeveloper.com. Free tutorials on every web compliant markup language in the world at the World Wide Web Consortium's online training schools - www.w3schools.org.
9. Web Pages That Suck: Analyze the award winning worst sites online,
and avoid their mistakes. (www.webpagesthatsuck.com)
10. Web Reference.com: The webmaster's reference library, from authoring
to site promotion. (www.webreference.com)
11. Who Is Search: URL choices are slim-pickings these days. Try these
urls to find out who owns a domain name (make an offer), or to see
which versions may be available in one of the .com alternatives. Sometimes
one site will have owner information missing from the others. (www.internic.net
, estore.netbenefit.com
, www.enom.com
, www.tv,
www.buydomains.com
, International searches at www.uwhois.com)
12. Name Boy: Find unique domain names using keywords or key phrases. (www.nameboy.com)
13. Yale Web Style Guide: Online version of Yale University's popular
book Web Style Guide. (info.med.yale.edu)
Web Design Programs
1. Adobe Go Live: Tutorials on Adobe's Web designer program. Free
trial version downloads. (www.adobe.com/products/tips/golive.html)
2. Adobe Go Live Resource Center: The product users put together a
more useful set of resources than did the developer. No actual content
here, but they do offer a full set of valuable reputable reviewed
links. (www.futurastudios.com/golive911/)
3. Dreamweaver Designer and Developer Center: Tips, tutorials, and
online forums on everything from site architecture, to flash, to usability
testing. (www.macromedia.com/desdev/)
4. Dreamweaver Tips and Tutorials: Articles use Java applet screens
(Java must be enabled on your Browser options) to visually guide you
through fifteen in-depth design categories. (www.webmasterbase.com/tutorials/dreamweaver)
5. Dreamweaver Tutorials: This site is clever, and makes learning
an enjoyable process, even though they do use a huge amount of hard
to read light text on black backgrounds. (www.developingwebs.net/dreamweaver/)
6. Flash Academy: Tutorials and source code by various flash authors.
(www.enetserve.com/tutorials/)
7. Flash Tutorials: Flash 3 and 4 tutorials from beginners to advanced.
(www.flashkit.com/tutorials/)
8. Flash Virtual FX: Learn Flash through what else? Flash tutorial
movies. (www.virtual-fx.net/vfx/movies.php)
9. FrontPage Technical Support Resources: Questions and answers from
the novice "Adding Background Color to Tables," to the advanced "Database
Connectivity." (www.msfrontpage.net
10. FrontPage Tools, Tutorials and Resources: Outfront offers a tasteful
well organized resource for the Front Page Web designer, including
more advanced functions, such as java script and cascading style sheets.
(www.outfront.net/frontpagetechniques.htm)
11. FrontPage World: This is considered by some to be the ultimate
online resource for the FrontPage design program-if you can stomach
the pop up ads. (www.frontpageworld.com)
Java
1. Basic Java Script Codes: Including scripts such as opening a new
browser window and disabling right click. (www.web-source.net)
2. Codebelly Java: Hundreds of Java applet and script codes. Some
are free for any use; some are free only for private use. (www.codebelly.com/java/)
3. Code Brain: Professionally created, free Java applets. (www.codebrain.com)
4. Java File: Over 600 free Java applets and scripts. (www.javafile.com)
5. Jpowered: Java Applets, Servlets, Beans and DHTML JavaScript. Both
free and commercial code. (www.jpowered.com)
6. Script Search: Applets, articles, books, libraries, tips and tutorials.
(www.scriptsearch.com/java/)
7. Securing Java: Online version of the print book, featuring a searchable
index, java links, and the full text of the book with the focus on
Java security issues. (www.securingjava.com)
HTML
1. HTML Basics: Web Monkey Teaching Tools (hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/)
2. HTML for Beginners: Cnet's Web design library. (builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/)
3. HTML Goodies: The goodies are presented with a wry twisted sense
of humor - which I personally appreciate. Extensive tutorials on tags,
programming, basics, script, frames and more. (www.htmlgoodies.com)
4. HTML Tag Chart: The basics for HTML page design. (www.web-source.net/html_codes_explorer1.html)
5. Net Mechanic's HTML Toolbox: A free online tool to check your Web
pages for errors. Toolbox checks for dead page links, browser compatibility,
load time, html code errors, and spelling. (www.netmechanic.com/cobrands/zd_dev)
6. Programmer's Resource Center: Programmer's support and resource
center run by programmers for programmers. (p2p.wrox.com/content)
7. HTML Tips and Tricks (www.web-source.net/html_tips.htm)
Web Maintenance
1. Internet Seer: Sign up your Web site for free 24 hour monitoring.
You receive an e-mail when your site is down, telling you when it
went down and for how long. Then you have hard proof when yelling
at your Web host. (www.internetseer.com)
2. Link Popularity Check: Perform a free check for the number of links
to your site within the engines of MSN, Lycos, All the Web, and Alta
Vista. Remember all of the engines have incestuous relationships.
The more relevant links to your site, the higher your ranking. Once
you have the results, click Details to see who is linked to you, and
verify they have the most up-to-date description for your site. (www.linkpopularitycheck.com)
3. Search Engine Watch: Guide to search engine registration and ranking
issues, including URL submissions and HTML Meta tag use. (www.searchenginewatch.com)
4. Word Tracker: Keep your Meta tags updated by periodically using
Word Tracker to check up on your top keywords. (www.wordtracker.com)
5. Web Master World: The ultimate resource for keeping up with design
and engine changes that affect your Web site. (www.webmasterworld.com)
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