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WEBSMITHING |
This "WEBSMITHING" page contains a list of 160 links to websites relating to
DESIGNING & AUTHORING, EDITING PROGRAMS, HOSTING SITES,
TESTING PROGRAMS, and UPLOADING.
Thanks to Donald Parkes of the DPCUC,
this page was last
reported as checked for full accuracy on November 30, 2009.
DESIGNING & AUTHORING
AllFreeClipArt.com
All Free Original Clipart
Anne's World Web Page Resources
The undisputed reference leader in website production.
ASPfree.com
ASP = Application Service Provider.
ASP Today
Background Paradise
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
BigNoseBird.com
Everything you need to build great websites.
Bravenet: Free Web Tools and Developer Resources
Cascading Style Sheets - Level One
Cascading Style Sheets Resources
CGI Programming 101
This class is intended for anyone who knows HTML, but doesn't know
Perl or CGI programming (and maybe doesn't know any programming at
all). The goal here is to introduce you to writing Perl CGI scripts,
teach you the basics of writing CGI's, and walk you through several
examples of common CGI programming applications for the Web.
The CGI Resource Index
4337 CGI resources listed in 338 categories.
ClipArtConnection.com
ClipArt.com
Crunch4Free
Crunch and Resize .JPG image files. Choose your image then CRUNCH and RESIZE it.
The Dingbat Pages
Dr. Mark A. Foster's Guide to General Web Site Design
Dynamic HTML
Email Encryption
Stop Email harvesters from picking up Email addresses
from your web pages with this free e-mail address
encoder (hexadecimal converter).
Email Encryption Tool
Extropia.com
Free downloads, support, tutorials. Our WebDB distribution
files are now Zipped for your convenience.
thefreecountry.com
Free Programmers' Resources, Free Webmasters' Resources,
Free Internet Software, Free Online Documentation.
FlamingText.com
A free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations.
FontFreak
The largest free-/shareware font archive on the net.
Fonts.com
FreeButtons.com
Freebyte's Guide to...Free Graphics Software
Free Downloadable Fonts
Quite an extensive list of downloadable fonts.
Free Downloads & Other Good Stuff To Use in Web Spinning
- from WebPagePublicity.com
Free Web Graphics - Buttons
Free Webmaster Tools & Resources
Gary's Web Building
Getting Started with WebCom
This is the top level entry point for the WebCom HTML
Guide. Topics covered include commonly used tags
(with examples, and code used to produce them),
as well as stylistic and technical issues.
GraphxKingdom.com
GR/Sites
Web design tools for the rest of us.
Hide From Email Spiders
HotSource HTML Help
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
html code tutorial
Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web
pages anywhere through these tutorials, forums, and lists of resources.
HTML Goodies
HTML Goodies: Primers
HTML - Kit
Resources for web developers.
HTMLPrimer.com
HTML Primer
If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start. These tutorials
are set up so you can move through them over a week's time. One tutorial
per day. However, if you can go faster, do it! Some have told me that
they finished the primers in a day.
HTML Tag List
Internet & Web Design Tutorials - Training Videos
Introduction To HTML 
JavaWorld
Jeff's Fonts & Dingbats
Learn HTML in One Hour
You can write a web page and put it onto a host computer
so people can view it from anywhere in the world.
Linotype Library
Try, purchase and download complete font families.
Lynda.com
Matt's Script Archive, Inc.
Offering free CGI scripts to the web community.
Otter's Place for FAQs
PageTutor.com
Here you'll find all sorts of HTML, Javascript and web authoring
tutorials, from absolute beginner stuff to more advanced material.
presentermedia.com
Response-O-Matic Free Form Processor
Adds forms to your web site with no programming.
Shareware Software Download Sites
SiteRightNow.com
Everything you need to make a web site is included.
Textures and Environments
W3 Schools
Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free.....At W3Schools you will
find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML
and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
WebBuilder 101
Web Design" HTML
Web Design Library
A website designers' one-stop resource.
Web Developer's Virtual Library
Discussion forums, software reviews, top100,
tutorials, contents, jobs, discussion lists.
Webmaster Freebies
Here are many free resources that offer useful
web site features and site enhancements.
WebPageBackground.com
Web Page Design for Designers
Taming the electronic page with this monthly newsletter.
WebReference.com: Dev the Web™
Web Style Sheets
WebTeacher
Web tools made easy.
The World Wide Web Consortium
Leading the Web to its full potential...
Writing For The Web
WWW Development Resources
FLASH
Flash Kit
Flashloaded.com
Flash Tutorial
PHOTO LIBRARIES
Canada Photos
Earth & Moon Viewer
FreeFoto.com
Getty Images
Image Libraries from Library Spot
Images Search Engine from Google
National Geographic Photographic
The New York Public Library Digital Image Collection
NASA Image of the Day Gallery
PBase
Host and share your photos on the Internet. Get started by viewing
some of the millions of photos uploaded by our users.
Top Stories Photos
WebShots.com
Yahoo! Picture Gallery
Yahoo! Popular Image Search
PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNERS
Maybe you do not have time to fully understand how to develop a website, but you would
be willing to have someone else do it for you. Nevertheless, knowing something about
the process certainly would assist you and your designers in making the process easier.
Here are a couple of websites to help you make the decision..........
Professional Web Designers - Resources
from About.com.
Professional Web Designers Services - Web Site Design Buyer's Guide
from BuyerZone.com.
THEME IDEAS FOR YOUR WEBSITE
InMyLife.ca
Bringing your past into focus. We all have stories to tell about
days-gone-by. This particular website is a forum to post
observations about the "old days". But it might provide
you an idea as to how your website could be used for
genealogical purposes.
EDITING PROGRAMS
BBEdit from Bare Bones Software Inc.
"Contribute" from Adobe
"Dreamweaver" from Adobe
Drupal
A free software package that allows an individual or
a community of users to easily publish, manage and
organize a wide variety of content on a website.
"FrontPage" from MicroSoft
"Fusion 4.0" from NetObjects
"GoLive" from Adobe
KompoZer
A complete web authoring system that combines web file
management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.
KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use,
making it ideal for non-technical computer users
who want to create an attractive, professional-
looking web site without needing to know
HTML or web coding.
Macromedia "Homesite" from Adobe
Note Tab
A leading-edge text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry
awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily
handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your
heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line
global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes.
SohoLaunch
A software product that makes it easy for people of all
experience levels to create and maintain a great website.
It reins-in the hard parts of building a website and
presents them in a way that the non-geek can
understand and control.
Web Page Maker
An easy-to-use web page editor that allows you to create
and upload web pages in minutes without knowing HTML.
WebSpawner
The fast, easy and free way to create webpages.
Xara Web Designer
An easy template based solution that gives you total page
design freedom, no HTML skills required.
PDF
CutePDF Writer
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and
reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around
the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version
of commercial PDF creation software.
PDF955.com
Various PDF-related websites.
PDFill PDF Writer
Free PDF Writer and tools.
HOSTING SITES
50Megs.com
Signup for your own free web site and enjoy 50 megs of
space to build your own quality site on the internet.
AllCheapHosting
Our site is targeted mainly to self-employed individuals and small
companies on a budget which aren't going to pay inflated prices
for webhosting, and to those who want to compensate hosting
expenses with the help of a referral/reseller program.
Angelfire Free Pages
A major free Web space provider that has 5 million
members and is owned by search portal Lycos.
Bootbox Computers Inc.
Unlike the other free hosting guys out there, bootbox.net does not
make you place our banners or advertising on your web site. That
is not the professional image we know that you want to project.
We also don't force you to have a domain such as....
http://www.freehostingcompany.com/websites/~yoursite.
That looks even worse! At bootbox.net we give you what
the competition charges huge amounts of money for.
Brinkster
Canadian Web Hosting
CyberTown
Just sign up with Cybertown (it's free to register) and you'll
get your own customizable virtual reality home, complete with
personal chat, a message board and more goodies.
DelphiForums
Create your own online community in less than two minutes--FOR FREE!
Fortune City "Building Site"
Stake your claim at this major free Web space provider that uses a city theme.
Free Sites Store and Portal
A small company of people who use the Internet and World Wide Web just
like you. We read and answer our email (sound familiar so far) and
then spend most of the rest of our time online searching for stuff
......and hopefully that stuff we find is free.
Freesitex.com
Here is the largest list of free homepage providers that
you wouldn't ever find anywhere else besides here.
Free Web Hosting
Reviews, ratings, and more.
Free Web Space at StormLoader.com
FREE Web page services
from TheFreeSite.com. We list services that will give you FREE
Web pages. In some cases, these services will help you publish
a Web site even if you have no experience in writing HTML.
FreeYellow.com
FreeYellow will host your website for free. You'll get 12Mb
of disk space with no limits on bandwidth and no setup fees.
Host Papa
We understand that our customers' web sites are important and
that they need to be able to count on us to ensure that their
service is not interrupted. We have established a solid
foundation to offer a hosting solution for small-to-
medium sized businesses that is reliable, easy-to-use,
and customer service-oriented, all for a low cost.
Host Your Site For Free
Bruce tells what to look for with free hosting. He also reviews
and recommends places which allow the use of CGI scripts.
MyDomain.com
At MyDomain we make domain maintenance easy with our
convenient, one-stop, web-managed Member Area. You
don't need extra software, hardware, or expertise,
either on your own part or from expensive hired guns.
MyFamily.com
With your free family Website at MyFamily.com, you can post family photos,
share exciting family news, upload your family tree, chat and much more.
NetZero
Personal Web Pages - Home Page Hosting
You can create your own personal Web page or photo album for
free or at a low cost from these places. Some of these hosting
sites cater to specialty sites such as families, kids and games.
Sunny Oasis Internet Corp.
Hosting and web design.
Top10HostingList.com
Compares the Top 10 Web Hosts.
Top 10 Web Hosting Reviews
Making the Web Hosting Choice Easy!
Tripod
Why build and host your FREE site on Tripod? Our tools
and member spotlights bring you traffic and cash!
Virtual Avenue
The fastest growing free business hosting service on the web.
Web Hosting Choice
A free research guide to help users choose the right
web host for their personal or business website.
Web Hosting from Yahoo!
Grow your business with a web site from Yahoo!
Web Hosting Stuff
A hosting directory site that currently lists
and reviews 5,800+ web hosting plans.
Webspawner Free Web Pages
TESTING PROGRAMS
Advanced HTML Optimizer
Intended for HTML documents optimizing, resulting
in shorter downloading / uploading time.
Alpha Software
Cindy's General Homepage Construction Kit
Dr. Watson Version 5.02
A free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. You give it the URL of
your page and Watson will get a copy of it directly from the web server. Watson
can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity,
download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.
Gómez Research and Advisory Services
htmlchek
LinkScan
Meta Medic
NetMechanic
Give Your Site a Tune Up! Find problems before your visitors do!
ParaSoft WebKing
Web Link Validator
Web Site Test Tools & Site Management Tools
WebSite Tune Up - from Computer Tech
UPLOADING PROGRAMS
FilesToGo.com
Do you, your clients, or employees need an easy-to-use, convenient,
secure way to transfer files over the Internet? FilesToGo.com is a
web-based system designed specifically for this purpose.
Fetch Softworks (for the MAC)
Ipswitch
Home of the most popular FTP programs available, the WS_FTP (for Windows).
SecureFTP Server and CuteFTP (for Windows)
Stairways Software (for the MAC)
TrueShare
Secure file-sharing systems for businesses.
WinSCP (for Windows)
A freeware SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of
files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic
function, WinSCP manages some other actions with files.
The compilers of this list have tried to include local area (Durham Region, Ontario) and other Canadian
websites, but not exclusively. We welcome any suggestions concerning related websites: please send
your list to Donald Parkes , including the sites' titles, the sites' URLs,
and your recommendations for categories/subcategories.
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