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To efficiently create web pages, you need the proper tools. This collection can assist you.

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Abitom Software (www.abitom.com)
Abitom's Color Wheel Expert is a tool created for web designers to help them select harmonious color schemes. If you've ever had difficulty getting your colors to work well with each other, this tool will help. Availble for Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP.

All Web Menus (www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html)
AllWebMenus is a dhtml/javascript menu builder for web site navigation that requires absolutely no DHTML or Javascript knowledge. It creates cross-browser, popup or drop down menus that work alike in all browsers supporting DHTML (all Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer versions of 4.0 and later, Netscape 6.0 included!). If you are looking for a way to create dynamic, expandable menus this is an excellent solution.

Animated GIFs (members.aol.com/dcreelma/imagesite/animated.htm)
We don't like to see animated GIFs on websites, but if you like them there are over 100 here.

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Barry's Clip Art Server (www.barrysclipart.com)
An excellent site for free clip art and other web-related images. A search engine for the site assists with locating images. Also links to other sites with image archives.

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Chami (www.chami.com)
Chami has several useful tools for web developers and Internet users, but the star product is the HTML-Kit. This software is a script editor that easily handles HTML, Java, Perl, PHP and Python. You can look at a preview screen to see the web page while you are writing it. The are hundreds of plugins you can add to HTML-Kit to ease your development. We highly recommend this software. Plus.... IT'S FREE!

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Digimarc (www.digimarc.com)
Digimarc is a developer of digital watermarking technologies. Their technologies can allow digital data to be imperceptibly embedded in traditional and digital visual content, including movies, photographic or artistic images, and valuable documents such as financial instruments, passports and event tickets. These technologies are used in a wide variety of applications, including solutions that deter counterfeiting, piracy and other unauthorized uses. This is a great way to mark and track who uses your images in the web!

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Encyclopedia of Keywords (keywen.com)
Each of your web pages should have key words associated with it. This assists some search engines in determining the relavency of your page for a given user query. If you are at a loss for keywords, this encyclopedia can give you some ideas.

Extensibility, Inc. (www.extensibility.com)
Extensibility specializes in providing cutting edge XML schema development, conversion and management solutions.

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Flags of the World (flagspot.net)
If you need a flag graphic, this site has not only current flags, but also historical ones too.

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GIF Animation for the WWW (members.aol.com/royalef/toolbox.htm)
This site provides a list of animation and paint software tools for a variety of platforms. Also helpful HTML and animation hints.

GIF Construction Set (www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html)
This application for Windows provides a quick way to create transparent, interlaced and animated GIF files for your web page. You can create moving graphics in minutes. Tools included (The Banner, Transition and LED Signs) will assist with the creation of sophisticated graphics from scratch. No Java needed! Alchemy Mindworks also offers other software.

GIF Wizard (www.gifwizard.com)
GIF Wizard reduces GIFs, JPGs and BMPs up to 90% without sacrificing quality. It is available online to check your web site.

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HTML 3.2 Specifications (www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32)
The definitive guide to the previous approved HTML specifications.

HTML 4.01 Specifications (www.w3.org/TR/html40)
The definitive guide to the current approved HTML specifications.

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JavaScript Source (javascript.internet.com)
The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your Web pages. All for free!

JavaScript.com (www.javascript.com)
A resource for information about JavaScript. This is where we start online when there is a question regarding JavaScript.

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Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) (www.mail-abuse.com/)
Their mission is to defend the Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers. Their principal means of accomplishing this mission is by educating and encouraging ISP's to enforce strong terms and conditions prohibiting their customers from engaging in abusive e-mail practices.

MicroWeb (www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm)
Create a working website on a CD for distribution of content.

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NetObjects Fusion Resource Page
This link will take you to a Digital Bear Consulting collection of resources which will assist the user of NetObjects Fusion.

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Opera Software (www.opera.com)
Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products. Opera is a must have for any web developer or designer as it is crucial to test your web site on different browsers.

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Robotstxt (www.robotstxt.org)
A great source for information on the robots.txt Robots Exclusion Standard and other articles about writing well-behaved Web robots. Include a robots.txt file in your root directory to control how crawlers and other robots visit your web site.

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ScreamDesign (screamdesign.daz3d.com)
ScreamDesign (Formerly Andy's Art Attack) makes it easier and faster to build, customize, or promote your web site by constructing a critical mass of relevant web resources, products, and services under one vertical portal for web designers and developers of all skill levels. Site is very heavy into graphics display, which is pretty much what you would expect.

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User Interface Engineering (www.uie.com)
Their research shows that the vast majority of usability problems come from a single cause: someone on the development team didn't know a key piece of information. And if they had known that information earlier, they'd have designed the product to accommodate it, making the usability problem go away. Great web design information. If you've never heard Jared M. Spool, the head of UIE, speak then you've really missed something.

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505)
These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility. However, following them will also make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using or constraints they may be operating under Following these guidelines will also help people find information on the Web more quickly. These guidelines do not discourage content developers from using images, video, etc., but rather explain how to make multimedia content more accessible to a wide audience.

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XHTML 1.0 (www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/)
This specification defines XHTML 1.0, a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.

 

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