Course Resources

The long list below supports different aspects of your building project. The first item lists the sites currently being used in the course. Suggestions for additions and deletions are welcome.

Current course resources

Rough page used for student learning.

Smart FTP (beta version)

Host for your pages. ("Use a subdoman" option for no cost.)

Sea Monkey suite (for Composer).

http://www.nvu.com/index.php (An alternative to Dreamweaver that is free)

History of the internet

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/scale/nethistory.html

A free web host

Basic information on building web pages

http://members.aol.com/bmethven/web.htm

The best web browser money can buy

www.mozilla.com

Smart FTP

www.smartftp.com

Adam's Advanced DHTML Guide

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5212/index.htm

Favicon generator

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Excellent guide to design mistakes

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html

Check your page for free

http://validator.w3.org/

HTML tag list & resources

http://www.webflex.nl/support/htmltag/

Traffic Report (how the internet is working)

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm

Dynamic HTML

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/entry.asp

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5212/dhtml.htm

Dynamic HTML script source

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Links to free graphics sites

http://www.freegraphics.com/

Graphics made small online

http://www.freegraphics.com/art-gifjpeg-cruncher.html

Understand links

http://www.edwebproject.org/html04.html

Key word generator

http://www.iboost.com/cgi-bin/keyword_wizard.pl

The best search machine

http://www.metacrawler.com/

Source of programs, information on courses, resources

http://www.pcworld.co.nz

Netscape downloads

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Help with Netscape Composer

http://www.lctn.com/util/ns_composer_help.html

http://www.ntl.sympatico.ca/help/Software/Netscape/Communicator/Composer/

http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/glossary.html - http

Dreamweaver resources

http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/

Microsoft Windows Updates

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/default.htm?Page=productupdates

Netguide information & free software

http://www.netguide.co.nz

Source for useful programs

http://www.keyscreen.com/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/9810/Sofffffffware.html

http://www.thefreesite.com/ (good for free authoring programs)

Free online tutorials by Netguide

http://www.netguide.co.nz/useful_stuff/tutorials/

Non-standard browsers

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/9810/NonBrow.html

How to scan pictures

http://www.caere.com/scanners

http://www.scantips.com/

http://www.edwebproject.org/html06.html

How to put sounds onto your page

http://www.liveupdate.com/midioptions.html

A simple colour chart

http://www.umd.edu/HTMLClasses/colorchart.html

Colour tag (html) generator

http://www.mindspring.com/~apollo/java/applets/rgb/rgb.html

New Zealand Internet Service Providers - a directory

http://www.netguide.co.nz/isp_directory/

Current virus information

http://www.netguide.co.nz/useful_stuff/virus_info/

http://www.symantec.com/

Submit your URL to several search engines

http://www.smi-group.co.uk/submit-url/index.html

http://www.aplustemplates.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/godshall/submit/submit.cgi

Introduction to Java Script

http://members.tripod.com/Drahcir/html/html_js_10.html

Free menu hypertext

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html

Online computer tutorial courses (not free but excellent value)

http://www.topnz.ac.nz/info/groups/computer.html

Databases on everything (for web writers)

http://www.topnz.ac.nz/library/databases.html

Links to useful sites for web page writers

http://www.acepay.co.nz/links.htm - web

Things to help build web pages (beginners)

http://www.webgfx.net/startwebgfx.html

Barebones guide to html (list of tags) - advanced

http://werbach.com/barebones/

Common beginners' questions and answers about html

http://werbach.com/web/htmlfaq.html

** Free host for your site

http://www.webnax.com

http://angelfire.lycos.com/

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

** http://thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/ (a list)

Design oriented approach to site building (for beginners)

http://build-website.com/guide/index.html

HTML crash course for educators

http://www.edwebproject.org/htmlintro.html

Adobe's free tryouts (graphics & other programs)

http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.html

NZ web hosting sites

http://www.onehost.co.nz/

http://www.orcon.co.nz/

http://www.up.co.nz/ (see the “lite” deal)

Check if domain names are available

http://freeparking.co.nz/lookup/check.mv

http://www.tucows.com/

Background textures available to download

http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html

10 tips to a great page design

http://html.about.com/library/weekly/aa112497.htm

Trackers and counters for your pages – get statistics

http://www.thefreesite.com/Webmaster_Freebies/Free_counters_and_trackers/index.html

Advanced web authors' information (comprehensive)

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Cookies and other things explained (advanced)

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/

University of Maryland: HTML classes (intermediate)

http://www.umd.edu/HTMLClasses/CSS1/

Cascading Style Sheets

http://www.umd.edu/HTMLClasses/CSS1/

Defines technical words well (general computing)

http://www.webopedia.com/

Generate meta tags

http://www.sitescreamer.com/

Web site and page design (excellent)

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/

Who controls World Wide Web standards?

http://www.w3.org/

Art and the Zen of web design (excellent)

http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml

For those who want to establish a business web site

http://www.sean.co.uk/books/sbwtw/index.shtm

Web site style guide

http://www.webstyleguide.com

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