TIPS, TUTORIALS & RESOURCES
Below are links to various tips, tutorials and other resources for your site. These links are broken down into the following categories:
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Animation
JavaScript Animation
GIF Animation Tips
Animated GIFs - General Animation
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Banner Creators
BannerMaker
Essential Banner Tips by Digiware Interactive Multimedia
Free Banner Blanks from GraphXisle
MediaBuilder Animated Banner Maker
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Browser & Site Validation
did-it.com Detective
Checks the search engines and directories to determine if your site has been indexed.
Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is a free service to validate your Web page on the Internet.
MetaMedic and Meta builder 2
Generate META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document. These tags allow better indexing by robot-driven search engines, such as AltaVista, Infoseek and HotBot.
NetMechanic
Check your links, HTML, page load time, spelling, graphics optimization & more.
NetPromote Internet Promotion
Analyze your Web site's position on these popular search engines and directories: Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Lycos and the YellowPages.
Position Agent
Find out how your page ranks in search engines, and find out how to move your site up in the listings.
Site Check
Checks your site's meta tags, spelling and links.
Weblint
Weblint scans through your document and reports any problems that it finds with your HTML formatting.
Web Site Garage
Tune up your Web site for FREE! It will diagnose common problems in Web site maintenance.
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Business
Copyrighting
American Express Small Business
Lawgirl
Register Your Copyright
Internet Taxation
Vertex Tax Cybrary
Small Business Information
American Express Small Business
Web Statistics & Demographics
GVU's 10th WWW User Survey
NUA Internet Surveys
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Content Resources
The following sites provide free dynamic content that you can integrate into your site.
iSyndicate.com
MoreOver.com
UpRoar.com
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Design
The Top Fifteen Mistakes of First Time Web Design
Do's & Don'ts of Web Site Design
Ten Quick Tips for Better Site Design
Design Tips from Adobe
Choosing A Color
Browser-Safe Color Chart
The Screen Resolution Problem
Yale Style Guide
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Development Forums
The following site provides articles and user discussion forums on a wide variety of site development tools and languages, including resources on DHTML, Flash, Graphics, JavaScript, XML, MySQL, PHP and Python.
DevShed - The Open Source Web Development Site
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Frames
Frames Tutor
Fun with Frames
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Graphics
Free Static Button Art from GraphXisle
Free Animated Button Art from GraphXisle
Free Navigation Button Art from GraphXisle
TransWeb Transparent-Gif Service
Sullivan's Online Scanning Resources Website
NetMechanic Gif Bot
Reduce the size of your images. You identify the image you want reduced/optimized. Several optimized versions of your image will be produced. The revised images will be displayed on a results page.
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HTML
The Five-Minute HTML Quick Start!
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
HTML for Beginners
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Composing Good HTML
HTML Tags
Symbol Table (HTML Escape Sequence Table)
HTML Tables
Table Tutorials from HTML Goodies
Dynamic HTML Tutorial
How Did They Do That with HTML?
XML - What's in it for us?
XML Set To Change The Face Of E-Commerce
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Imagemaps
Client-Side Imagemap vs. Server-Side Imagemap
Step-by-Step Imagemap Tutorial
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Scripts/Scripting
CGI Tutorials & Scripts (Many FREE scripts)
Cgi-Bin Scripts
CGI Programming 101
The CGI Resource Index - An excellent resource for free scripts.
CGI-Java.com
Darryl C. Burgdorf's WebScripts
Free Webmaster Tools and Resources for CGI
Matt's Script Archive, Inc.
Miva Script (formerly Htmlscript)
Miva Script Reference Manual - Large file.
Miva Script Tutorial
Java and JavaScript
HTML Goodies
Java Boutique
The Lake Applet
Java Tools
javascripts.com
The JavaScript Source
JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers
JavaScript Tip of the Week
Perl
Perl Reference Page
PHP
PHP
PHP Resource Index
Python
www.python.org
Tcl
Tcl Fundamentals
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Site Promotion/Marketing
Search Engines
You can easily register your site yourself with the search engines. Below is a list of some of the more popular search engines.
Before you begin submitting your site to search engines, make sure to include TITLE tags and META tags on all of your pages. META tag description and keywords should not exceed 200 characters each per page. As the various search engines employ different criteria for ranking your site, you may wish to create a unique web page for each of the more popular search engines.
All the Web Add URL
Alta Vista Add URL
AOL NetFind Add URL
Canada.com Add URL
DMOZ - Open Directory Project Add URL
Dogpile Links to other search engines
Google Add URL
HotBot Add URL
LookSmart Add URL
Lycos Add URL
MSN Microsoft Search Add URL
Overture Fee-based listing service
Scrub the Web Add URL
Teoma Add URL
WebCrawler Add URL (Defaults to Overture)
Yahoo! Add URL
Hong Kong Search Engines
Asia Search Directories
Understanding Search Engines
Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Forums
Web Position Gold Commercial Service. They provide an excellent FREE newsletter on promoting your web sites, in addition to highly acclaimed software (free demo available) that evaluates how your web pages rank with the various search engines.
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