"Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous." -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To do good work, one must first have good tools." -  Chinese proverb

"To do his work well a workman must first sharpen his tools." - Chinese proverb

CGI & PERL | Java | JavaScript | Freeware & Shareware

HTML Guides

• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• BigNoseBird.Com -- everything you need to build versatile website.
• Compact Index of HTML Tags -- Comprehensive reference list of HTML code, syntax, and attributes.
• Introduction to HTML -- Case Western U.
• Interactive introduction to HTML and CGI script on the WWW (courseware) at U. of Brighton
• HTML Documentation Table of Contents -- U. Toronto.
• HTML Help --  web designing guide at Rensselaer.
• HTML Primer
• HTML Quick Reference
• HTML Source -- Beginner to advanced level tutorials.
• MSDN  -- all kind of web making with hints codes & effects.
• Tools for Web Developers -- Golden Gate U.
• Yale C/AIM WWW style manual --  interface design. Hypermedia and conventional document design.
• Yale Web Style Guide
• Web Authoring FAQ -- answers questions asked frequently by web authors. While its focus is on HTML-related questions, this FAQ also answers some questions related to CSS, HTTP, JavaScript, server configuration, etc.
• www help page
• W3C World Wide Web Consortium

Web Page Translators

• Dictionary.com Translator -- Translate Text and Web page into another language.
• FreeTranslation.com -- offers speedy translations and have a fairly correct grammar database that only slips up occasionally. Using short, correct sentences generates a more accurate translation result, particularly when using the German, French and Spanish languages.
• Promt's Online Translator -- Translate Text, Web page or E-mail into English, German, Russian, Spanish and vice versa.
• Systran -- Machine Translation for portals and content providers in 36 languages.
• WorldLingo -- Web Site & Text Computer translations into English, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Greek,  Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.
  • Professional Translation -- Translate your documents to and from over 40 languages with fee.

   

Document, File and Image Converters

• Create your own PDF  -- online service for converting text file into PDF.
• Create PDF Online
• File & URL Conversions -- Online Conversion tool at Carnegie Mellon U. with conversion into various file formats.
• Image Converter -- supports over 100 major image formats.
• Image Optimizer -- optimize gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs.
• PDF Generation
• PDF to HTML or Text
• Ps2pdf.com -- converts postscript files to PDF.

Viewers

• Adobe (PDF)
• GhostView (PS) | GhostView for Windows
• Online viewer for PDF, PostScript (PS)  and Word (DOC) -- No plug-in software is required.
• PowerPoint (PPT) -- viewing.
• Word (DOC)

Photo Editing and Drawing Tools (Online)

• Allayers MyImage -- online photo editor for which allows you to resize, crop, rotate, flip and more.
• Creating Online -- variety of free online tools.
• Foto Tricks -- Apply special effects to photos and create photo cards.
• Free Online Image Photo Editor -- online photo editor which allows you to resize, crop, crunch, color correction, and more.
• Image Enhance 3.2.4 -- with Drag & Drop is a free image editor for Windows 95 and later. It features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners.
• MyTheme Animator -- add animations to your photos.
• Online Digital Image Resizer -- website utility developed for digital camera owners for resizing photos online.
• Picnik -- basic editing features and awesome fonts and top quality type tool.
• Pixenate -- basic editing features and fun effects.
• Photofunia -- cool effects to photos.
• SUMO Paint -- photo editor a lot similar to Adobe photoshop.

Tutorials

• Excel Tutorials
• Information and Computing Technology (ICT) Tutorial on Software at Syracuse U.  -- includes tutorials on Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Front Page, Power Point, Word & Outlook), Adobe (Photoshop & Premiere), JASC (Paint Shop & Animation Shop) , Wave Studio and more.
• Microsoft Draw Tool -- Tutorial at San Diego University.

Web Terminologies

• Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
• Instant Web - Online Computing Dictionary
• NetLingo - The Internet Dictionary  -- thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web.
• Webopedia  -- Online Computer Dictionary and Search for Internet Terms and Technical Support.

Effects

• CodeBrain.com -- variety of software for cool web effects.
• Dynamic Drive - Image Effects
• HTML Help Online MS Trans Effect
• RevealTrans at Microsoft
• Xara.com -- Web graphics software (free download available).
• Web Tools and Utilities

Graphics & Clip Arts

• 123 Glitter
• ABC Giant
• Animation Factory
• Animation Library
• Animated Gifs
• Animated Gifs
• Arg! Cartoon Animation Studio
• Babes Free Hawg's Graphics -- specifically for black background.
• Bigoo -- Animated Glittered images.
• Cherry Drops
• Clip Art Animations
• Educational Animated Gifs
• Gif Net  -- Gif arranged by file names.
• Great Clip Art & Graphics
• Horizontal Rules & Fancy Lines
• Horizontal Dividers Gallery
• Icons & bullet at S. Dakota U.
• Joint Astronomy Center Clipart Archive
• Media Builder Free Images
• 3DAnimated Gifs | Animated Alphabets
• Wedding Related Clipart

Page Checking and Validation

• CSS validation
• Free on-web site checking service -- link verification, spell check, and HTML syntax analysis, all in one nice little hyperlinked analysis.
• Linklint
• NetMechanic   -- robot will search your Web site and find broken links, spot bad HTML tags, and rate your server's response time.
• WDG HTML Validator
• W3C Link Checker -- Checks broken links.

  Publicize Your Web Site

• Add Me  -- Free and nominal fee search engine submissions.
• iSubmit -- Website submission service
• Postmaster, The
• Search Engine Registration -- submit your site to the top search engines
• Submit It! -- This site will submit your site to many places.

 Editors

• Anansi -- free HTML editor.
• NVU -- free HTML editor, lot similar to MS frontpage.

  Miscellaneous Links

• Clearing your browser cache
• Computer Law -- Course at George Washington U.
• Help Desk at KSU
• HTML-Kit
• Move Announcer  -- Service striving to avoid broken Web links by maintaining an index of addresses to identify webmasters who are connecting to old pages. In addition, authors are invited to register their old and new URLs with the service, which will then notify those linking to the superseded version of the change in address.
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing  -- Online book with chapters covering Internet entrepreneurs, scalable systems for online communities, static site development, publicizing Web resources, running a server, user tracking, database management systems, and e-commerce.
• Search Engine Watch
• Viewable with Any Browser
• Virtual Promote presents Virtual Webmaster  -- Tools, help and resources for webmasters, including HTML and Java guides. Also features information on e-commerce and legal issues.

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