Web Page Authoring References and tools

General References

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML .
• CMI Getting Started with WWWUseful info on everything related to the WWW, including how to use search engines effectively
• The Compendium of HTML Elements
• Frames tutor Just what it says - how to build frames.
• Geocities Home Page Home Page Good beginner's page.
• HTML is Easy as Hell
• Let's Publish A selection of links to help guide the novice web author/publisher.
• MSU - Creating A Personal Home Page
• Netscapism Useful layouts showing how various Netscape properties work.
• PC Week: Crash course on writing documents for the Web
• Pete's Place Web tricks.
• Quick References Nice selection of HTML quick reference guides.
• The Ten Commandments of HTML Amusing and reasonably accurate.
• Ultimate JavaScript and FrontPage Tutorial
• W3C HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials
• W3C Style Guide for Online Hypertext
• Web design Group's Authoring FAQ Lots of neat stuff here. Some easy-to-find answers to obscure questions.
• Web Developers Virtual Library
• Webmonkey A how-to guide for web junkies (Wired Magazine Online)
• Web Pages That Suck Full of pithy advice about what makes good and bad web pages.
• What's New With NCSA Mosaic
• Writing HTML Nicely formatted and very accessible lessons on HTML.
• WWW Authoring Information
• ZD-Net Whole Web Catalog

Java

• 4 Guys from Rolla JavaScript articles and source code.
• Java Botique Nice source of Java applets and instruction.
• Java Tutorials
• Javascript Tip of the Week Archives

General Graphics and Color

• Color Index
• Color Manipulation Device Shareware program to fiddle with colors.
• Making Seamless Backgrounds
• MetaTools Inc Formerly Kai's Power Tools.
• Hype's Color Specifier
• RGB Hex Triplet Chart Hex codes for virtually all colors.

Clip Art, Bullets, Icons, etc

• 2Lazy2 Custom Graphics Some *very* nice, western-themed free graphics.
• Alien Textures Backgrounds inspired by the work of HR Geiger.
• Animation Arthouse Classy black and white, horror oriented animations.
• Anthony's Icon Library
• AOL Press Clip Art
• Background and Texture Archives
• Backgrounds Imagine Background Selector. Nice implementation.
• The Backgrounds ArchiveMaking Seamless Tiled Backgrounds
• Backgrounds by Marie Victorian backgrounds among others.
• Barry's Clip Art Server Lots of old standards, but a lot I haven't seen anywhere else.
• Bimsan Free Web Graphics Nice coordinated sets with an elegant style.
• Cari D. Burstein's Fun WWWIcons Page
• Celine's Original Gifs Nice collection of public domain buttons, arrows, backgrounds.
• Clip Art
• Clip Art Castle Dragons, gargoyles etc.
• Counters
• Dice Pictures and animations of dice.
• Enchanted Backgrounds
• Fantasyland Graphics Marvellous collections of backgrounds, borders, icons, bullets and buttons, each grouped by theme. Fabulous work here, and all she asks is a link button.
• Fractal DZine Graphics
• The Free Art Site
• Gifs, Icons, Lines and Backgrounds Extensive collection of vampire and horror-related graphics. Nicely organized now, too, to improve loading time.
• The Graphics Station
• Halloween Clipart links to horror-oriented clip art.
• Hot Pics Graphics, Backgrounds, Stereograms and Just Plain Fun
• The Lady's Art Creations Some very nice borders can be found here.
• Leah's Border Botique Borders with a very feminine style.
• MacDaddy's Background Sampler
• Media Builder Animated Gif a day Good source of gifs, animations and tutorials.
• Media Links Free Graphics
• Medieval Backgrounds
• Moyra's Web Jewels Nice sets of gem-themed borders, icons, etc.
• Netlink Image Archive. Includes backgrounds.
• Mining Co Free Clip Art
• Pambytes Outstanding collection of borders, patterns, etc.
• Patternland
• Pat's Web Graphics Absolutely stunning flowers. Requires a link for graphics used.
• Sandra's Clip Art Server
• Software Labs Web Design Gallery Be advised - they charge for most of their stuff.
• Venus Animated Gifs Archive
• Washington State University Image Library Excellent selection, well laid out.
• Web Designs
• WebPaper Collection of paper/book designs for backgrounds.
• WebStuff Wonderful collection of icons (animated & not) and other web graphics, all very well organized.
• Windy's Fashionable Web Designs A good place to look for bordered backgrounds.
• WWW Icons

Fonts

• Embedding Fonts How to embed fonts in your web page. (added 11/10/99)
• Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows
• Digit Mania Font Fount
• Fonts and Things
• The Font Fairy
• Free Medieval Fonts
• Giedi Prime Science fiction and fantasy fonts.
• Kemosabe's Font Source
• Fontage Exhaustive sampling of fonts.
• Freaky Fonts Horror-oriented truetype fonts.
• PCFonts.com
• RPG Fonts An assortment of fonts for use with RPGs.
• The Scriptorum Good fonts, but mostly commercial
• Sparks! Miniatures font for the PC
• The Wererat's Fonts Fonts for RPGS.

GIF Animation

• Alchemy Mindworks Animated Gif creation software.
• Alchemy Mindworks Gif Construction Set Demo Page
• Animate PageThis section creates a single animated gif file from a series of TIFF, GIF, PNM, HDF, PS, and MIFF files.
• Animated gif collection
• Animated GIF Pages Animated gifs and more.
• Gif animation station
• Gif Animation Thrift Shop
• Index of www.uwsp.edu/graphics/animate
• Mike's Imagination Animated .gif page.
• Push-pull An explanation of how server based push-pull animation works.
• USD Public domain gifs
• webreference.com How to make an animated .gif

HTML Validators and other tools

• Bobby Accessiblity checking
• GIFWizard Graphics compression tool.
• Spyglass HTML Validator
• Weblint HTML scan; finds syntax and stylistic errors.
• W3C HTML Validation Service Validates HTML 4.0 documents.
• Web Site Garage Full diagnostic tuneup for your web page.

Web Page Editors

• AOL Web Tools -- AOLpress
• Enhanced HTML for Win95
• Hot Dog Web Editor
• HTML Author Shareware.
• HTMLed Shareware and Professional versions.
• HTML Writer

Web Rings for Graphics and Web Authoring

• Artists of the Web Ring
• The Graphics Ring

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Email me at jae@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu This page (http://drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu/~jae/webauth.html), last updated: 05/11/99