Resources for building websites

Security Check

http://www.grc.com/ - Go to the Shields' Up link

Source of Software

http://tucows.moose.co.uk/ - Downloads of Windows software from a UK mirrored site

Browsers

http://www.microsoft.com/ie - Internet Explorer
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/index.html - Netscape
http://developer.msntv.com/Tools/WebTVVwr.asp - WebTV viewer

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

http://www.cuteFTP.com/ - is recommended - about Ł20
http://www.ipswitch.com - WS-FTP LE version is free for domestic users but you get extra features on the Pro version.
http://www.smartftp.com SmartFTP is free and very comprehensive.

Authoring Packages

http://www.allaire.com/ - for Homesite - about Ł40 - recommended
    http://hshelp.com/ - Homesite Help pages
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage - about Ł70
    http://www.fpnow.com/help/ourworld/
- things in FP which may not work unless you have an ISP that provides FP support
http://www.aolpress.com/ - no cost - recommended WYSIWYG tool
    http://www.verioprimehost.com/ - support for AOLpress
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/webpost/
- how to upload your website to Compuserve. Note: must be version 1.1
http://www.microsoft.com/msword/internet/ia
- Internet Assistant for Word 6.0 or 95 - Free
http://www.claris.com - Claris Home Page - for users of Macs
Or to do it the hard way:
Notepad - comes with Windows
Wordpad - ditto but make sure that you save as text
http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html Textpad $27 with many useful features that will help you.
http://www.accessfp.net/fpexpress.htm - Tutorial for FP Express

PDF Portable Document Format
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat - for software or a free reader
http://www.pdf995.com/ $9.95 or free if you can put up with a sponsor message.
http://www.daneprairie.com/products/win2pdf.htm for Windows 2000, XP, and NT - free.

For the Mac

http://www.editize.com/ - a content tool using Java
http://www.hlrnet.com/frinhtmlmac.htm - list of Mac tools
http://mac.tucows.com/internet.html http://web.barebones.com/ - For an editor : BBEdit
For an FTP client and authoring tools search http://www.versiontracker.com/index.shtml You will need to know if the Mac is running OSX or OS 8/9 as there can be incompatabilities.

Graphics

Technical Q&A for images can be found at http://go.compuserve.com/ourworld2000 now, some historic image content is found in http://go.compuserve.com/history and the user groups and contests are at http://gggforums.com. http://www.jasc.com/ - for Paint Shop Pro - about £70
http://www.adobe.co.uk - for Photoshop about £600
http://www.scantips.com/ - how to best use your scanner
http://www.htmlgoodies.com - HTML Goodies Domain Home Page - good
http://www.flamingtext.com
http://www.4yeo.com
http://victoriandove.tripod.com
http://www.thefreesite.com
http://www.inforamp.net/~dredge/index.html
http://the-light.com/netcol.html - the 216 safe HTML colors in an elegant color-wheel

http://www.webreference.com - a comprehensive site showing the art and science of creating interesting graphics.
http://www.buttonmaker.com - lot of free arrows and icons, some animation, can be converted to a button on request - all free
http://compuserve.xoom.com - Free GIFs

Sources of Animation, Java, Javascript, CGI

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml - good Form script
http://www.cutandpastescripts.com/
http://www.javascriptcity.com
http://javawoman.com - an excellent and prize-winning list of Java resources.
http://animatedgifs.simplenet.com/ - some splendid animation.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/APalmer - Some good demos of Java and Javascript
http://www.gamelan.com/ - The site for Java
http://www.dynamicdrive.com - some Javascript menus
http://www.silkmoth.com/ - Animation
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html - all about realtime clocks with Java
http://member.aol.com/royalef

CGI

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ - Matt's Script Archive
http://www.superscripts.com - Superscripts
http://www.perl.com - CGI for the total non programmer
http://www.webteacher.com/perltour - CGI for the total non programmer
http://www.cgi-resources.com - CGI resource index
http://www.response-o-matic.com/ - a form-mail CGI script.
http://javascript.internet.com

Tools

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph - tells you what server is in use for any specified website
http://www.itforcharities.co.uk/top10-02.htm - all sorts of free software
http://www.pdf995.com also has a free program to create PDF files
http://www.lavasoft.nu for Ad-Aware to remove spy-ware that may report the things on your computer to others.
http://proxomitron.org/ - removes advertising banners from your surfing experience.
http://www.translationstudios.com - in 43 languages
http://engnt.derby.ac.uk/docs/help/fileformats.htm - the meaning of obscure file formats.
http://www.response-o-matic.com/ - provides forms for easy reply without CGI on your site.
http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/ from WDG
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/ - buy your own validator
http://www.siteinspector.com/ - part of the Link Exchange service; does just the one page while you are on line and tests for a number of different aspects.
http://www.netmechanic.com/ - diagnostic report on your HTML for a page or your whole website. Sends you an Email when it is through
And a good step-by-step guide
http://www.websitegarage.com - checks your page for a number of criteria.
http://validator.w3.org - the W3 Consortium's validator, assumes style sheets etc

http://developer.webtv.net/ - designing for WebTV
http://www.listbot.com
http://www.zzn.com
http://www.SEVENtwentyfour.com - a reasonably expensive service for checking all the links to and from your site every day with a weekly report. Free trial offer.
http://www.delorie.com/web/purify.html - check your HTML against the standard.
http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html - same as above, but this one checks for NOFRAMES
http://developer.webtv.net/design/tools/viewer/ - check your pages against WebTV format.
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/lynx-me.cgi - display your webpage as it would appear on a Lynx based system without graphics etc

http://www.freesitetools.com - a set of good tools
http://www.mycomputer.com - home of SuperStats, and SubmitWizard, and other tools some of which have a charge.
http://www.webmonkey.com - this site is a legend for all site building things.
http://www.freetools.com - a popular community for website builders
http://www.websitetoolbox.net - register here, and then there is a great selection of goodies.
http://engnt.derby.ac.uk/docs/help/fileformats.htm - list of common file formats and extensions.

Accessibility

http://www.contentquality.com/ - Cynthia is a web content accessibility validation solution
http://www.cast.org/bobby - You ought to check that your website is accessible for the visually impaired, run it through the excellent online service
http://www.cast.org - Another site that gives guidance for design for the impaired user.
http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/ - usabilioty guidelines from the US National Cancer Institute.
http://www.lava.net/~dewilson/web/color.html - thoughts on colour blindness
http://www.vasile.com/racecar/stampware/ - Browser Master will instantly resize your IE or NS browser display. Excellent.
http://www.codo.com/browserola/ - Browserola will display the specified page as it would appear in several early versions of browsers.

Search Tools

http://www.atomz.com - excellent showing the requested words in their context. Free for smaller sites.
http://www.htdig.org - said to ber a good one
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ - Simple Search from Matt's Script Archive

Affiliate / Associate / Partner Marketing

http://www.burstmedia.com
http://www.ukaffiliates.com
http://www.affiliates4u.co.uk
http://www.affiliateprogrammes.co.uk
http://www.awin1.com
http://www.tradedoubler.com/

Miscellaneous

http://www.thecounter.com - neat counter for $21.95/year.

http://netproducts.grafix-net.com - Calendar generator as used on my Goring site

MAC format conversion

http://www.aladdinsys.com decodes Mac generated/compressed documents.
http://www.asy.com Transmac program on a PC to decode and convert Mac files - shareware, and good for graphics too.
Or try rename to .bhx and then use winzip.

Email Message Handlers

http://www.ashmount.com - Ashmount Virtual Access which I use
http://www.peaktopeak.com - NAVCIS

Website Download

You may think this is a luxury. What exactly are you going to do with this complete site.
Usually saving the odd page by the File | Saveto option will do you.
http://www.tympani.com - download program
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/index-ut.html - Sitesnagger

WAP - Wireless Access Protocol

http://www.gelon.net
http://www.krscomputers.co.uk/mda/
http://www.m-find.com
http://www.wapsilon.com
http://www.carphone-warehouse.com

Virus Checker

See my Virus page

Internet Professional

http://www.bida.org.uk
- BIDA British Internet Development Association
http://www.approvedinternet.com
- NAAIS National Association of Approved Internet Services
http://www.ukwda.org/
- UKWDA UK Web Design Association
http://www.hwg.org
- HWG HTML Writers Guild (now part of IWANet
http://www.iwanet.org
- IWA International Webmasters Association
http://www.cast.org/bobby
- the Disabled Access people http://whichwebtrader.which.net/
- Which Web Trader to approve sellers of goods and services on the Internet.

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