How to create web pages - Tips, Tutorials, etc.

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HTML Primer, Tutorials, etc.

MyComputer.com "The Webmasters' Network" Free Web Site Tools and Enhancements

Publishing.com "Desktop Publishing's premiere resource desktop". Free web site templates and other resources.

Webpedia "The Ultimate Web Builder Reference" : Animations; Tutorials; and more

CNET.com - Web Building

Web Builder at VPE, Inc.

NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Developer.com "is the leading developer resource for IT professionals"

Eilene's HTML Links

HTML Quick Reference (9/11/95)

HTML Quick Reference

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Web Review

The Web Designer

Doctor Web's Web Tools: HTML, Software & Search Engines

HotWired Webmonkey : HTML Cheatsheet

A Basic HTML Style Guide

WebSoc HTML primer

The Willcam Group - Index of HTML Tags

HTML for WWW Users

3.0 Extensions to HTML

htmlchek HTML syntax and cross-reference checker version 4.1, -- menu

Snap.com : Build Your Own Web Page

Yahoo! : Computers and Internet : Information and Documentation : Data Formats : HTML : Guides and Tutorials and Validation and Checkers  

Doctor HTML

Ask Doctor Web Help for Webmakers

Canlink Interactive Technologies - Help Desk and One Web Avenue Web Publishing Links

ColorMaker; FrameShop; TableMaker by Sam Choukri 

Check out these winners: Top 100 Web Sites -- PC Magazine

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Miscellaneous - Domain Names, Java, JavaScript, CGI ...

Network Solutions (formerly InterNIC) - Domain Registration Service (searchable data base ... check to see whether the domain name you desire is available or is currently in use.)

Yahoo! : Computers and Internet : Internet : Domain Registration Search to see if your name is available and learn what's involved.

Also see my Internet Help Files: Graphics: Links and Examples

Matt's Script Archive, Inc. - Perl CGI Scripts

HotWired Webmonkey : Webmonkey javascript collection

Rose's Java page

The CGI Resource Index

Yahoo! : Computers and Internet : Programming Languages : Java : Applets

Java Goodies

Cut-N-Paste JavaScript

The Applet Arcade

WWW Viewer Test Page

Color Manipulation Device 2.1

Surflogic: Surfbot - "Internet utility that allows a user to track changes in selected web documents."

Promoting with Postcards and Microsoft Publisher Creative postcard ideas for promoting your Web site

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HTML Editors

Microsoft's Front Page 98 Home Page - get it! Also see: BUILDER.COM - Web Authoring - High-performance FrontPage 98

Stroud's CWSApps List (primary site) - Windows 95/NT Apps and their 32-bit HTML Editors - Check out Internet Assistant for Windows 95 and HotDog Pro 32-bit.

Stroud's CWSApps List (primary site) - 16-bit Apps and their 16-bit HTML Editors - Check out Internet Assistant for Windows 3.x and HotDog Pro 16-bit.

TextPad for Windows

HTML Writer Home Page

Microsoft's Front Page Home Page

Microsoft's Internet Assistant

Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word - free HTML program - converts MS-Word documents into HTML documents
Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word - "Allows users of Word 7.0 and Word 6.0 for Windows NT to save their documents in HTML file format for viewing in a Web browser." (Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0 and 7.0a; Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows NT; Microsoft Word 6.0.1 and 6.0.1a for the Macintosh; and Microsoft Word 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0c for Windows)
Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word - "Allows users of Word 6.0 to save their documents in HTML file format for viewing in a Web browser." (This seems to be missing, right now.)

Netscape - Creating Net Sites

Sausage Software - Hot Dog HTML editor

SoftQuad - HoTMetaL

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Scanning

A few scanning tips - Scanner Help - Basics 101 by Wayne Fulton

Michael J. Sullivan's Scanning Tips Website

Yahoo!: Computers and Internet : Desktop Publishing : Scanning

Yahoo!: Computers and Internet : Software : Reviews : Titles : Graphics : Scanning

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Where to register your web pages, META tags, etc.
(with search engines and data bases)

Search Engine Tutorial of web designers - This web site includes:

META MEDIC! (Go to the bottom of the web page to submit your URLs.) This program checks to see whether your META tags are in compliance with the top search engines. META tags are used by search engines, robots, spiders, etc. to "index" your web site. Some META tags include: author, description (limit is 200 characters), keywords (limit is 1000 characters with a repeat limit of three for any word), etc. To see what this look like, check the META tags for this web page by clicking on "View", then "Source" (or  "Document Source") in your browser main menu.   META tags go in between the <HEAD> and <TITLE> tags.

Search Engine Summary

Beginners' Central - Their award winning Internet Tutorial.

SiteOwner.com - use their "Meta Tag Builder".

Story: Biggest Traffic-Boosting Trick You Are Throwing Away by Annette Hamilton at ZDNET.com

Locally ...

What's Hot @ IgLou (Louisville, Kentucky) Submit here.

ClinicalSocialWork.com : Therapists: Clinical Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals

Nationally ... Be sure to see my Search and Reference page.

Be sure to list your web site with the top search engines and databases. They are in BOLD type:

Submit-It!

Exploit's Submission Wizard

Rank This! "Rank This is a free online tool to help you determine your "ranking" on different keyword sets in 8 of the major search engines..."

Yahoo! : Business and Economy : Companies : Business to Business : Marketing and Advertising : Internet : Promotion

Yahoo! : Computers and Internet : Internet : World Wide Web : Information and Documentation : Site Announcement and Promotion

THUNDERSTONE Free Search Engine Service: Webinator Web Index System ... submit your site here to be indexed. Then, add the appropriate HTML coding to your web site so that your visitors can search it.

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How to set up a website

How To Set Up and Maintain a WWW Site Ad for book, but this web site also has many useful links: Tools for Web Site Builders: Java Applets; A thousand Web icons ...

www.WebTechniques.com - an online magazine

Intranet Design Magazine

Yahoo! : Computers and Internet : Communications and Networking : Intranet

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Tricks and Tips

#1 - Add a search function to your web site: See: Web Search article at EarthLink's Small Business Source which mentions: 

THUNDERSTONE Free Search Engine Service: Webinator Web Index System ... submit your site here to be indexed. Then, add the appropriate HTML coding to your web site so that your visitors can search it. 

Web Site Search Tools - Information, Guides and News by Search Tools Consulting & Avi Rappoport; as well as other resources.

#2 - How to center any image on a web page no matter what screen resolution it is being viewed at. This works with Netscape 3.0 and 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0 (and maybe 3.0). Thanks to DLGreer at Win.net. This is the "source code" that he used:

<head><title>Test for center</title></head>
<table WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BORDER="0">
<tr VALIGN="middle"><td ALIGN="center"><img SRC="cx650.gif" ALT="This is a motorcycle" WIDTH="130" HEIGHT="102">
</td></tr></table>

I put this entire web page inside a table along the "transition" effect (listed in the next example) which apparently is only visible using Internet Explorer 4.0 or above:
Wonder Woman and other Super Heroines: Catwoman, Supergirl, and XENA, Warrior Princess

#3 - This is how to get the web page to "transition" in and out (if viewed from Interent Explorer 4.0) making it look magical.  Add the four bolded line of HTML coding as indicated below:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title of web page goes here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=12)">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="revealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=12)">
<meta http-equiv="Site-Enter" content="revealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=12)">
<meta http-equiv="Site-Exit" content="revealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=12)">
</head><body>
This is the body of the web page, that is, its contents as seen in Web browsers.
</body>
</html>

Now, click here to see what I mean.

I put this entire web page inside a table (see first example) along this "transition" effect:
Wonder Woman and other Super Heroines: Catwoman, Supergirl, and XENA, Warrior Princess

My Home Page Tips for 1999

It is not necessary to learn any HTML just to get started if you use a HTML editor like FrontPage Express which is free as part of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

But, you really should learn a little HTML so that you can "tweak" your web pages just the way you want them to appear.

I started out using demo and shareware HTML editors: I found HTML Writer easy to use and it doesn't have an expiration date.

I've made the transition to Microsoft's Front Page because of the ease of use and that I have so many links that I need the "link verifier" function to help me locate "broken links". FrontPage 98 Express does not have these more advanced features.

I have found two books about HTML very helpful:

"HTML Visual Quick Reference" by QUE, 1995, for $14.99, gives examples of how to design Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, documents on the left page and, then, shows you what the document will look like on the right page. HTML is never intimidating after reading this book! (Note: "HTML Visual Quick Reference, Version 3.2" is now available at Amazon.com. Check for the latest version before you buy.)

"Special Edition ... Using HTML: The Most Complete Reference" by QUE, 1995, for $39.99, contains a CD-ROM full of freeware, shareware, and demos of HTML editors, templates, graphic converters, WWW browsers and applications, and more... for PC, Macs, and Unix workstations. I had spent hours "surfing" the WWW downloading many of these programs before this book was published. (Note: "Special Edition ... Using HTML 4" is now available at Amazon.com. Check for the latest version before you buy and try to get one that has a free CD-ROM full of Internet-related software.)

For those of you who are just learning about the WWW and home/web pages, thoroughly check out this web page, as well as the other web pages that are part of my "Internet Help Files".

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