| Free Hosts |
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Virtualave
Geocities
50megs | These places will host your web site for free. Usually you have to have their advertising on your site - either in a popup window or as a banner ad. |
Freespeech
Tiscalinet
Bizli | Holy Grace, those hosts won't do any advertising on your site! |
| Domain Registration |
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Catalog.com
Register.com
Joker.com | Under certain conditions, some providers offer to register your site for free. The domain registrars listed here may not be free, but they are much less expensive than Network Solutions. |
| Graphics Editors |
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PhotoPlus
Image Forge
Irfan View
Ulead Gif Animator | Images Viewer
Images Animation |
| Filters |
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Plugins
Grafo Maniac | Filters to plug in into your graphic program for creating special effects. |
| Plugin Commander Light | Organize, apply and convert all your graphic filters |
| HTML Editors |
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EVRSoft
Arachnofilia
IMS Dwarf | These are great editors if you don't want to or can't afford to purchase programs like HomeSite or Dreamweaver
This one is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) |
| File Transfer (FTP) |
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| CoffeeCup FTP | A necessary tool for transferring your pages and graphics from your computer to the server hosting your site. |
| Fonts & Dingbats |
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Dingbat Pages
Font Garden
Front Freak
Type Around
Jeff's Dingbats
The Font Thing | There are many more places where you can get fonts and dingbats. Search for them with the search engines listed below!
A font manager that allows you to browse all your fonts and eventually to install them. If you are a fontaholic like me, you will find it very handy. |
| Scripts |
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Big Nose Bird
The CGI Resource
Java Boutique
Java Script
Dynamic Drive | The last three places also offer JavaScript scripts or Java applets for cool effects! |
| Guestbooks - Forums - Counters - Stats etc... |
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Bravenet
Dreambook
Beseen
Extreme Tracking
Site Meter | If you want to have a guestbook so that your visitors can leave feedback, if you want to know how many people visit your site each day, if you want interactive communication with your visitors through a message board, don't go further - they all offer that these services. |
| Graphic Utilities |
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| Picture Dicer | Slice all your graphics in a snap. Even if I have sophisticated graphic programs that have the slice feature, I always use this wonder. It supports all main formats. Unfortunately the main site doesn't exist anymore, but you may download it from the URL I give here. |
| Tiles by Syntrillium | Tiles can be used to make interesting graphic patterns. |
| The Infinity Texture Explorer | This little tool can show your textures tiled and also render them on a sphere or plane. |
| CSAM | Use this small utility to determine the RGB values of the color underneath your cursor. It can be used in any application and it includes magnifying lenses |
| Screen Calipers | Indispensable for measuring any graphic, before slicing or just to see if it will fit your screen. |
| Dot Color | If you ever wanted to know how your HTML page would look on a different background, you can try this with color mixer and change certain pixels on your screen to a different color! |
| Anfy Team | A large choice of Java applets - there will be surely one that will make you happy! |
| HTML Utilities |
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| McCatis Meta Tag Generator | Helps you generate META tags that search engines use to rank your site. |
| Xenu Link Sleuth | Spidering software that checks web sites for broken links. |
| Handy Utilities |
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| Note Tab Light | I have been using this one from the beginning. A MUST. It replaces Windows notepad with a lot of neat features, like HTML coding, among many others. |
| Viewlet Builder | This amazing program lets you create animated online demos that show how software works. |
| Babylon | Babylon is an online information tool with offline capabilities that brings you information customized to meet your specific needs. The Babylon tool instantly provides relevant information about any word or value that you click on. Since French is my native language, I use it constantly for verifying my English spelling. |
| Completely Free Software | This is a terrific place that gathers a ton of software of any kind. |
| Search Engines |
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| Copernic | Search the web efficiently with this tool. It simultaneously consults the best search engines and stores the information so that you may have access to it whenever you need it. Available in different languages. I use the french version :-) |
Google
All the Web
Ask Jeeves
Atomz | While I mainly use Copernic, from time to time I also use these powerful search engines. Atomz Search can be easily added to any web site, with in-context results display, no software to install, no banner advertising required and they provide e-mail reports that help you identify content that visitors are looking for that the site did not contain. |
