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You may be at the point where you are thinking of authoring your own home page on the Internet. If so, review the links on this site. Much information and many helpful resources are collected here. Good Luck!


Web Site Construction


Web Authoring

Introduction to HTML - Table of Contents
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html
A starting place for learning the kinds of things you will need to know to write your own home page.
The HTML Writers Guild Website
http://www.synet.net/hwg/
"one of the world's leading organizations for HTML design originators"

Tips and Techniques for Web Authors

The Bandwidth Conservation Society
http://www.infohiway.com/faster/index.html
Excellent source for learning how to compress your graphics so they load quickly.
How Do They Do That With HTML?
http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/
A good HTML list of tips with links to other sites.
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
http://www.stars.com/
A good selection of advice and links.
Off the Net Newsletter
http://home.mcom.com/assist/net_sites/off_the_net.html
A Web authoring newsletter by an insider.

Site Construction Tools and Add-Ons

The HotDog Web Editor
http://www.sausage.com/
The place on the Web to get Hot Dog Professional, a highly rated Web authoring tool. For what its worth, I use Hot Dog.
Web-Counter Home Page
http://www.digits.com/web_counter/
This is a hit counter that you can install on your page for no charge. Very clever, but it may slow accesses.
TableMaker
http://www.missouri.edu/~wwwtools/tablemaker/
A site that lets you input information about the table you would like to put on your web page, them creates it for you!

Graphics for Web Pages

How to Make Seamless Backgrounds
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/Makeback/makeback.html
A nice page that clearly explains how to make fast loading tiled backgrounds in Photoshop.
The Icon Browser
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/iconbrowser/icons.html
A weak interface but many Icons to download.

Post Production


Testing Your Web Page

Doctor HTML
http://imagiware.com/RxHTML.cgi
Put your URL in and it gives you a report about your page, in detail, if it has good HTML, the links, image sizes, even spell checks it! GREAT STUFF

Promoting Your Website

The Practical Professor's Guide to Announcing Your Web Site
http://www.usual.com/promote
The Practical Professor's Guide to Announcing Your Web Site is a free site that takes you through the promotion process and provides you with direct links to many of the best search engine's on the Web and other submission sites and resources.
 

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