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Website Editor
1) DHE editor website builder
This is the editor I'm using to build this website.
Two versions are offered at the web site.
One is shareware and will be fully functional for about 14 days.
The Shareware version is offered for those creating a business
oriented web site
or for those wanting the latest features. My version is 2.8.14.
Look for version 1.9 if you have a personal web site, or just want
to try it out.
Version 1.9 is completely free.
You can save your pages and upload them without any expiration
concerns.Give it a try and I'm sure you'll be un installing your
others soon.
Virtually every item on the main page was made using this program.
The one file, ( various html codes excluded), that wasn't is my
Logo .. " Shadowchasers Realm". That was made using version
2.0 of ULead Cool 3D.
Fonts and Font Creation
1) Simply the Best Fonts Library
Simply the Best Fonts Library
The best all around font web site I've seen.
Just choose a category of interest click and view examples of your
chosen font.
Both shareware and freeware fonts are available.
A few I downloaded are VTC-Tribal..Dark Crystal and
Kelly Ann Gothic.
2) Cool Text
Allows you to create text or graphics including banners right at
their web site then download them for your use.
Colored backgrounds are available as well as transparent .. your
choice. A multitude of fonts styles, size and colors are also
available. This service is completely free.
3) Font Magic
Font Magic is a small free software program that does more for
text than I can easily describe.
Basically speaking you type something into the type area then
select a font style, size and 3-D effect.
Beyond this you have choices for background color,Font color
and two ways to add coloration effects to your new creation.
Website Information Protection
Protect your email address from Spambots for free using either
of the resources listed below.
1) EScrambler
Converts the HTML code for your email links into scrambled
JavaScript code that
robots cannot read. Everything you need to protect your websites
e-mail address is done on their main page.
2) Email Protector
This is the one I chose to use. Primarily because it allows the
use of a subject line.
Miscellaneous Web Services
1) Sitesled.com
Where this web site began and still is in part hosted. Sitesled is
a completly free web host.
I would defiantly have to recommend Sitesled as a web site host
for the following reasons. They offer very reliable easy to use
service. They don't monitor you web site and require that you
have some certain minimum number of daily or monthly web site
visitors. Many that I have looked into do.
They also allow large photo uploads per single file.
That helps greatly with a web site such as this one.
They have a very high bandwidth allowance of 1 Gig per day.
Now that's huge. They also help greatly in several other ways.
In their Tools area you will find a very good Meta Tag generator.
They have also linked to a Robot Text Generator furnished by
Yellow Pipe. In exchange for all of these free features they do
place a banner at the bottom of each page.
2) Yellow Pipe
Is a freeware Robot text generator that can help block many
unwanted spiders that only crawl your site in order to collect
the email addresses stored on your pages.
It can also assist in preventing you photos and other files from
being zeroed in on. With one click on their form you can add
additional protection from hundreds of known Spam Bots.
So what do they ask for this free service?
Basically what I am doing here, linking to them and offering
some information about their service.
3) Webshots.
No doubt, most everyone that has searched for nice online
photographs has eventually found Web shots.
A friend of mine found them long before I did.
Before I even seriously considered purchasing a decent camera
to take photos of my over the road travels.
Once my new hobby began however, I wanted some place online
to store and share various scenes I managed to acquire.
After all every once in a while I manage to get something
interesting, I think. They do have a good deal at Web shots
and like Sitesled allow some fairly large uploads per file.
I sometimes shoot a scene using the cameras highest resolution
setting to allow for better prints on a Photo printer.
4) CgiSpy.com
More advanced web masters using expensive web host may not
have a need for a website like CgiSpy however if your wanting to
add some nice features to your website with-out any extra cost
then have a look at all they offer.
Among the many Cgi hosted scripts are Guest book,
News, Email services and more.
Signing up is easy and after selecting your choices getting the
code is a breeze to do.
They offer many customization options as well.
5) Count my Page
I signed up with these folks back around 2002 to get a free web
page counter and have had an account with them ever since.
They offer a great deal of web site statistics, that go way beyond
just counting the number of daily web site visitors.
6) The Zig Zone
The Zig Zone is a web site that allows uploading of personal
photos and then scrambles them into Zig Saw Puzzles easily
suitable for online playing. Clicking the name link will take you
to my personal Zig Saw Gallery where at this time I have uploaded 101
various pictures.
7) Amazon.com Visit My Amazon.com Store
As an occasional online shopper, I have often found the prices at
Amazon.com to be about as reasonable as any elsewhere.
I have often relied on what other customers have said concerning
products I have an interest in. Of the many items I have purchased
through them I have had no complaints. I decided a while back to
sign up as an Amazon affiliate and have used their Associate area
to create an online store. Currently most of what I list there is
photography related.
8) Free Web Submission
An excellent web site submission service that will currently submit
your web site to over 20 various search engines. A tip here for those
who may be new to website creation and using submission services.
Get a seperate Email address and use that instead of the one or
two you normally use.You will be getting a lot of email from various
search engine websites and some will require that you reply to the
sent email in order for them to list your website.
Freeware-Shareware Websites
1) Snapfiles.com
Is easily the best web site I have seen for finding software useful for
web site building. They go way beyond that however.
2) The freesite.com
I have known of the Freesite for several years now and when ever I'm
looking for ideas have found them to be a good place to go to.
The freesite also stays current with working links to some of the latest
freebies going online.
Miscellaneous software programs
1) J Album.net
J Album is a free web photo album generator.
With this software you can create a photo album in many different styles
and J Album will create ready to upload pages and re-sized photos for
viewing on the web.
You can also make a personal photo album and save it to disk.
Lots of features and help are available with this great software.
2) Wordweb
Getting it right..spelling made easy with Wordweb.
This is a small installation and one very useful program.
Wordweb will let you type in a word and if spelled incorrectly,may offer
other possibilities.
If correct it shows definition and usage information as well as other
relevant info.A must have if you have any spelling concerns.
3) JR Screen Ruler
In building webpages I have often had a need for a way to easily
measure items Im placing on a webpage and therefore have a need
to know how centered they are.
This freeware screen ruler makes that a snap to do.
Two versions are available and are downloaded at the same time.
The freeware version keeps on working after the shareware version stops.
The size is small and takes little space.
I highly recommend this as one useful tool for web site building.
4) Z Paint
Zpaint allows you to create 3D-style elements for websites and software
interfaces. You can easily paint raised or lowered shapes like buttons,
rings, boxes and more
This small program has a lot of features for its small size.
5) Buttons and Tilez download page
I originally found this program at Snapfiles back when the site was called
Webattack. I didnt have DHE web editor then and needed a way to create
some web-page buttons.
As it says on the website: Buttonz & Tilez! is an award-winning software
package that should make the life of webmasters easier.
The package includes 2 applications, "Buttonz!", which creates buttons of
various shapes,and "Tilez!", which renders seamless textures.
6) Xiberpixs.com
If your interested in creating something Flash style this website
may be for you!
They offer several very good free software downloads which can
create some amazing flash style effects with images and more.
I have the Water reflection software and it creates realistic
looking motion from images imported into the program.
7) Anfyteam.com
With this download you can create amazing Java effects for use
on a website.
8) Paint.net
Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software for computers
that run on Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user
interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects,
and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
An active and growing online community provides friendly help,
tutorials, and plugins.
Webpage coding and websites that help
1) Dynamic Drive.com - dhtml scripts for the real world
If your looking for the latest in great web page scripts,ready to go
onto your page these folks may have just what you need.
Loads of special use scripts generally easy to install.
2) Html Basix.com
Go to Html Basix for code generation tools and more.
Create code that password protects your website or blocks
hot-linking.
Create a drop down menu or mouseover effects and a lot more.
3) Cmg02.com - Webmasters page
Another very good resource for Java script and online tools to
help solve those webpage building issues.
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