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Topics, Tips and Tricks for Web Site Builders
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Writing for the Web  |
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| Which Words Spark A BUYING REACTION In YOUR SPECIFIC CUSTOMERS?Discover the 4 personality types and how to get each to respond to your copy. Boost your sales AND your search engine rankings when you download The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course. |
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| Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen. | |||
| Writing workshops, online courses, examples of good writing, and a free newsletter are features of this site. | |||
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Usability and Design |
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Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples. |
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The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Members come from across the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience. We invite you to network in our community. |
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Usable information technology - Jakob's column on Web usability. |
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Information about various user-centered design methods that can help improve the usability and usefulness of your site |
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Great Resource for People who make websites. A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on designing with standards. Explore our articles or find out more about us. |
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| We help our Fortune 500 and high-technology customers create easy-to-use, self-evident interfaces. | |||
| web design training, books, videos and tips | |||
| W3C User Interface Domain | |||
| THE WEB STANDARDS PROJECT (WaSP) is a collective effort of web developers, tool developers, and end users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to everyone. We need you, Join Today! | |||
| Yale Web Style Guide - A style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites. | |||
| Environment, Stats, Analytics | |||
| Need to test different browser environments but can find the software version? Find it here. | |||
| This page presents web browser statistics that may be of interest to website designers. | |||
| Maintenance | |||
| W3C FREE Site Link Checker Service. | |||
| W3C HTML Validation Service. Check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards. | |||
| Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders. | |||
| CSS, CSS3 - Cascading Style Sheets | |||
| CSS - When a browser reads a style sheet, it will format the document according to it. | |||
| CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS. | |||
| HTML & HTML5 | |||
| Free Reference Guide for help with HTML Tags Including Form, Frames, Tables, and more! | |||
| HTML stuff and more. | |||
| The first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals. | |||
| All about HTML from the W3C - the World Wide Web Consortium | |||
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This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. |
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| Colors, patterns, links... | |||
| Make Tables for Netscape & Other Browsers Easily! | |||
| W3C HTML Validation Service. Check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards. | |||
| HTML | |||
| A visual Web page layout tool with the control of an HTML text editor, and support for Dynamic HTML. | |||
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Web Templates, Royalty Free Art and Videos, Free Art, and Fonts |
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Web Template
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| Template Monster website templates, flash templates and other products are ready-made web designs, that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website. Our website templates, flash templates and all other products are completely customizable and ready for immediate download. | |||
| FREE Web Templates for your website! | |||
| SiteSkins allows you to make a free website, as well as create a Personal site, with 5 pages, and a Pro site with up to 30 pages. | |||
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Royalty Free Video |
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| Royalty-free Stock Video and Royalty-free Stock Animation Providing only the highest quality royalty-free stock video and royalty-free stock animation, we are the ‘one stop shop’ for all your digital creative needs. Search or browse our user friendly site for high definition stock footage and animations. |
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Royalty Free and Rights Managed Stock Photography
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| Affordable Royalty Free Stock Photography. Downloads for just $1.00, with thousands of images added weekly. Subscriptions available for just $35.95.(Very Affordable High Quality Images. Comment from Kristi, site owner) | |||
| Download over 10 Million stock photos and vector art instantly with affordable Pay As You Go pricing or save up to 67% with credit packs. | |||
| Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images. Free photos added weekly. (Very Affordable High Quality Images. Comment from Kristi, site owner) |
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| Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Simply sign up for an affordable subscription plan and download 25 images every day (that's 750 each month!) with no hidden costs. Or make money from your professional images. | |||
| Subscription-based royalty-free stock photography resource, with unlimited downloads of photos. 150,000 stock photos for $139.95. | |||
| Royalty Free Stock photography and photos for printing brochures, advertising, annual reports, and electronic use on websites and presentations. | |||
| Huge collection of digital royalty-free stock photography provided by our members. Allows photographers promote and sell their stock photos and features a photo rating system and subscription-based storage of digital images. Stock photo buyers can find image zoom, search by color, lightboxes, photo requests and buyer rewards. | |||
| A creative and editorial stock photography agency and website offering a diverse image bank of Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free photos and illustration images of people, nature, food, sports, fine art, business, medical, and travel destinations with over 1 million images online. | |||
| Acclaim Stock Photography offers original stock photography direct from the photographer. Over 30,000 Original Images. | |||
| Find the perfect photo for your website from the variety of stock photography companies listed in this directory. Amazing pictures from the big stock houses to those special ones from the professional photographer's light table. If you are a professional photographer and offer stock images, add your website to their directory list. | |||
| Matton Royalty Free Stock Photography - Provider of Royalty Free Stock Photos, including Business Images, Sports, Travel, Lifestyle, Healthcare, Medicine, Industry, Education, Wildlife, and more. | |||
| Featuring the works of over 300 illustrators worldwide, this edgy, eclectic, collection specializes in unique, eye popping, meaning-rich alternatives to the usual stock photo. New Royalty Free Collection. |
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| Subscription-Based Royalty-Free Stock Photography resource. Comprehensive database of quality images. | |||
| Royalty-free (RF) and Rights Managed Photography collections | |||
| Royalty Free and Rights Managed Boutique Stock Photography | |||
| Royalty Free Stock Resources | |||
| Stock Photography & Royalty Free Stock Photos - 50 Photo Vendors | |||
| Designer's Stock Resource. Royalty free stock design elements. | |||
| A morguefile is an inactive or post production material reference file. This morgue file contains high resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use. The purpose of this site is to provide artist, illustrators, designers and educators raw reference material. | |||
| A library of Royalty Free digital images of Thailand on photodisc. Each photodisc contains 100 quality, hi-resolution, Royalty Free images showing subjects and locations from across Thailand. | |||
| Royalty free stock footage, photos, production music and sound fx - the easiest and most cost effective way to instantly enhance your productions. | |||
| Royalty free stock footage and images. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop publishing and all new media. | |||
| Eyewire is a resource for high quality typefaces, clip art, stock photography, video and innovative digital design tools. | |||
| Stockbyte royalty-free images are produced by professionals. Shot on transparency film more than FIVE times bigger than most of their competitors. | |||
| Stock photography from 60 leading providers, including The Image Bank and FPG International, and the highest quality royalty free images and CD-ROM titles from Digital Vision and many others. PictureQuest offers free access, natural language searching, instant downloading, free lightboxes, and free photo research. | |||
| Download unlimited PowerPoint Templates, Presentation Clipart and 3D Animations. Create stunning PowerPoint presentations and graphics. | |||
| 10 Million Downloadable Images - Clipart - Download Royalty Free Clipart, Images, Fonts, Web Art and Graphics at Clipart.com. Also download royalty free clipart backgrounds, web page borders, buttons, windows icons, and illustrations at the best clip art images and graphics site by subscription - also great for Holiday and Religious occasions | |||
| Find high resolution royalty free images, editorial stock photos, vector art, video footage clips and stock music licensing at the richest image search photo library online. | |||
| Stock Images - Royalty-Free Stock Photography Images and Photos | |||
| Corbis Images provides exceptional commercial and editorial photography and illustrations. | |||
| Download royalty-free images, high resolution stock photos, vector art and illustrations from Thinkstock . High quality, affordable stock photography subscriptions. | |||
| Quality High res and Low res images for immediate download. | |||
| Free Art | |||
| Free stock photos, images, and pictures available with a royalty-free license in high resolutions for unlimited, instant downloads. | |||
| Free Photos and Free Images for personal, educational and non-commercial usage. | |||
| Download free, high quality photos and illustrations. Our professional, royalty free images can be used in corporate, personal and educational projects. | |||
| Stock photography community - browse our huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others. | |||
| Download free png icons & Icon Packs | IconsPedia | |||
| Free vector website, free vector downloads, free vector resources, share vector. Vector Graphics available for download with a lot of free vector graphics ideal for your designs. Just download and enjoy. | |||
| Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images. Free photos added weekly. (Very Affordable High Quality Images. Comment from Kristi, site owner) |
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| A morguefile is an inactive or post production material reference file. This morgue file contains high resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use. The purpose of this site is to provide artist, illustrators, designers and educators raw reference material. | |||
| Create cool, custom images for FREE, to use on your website, or in your e-mail. Personal or Commercial | |||
| All Bay Area Photo Gallery images are in the public domain. Images may be used for personal or professional purpose. (read license) | |||
| Fonts | |||
| ITC's Web site allows you to browse, view, compare, and download PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts to your Mac and PC. The site also features articles on type and graphic design from ITC's quarterly publication, U&lc (Upper and Lowercase). | |||
| 27,372 categorised fonts, customisable previews, for Windows and Macintosh | |||
| Talkgraphics - Tutorials, Forums and Galleries about graphics | |||
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. | |||
| Scalable Vector Graphics will let you draw graphics using inline code...and it's efficient! "I want to show you what real, working SVG code looks like, and at the same time, make good on my earlier promise that you don't need anybody's fancy SVG authoring software to create SVG docs, because in actuality, any ordinary text editor will do." | |||
| Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders. | |||
| Flash is an industry standard and key to designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites. | |||
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Graphics and Art Software |
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| Whether you're a professional graphic artist or a complete novice at computer art, Xara has a product for you. | |||
| Flash is an industry standard and key to designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites. | |||
| Free Online Image Tools Use our online tools to instantly make 3D banners and buttons online, and to optimize your images so they will download faster! | |||
| Template-based utility for creating web graphics. Webstyle's professional templates allow you to easily create all the web graphics you need - NavBars, buttons, banners, bullets, dividers, backgrounds and 2D and 3D headings. | |||
| Professional raster image editor. | |||
| Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders. | |||
| Streaming Media Explained - Tips, Tricks and Hints Streaming is easy and free! Learn how to set up a streaming server, produce content, and troubleshoot problems all right here! Learn the basics, download players, or troubleshoot a problem. |
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| Create and deliver rich interactive multimedia and animations with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software. | |||
| AJAX | |||
| Welcome to AjaxPatterns.org, an Ajax portal and homepage for the upcoming "Ajax Design Patterns" book (O'Reilly), with full text online. Maintained by Michael Mahemoff. | |||
| ASP and .NET | |||
| ASP Resource Index. We are the definitive guide for ASP web applications, components, scripts, and other related resources for Active Server Pages. Accomplishing more with your ASP website is easy with the help of these pre-packaged, tested, and ready-to-run resources. Dig in and have fun! | |||
| The www.asp.net site is a portal site for the ASP.NET development community. From here you can download ASP.NET, download Web Matrix - a free web development tool, and ask questions on the forums. | |||
| CGI and Perl | |||
| The CGI Resource Index, A Product of Matt's Script Archive, Inc. | |||
| JavaScript | |||
| These sites provide libraries of sample JavaScripts that you can use on your own pages. Sample scripts are often the best way to learn how to do new things in JavaScript. | |||
| jQuery | |||
| jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. | |||
| JAVA | |||
| java.sun.com - the source for JAVA | |||
| The Java Boutique is a collection of java applets, games, scripts, and tutorials. Learn programming and download free java applets and source code. You can also find news about java and jini | |||
| Other | |||
| Open Source Web Development Tutorials - Apache, BrainDump, Flash , Java, JavaScript, Multimedia, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Practices, Python, Reviews, Security, Style-Sheets, Web Services, XML, Zend | |||
| Visual Mining gives you the exciting ability to include live java based charts and graphs on your corporate site. Free downloads. | |||
| A Professional Developers Online Resource | |||
| The official time. | |||
| Live and on demand audio and video for the internet. | |||
| The way to find shareware on the Internet. | |||
| Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders. | |||
| Need Programmers? Describe your project and get bids quickly. This system has an escrow account and rating system to ensure the completion of your project. I use them and love it! |
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| Need Web Designers? Describe your project and get bids quickly. This system has an escrow account and rating system to ensure the completion of your project. I use them and love it! |
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Social Media |
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| Our mission is connecting, engaging and educating members on social media around the world to advance the knowledge, skills, and integrity of the social media profession. | |||
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Search Engine Optimizing and Marketing (SEO, SEM)
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| Looking for a top listing on Google but don't know where to start? You've come to the right place. We've been training people just like you for 14 years! ...since 1997. | |||
| Axandra has a free link popularity check software program for you. If you want to find out how many web pages link to your site, download this software.
Link Popularity Check is a freeware program that checks the link popularity of your web site on several search engines and compares it to other web sites on the Internet. You can quickly find out how many people link to your site, how many sites link to your competitors and how you compare to other sites. |
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The SEO Tools found here were designed to assist you in configuring your website(s) for search engine optimization within the different search engines. |
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Search Engine News - Search Engine Marketing Strategies from Planet Ocean. |
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The domain popularity tool lists all backlinks including pagerank, host-ip and url. Choose between Google, Msn, and Yahoo. |
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SEO for Firefox is a free Firefox extension which adds many search engine optimization data points into Google's SERPs and Yahoo!'s SERPs on the fly. |
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| Free SEO Tools by We Build Pages. These seo tools will help you analyze your competition and your own website. | |||
| The SEO-Specialists.org Web site has been developed to provide SEOs, Webmasters, and Web Designers with useful information gathered by our team from various areas of the Web. We hope this information will help you gain an insight into the vast amount of information available within this topic of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Rankings. We now provide an SEO forum for search engine optimization topics. | |||
| Ajdee.com is a professionally managed, advertisement free, general web directory. It provides categorized listings of quality websites from all around the world. The submission price for commercial sites is US $25.00 (refundable), and for noncommercial sites US $1.00. | |||
| We offer free manual and auto submission to the highest-rated, Free Internet Search Engines and Directories. | |||
| Electronic Book and Newsletter - Keep up to date with how the search engines work and more. | |||
| Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More about search engines. | |||
| Many major search engines get their results by turning to third-party "search providers" to "power" their listings. To make matters more confusing, these search providers may run their own search engine sites, as well. | |||
| There's a pervasive myth among Web site managers that submitting your Web site to hundreds of search engines will result in thousands of new visitors. That's just not true. An award winning product by FirstPlace Software called WebPosition Gold™ offers proof that submitting alone is not enough. | |||
| Search Engine Marketing Resource Center. 7 Valuable Search Engine Marketing Resources to improve your rankings including free discussion forums, free search engine optimization tips, free link popularity checking service, and more. | |||
| Marketing | |||
| Internet Marketing Resources, find daily updated information related to E-Commerce, Promotion, Solutions and Market Research. You are able to specify your search by selecting information types such as: articles, studies, academic papers, statistics and more. | |||
| Larry Chase's Web Digest for Marketers | |||
| American Demographics - Marketing Tools | |||
| Internet Advertisers, Marketers Resources and Information | |||
| Advertising | |||
| Marketing and advertising news and information. | |||
| Internet Advertising Bureau | |||
| See also lists, newsletters, and newsgroups related to marketing and advertising. | |||
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Affiliate and Associate Programs |
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| Want to start a successful affiliate program? Affiliate Traction can help. Your site can succeed. Increase your revenue with affiliate software from Affiliate Traction. | |||
| Join LinkShare Today! |
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| This site aims to help you find the best associate programs and market them successfully. | |||
| Affiliate programs, sometimes called associate programs, partner programs, referral plans and pay-per-click plans are the fastest growing part of the new e-economy. They are also the easiest way for webmasters to turn their website into a source of income. | |||
| Remember to check these additional sites for web site builders. | |||
| Quick, reliable distribution of Press Releases and News items to our network of 700 newsrooms, 8,000 journalists, Internet Affiliates, Google News etc. | |||
| Press Release services for businesses and journalists. | |||
| PR Newswire is a leader in the electronic distribution of full-text news to the media and the financial community. | |||
| Accept credit cards today! | |||
| Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly. | |||
| The most flexible secure ecommerce software on the market. Build your online store today with shopping cart platform by Miva Merchant. | |||
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Lists, E-Zines, and E-Newsletters
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A Recource Guide for Web Developers | ||
| Advanced Web Development Discussion - A List Apart is for experienced creators of web content and programming. | |||
| e-zines related in some way to webmastering and web news. | |||
| The E-ZineZ site is dedicated to providing you with information to produce and publish an Internet E-mail Newsletter. | |||
| Solutions for Internet and Web Developers | |||
| The WOW site provides members with the latest news and information concerning internet law, security, online marketing, and webmaster tools. WOW also offers webmaster certification programs, online training, insurance, and job opportunities. | |||
| The World Wide Web Consortium Leading the Evolution of the Web. |
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| The first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals. | |||
| TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit, global initiative aimed at building trust and confidence in online transactions through the adoption of a branded trustmark informing users of how their personal information is handled by online organizations. | |||
| The Software Publishers Association | |||
| The Better Business Bureau - Helping Consumers and Business to Maintain an Ethical Marketplace | |||
| ad:tech is an interactive advertising and technology conference dedicated to connecting all sides of today’s brand marketing landscape. | |||
| Affiliate Summit, Inc. was founded by affiliate marketing industry veterans Shawn Collins and Missy Ward and serves the affiliate marketing professional community. The mission of Affiliate Summit is to be the leading global source of learning and networking opportunities surrounding the affiliate marketing industry. | |||
| Locate information about thousands of tradeshows, exhibitors, industry suppliers, and convention facilities. | |||
| Open Source Web Development Tutorials - Apache, BrainDump, Flash , Java, JavaScript, Multimedia, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Practices, Python, Reviews, Security, Style-Sheets, Web Services, XML, Zend | |||
| Our Webmaster certifications are endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW). | |||
| The business world's best resource for the knowledge that will lead to a competitive edge. Explore the benefits of online learning and experience all Element K has to offer. | |||
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| Web Development Tools Reference Library | |||
| Directory of free webmaster resources, free web hosting, free web site tools, and even free e-mail. | |||
| Dedicated to bringing you the best developer information on the net. With years of experience developing sites and other projects we feel that we can help you to get a grasp on the developing whatever it is you may be working with. | |||
| News, talk, resources, and tools for HTML, CGI and script Web developers | |||
| Resources for Web Developers | |||
| The strangest name in web authoring resources. | |||
| Resources for Web Developers | |||
| Internet Resources | |||
| CNET's Site for Web Site Builders | |||
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