Websites

Websites

The topic of this section of this website is websites.

The topics covered on this page of this section of this website primarily (not exclusively) include those relevant to using and preparing to build a website. These topics include:

Specific sub-topics covered on other pages in this area of this website concerns the tools and technologies for the building of websites and are shown in the navigation column on the left.

You should expect that the contents and the organization of the contents of this section of this website to change on a regular basis. Please feel free to suggest a change.

If you know of another good website that others involved with designing, building, and maintaining websites might appreciate knowing about please tell me and I will add it to this collections, Peter Halden

Browsers

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Domain Names & Web Hosting

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General

  • Alexa, The Web Information Company
  • CNET
  • CNET Downloads
  • Community MX Extending your web development knowledge daily
  • "Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. The magazine consists primarily of work contributed by web authors, as well as by others who occasionally delve into the web realm. We put emphasis on and provide recognition for contributed work. The Magazine is recognized by nearly all of the major web design agencies in the industry."
  • Freebits Take a look.
  • GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
  • The Internet.com Network is comprised of some of the best known and highly acclaimed sites in the technology publishing business. Our more than 200 journalists, analysts and editors produce award winning and actionable information around the clock and from around the world. Our sites are organized into five channels to enable marketers to reach targeted audience segments easily and efficiently.
  • "Ohloh is a free public directory of open source software and people. Ohloh is a wiki, and anyone is welcome to join our community and add new projects to our directory, or to make corrections to existing directory pages. This public review makes Ohloh one of the largest, most accurate, and up-to-date software directories available. Ohloh is not a forge -- we do not host open source projects in the traditional sense. Ohloh is a directory, a community, and an analytics service. We use the data from our directory to create historical reports about the changing demographics of the open source world. Ohloh is owned and operated by SourceForge."
  • "Screencast.com is a TechSmith solution for business and academic professionals looking to manage and share videos, images, documents, or anything else online. Screencast.com's high-quality content-hosting gives you complete control over how, when and to whom your content is distributed."
  • Sitepoint is a fast growing online media company and information provider targeting the Web professional market, specifically Web Developers and Designers.
  • SiteSucker is an iPhone app that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your iPhone or iPod touch.
  • thesitewizard.com Website Design, Promotion, Revenue and Scripting Tips - Lots of free tips, tutorials and articles on every aspect of your website. It's a one-stop comprehensive guide to managing your site.
  • "SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience. As of February, 2009, more than 230,000 software projects have been registered to use our services by more than 2 million registered users, making SourceForge.net the largest collection of open source tools and applications on the net. ."
  • Tech Republic, a resource for IT professionals
  • Tucows.com, the original software download site, Tucows also provides domain names, email and other Internet services through our extensive reseller network
  • TwinHelix Designs! This site is the home of my freelance JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML, CSS and CGI projects.
  • Web Carpentry, the Norwegian cow is mooooo-ing the world
  • Web Developer's Handbook, developing web-sites, exploring imagination.
  • WebDesign-L is a forum for web designers and developers
  • The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

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Magazines

  • .net magazine
  • Photoshop User magazine
  • Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
  • WHIR, Web Host Industry Review magazine

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Templates

  • CSS 4 Free There are templates of all kinds and for all tastes organized by tags. The site also has a simple search engine, grading system, forums, screen capture and preview of the designs. It is a place worth visiting.”
  • CssTemplatesFree.Net professional free css templates
  • CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer Templates Individual website designs are purchased. Themes allow you to publish your Website quickly, regardless of how much experience you have with Web design. Whether you want your Website to be flashy and fun, straight-laced and professional, or any style in between, you’ll find what you’re looking for here.
  • Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!
  • Dream Template 6,000+ Premium Website Templates
  • Free CMS Templates! We've got a variety of great free themes in all for all your favorite open source content management systems; Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla!
  • Free CSS Templates Find never before seen collection of free CSS Templates, one of the biggest in the entire web!
  • Layout Gala, " . . . 40 layouts that we've thought worth sharing: on each of them you'll find also a download link (if you want, you can download the entire collection, 40 HTML pages in a single zip file). Further details can be found below the gallery."
  • Steve's Templates This site provides free web page templates which are nice looking, professional and can be used free for personal and business websites. Whether you don't know how to design a web page or are in a hurry to get a site up, my templates are the perfect solution. All templates and graphics on this site are original (with the exception of Premium Templates). I have only one rule that you must follow, so before you get started using my templates and graphics, please read the terms of use.
  • Template World dreamweaver templates, wordpress themes, premium business template, web 2.0 templates, oscommerce templates, designer template, free website builder, frontpage templates, professional templates, communication template, wedding template design, css templates, site templates, adobe template, psd templates, logo templates, portal templates, pet templates, hotel templates, real estate templates, corporate templates, church templates, simple website template, css website templates, free website templates.

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Tools for Webmasters, website developers, & website designers

  • 24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks
  • 456 Berea Street "This site is developed and authored by me, Roger Johansson. I’m a Swedish web professional who has been working with the web and other interactive media since 1994. This site is a place for me to post articles, tutorials, and comments on subjects that are interesting and useful to me and hopefully to other web professionals. Most posts on this site are related to web standards, accessibility, or usability in one way or another, with the occasional post on other subjects."
  • Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
  • AddThis helps website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. AddThis is fast, powerful and easy to install. Even better, it's free and offers sophisticated analytics to help users understand how and where their content is being shared.
  • Attack Lab
  • A List Apart "For people who make websites"
  • Aviva Directory was started on February 16, 2005 and is one of a new generation of web directories. Our goal is to provide a selective human edited directory of the internet's best websites so that searchers can find what they are looking for quickly and easily - and without any spam.
  • Aviva Directory Canonical List of Online Color Resources for Designers.
  • BoogieJack.com is an HTML help site featuring standards-based HTML tutorials, CSS tutorials and other website design help and resources.
  • Blambot is a source of fonts and comics.
  • Character Entity Coding transforms your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity. Simply enter your regular e-mail address in the first text box, click the encode button, and then highlight and copy the resulting code produced in the second text box. This encoded e-mail address can be read and translated back into its original ascii text by almost any web browser without any further action on your part. Just replace all instances of your e-mail address on your pages with the code, and you won't have to worry (too much) about spam lists.
  • Codewalkers
  • Coffee Cup started in a real Coffee House 1996. Our first program was the HTML Editor. Over the last 10 years we have created a lot more Web Design & Flash Software. Our philosophy has always been to create software and services so you can make better Websites. We are dedicated to helping you by offering extraordinary support so we can succeed together. Consider us a partner and a friend, because we really are about Fresh Software and Warm People.
  • Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
  • Dev Opera is a community for Web developers who believe in open standards - and the power of open standards to create an accessible Web for everyone.
  • Easy Reader
  • Evolt.org is a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.
  • Five Minute Argument a collection of articles, editorials, and tutorials about css, html, and the World Wide Web."
  • Google Code
  • Google Webmaster Central is a must-read because it tells you what you need to know about making sure that your site is Google-friendly.
  • HSL Color Schemer - The HSL Color Schemer is a useful tool when you're working on your site's colors. The tool uses the well-known principles of color math to take a base color and create an array of other colors that will be pleasing to the eye when placed with each other.The HSL Color Schemer is a useful tool when you're working on your site's colors. The tool uses the well-known principles of color math to take a base color and create an array of other colors that will be pleasing to the eye when placed with each other.
  • iStockphoto is the web's original source for user-generated, royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash. Whether you're a designer, advertiser, entrepreneur or blogger, we have millions of affordable images, vectors and clips to help you tell your story.
  • La Chatte Noire — lab and testing area
  • Mozilla Developer Center, Guides and references useful when developing web sites and web applications.
  • Net-Kit.com - Free web resources
  • Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
  • Position is Everything "I'm Big John, and here I attempt to describe and demonstrate some of the bugs found in web browsers, and to show advanced CSS methods that work across all browsers."
  • printerink.com, Web Page Color Tips
  • "QuirksMode.org is the prime source for browser compatibility information on the Internet."
  • RFC Editor - If there is a specification that you cannot find on W3C, the next place to look is RFC Editor. There is simply no substitute for understanding how something like HTTP works when you are trying to solve a problem.
  • Search Engine Land is led by journalist Danny Sullivan, who has been covering search for the past 11 years. It is published by Third Door Media, which also produces the Search Marketing Expo conference series and the Search Marketing Now webcast events.
  • Search-This was created to provide webmasters with information on all aspects of the web, including: design, development and promotion. When you visit Search-This we hope that you find valuable information you can use to make your website better.
  • Shlomi Fish
  • Smashing Magazine - Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development.
  • Software QA Test Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools
  • SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience.
  • sperling.com
  • Spin Group has compiled a collection of articles, case studies and presentations that focus on four key topics: accessibility, e-learning, Internet & Web development and usability. The list of links will be consistently updated.
  • Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers – regardless of platform or language. It's 100% free, no registration required.
  • useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
  • Vector Magic, convert bitmap images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to the crisp, clean, scalable vector art of EPS, SVG, and PDF with the world's best auto-tracing software.
  • W3C - The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
  • w3schools.com THE LARGEST WEB DEVELOPER SITE ON THE NET Full Web Building Tutorials - ALL FREE!
  • Web Builders' Toolkit
  • Web Design Expert, links to a variety of tips, tricks, advice, tools, etc.
  • Web Designer, "defining the internet through beautiful design"
  • Web Devout is a website dedicated to promoting the health of the Web. This is done by providing web developers and the public with the knowledge and tools needed to help the Web move forward.
  • WebDesignerWall, "a wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials.;
  • WebDesign-L is a mailing list community created in early 1997. The list is intended as a forum for those involved in creating the Web — whether for business, for self-expression, or for exploring the possibilities of a new medium.
  • Web Marketing Today, "We offer the Web's largest source of key information about doing business on the Net -- with over 2,500 pages and annotated links to more than 21,000 resources on e-commerce and Web marketing. You'll also find over 100 video interviews with experts on Internet marketing, e-commerce, and e-mail marketing."
  • WebDevelopedia
  • Webdeveloper.com
  • Web Standards Group - The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).
  • Alan Wood’s Website, Unicode and character set information

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Video

  • OnlineVideo.net The same team that created StreamingMedia.com and StreamingMediaGlobal.com—sites that have become essential daily reads for the streaming video industry—is now offering its years of industry experience to everyone else trying to benefit from online video.

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