We're getting a little ways from the mainstream MendoPhoto stuff here, but I'm gonna include this stuff anyway, cuz it's mighty useful for web surfers and web designer/developers. Most of these sites have been very helpful as I keep learning web design stuff.
Browser Download Sites
| URL (linked) | Site Name | Site Description |
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| microsoft.com/downloads |
Microsoft's Download Page |
All those terrible things you've heard about Bill Gates and his company are true. Regardless of other considerations, however; Internet Explorer is still the best browser out there.
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| www.netscape.com/ computing/ download/index.html |
Netscape's Download Page |
Netscape sucks. NN4 has the buggiest CSS implementation around, and NN6 just plain doesn't work. But here's where to download it if you really want to.
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| www.icab.de/ |
Icab: the Internet taxi for the Mac |
Icab is a work in progress. It has some nice features, most notably an html checker. At this point, it is severely handicapped by limited support for Cascading Style Sheets. Mac OS only.
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| www.opera.com/ |
Opera Software |
A very nice, full featured browser which deserves a much bigger market share. Windows users who don't want to use Explorer should try Opera. Their Mac version is developing nicely, too.
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The following sites are large and important resources with lots of information that's useful for people who develop or design websites, or who are interested in learning how to do such things. Tutorials, product reviews, tips, and on and on.
Web Development Resource Sites
| URL (linked) | Site Name | Site Description |
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| hotwired.lycos.com/ webmonkey/index.html |
Webmonkey |
"The Web Developer's Resource" |
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w3schools.com |
W3 Schools |
A collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code.
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| www.wsabstract.com/ |
Website Abstraction |
"THE JavaScript technology center" among other things. |
| www.pageresource.com/ |
Web Page Resources |
Design your own web site with HTML!
Includes an HTML tutorial, javascript tutorial, tips, tricks, and links to
numerous web design resources and other html tutorial sites. |
| home.cnet.com/ webbuilding/ 0-3880.html |
CNET.com - Web Building |
Giant heaps of info for web folks: tips, tutorials, reviews, downloads, etc. |
People who learn print layout and then take up web page design are frequently frustrated by how pathetically crude basic html is. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) overcome many of the limitations of html and allow designers to actually do some designing.
Cascading Style Sheets Sites
| URL (linked) | Site Name | Site Description |
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| www.w3.org/ Style/CSS/ |
Cascading Style Sheets |
W3C's overview of Web style sheets: CSS
Links to heaps of CSS info, master style sheets, and on and on. The W3C is the organization that defines the standards for CSS. |
| www.richinstyle.com/ |
Rich in Style |
Lotsa Cascading Style Sheet Stuff: tutorials, a list of bugs in different browsers, their own master style sheet, etc. |
| www.westciv.com/ style_master/ index_dynamic.html |
Style Master: Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Editor |
Style Master - powerful, easy to use cascading style sheet (CSS) editor. Also check out this site's "House of Style" for tips, tutorials, and samples of Cascading Style Sheets in action. |
JavaScript is a nifty programming language for the web. With only a little knowledge of how the language is structured, you can copy freeware scripts, modify them for your own uses, and dazzle people with your neato, super-interactive site.
Here are some sites for Mac people to download all the software they need, and about a hundred gazillion programs they don't need. They've got freeware, shareware, and commercial demos. They've got every breed of software you can imagine. Windows folks are on their own.
