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Freeware and Shareware Downloads:

ZDNet Software Library Download shareware, freeware and more

Tucows Well known site has many downloads for shareware and freeware tools such as imagemaps, compression, color pickers, HTML validators, communications, e-mail and more

The Free Site Links to free e-mail, anti-virus programs, fonts, graphics, counters, banners and much more listed

FTP Tools:

Phuture Net, Fetch (Mac) Shareware, free for non-profit and educational uses

Download from: CuteFTP Homepage

Download.com, WS_FTP (Windows) Download WS_FTP, freeware

or download from: Salt Lake Community College

LeechFTP New free FTP program, check it out

General Information on Web Design:

Beginners' Central - A users guide to the Internet Easy to read format with many catagories to study

Project Cool Way cool website full of HTML and JavaScript tutorials, reference pages from tags to color chart

WebDeveloper.com Keep up on news about development, tutorials, articles and visit Dr. Website

Technical Books, Graphics & Great Download Sites:

Lynda.com Essential graphic books, info and color charts online

O'Reilly & Associates Excellent technical books for the Internet, programming and web design

For fans of O'Reilly books, free "Powered by O'Reilly" graphics for your home page

Screamdesign Illustrator tutorial, tips on Photoshop and free graphics

Alchemy Mindworks Inc. GIF Construction Set for Windows and Graphic Workshop Classic (shareware)

PC Resources for Photoshop - Plug-Ins - Filter Factory Oodles of Photoshop filters for you for free

The Order of the Sacred Plugin and the Divine Filter An excellent place for familiar and lesser known filters and plug-ins

Cool Tools For Free

Free personalized search engine

for your site

Create free polls for your site

HTML Editors:

Bare Bones Software, BBEdit Premiere HTML editing tool for the Mac (purchase)

Allaire, Homesite Excellent HTML editor, does not insert unwanted code, easy to edit and has many features

Image Maps:

DaveCentral MapMaker 32 is an extremely easy image map tool, download for free

CoffeeCup Image Mapper Image map, makes mouseovers easy, WYSIWYG editing and online help (shareware)

Legal Goodies:

Contact your local city hall for the guidelines and fees to run a web design business from your home.

Web Developer's Contract Swipe File Site with information on sample contracts available via the web

Wilson Internet Services Web Designer sample contract form

Contract Employee's Handbook Information for contract workers including an important legal issues page and a sample contract

Project Cool - Copyright Guide All about copyright on the web, keeping your creations safe, using copywritten material and a reference table of current copyright law

The Copyright Website What you need to know about copyright laws and the web

META Tag help:

Meta Tag builder Build your META tags for free online

Eee Jay Softhouse Free download of a META tag builder, build your own in seconds

Scripts for Download:

JavaScript Source Great cut and paste scripts for free

The Java Boutique Many Java applets listed for free

Matt's Script Archive Well known Perl and CGI scripts for free

Server Side Includes:

NCSA HTTPd Tutorial Server Side Tutorials

The CGI Resource Index: Documentation Another Server Side Tutorial

Tutorials:

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners You can practice basic skills and see the results step by step

HTML Goodies Lots of tutorials written with humor and easy to follow instructions

Validators:

BiggByte Download the Infolink Link Checker, freeware version, works best for smaller websites

NetMechanic Free check up for HTML, broken links and use of GIF optimizer

Web Site Garage Check over your HTML for free one page tune-up; has extended services at a price

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