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These are links to things or services to make your web life easier

Please report any broken links or any new links you think suitable.

Pick from these topics
General Help Programs
Resources
Trackers & Counters
Web Hosting
Validators
Guest Books
Graphics And Graphic Sets
Web Promotion
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General Help Programs

** = Freeware

• Editpadlite**
  has to be the best text editor made
• Irfanview**
  great image viewer among other things, resize or just get the size of your images with this, as well as automatically making thumbnails, slide shows, colour enhancements ...
• Paint Shop Pro
  (PSP) possibly the greatest graphic program out, There's not much, if anything this program cant do
• Photo Shop
  Another great graphic program, This one geared more towards photo images but can do anything graphic related
• Any browser**
  With this you can check your site, see how it would look on other browser size etc
• Webferret**
  Download this handy search engine
• Dicer**
  Shoe strings picture dicer
• JustZIPit**
  For zipping and unzipping your files
• Lonewolfs**
  JavaScript drop down menu maker, 2 and 3 button mouse over program etc
• Ws_ftp**
  To upload your web site
• Typeitin**
  Great macro tool, saves a lot of time if you type the same stuff a lot
• Splitjoin**
  Split and rejoin files suitable to fit on floppy
• Ad-aware**
  Remove spyware, adware, scumware from your computer

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Resources

• Webmaster Forums
  Great place to get help, advice etc (I help out there)
• Tom Cat
  Spyware listing, computer help and security issues
• Online Netiquette 101
  Everyone needs to read this
• Webmasteredge
  Lots of web master resources
• Spinwave
  Compress those gifs or jpg's here, you'll be amazed how much you can trim off your image file sizes
• Super Scripter
  Make mouse overs, meta tags etc online
• Style-O-Mattic
  Create CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) online line without even knowing any of it
• Scrub the web
  Meta tag analyzer and tag maker
• Meta Medic
  Optimize your meta tags
• Bravenet
  Lots of resources
• Dhtml shock
  Javascript and dhtml code.
• Dynamic drive
  dhtml scripts.
• The Harvester Project
  Sabotage spambots results

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Trackers Extreme Counted Hit box ICDirect.com Showstat Nedstat Sitemeter CyberStats PR Stats Top

Counters LE FastCounter Boing Dragon's Animated Counters Dark Counter Cam's Java Applet counters The Counter Fake Counters

Free Web Hosting Spaceports.com Tripod.lycos.co.uk FreeYellow.com Crosswinds Fortune City Geocities FreeServers.com iBoost Tripod AngelFire Top

Paid Web Hosting Server101 Webhosting iPowerWeb dixiesys.com m6.net sarvihosting.com pwebtech.com intrahost.com hosttoday.co.uk phpwebhosting.com

Always do a search on a web host BEFORE you sign up, here is a good place to start from www.webhostingtalk.com

Html Validators W3c Web Design Group CSS validator Web Site garage Bobby Doctor HTML NetMechanic Dr watson Top

Guest Books Dreambook Slam book Guestworld All Them Pages Guestbook 4 Free Pathfinder Guestbook Depot GuestPage The Guestbook Internet Tool Zone

Graphics And Graphic Sets

• Free Animated Clipart
• Media Builder Make 3d buttons and banners online (watch the file size, keep them under 20kb total), plus animated gifs, lines, buttons, backgrounds
• Clip Art.com
• GifPile Lots and lots of links for Gifs, Graphics, & Backgrounds
• About.com Web Clip Art
• Animated Gif Finder

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Web Promotion

Some search engines are trying to charge for listings, there are plenty of free ones, so if you find one that wants your money, pick another, they all do the same thing to the same places (more or less). As far as I know all of what's below is free, if you find one that's not please let me know so I can note it.

• Have your web site professionally optimized (Paid service)
• Google
• FreePromote
• Addme
• 123 add masters
• VirtualPromote
• Self Promotion
• Autosubmit
• Infospace.com
• Altavista
• Direct Hit
• Dogpile
• Alltheweb
• Hotbot
• Infospace
• Lycos
• Northern Light
• Starting Point
• Yahoo

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Advanced

Please do not ask me what these are or for help installing them. Most of what's listed below has it's own support forums.

• firepages.com.au
  Apache/PHP/MYSQL bundles plus help forum
• PHP
• Apache
• MySQL

• phpbb Forum
• invisionboard Forum
• phpbuilder.com PHP tutorials
• hotscripts Free and commercial scripts
• sourceforge Open source host for all kinds of scripts
• php.resourceindex free PHP scripts

If you come across or have some helpful sites others may benefit from, please let me know so I can add it for others.