Tips, Tutorials & Web Site Resources

Below are links to various tips, tutorials and other resources for your web site site operations:

• Affiliate Programs - Earn Money
• Animation
• Banner Creators
• Browser & Site Validation
• Business
• Content Resources
• Design Issues
• Development Forums
• Frames
• Graphics
• HTML
• Imagemaps
• Online Training Courses
• Security Solutions
• Scripts / Scripting
• Site Promotion / Marketing / Advertising
• Web Site Design Software

Also, refer to our Online Support Manual for additional tutorials and instruction, as well as our Downloads page.

Affiliate Programs - Earn money from your web site.

If you are looking for additional income from your web site, try the services offered by these affiliate program providers. They offer hundreds of companies from which to draw advertising revenue.

• Commission Junction
• Google AdSense
• LinkShare

We also offer our own affiliate program, described here.

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Animation

• JavaScript Animation
• GIF Animation Tips
• Animated GIFs - General Animation

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Banner Creators

• BannerMaker
• MediaBuilder

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Browser & Site Validation

• Dr. Watson - Dr. Watson is a free service to validate your web page on the Internet.
• Meta builder 2 - Generate META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document. These tags allow better indexing by robot-driven search engines, such as AltaVista, Infoseek and HotBot.
• NetMechanic - Check HTML Code, Links, Server Performance, Graphics Optimization.
• Site Check - Checks your site's meta tags, spelling and links.

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Business

Copyrighting

• U.S. Copyright Office
• Trademark and Copyright Issues from Yahoo! Small Business
• Lawgirl
• Register Your Copyright

Small Business Information and Resources

• American Express Small Business
• Wells Fargo Small Business
• Yahoo Small Business

Web Statistics & Demographics

• NUA Internet Surveys

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Content

The following sites provide dynamic content that you can integrate into your site.

• FreeSticky.com
• YellowBrix.com
• MoreOver.com

You should also consider employing various RSS newsfeeds that are complimentary to the subject of your web site. Yahoo News is a great source of such free content.

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Design Issues

• The Top Fifteen Mistakes of First Time Web Design
• Web Site Design Tips
• Web Site Design and Image Tips from Adobe
• Graphics for the Web - Software, Tools and Techniques
• The Screen Resolution Problem
• Web Style Guide

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Development Forums

The following site provides articles and user discussion forums on a wide variety of site development tools and languages, including resources on DHTML, Flash, Graphics, JavaScript, XML, MySQL, PHP and Python.

• DevShed - The Open Source Web Development Site

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Frames

Note: Peoples Ware recommends that you do not use frames for your web site.

• Frames Tutor

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Graphics

• TransWeb Transparent-Gif Service
• NetMechanic Gif Bot - Reduce the size of your images. You identify the image you want reduced/optimized. Several optimized versions of your image will be produced. The revised images will be displayed on a results page.

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HTML

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Composing Good HTML
• HTML Tags
• Symbol Table (HTML Escape Sequence Table)
• Table Tutorials from HTML Goodies

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ImageMaps

• Client-Side Imagemap vs. Server-Side Imagemap

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Online Training Courses

Please refer to our page devoted to Online Training Courses.

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Internet / Web Security Solutions

Please refer to our page devoted to Internet / Web Security.

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Scripts / Scripting

CGI Tutorials & Scripts (Many FREE scripts)

• CGI Programming 101
• The CGI Resource Index - An excellent resource for free scripts.
• Darryl C. Burgdorf's WebScripts
• Matt's Script Archive

Miva Script (formerly Htmlscript)

• Miva Script Reference Manual - Large file.

Java and JavaScript

• HTML Goodies
• Java Boutique
• The JavaScript Source

Perl

• Perl Reference Page

PHP

• PHP
• PHP Resource Index - Another excellent resource for free scripts.

Python

• www.python.org

Tcl

• Tcl Fundamentals

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Site Promotion / Marketing / Advertising

Please refer to our page devoted to Site Promotion / Marketing / Advertising.

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Web Site Design Software

• 40tude HTML (formerly 1-4-All)
• BBEdit for the Mac
• CoffeeCup
• DreamWeaver
• FlexSite
• Freeway for the Mac
• HomeSite
• HOTDOG
• HoTMetal Pro
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Word
• Template Monster
• NVU - Free, open-source, multiple languages supported, platform independent.

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