operating_systems
www.linux.org
Linux
Free operating system used on WWW, and partitioned on my computer.
links,operating_systems,applications
www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
Linux Applications.
List of various linux applications.
applications,fonts
home.iclweb.com/icl1/d.w.emmett/
Softy.
Shareware font creation programme.
chat,applications
tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf
Tinyfugue.
Unix based multi-tasking telnet programme for MUDs and talkers.
applications,links
www.tucows.com
Tucows.
Ultimate software source for macs and PCs.
operating_systems,applications,e_commerce
www.cdrom.com
Walnut Creek CDRom.
Site for linux o/s, utilities.
games
www.ozemail.com.au/~gvincent
Greg and David's C64 Web Page.
Bring back some memories with over a hundred C64 games, and emulators. Some of these games still rate with the latest in terms of playability.
games
www.happypuppy.com
HappyPuppy.
Computer game demos.
isps,hosting
www.ihug.co.nz
The Internet Group.
My dialup ISP, has an excellent flat rate account.
isps,hosting
www.earthlight.co.nz
Earthlight Communications.
Local ISP with good web hosting accounts.
hosting
www.virtualave.net
Virtual Avenue.
Site offering free hosting, even of sub-domains, and free domain name, long as you pay Internic, all for a simple advertisement on each page.
search_engines,graphics
www.altavista.com
Altavista.
Have a good picture search engine.
search_engines
www.infoseek.com
Infoseek.
Excellent search engine.
search_engines
www.lycos.com
Lycos.
Second choice.
search_engines
www.searchnz.co.nz
Search NZ.
Local contribution.
discussion
www.useit.com/alertbox
Alertbox.
Slightly pretentious, but interesting column on the WWW by Jakob Nielsen.
computers,discussion
www.cnet.com
CNET.
Computers online central - articles, news etc.
viruses,computers
kumite.com/myths
Computer Virus Myths.
Excellent site discussing viruses, particularly hoax and email viruses.
resources
www.whizkidtech.net/cgi-bin/tutorial?lesson=Coding+Sample+-+maps
Maps.
This guy has hit on a wonderful way of getting back at spammers who spider web pages for email addresses.
tutorials
cires.colorado.edu/people/peckham.scott/tutors.html
Scott's Tutorial Hotlist.
List of links to tutorials on many WWW related topics.
links
www.thefreesite.com
The Free Site.
Links to lots of free resources.
business,discussion
www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
10 Big Myths about copyright explained.
Covers the basics of copyright, specific to the WWW.
business,ecommerce
www.adzerver.com/AdZerver.
AdZerver
Relatively easy way to set up and manage advertisements online.
business,design,discussion
www.builder.com/Business/Freelancing/
Be a Freelance Web Builder.
C-Net's take on going out on your own as a web designer.
business,discussion
www.benedict.com/
The Copyright Website.
Copyright information, plus a list of some big copyright issues.
servers,applications,operating_systems
serverwatch.internet.com/
Internet Servers.
Guide to servers and server software.
languages
www.15seconds.com/
15 Seconds.
Active server pages website.
languages
www.activeserverpages.com/
ActiveServerPages.com.
Active server pages resources.
languages,reference
www.asphole.com/
ASP Hole.
References for active server pages.
scripts,languages
developer.netscape.com/
DevEdge Online.
Netscape's site for online development - including scripts, forums, references, and tips.
discussion, design
www.hotwired.com/
Hotwired.
Wired magazine online - HTML, graphics, design, various cool stuff.
design,tutorials,languages
www.irt.org/
irt.org.
General design and programming site, with FAQs, tutorials.
languages,tutorials
www.php.net
PHP - free hypertext preprocessor.
Resources and tutorials, FAQs and articles.
design,tutorials,links,reference
projectcool.com/
Project Cool Media.
Tutorials, links to other good web sites, references.
design,tutorials,discussion,references
www.wdvl.com/
Web Designers Virtual Library.
Tutorials, articles, references on design.
design,discussion
photo.net/wtr/
Web Tools Review.
Philip Greenspun's site with some books online, including his 'How to be a Web Whore Just Like Me' title, as well as tutorials and other useful stuff.
tutorials,reference
www.webreference.com/
WebReference.com.
Reference and tutorial site from internet.com.
organisations,design
www.ippa.org/
Internet Professional Publishers Association.
Focussed upon reviewing and promoting excellence in commercial design.
organisations,reference
www.hwg.org/
HTML Writers Guild.
Maintains maililng lists, FAQs, tips, and thousands of professional and amateur members.
organisations
www.wdnz.org.nz/
Web Designers of New Zealand.
Professional NZ organisation.
organisations
www.webstandards.org/
The Web Standards Project.
Organisation devotetd to fighting for web standards in browsers, so that they are easier and better to design for.
design
www.humanfactors.com/
Human Factors International.
Covers issues such as fonts, colours, designing for best readability and so forth.
design,discussion
camalott.com/~jtpolk/html.html
Polk's Place.
Writes some good stuff on frames, SSI, and 10 commandments.
design
www.wpdfd.com/
The Web Design for Designers.
Covers techniques for improving your design, particularly focussed on print designers moving online.
design
www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Web Pages That Suck.
Learn good design by looking at bad design. Vincent Flanders encourages you to design good sites, by showing you some really bad ones, and why they're bad.
graphics,applications
www.unimelb.edu.au/fly/
Fly.
Programme for dynamically creating graphics on the 'fly'.
graphics,applications
www.ignite-it.co.uk/
Ignite.
Web graphics optimisation programme.
graphics,flash,applications
www.macromedia.com/
Macromedia.
Hottest graphics programmes at the moment, check out shockwave technology with some free downloads for limited trials.
graphics,applications
www.jasc.com/psp.html
Paint Shop Pro.
High quality graphics raster programme, available for trial download.
graphics,applications
www.povray.org/
POV-Ray.
Persistence of Vision Raytracer, a free tool for creating high quality 3D graphics.
graphics,applications
www.xara.com/webster/
Xara Webster.
Cheap graphics programme, specifically for WWW design.
graphics,tips
www.psptips.com/
Abstract Dimensions.
Tips site specifically for shareware programme Paintshop Pro.
graphics,tips
xenia.mit.edu/axc/index.cfm
Action XChange.
Graphical tips exchange.
colours,design
www.lynda.com/hex.html
The Browser Safe Color Palette.
Explanation of the 216 browser safe colours for use on the WWW, and a palette for your programme.
design,graphics,tips,recommended
www.cooltype.com/
Cooltype.
Tips focussed around text effects in photoshop. Nice menu too.
graphics,tips
phoenixart.muskpoint.com/
Phoenixart Photoshop Tutorials.
Some tips for using Photoshop for web design.
graphics,tips
builder.cnet.com/Graphics/20Photoshop/ss06.html
Photoshop 5.0 Tips.
20 design tips focussing upon the new features of Photoshop 5.0.
graphics,tips
www.users.wineasy.se/joel/photott.htm
Photoshop Tips by Joel Abrahamsson.
Collection of photoshop tips for WWW graphics.
graphics,tips
www.servtech.com/~dougg/graphics/
Preparing Graphics for the Web.
Dicussion of graphical file types, when to use what, and some tips to make them work better.
graphics,tips,design
www.andyart.com/
AndyArt.com.
Excellent graphics tips site, with free images, and some web design notes.
tips,graphics,design
desktoppublishing.com/
Desktoppublishing.com.
Collection of links to tips and general sites on many topics.
flash
www.flashzone.com/
Flashzone.
Flash effects, site of the day, general use of flash technology.
graphics,tips
www.i-us.com/
i/us.
Tutorials, tips, plug-ins.
programming,references
hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
The Common Gateway Interface.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications introduction to CGI programming.
programming,tutorials
www.swcp.com/~dodrill/
Coronado Enterprises Tutorials.
Tutorials on several programming languages.
programming,tutorials
java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
The Java Tutorial.
Sun's (designers of java) go at a tutorial.
programming,tutorials                                                
agora.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/
Perl Tutorial.
A good introduction to the PERL language.
programming,languages,tutorials
rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/js/tutorial.htm
Voodoo's Introduction to Javascript.
A very well written introduction to Javascript.
graphics,flash,design
aqa-d.se/
Anders Quicker.
Graphics, flash, web design.
recommended,languages,design
www.htmlguru.com/
Dynamic HTML Guru Resource.
Beautiful pages, the guy has talent.
graphics,recommended
www.e3direktiv.com/
E3 direktiv - avante garde media.
Excellent animation.
flash,graphics,recommended
www.eye4u.com/
EYE4U Active Media.
Some nice use of flash.
flash,graphics,recommended
www.light-wave.net/
Lightwave.
Nice use of 3D, flash.
flash,graphics,recommended
www.matinee.co.uk/
Matinee Sound & Vision.
Flash designers.
flash,graphics,recommended
www.n-i-a.com/
NIA Creative.
Flash designers.
flash,graphics,recommended
www.nrg.be/
NRG Design.
Although there isn't much content on this flash site, what there is is very nice. Shame the menu has to keep disappearing when you go anywhere.
recommended
pubweb.nwu.edu/~phb029/
Paul Brockmeyer.
Member of the HTML Writers Guild who seems to change his web site monthly. Does some nice stuff too.
references
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jwmitch/iso8859-1.html
Special HTML Characters.
All the special HTML characters - <, ©, ³ - and their character adn numerical descriptions.
references
www.w3.org/
World Wide Web Consortium.
Headquarters for web standards.
graphics
www.arttoday.com/
Art Today.
Thousands of graphics for downloading, as long as you pay the subscription.
colour
www.colormix.com/
ColorMix.
Mixes several web safe colours online via dithering, to form millions of colours.
applications,design
devshed.com/
Developer Shed.
Tools to assist in building a website.
scripts
www.zdnet.com/devhead/resources/scriptlibrary/
Devhead Scriptlibrary.
ZDNet's script library - javascript and PERL.
resources
www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
Doctor HTML.
Runs validation checks on individual web pages.
resources,flash
www.muinar.com/flashpro/
Flash Sounds.
Mailing list for professional flash designers.
resources
www.linkalarm.com/testdrive/
Link Alarm.
Free two month trial of this link checker for web sites.
resources,flash
194.229.103.130/qfi/asp/index.asp
Quintus Flash Index.
Lots of links to various flash resources.
resources,applications
www.webcompiler.com/
WebCompiler.
Turns a website into a single executable file for transportation and presentation.
scripts,programming,tutorials
www.itm.com/cgicollection/
CGI Collection.
CGI scripts, references, tutorials.
scripts,programming
www.cgi-resources.com/
CGI Resources Index.
Almost 2000 CGI scripts.
scripts,programming
dreamcatchersweb.com/scripts/
Dreamcatchers.
Several free scripts including counters, guest books etc.
scripts,programming
www.dynamicdrive.com/
Dynamic Drive DHTML Code Library.
Dynamic Drive DHTML Code Library
scripts,programming
www.javascripts.com/
Javascripts.com.
2000 scripts.
scripts,programming
www.scriptsearch.com/
Scriptsearch.com.
5500 CGI scripts.
scripts,programming
www.whatrain.com/examples/branding/wr.htm
WhatRain Branding Example.
Brand your page (similar to geocities).
design,tutorials
www.htmlgoodies.com
Htmlgoodies.com.
Tutorials on HTML, with some javascript, DHTML, XML etc.
design,resources,programming,links
www.pageresource.com/
The Web Design Resource.
HTML, DHTML, Javascript, CGI, search engine placement, design, and some links to free graphics and web page resources.