I thought it would be nice to share some of my sources, since so much has been shared with me on line,  to give credit where it is due as well as to help anyone who is making their own page by adding links to pages where some programs that I have found useful may be downloaded.

For links and information about other free programs, services and utilities to use on-line, please see our *User Friendly* page.   For New York based, Mallorca based, and other favorite links of mine please see bruixa's links page.  For music program and search links, please see bruixa's music page.

I do not recieve any compensation in any way from any of these sources for adding this information, I am doing it only because they are things I have found useful and believe that they may be useful to others as well.

WebMagic Designs...

If you don't have time to spend in making your own pages, need some help in designing your site, or even if you have already designed your site but need more publicity,  for example: getting your site reistered with various search engines... please feel free to e-mail me.

Use the links below to visit some of the sites I have designed and view my work, as you will see I am designing many different types of pages...

What is a Retreat? A retreat at La Serranía is an opportunity to break out of established patterns and refresh yourself with an inspiring experience that can change the way you see yourself, your work, your purpose.

It's a time to explore creative ideas with thoughtful people
in a nourishing environment.

www.laserrania.com

Cami de Ternelles s/n 07460 Pollença, Mallorca, Spain

A wonderful old mill house located near Pollenca town, a prestigious residential area in the north of Mallorca. There is a large swimming pool surrounded by terraces as well as a spacious workshop room for 20 persons, which is ideal for seminars and workshops. The property is available all year round for group retreats, individuals and conferences.   There is also a cottage and annexe available for holiday letting. 

www.cangauri.com

Products from North Africa

Wrought Iron and wooden furniture, lamps, carpets,
clothing, jewely, and many other items to choose from.

Pollensa, Mallorca, Spain
www.dragut.com

The charm of 'Turismo de interior': An inviting old house, situated in the very centre of the historic town of Pollença, which has been restored into a cosy little hotel. Enjoy a quiet atmosphere and friendly service during your stay in Mallorca.

www.sonsantjordi.com

A new company with three generations of building and restoration as its foundations. With diversity ranging from apartment, office blocks and modern chalets to the more eloquent form of construction; Restoration.

Having experience throughout Europe and as far as Australia, Balearic Art has consecrated its name as an emblem of appreciation for the architecture and character of old stone houses in the Balearic Islands and its neighbors.

www.balearicart.com

Masterconst S.L. is a Mallorquin company,  located in Palma,
with 10 years of  experience in construction, traditional
to modern, new construction or restoration.

www.masterconst.com

Your on-line doorway to Mallorca...  Where to go, what to do, Daily Events Calendar & Mallorca Guide, beaches, historical sites, Mallorca's rustic towns and cities...

CARPENTRY IN METAL AND ALUMINUM
FORGED IRON, STEEL FOR CONSTRUCTION

Ctra. Pollença - Port, km. 53,8
07460 POLLENSA, MAJORCA, SPAIN

www.ferrobuso.com

Through our multilingual team we are in a position to provide a personal and professional service, offering our clients the advantage of a worldwide customer base and high quality properties.  For top quality marketing, Engel & Völkers is the exclusive license holder of Sotheby’s International Realty in Germany, Mallorca and South Africa, a unique service.

www.mallorca-nord.com

Saroja's Painting Studio

Colourful oil paintings from Mediterranean landscapes from Saroja van der Stegen, a Dutch artist living in Mallorca for many years.

www.sarojasart.com

I did the original design for this site, but Saroja handles it all now, and it is very different than what I did originally, still I think it deserves a link here.
She has done an excellent job on her site!

As for Making your own Pages...what I started with was Microsoft Front Page Express, a program packaged in with Internet Explorer...

FrontPage Express
makes everything very simple,you can edit on the page itself, or in the html color-coded file, I love this feature because html errors show up right away and are easy to fix.  (this version of frontpage is complicated to use if you have any Java scripts or applets in your pages) All my editing is off-line and is easily uploaded at the Geocities File Manager site, which has an FTP thingy called...easy upload (and it really is), or you can use and FTP client, such as WS_ftp, which is what I normally use.

Although I first put this site up in Geocities, I have since gotten my own domain and use a web hosting service called HOSTPRO, which I am very happy with.   I've set up the majority of my clients with them.   They are customer friendly, reliable and growing.

I am using FrontPage '98, one of my favorite features is the hyperlink status check... it shows you any broken links in your site.  There are really a lot of advantages to this program.   If anyone has tried FP2000, and has time to send an e-mail, I'd like to know if there are any major differences between the two programs.

Now, after you've gotten your page together and have published it on the web you'll want to check out several points, such as loading time & image file size, html code errors, spelling, popularity, and link status... just go to the Website Garage for a free tune-up!!!!

My friend Sherry is also a website designer, you can also check out her site:

North by Northwest Web Site Design

She has a variety of services to offer to help you get your page on line and in the engines.

Tips....

Here is a very cool and new tip that works with IE5....
ok, you make an icon that has something to do with your site content, unless something has changed, it has to be 16 x 16 pixels and 16 colors, You save this icon file with the name favicon and you upload it into every directory on your site. When I·E5 users visit and bookmark your site YOUR ICON will appear next to the title instead of that little blue e...  Think about how that will make your site stand out in someones favorites list!

If you want to link to another url, and don't want to type in the whole thing and maybe make a mistake that you don't realize you've made until you've already uploaded the page and find out the link doesn't work, just open the page you want to link to in your Browser, go to either FrontPage program and run the cursor over your text-link, click on the edit hyperlink icon and the url of the page you want to link to will appear in the little window automatically, accept and.......voila.....you're linked!

Don't forget to use the target="_blank" or " _newwindow" code in your html, that is... force the browser to open the page in a new window if it will take the visitor away from your site!  There is a difference between the two codes... the _newwindow code will open a new window, but after that all links from the main page will open in that window.  The _blank code will open another window for every link that has that code as a target.

I find many things to be easier with FrontPage '98, although the font controls can be a little troublesome. They will appear differently in Netscape and other browsers than in IE, so it is best to preview in both browsers major before uploading the files.  Most free and paid Website hosts will accept FP exstensions now.

There is a separate program called Image Composer, also by MS, which comes with the full FP98 program.  I use this along with Corel Presentations, several Ulead and Xara programs to make backgrounds, fix photos, create gifs (Ms gif animator comes with Image Composer), and have found a little free program called jpgopti for compressing jpeg files in realtime, the ulead products, such as Webrazor or Smart Saver also work well for this as well as regular and animated gifs.

For excellent free programs to use for downloads and web searches among other things, and links to free software sites,  please see my User Friendly page.  For a midi files search engine, please see my bruixa's music page.

Good luck!!

Credits....

Any lyrics, poetry or graphics by others are noted as such and are available for personal use only.  All buttons and gifs providing links were created by and are the property of the pages they link to.   If anyone has a complaint about anything on our pages, please e-mail me, bruixa, and I will do my best to find a solutionto the problem.

Some graphics in these pages and other sites I designed by Webmagic are from the IMSI Master Clips collection, some from the Corel Office 7 Clipart collection, others I have found on the web as free for use. (thankyou)
Most of them I made myself using the programs I mentioned above.

The background on Skye's Corner is a drawing by my son of a character from the Dragon Ball cartoon series.

All other backgrounds are WebMagic designs.

All other text, verse, images on this site are property of Webmagic are Copyrighted as such accordingly, and may not be used without permission.

*Brightest Blessings*

bruixa

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