ADDITIONAL WEB DESIGN RESOURCES

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CEA-SPECIFIC RESOURCES

• Class Chat Room
• Uploading Web Pages to the CEA Server

GENERAL WEB PAGE DESIGN RESOURCES

Animation

• The Amazing Instant Online Animated Banner Maker
• How to Make GIF Animations
• Internet Gallery of GIF Animation
• Macromedia Flash (download trial version)

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Background & Text Colors

• Background Colors
• ColorCenter
• ColorMaker
• HTML Background Color Selector

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Books

• HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide (Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press, 2000)
• HTML 4 Unleashed: Professional Reference Edition (Rick Darnell, Sams.net, Dec. 97)
• Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4, Professional Reference Edition (Laura Lemay, Sams.net, Feb. 2000)

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Clip Art

• Clipart.Com
• Cooltext (create banners, buttons)
• Free Graphics Providers
• Graphics Cupboard
• The Graphic Station (lots of bullets, bars, icons, etc.)

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Editors

• BBEdit Lite, (Bare Bones Software), free, Macintosh
• Dreamweaver, (Macromedia), 30-day free trial, Macintosh, Windows.
• HotDog Web Editor, (Sausage Software), versions for Win 3.1, Win95
• Adobe PageMill, (Adobe), versions for Win95, WinNT, Macintosh
• Microsoft FrontPage, (Microsoft), versions for Win95, WinNT, Macintosh
  
• Netscape Communicator 4+ (includes "Composer," web-development tool)

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FTP (file transfer) Programs

• Fetch, free, for Macintosh
• WS_FTP (Limited Edition), free, for Windows

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Graphics/Images

• AndyArt
• BoZine Web Graphics Help Pages
• Image Alignment on HTML Pages
• Image Alignment Using Tables
• Images for the Web: Types & Tips
• Linking With Images
• lynda.com homegurrrl page
• Making Your Web Pages Load Faster
• Single Pixel GIF Trick
• Webmonkey: graphics_fonts collection

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HTML Guides & Web Design Tutorials

• The Barebones Guide to HTML
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Beyond the Bones of HTML
• Creating a Web Page (Rachel Smith, Sonoma State University)
• HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide (Project Cool)
• HTML Writers' Guild - HTML Resources
• The WWW Help Page
• Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages (Maricopa)

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Resume/Portfolio Samples

• Design Portfolios
• Graphic Design Resumes
• Karla Frizler Octavio's Dynamic Online Resume

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Style Guides/Web Design Tips

• Bobby (make sure your pages are easily viewed by any user)
• Doctor HTML (Web page analysis tool)
• How Now Top Ten
• Put Your HTML to the Test (CNET)
• Web Accessibility Initiative (universal design issues, disabled viewers)
  
• Web Authoring Services
  (Make sure your Web pages can be viewed by the widest possible audience)
• Web Design Tips
• Web Pages That Suck
• Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide

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Tables

• Netscape Table Sampler

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Web Page Design & Layout

The following site includes links to information on the following topics: color information, commercial books, graphics, HTML, imagemaps, programming, validation/checkers, etc.
• Yahoo's World Wide Web Page Creation Links

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