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Computer Links

All the places I've found useful for using computers.
Links for free Software are now on a separate page.

General Computing
Blogging Sites Books Broadband Browsers Christmas Graphics Companies Creating Animated Images Email Excel Forum Hosting Forums Fun Sites Gizmos Graphics Guide Sites Information Internet Access	ISPs Links Magazines Microsoft Updates Monitor Setup Motherboards Networking Online Learning Order Tracking Other Peoples Sites Partitioning Pictures Picture Hosts Printers	Privacy & Security Recording DVD's on VHS Reviews Search Engines Security Selling Smilies Spoofs TV Output Wedding Graphics Windows Things Unlocking DVDs Viruses Useful Sites
Website Development
Website Browser Bugs Website Copyright Protection Website Creation Website Design Website Development Sites Website Domain Names Website Examples Website Getting Known & Visitor Analysis Website Hosting	Website Hosting in which country Website Image Creation Website Languages Website Programming Website Search Facility Website Testing Website Templates

General Computing

Blogging Sites

LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/

Books

See also Website Programming for programming resources.

Companies

Books2Door - Loads of low priced computer books (based in Leicester uk)
http://books2door.com

E-Books - FREE !

This is absolutely fantastic. Download a book and see whether you want to buy the paper version. Or just find the bit of information you want free !
Personally I don't like sitting in front of a computer reading a book. So this is a brilliant sales technique.

BodyShop - 5 Teach Yourself books
http://bodyshop.dyndns.org/Sams-books/index.htm

Eastasp - With book covers. With a search facility. Excellent.
XML Bible, PC Home Networking etc
http://www.eastasp.com/en-us/ebook/default.aspx?tagIndex=2

Electronic Library –
http://www.elib.hbi.ir/

Grokking the GIMP - The online version of the book I bought on using GIMP
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

Intelligentedu - Links to places with free e-books - A HUGE list, with a Search facility. A blog style, regularly updated :)
http://www.intelligentedu.com/blogs/Free_Computer_Books.php
16 Free Programming and Web Development Ebooks - From C++, C#, PHP (several), MySQL, Perl.
http://www.intelligentedu.com/blogs/post/Free_Computer_Books/116/16-Free-Programming-and-Web-Development-Ebooks
27 Free Technical Computer Books
http://www.intelligentedu.com/blogs/post/Free_Computer_Books/178/27-Free-Technical-Computer-Books

Linuxtopia - Free on-line Linux Books and Tutorials (Perl for example)
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/index.html

Math Thinking - A table of languages. Loads of Perl, XML books. With a search facility.
http://maththinking.com/boat/languageBooksIndex.html
List of other free book sites: http://maththinking.com/boat/languageBooksIndex.html

MCP Library Collection
http://ssuet.edu.pk/taimoor/books/
Including things like: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop GRAPHICS & WEB PAGE DESIGN
http://ssuet.edu.pk/taimoor/books/1-57521-125-4/index.htm

My Portal Arab American University - A big list of computer related free e-books (for example several Perl books)
http://portal.aauj.edu/portal_resources/downloads.jsp

O'Reilly Open Books. HTML & pdf versions.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
eg Practical mod-perl: http://modperlbook.org/pdf/index.html (.tar.gz is 12MB)

Project Gutenberg (Thanks MikenAngie on my forum)
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Theoracles_Engineers Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/theoracles_engineers/

ulilgamal - Loads of books of all sorts on here PHP, Perl, hacks etc)
http://akakom.ac.id/~ulilgamal/buku-online/

A couple of Perl books (one to get)
ftp://217.16.26.44/Book_eng/

Java free e-books

http://www.roxie.org/books/bleeding/
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
http://www.javacommerce.com/tutorial/jbook/index.html
http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/BasicJava1/index.html#contents

Perl

Personal Review of Perl Books - superb :)
http://www.northbound-train.com/perlbooks.html

Effective Perl Programming - A brilliant read for becoming a Perl master.
on Amazon from £12.99

Learning Perl - More tutorial style
on Amazon from £16

Perl Cookbook (964 pages) - A great book, with a lot in it, but maybe for those who do a lot of Perl
on Amazon from £22

Programming Perl - The original Perl reference book.
on Amazon from £20

PHP

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites (Visual QuickPro Guides S.) (624 pages)
on Amazon for £11.24

PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide (450 pages)
on Amazon for £11.21

PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition (960 pages) - 2x very good reviews
on Amazon for £23.67

Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional (736 pages) - 3x Good reviews
on Amazon for £16.50

Advanced PHP Programming (650 pages) - 2x good reviews. Sounds very good for advanced stuff.
on Amazon for £24.09

Essential PHP Security (only 124 pages) - 1x good review.
on Amazon for £13.83 (rather expensive for such a small book - but maybe worth it)

Plug-ins

Programming Netscape Plug-ins by Zan Oliphant 400 pages Jul 1996 £12.99
With CD. Netscape only. 1-2 days
The online book
http://docs.rinet.ru/Plugi/

Netscape Developer's Guide to Plugins by Doug Young 494 pages Jan 1997 £20.69
This mentions Netscape & IE. With CD. 1-2 days.

Building Plug-in Applications by Michael Morgan 536 pages Jul 1996 £30.95
This mentions Netscape & IE. With CD. 1-2 days. (10-15 days from US only !)
The electronic library description of the book (downloadable book 2.51MB)
http://www.elib.hbi.ir/computer/office/0789708442.htm
On Amazon.com Marketplace
List of used books

XML

Perl & XML - covers lots of XML modules, but maybe a bit thinly
on Amazon from £16.76

XML Complete by Sybex Inc, 976 pages
on Amazon from £1.31 in the UK

XML in a Nutshell by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W.Scott Means
2x chapters on XPath
on Amazon
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut/ with sample contents, including chap 9 on XPath. Not really what I want.

XML in Theory and Practice by Chris D. Bates
on Amazon

XPath Kick Start: Navigating XML with XPath 1.0 and 2.0 (360 or 600 pages)
Dedicated to XPath
On Sam Publishing with two sample chapters (384 pages, Dec 2003)
On ebay (a different edition - odd)
on Amazon from £13.29 new from the UK <- Got from pcs-books for £15.96 total
On Pearsons with contents list

Xpath 2.0 Programmer's Reference Xpath 2.0 Programmer's Reference by KAY
on Amazon £16.79

Broadband

ADSL Guide
http://www.adslguide.org.uk

Browsers

Sites that may help your surfing experience

Chami – How to disable or enable JavaScript
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/021398I.html

Mozilla Bookmarks – Places of interest for people using Mozilla browsers
http://sandbox.pixelpoems.com/til/mozfavs/

Cabling

See also Networking

Physical things. To connect two machines together you need a cross-over cable.

ertyo - By Steven Nikkel
A great description of how to make an ethernet cable
http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html

HomeNetHelp - All about Home Networking
A neat description of how to connect stuff.
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-ethernet-crossover.asp

JohnsCloset - How to connect two machines to each other
http://www.johnscloset.net/wiring/crossover.html

MakeItSimple - A down to earth "to to make a cable" description
http://www.makeitsimple.com/how-to/dyi_crossover.htm

Christmas Graphics

Google “christmas graphics”

Christmas Graphics – Free to use
http://www.christmas-graphics.com/

JSMagic – This is quite enchanting
A clever combination of a real picture and animated graphics
http://jsmagic.net/scenes/

Google Images (santa sleigh reindeer)
http://images.google.co.uk

InForum – Christmas decorations
http://www.in-forum.com/specials/christmaslights/?page=nominations

OldJim – Great example of an animated Xmas scene
http://www.oldjim.com/christmas/chris1.html

Retha's Camping Collection
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/3913/Camping3.htm

The Ultimate Christmas Site
http://members.tripod.com/~newyearseve/

Weilnachtsarchiv – All in German, but some nice animated things
http://www.weihnachtsarchiv.de

Yuleloveit – Long list of midi xmas music
http://www.yuleloveit.com/midis/midis3.htm

Guide Sites

Adult Webmaster Newsletter
http://www.adultwebmasternewsletter.com/

Essential free software for the web
This site also contains a lot of good links.
http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/resource/basics.htm

MaxPC HTML Tutorials
http://www.maxpc.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?subsectionid=706&subsubsectionid=528

Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Writing HTML – a tutorial for creating web pages (downloadable)
This looks really good !!!
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

PageTutor.com (downloadable)
http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/index.html

Web Decorations - Site offering web site design with examples of their work
http://www.web-decorations.com/examples2.htm

Web Style Guide
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/

w3 - Web page creation guide with lots of links as well
http://w3.trib.com/~dwood/nextstep.html

Companies

I have used all except 'choice stationary'. The customer service you get is to some extent pot luck, so it's no good me detailing my experiences. I've had most problems with delivery. A combination of websites not giving the delivery information and courier companies not finding us or being slow.

Acer – A great website with lots of information, including quite detailed technical specifications
Full price list pdf file.
http://www.acer.co.uk

AcerNotebooks – The cheapest source I've found so far, and lots of information.
http://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/

CCL Computers
http://www.cclcomputers.biz/

Choice Stationary
http://www.choicestationery.com

Crucial
http://www.crucial.com/

Dabs
http://www.dabs.com/uk

Ebuyer (probably the cheapest, and best site)
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/home/
If an item is missing from your delivery, go to:
1. contact us, eNotes, open eNotes, then After-Sales and then "Missing..." !
2. Or Accounts, eNotes

PCNextday (probably the best service & postage costs)
http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/

Savastore – Watford Electronics
http://www.savastore.com/

Scan
http://www.scan.co.uk/

SVP – Media, printer cartridges etc (Thanks Mutznuts on my forum)
http://www.svp.co.uk/

Vadim
http://www.vadim.co.uk

WStore
http://www.wstore.co.uk/

7DayShop
http://www.7dayshop.com

Creating Animated Images

Zisman – Good explanation
http://www.zisman.ca/Animate/

Email

Email address checking script – Enter an email address, click OK, and it will tell you whether it's OK.
Simple, quick, very good.
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/mailcheck.html

FastMail.fm
http://www.fastmail.fm/

Free Email Address – A list of free email providers with quite long descriptions
http://www.free-email-address.com/

GMail - Google Mail (I've got one – thanks Ailsa. Two now – Thanks Mutz !)
1000MB storage
http://gmail.google.com/
Getting started
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/start.html
Support
http://gmail.google.com/support/
How to import addresses into my contacts list
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8301

Hotmail
http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2

Web2Mail – Allows access to a number of your email accounts from one place !
http://www.mail2web.com/

Yahoo.com (I use this one)
http://mail.yahoo.com/

Yahoo.co.uk (I also use this one !)
http://uk.geocities.yahoo.com/

Excel

FGCU
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/excel/

USD
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

Forum Hosting

ExBoard

This is a bit confusing. I couldn't work out how to register with my own forum !

EZ Board
http://www.ezboard.com
Help
http://www.ezboard.com/help/index.html
Help Forum
http://go.ezboard.com/bezboard

Hyperboards

This suffers from annoying pop-ups, and a number of bugs.

Forum hosting
Click on “Signup”, fill in the form, click “Confirm”, then look at your email.
http://www.hyperboards.com/index.html

Skins & hacks for Hyperboard forums
http://skins.hyperboards2.com/

Hyperboards - Help
http://help.hyperboards.com/

Hyperboards Support Forum
http://support.hyperboards.com/

PHPBB – Forum software
http://www.phpbb.com/

Rapid Forums

This looks very professional. Loads of options. It's fast.
Being based in Germany is a bit of a problem (some of the manuals are in German !)
I'm using this for my forum.

Rapid Forums
http://www.rapidforum.com

Support Forum
http://1.rapidforum.com

Compendium
http://kompendium.rapidforum.com

RapidChat
http://www.rapidchat.com/english.php

RapidFTP – All in German
http://rapidftp.de/

Forums

AssociatePrograms - Interesting for website designers
http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/index.php
Web hosting: http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/forum29.html

Boards IE
http://www.boards.ie/

CCL Computer forum
http://forums.cclonline.com/

CNET
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7600_7-5565323-1.html

dbforum – Covers all the programming languages
http://www.dbforums.com/index.php

DreamInCode – C++, ASP, Java, HTML, Graphics etc
http://home.dreamincode.net/

EvrSoft Forum - 5000 members and quite a few website development areas
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/

Forum4Designers - This forum has a huge range of topics.

Topics from webmasters, graphic design (including GIMP), web design, XML, multimedia and browser support
http://www.forum4designers.com/

Guys from Rolla - ASP Message Board
http://www.aspmessageboard.com/forum

Host Matrix
http://www.forums.hostmatrix.org/

HTML Help - on HTML CSS etc
http://www.htmlhelp.com/bbs/

ISP Review – General computer stuff & ISPs
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/index.php?

Perl Monks
http://www.perlmonks.org/

MozillaZine – Mozilla products forum – Looks very good, and well used.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/

Note Book Forums - A great forum for Laptop owners
http://www.notebookforums.com

Ozzu - Hosting, Programming etc
http://www.ozzu.com/

ShortMedia Forum – (Thanks Mutznuts1 on my forum)
A very pretty and well used forum on just about everything to do with computers.
http://www.short-media.com/forum

Slashdot - "News for nerds. Stuff that matters", and great forum.
The forum continues from each article. So one of these content management systems. Oh, apparently they use Template Toolkit :)
http://slashdot.org/

TheTechGuys – General computer use forum questions and answers
http://forums.thetechguys.com/index.php?

T3Mag – loads on here – Operating systems, hardware, software, HTML......
http://www.t3mag.co.za/modules.php?name=Forums

WebDesignHelper - 547 members
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/single_pages/forum/forum1/forum1.shtml

YaBB – Yet another Bulletin Board (used by some RapidForum setups)
http://www.yabbforum.com/
Help
http://www.yabbforum.com/YaBBHelp

Fun Sites

Fetch Fido – Lots of games and fun sites – This is extremely good & funny !
Look under flash fun for some really funny pages
http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/menu/games_menu.htm

Muglets - – Add someone's head to this bopping girl
http://www.muglets.com

Poplockin – Add someone's head to this bopping bloke
http://www.poplockin.com

Pornolize – Spoof a website
http://www.pornolize.com

Gizmos

Things you can add to your website.

Ticket Factory – Add countdowns to special dates on your forum signature etc. (Thanks Nonie on my forum)
http://tickerfactory.com

And how to add it to your desktop (Thanks Joelle on my forum)
http://daisypath.com/FAQ_2.html#1

Wunderground – Christchurch NZ weather
http://www.wunderground.com/geo/BannerPromo/global/stations/93780.html

Dynamic Signatures

Dynasig
http://www.dynasig.net/

MSFN - Forum with loads on this
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=77

MyDeskTopHelp - This allows you to display random messages in forum posts (or on a website), including the viewers IP address and other computer info. This is good.
http://www.mydesktophelp.com

MyLinkPanel - A poll signature !
http://www.mylinkpanel.com/sigs/index.php

Whatismy
http://whatismy.net/

Searches for your website

You can use these to add search facilities to your website

Google
Note: You can only search domains like google.com, not a sub-domain like mine !
http://www.google.co.nz/services/websearch.html

SearchNZ
http://www.searchnz.co.nz/webmasters/addsearch.php

TrafficSwarm
http://www.trafficswarm.com

Graphics

Picture, backgrounds etc.
Try searching for "background images"

abcWebworx - Backgrounds (15 pages of just green), borders, etc
http://www.abcwebworx.com

Angelfire free images
https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/imagebrowser/

Animation Factory – Gifs and lots more - BUT I can't find the free samples !
http://www.animationfactory.com/

Backgrounds Archive
http://www.backgroundsarchive.com/

BigFoto – Nice big free photos
http://www.bigfoto.com/themes

Blacket9 - Pretty background borders
http://blackat9.tripod.com/

Boogie Jack – Backgrounds - including neat edging
http://www.boogiejack.com/free_graphics.html

Cepolina - Free for personal & commercial use
http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/

ChristopherHolt
http://www.christopherholt.com/subjects/free-pictures.htm

Daisy Baxter - A long list of sources of graphics
http://www.daisybaxter.com/clipart_images.htm

fiddlelily - background gifs
http://www.fiddlelily.com/gifs.htm

FreeFoto - Free for personal use only
http://www.freefoto.com

Free Graphics - Really pretty dividers
http://mem.tcon.net/dorothy/

FreeImages (uk)
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

FreeImages
http://www.freeimages.com/

Geek Philosopher – Amazing free photographs
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
Snow scenes - beautiful
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/bkgSnow.htm
More free sites - Good list of other free sites
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/bkgLinksPhotos.htm

GRSites - Backgrounds, a button & logo maker. You can buy the lot for about US$8. Lots here.
http://www.grsites.com

icimages - Totally free images in categories (includes things like fountain pens in the stationary section)
http://ftp2.dns-systems.net/~paulhopkins/icimages/index.htm

Icon & Doll Maker – This is novel ! You can create your own doll ! With a forum
http://www.eagle.ca/~diane/index44.html

ImageAfter
http://www.imageafter.com

JulioMac - Truly beautiful designs of gold frames, some with colours
If you use these images put the logo on the page and this link http://www.juliomac.com/picfr1.html
See terms of use on his site.
http://www.juliomac.com/picfr2.html

NZL1 – 120 mainly sci-fi avatars
http://nzl1.tripod.com/avatars.htm

PCbyPaul - WP Clipart
http://www.pcbypaul.com/wpclipart/tools/

Purple Glitter – Free backgrounds
Lots of amazing background designs by category (like wood, water etc)
http://www.purpleglitter.com/backgrounds/

SevenOaksArt - Very nice site.
http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/index.htm

VirtualHorses - Clip Art of horses (I can't find any images !)
http://www.virtualhorses.com/graphics/

WebDesignerHelper - 420 icons (also fonts, arrows, buttons and clip art)
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/design_elements/web_graphics/icons_1to30/icons_1to30.shtml

WebShots
This is the best resource I've found for masses of big pictures of all sorts

You're limited to 5x photo downloads/day free of the professional photos.
There's no limit on the community photos submitted by people & there are huge pics
You have to register to get some photos & download their security software (2.2MB)
You can still get screen captures with Irfanview !
You get quite a few features with the program such as changing desktop images & a desktop calender.
http://www.webshots.com/
Download software here:
http://www.webshots.com/html/win95nt.html

Borders

Search for "border graphics"
abcwebworx - A beautiful "Fantasy border/paper".
http://www.abcwebworx.com/borders/index.htm

Online Learning

Apex Online University - US$30/month - A really good set of Quicktime lessons (with video and speech, that even work quite well on dial-up).
This is the home page, but I'm finding it difficult to get to all the free stuff, and the huge lists of what is available if you join. I suggest instead you click on one of the subject links below.
http://apex.vtc.com/
Photoshop
http://apex.vtc.com/photoshop-7.php
Programming
http://apex.vtc.com/prog.php

Free downloadable online books on business on the net.
I'm going to try and ignore what to me is US style sales hype, and try and get some useful info out of them !
Descriptions of the books: http://freetrial.sitesell.com/
Download page: http://freetrial.sitesell.com/sitesell-downloads.html#PM

Order Tracking

Initial City Link
http://www.city-link.co.uk/track_parcel/track_parcel.php

ParcelForce Worldwide
http://afis.postoffice.co.uk:8080/Parcelforce/ExtraVision/exLogon.asp?

Other Peoples Sites

Ask Dave Taylor - A range of questions and answers
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/

Boogie Jack – Free graphics, HTML tutorials and loads of other stuff for webmasters
http://www.boogiejack.com/index.html

Cameron Adams – He did the Google Rank Calculator
Some interesting articles on things like where to place JavaScript.
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/

Christian Kreibich – At Cambridge University
http://www.whoop.org/

DesignIT – NZ company with a really nifty website design (moveable menu system)
http://www.designit.co.nz/

Ian Laurenson in Christchurch NZ – OpenOffice Macros (Iannz on www.oooforum,org)
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/

IFelix – The same idea as my site – putting what you've learnt about computers somewhere you'll always be able to get to it. Not much of relevance to me at the moment.
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/

Jody Mitoma with GamersRiot– (Thanks pleccy2000 on my forum)
A great looking site with lists of free and affordable services, like web hosting.
Also links to tutorials for programming and graphics etc.
http://www.gamersriot.com/internets_best.php

John Walker (software, science, misc & fantastic images of Earth)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/

Karl Groves - Created "Simple PHP Contact Form System" used by DirectAdmin.
Various interesting articles.
http://www.karlcore.com
The Top 20 Web Mistakes Small Businesses Make: http://www.karlcore.com/articles/article.php?id=1

Matthew Waite - Electronic & computing resource (connector pinouts etc)
http://freespace.virgin.net/matt.waite/

Memestreams lclough23 - Blog of computer/science stuff
http://www.memestreams.net/users/lclough23

Peter-Paul Koch (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – CSS & Javascript tips & tricks
This has loads of useful stuff on Javascript in particular.
http://www.quirksmode.org/

Paul Hutchinson (NZ)
Interesting online webpage editor demo.
http://www.pcdev.co.nz

Paulo Silva (in Portugal) – Satellite TV and stuff
http://paulojmdsilva.no.sapo.pt/indexENG.htm

Richard Bowles – An excellent site for learning website creation, Java etc
http://richardbowles.tripod.com/

Sarah King - Web Data on Demand - Kiwi
http://www.hostultra.com/~data/index.php

Stuff U Can Use – By NetChicken in Christchurch, New Zealand
Good tutorials on things like using CSS, and free software links. Plus a forum
http://stuffucanuse.com

Tim Seifert's Website - Like mine (very good) !
Good guide to creating web sites (HTML, CSS, good moan about bad site layout)
http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/tim_seifert/start.html

Partitioning

See My Partitioning Page & My Freesoftware Page for more information.

Archer's Hard Disk Management
An interesting description of hard disk partitioning and some useful links to free software.
http://diligent.tripod.com/harddisk.htm

NTFS - Various information on the NTFS system.
http://www.ntfs.com/faq.htm

Trombetti – Partitioning advice etc
http://www.trombettworks.com/

Acer Laptop

Acer partitions and XP CD policy - About FAT partitions and restore disks.
Includes info on changing the setupp.ini file to retail/OEM
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=117562

How to create an OEM Windows install disk from a retail version, so the activation key works
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=102904

More discussion about converting to NTFS
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=97540

PCW Discussion - A warning about recovery CDs
http://interactive.pcw.co.uk/2005/11/warning_to_thos.html

People

Someone I remember with gratitude for his fantastic lectures.
Henry Ledgard

About Henry Ledgard
http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~ledgard/home/author.htm

Josh Ledgard blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2004/04/28/122784.aspx

Reviews

Find out what people think of 'it' or what test have been done, before you buy.

Best DVD Burning - List of qualities and makes - Very detailed and useful
http://www.best-dvd-burning-software-reviews.com/best-blank-dvd-media.asp

CDR Zone - Reviews of DVD related stuff
http://www.cdr-zone.com/reviews/
List of DVD media from best to worst
http://www.cdr-zone.com/articles/recordable_dvd_quality_page_1.html

Ciao
http://www.ciao.co.uk/

ITReviews
http://www.itreviews.co.uk

Romulus2
http://www.romulus2.com/

Toms Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com

TopTenReviews
http://www.toptenreviews.com/

Hard Drives

Search for "hard drive reviews"

Storage Review
http://www.storagereview.com/

Magazines

Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE) Direct Book Service
http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/shopdoor.html

Micro Mart
http://www.micromart.co.uk/

NetGuide – A good set of articles on website design to all sorts of computer related stuff, and a download facility
http://www.netguide.co.nz

PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com

Personal Computer World (PCW) / ComputerActive
http://www.pcw.co.uk/
Group website
http://www.vnunet.com/Home
For subsciptions
http://www.subscription.co.uk/help/vnu/

Microsoft Updates

About GDI updates (13 Oct 2004)
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx

Monitor Setup

DryCreekPhoto - Monitor Calibration and Profiling (This is much more comprehensive than the others)
Some useful links as well.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm
Including this black point test
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/Calibration/monitor_black.htm

Living with Bugs - Calibration of Your Computer's Monitor
Simple description of how to adjust brightness & contrast using a grey scale chart of the page.
http://www.livingwithbugs.com/adj_mon.html

Lenswork - The photographs don’t look good! What's wrong?
http://www.lenswork.com/calibrate.htm

Web Page Design for Designers - Optimising your monitor for Web design
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdpal4.htm
Optimising your monitor for Web design 2 - This is a very good test of your monitor.
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdgamma.htm

ekimsw - LCD Testing - Allows you to see dead pixels
http://www.ekimsw.com/lcdtest/

Motherboards

Gigabyte 7NNXPV – Dual monitor output
http://uk.giga-byte.com/
Spec for my motherboard
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-7NNXPV.htm

Networking

See also Cabling

How to get several machines talking to each other.

Eskimo - A long and interesting diary
http://www.eskimo.com/~webguy/service/ics.html

Hackfix
http://www.hackfix.org/software/configure/zone.html

Hardware - Forum thread on setting up ZoneAlarm for a LAN
http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive125-2005-2-147798.html
Try this: http://www.webcamz.myby.co.uk/zonealarm/firewalls.html

How to setup Windows XP
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/HomeNet-Win2kXP.asp

Cogeco - Long detailed description of using Zone Alarm
http://www.cogeco.com/files/pdf/internetconn_userguides/za.pdf

Commands

To display NetBIOS nametable: nbtstat -n

IP Addresses

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 <- I think this one is normal with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
I think 0 and 255 are reserved, so you should set it to: 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.255.254

These do not work. When I did nbtstat -n, I found the desktop IP and laptop IP.
It's really 169.254.xxx.xxx
By adding a trusted zone in Zone Alarm for the opposite machine, it works.
If you look in Zone Alarm for each computer, you can read it's IP address. Just enable that address on the other machine as a trusted zone.

About 169.254.xxx.xxx
http://www.computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/22962.html

This says that 169.254.xxx.xxx is the correct range !
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1427&page=12

CISCO - A detailed description of IP addresses
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/atm/l2020/2020r21x/planning/appndxa.htm

DUX Computer Digest - IP Addresses used on private LANs
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/privip.htm

TLDP - A short summary
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/addressing-the-lan.html

Pictures

Astronomy Pictures

Astronomy Picture of the Day Searchable Archive
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search

GRIN – Great Images in Nasa
There's a choice of picture size, from good to huge
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov

JSC Digital Image Collection (free to use with acknowledgement and some content restrictions)
Johnson Space Center
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/

Nasa
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

Nasa Image Exchange
http://nix.nasa.gov/

NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

General

FreeFoto
http://www.freefoto.com

Picture Newsletter
http://www.picture-newsletter.com/

US Fish & Wildlife Service
http://images.fws.gov/

Picture Hosts

Web Hosting Sites for Pictures/Vids

CashMoneyUploads - They pay you when people look at your pics/video etc !
http://www.cashmoneyuploads.com/

Freeserve - For photos
http://photos.freeserve.com/

GlowFoto
http://www.glowfoto.com/

ImageEvent (Only a 21 day free trial period)
http://www.imageevent.com/

ImageShack (instant without registering, or register to have more control)
http://www.imageshack.us/

ImageStation
http://www.imagestation.com

ImageVenue - 1.5MB max file size, unlimited bandwidth/storage, hot linking
http://www.imagevenue.com/

ofoto (Thanks pleccy2000 on my forum)
http://www.ofoto.com/
Uploading software from here:
http://www.ofoto.com/downloads/ofotonow_setup.exe

Photobox
http://www.photobox.co.uk

Photobucket - This works fine (I use this a lot)
You can hot-link to this site.
http://www.photobucket.com/

Photodump
http://www.photodump.com

Snapfish
http://www.snapfish.com/registration

Streamload - They do a free service and larger pay services. Pics, video, mp3s etc.
http://www.streamload.com

TinyPic
http://tinypic.com/

UltraShare - Files up to 30MB (like photobucket but no login)
http://www.ultrashare.net/

UpLoadCenter - for vids & mp3 I think (in German)
http://www.uploadcenter.to/

VillagePhotos
http://www.villagephotos.com/

Webshots
http://www.webshots.com

Privacy & Security

Hiding Your IP Address

Check your IP address here
http://megawx.aws.com/support/faq/software/ip.asp

Nice readable description of your options
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/howto.htm

Steganos Internet Anonym 5 (from PCW DVD July 2004)

Location of IP

Geobytes - This is the best I've seen (Thanks AndyA on my forum)
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

Insucure (use either Nmap or Superscan)
http://www.insecure.org/
Webattack
http://www.webattack.com/

Maxmind ($20 for 50,000 queries)
http://www.maxmind.com/

Youngzsoft - just enter the IP address and it uses the whois to find the location
http://www.youngzsoft.net/ip2location/index.php

Privacy

All Net Tools Forum
Forum

Anonymity Checker
http://www.anonymitychecker.com/page1.html

Anonymizer
There is a free service (with restrictions) that allow you to get to a web page via their server.
http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/snoop.cgi

Firefox – Switch Proxy extension
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?category=Privacy
Explanation
http://jgillick.nettripper.com/switchproxy/
Jeremy's Mozilla Extensions
http://jgillick.nettripper.com/

Leader
http://leader.ru/secure/who.html

Privacy - Various aspects of privacy on the net
http://privacy.net/

proxys4all - List of environment checkers
http://proxys4all.cgi.net/tools.html

rewebber
http://www.rewebber.de/

Stay Invisible – Checks your anonymity
http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/test_your_ip_nocache.

TamoSoft - Proxy Server anonymity test
http://www.tamos.com/index.shtml

Webring - Home page
http://dir.webring.com/rw

Proxy Servers (free)

Check it with: http://www.myipaddress.com/

http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html - This lists type of proxy (ie transparent/anonymous)

PublicProxyServers - This lists type of proxy (ie transparent/anonymous)
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl

http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

Others:

http://www.proxy4free.com

http://www.publicproxyservers.com

http://www.anonymitychecker.com

http://www.proxz.com

http://www.digitalcybersoft.com/ProxyList/

http://www.checker.freeproxy.ru

http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/

http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_proxy.htm

Information

Acronyms – Wonder what QTS stands for ? Look here
http://www.acronyms.ch

AV Forums (audio-visual)
http://www.avforums.com

Bandwidth Place – Test your connections speed (3x free per month)
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

Computer Cops – Computer security, including a forum
http://www.computercops.biz

Computer Hope - Various articles and a forum
http://www.computerhope.com

Computing.Net
http://www.computing.net/

Cyber Tech Help
http://www.cybertechhelp.com

Developer (Debugging a Java Program with Eclipse)
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/2221711

Experts Exchange
http://www.experts-exchange.com

Google Answers - Need an answer to a question ? You can look at previous questions and answers
and if you wish, pay for answers to your question.
http://answers.google.com/answers/

Help Site
http://help-site.com

Help2Go – Computer Problem Solvers (with forum)
http://www.help2go.com/index.php

InfoHelp of New Zealand – Links for computer/software things.
http://www.infohelp.co.nz/software.html

Java World
http://www.javaworld.com

MaxPC
http://www.maxpc.co.uk/

Midi How To
http://www.midi-howto.com

Nutrocker.co.uk
http://www.nutrocker.co.uk/

Overclockers.com
http://www.overclockers.com/

Linda's Computer Stop - How to delete all unnecessary temporary files (and other things)
http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/deletingtempfiles.htm

PC PitStop – Full computer test including testing your connection speed
http://www.pcpitstop.com

Safari Orielly Books
http://safari.orielly.com

SpyWareInfo – Spyware & Hijackware removal specialists (with forum)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/

Tabby Web Design – Some useful links
http://www.tabbyweb.com/web_notes/resources.htm

Tech Guy
http://www.techguy.org

Tek-Tips – Lots of forums for the computer technically minded
http://www.tek-tips.com/

TheFreeSite – Loads of freebies & info on free resources <<<<<<<<<<<<
Looks like a good list of free web hosts etc etc
http://www.thefreesite.com/

WebReference – Web authoring, advanced site design
http://www.webreference.com/

WorldStart.com
http://www.worldstart.com/

ZDNET
http://www.zdnet.com.au/

5 Star Support
http://www.5starsupport.com/support.htm

Internet Access

ADial – Local call internet access (Thanks Neilw71 on my forum)
http://adial.co.uk/

Mobile Internet Access

If you have a laptop, and want to access the internet where ever you are, then these will help.

BTOpenzone – Various vouchers (£6 for 1hr, £10 for 24hrs, £40 for 30 days up to 4000 minutes, Apr 2005)
http://www.btopenzone.com

Dialer – 0.125eu/min in UK = 9p/min (1eu = £0.68) (Apr 2005). That's £5.4/hour !
http://www.dialer.net

ISP Review
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/broadband.shtml

Reach Wireless (for NZ)
http://www.reachwireless.co.nz

ISPs

ISP Companies

FireFly
http://www.fireflyuk.net/

SurfAnytime
Silver @ £13.99/month, 150hours/month
Bronze @ £9.99/month, 60 hours/month
http://www.surfanytime.co.uk/

Tesco – Click on “Register Online” !!
Unlimited access between 2am & 4pm every day @ £5.99/month, 4p/min outside that time.
Unlimited access anytime every day @ £12.29/month
http://www.tesco.net/

Zazizam
Lite Package @ £9.99/month, 168hours/month
http://www.zazizam.com/signup/unmetered/lite/

Reviews & Lists

ISP Finder – Only the US ?
http://www.ispfinder.com/

ISP Review – This is very comprehensive
This has quite a bit of information about each ISP, including price, cut-of period
Unmetered dial-up
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/new/unmetered.shtml

Net Gurus
http://net.gurus.com/isp/

Romulus2 – Rated with user comments – Not that man y comments per ISP
http://www.romulus2.com/feedback/chart.php?4

The List
http://www.thelist.com/
For the UK dial-up only
http://www.thelist.com/countrycode/44/dialup/

Links

Sites with useful list of links

MortonFox - A huge (and I mean huge !) list of links related to the WWW and computing.

A very simple page, but with lots of potentially useful links.
http://www.mortonfox.com/bmark/bmark.htm

The WWW links page has some interesting links on it.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Printers

BellCopiers
http://www.bellcopiers.co.uk/cartridge-cleaner.html

Cartridge Supersaver – Powerklin ink remover
Not cheap at £10.20 for 10x cleans + £4.90 carriage, but if it saves your printer !
Colour cartridges £8.40, black £20.20
http://cartridge-supersaver.co.uk/powerklin.html

Consumables
http://www.consumables.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=300053

Inkjet Service
http://www.inkjet-service.co.uk/index.html

Inkstuff – Tips for avoiding problems with inkjet cartridges
http://inkstuff.net/category120_1.htm

Inks2Go
http://www.inks2go.co.uk/

Marrutt
http://www.marrutt.com/lyson-video.php

Medea International - Guide to to using Ink Cartridges
http://www.medeainternational.com/info/inkuse.htm

Powerklin – How to unclog print nozzles & heads
http://www.powerklin.com/uk/

Resources for Epson Inkjet Printers
http://home.att.net/~arwomack01/#printbanding

Recording DVD's on VHS

I could only buy a DVD for our daughter, no VHS tape. I want to be able to record it onto VHS so she can watch it on the TV. Know I find it's got copy protection, so the VHS is useless.
These websites are my research into curing this problem.

Search for “removing video copy protection”

Studio1 Productions – A box to get rid of the DVD copy protection while copying. $99
http://www.studio1productions.com/copymaster.htm

This says the Analogue Protection System (APS) doesn't cover RGB or YUV signals.
http://theboost.net/dvd/analogue.htm

DVD Squeeze software (called a rip-of by DVD Decryptor !)
http://www.dvdsqueeze.com/features.htm

CD Freaks – This is superb explanation of the whole situation.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/117
Forum – Excellent stuff
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=71

SlySoft AnyDVD – 21 day free trial download (984KB), US$39 to buy.
This sounds very good – Gets round copy protection and region coding at a low level so nothing else needed.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

DVD Decryptor (freeware)
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

Search Engines

Amdahl - List of search engines with descriptions of what they do
http://www.amdahl.com/internet/meta-index.html

AOLSearch
http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk

DigitalPoint - Geo-targeting Website to Country Tool
Enter a website and it will tell you in which country it is hosted.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/

Dmoz
http://dmoz.org/

GigaBlast – This is new and interesting
http://www.gigablast.com

Google Logos
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

Kartoo
http://www.kartoo.com/

SEO Chat Google Dance Tool - Searches on more than just the main Google server.
http://www.seochat.com/googledance/

Teoma
http://www.teoma.com/

Security

How to uninstall Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Windows XP
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/38206/38206.html
And replace it with Sun's newer JVM
http://java.sun.com/getjava/index.html

INeedHits
http://www.ineedhits.com/

Insecure - Lots of information about security flaws - something to read to understand how to avoid problems.
http://www.insecure.org/

ShortMedia – Very good description of spyware & how to keep rid of it <<< READ THIS
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=132

Passwords

Search for "how to create a good password"

Rhodes College - Create a Good Password
http://www.rhodes.edu/InformationServices/Students/Create-a-Good-Password.cfm

Create effective passwords - Good points about what not to use, but not very good on creating good passwords.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/s-pass.html

1 or 2 firewalls ?

Search for “window xp firewall conflict zonealarm”

Microsoft – Enable or disable XP firewall when using another firewall ?
This is a useless article – it just tells you how to enable/disable !
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;283673

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/issues/technology/security/
4_reasons_you_need_windows_xp_sp2.mspx

See this for a discussion on it:
http://www.webuser.co.uk/cgi-bin/forums/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=security&Number=58395&page
=0&view=collapsed&sb=1&o=93&part=all
And here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10803920~mode=flat

Yahoo – Tests whether you need an update
http://messenger.yahoo.com/security/

YouDontKnowWhoIAM - Some useful info on internet security (and a sales pitch)
http://www.youdontknowwhoiam.com/

Selling

Mals e-cpmmerce (Thanks Neil71 on uk2nz)
http://www.mals-e.com/

Smilies

Graphics, smilies etc

Hot-Link sites (you can just link to the images)

Addis – Masses of smilies on here. This is the best site I've found so far <<<<<<
http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/index.html

Click Smilies – Direct link from forum to their smilies (some great large smilies) - Excellent
http://www.clicksmilies.com/

StopStart – Some nice fun big smilies on here (particularly in 'other') and downloadable sound bites
http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/

You must host the images

Animation Library – This is superb.
Loads of quite complex animations, in various categories, like loads of moving arrows.
http://www.animationlibrary.com

Jurko
http://avatars.jurko.net/

Don't know yet !

Amicimiao
http://www.amicimiao.it/clip.htm

AnchoredbyGrace
http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/

Animation Factory
http://www.animationfactory.com/

Avatars by Mas
http://www.avatarsbymas.com/htmls/avatars1-ani.htm

BananaDance Forum including discussions about dancing bananas
http://bananadance.proboards23.com

Cliphoto
http://www.avatarsbymas.com/htmls/avatars1-ani.htm

DevianArt (Thanks Bobadoodle on my forum)
http://www.deviantart.com/

DollzMania - Dolls
http://www.dollzmania.com/

FunnyClicks
http://www.funnyclicks.com/animations.htm

HarryTheCat
http://www.harrythecat.com/graphics/

KonnysGifs
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/konnysgifs/

MySmilies (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://www.mysmilies.com/

Planet Smilies – Good range of downloadable smilies
http://www.planetsmilies.com/avatars/avatars.php

Plauder Smilies (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://www.plauder-smilies.de/

Prodigy
The firework smilies are superb. Some very smart large graphics smilies
Also superb Xmas stuff. This is a great site.
http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/pageindex.htm

RentaDabo – Quite large animated gifs (nice walking Tiger, leopard, elephant etc)
http://www.rentadabo.nl/~english/pictures/index.html

Smiley Central ?
http://smiley.vg-network.com/

Smiley Faces (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://www.smiley-faces.com/

Smilie Generator (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://www.smiliegenerator.de/flag-smiley/smiliegenerator_flag_eng.html

TCWozEre (Thanks Milliemoo on my forum)
http://www.tcwozere.co.uk/smileys/

The Baby Corner (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://talk.thebabycorner.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies

Various small smilies (you need to download them and host them somewhere)
http://www.custom-gfx.net/emoticons.htm

World of Smilies (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
This is brilliant – You can create smilies with your own messages on the signs they hold.
The only negative is it's in German !
http://www.world-of-smilies.de/smiliesgenerator/

Funny Signatures

You can add this to your signature in forums

Funny Signatures (Cheers mutznuts1 on uk2nz)
http://www.funnysignatures.com/signatures.jpg

Cartoons of Kids

HassleFreeClipArt (Various categories available)
http://www.hasslefreeclipart.com/clipart_babies/page1.html

HavanaStreet
http://www.havanastreet.com/freebies.htm

Spoofs

Sites about spoof emails and other tricky things circulating on the net !

Aarp page on it
http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/life_online/Articles/a2004-04-20-emailhoaxes.html

Hoaxbusters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBScareChains.shtml

Snopes – Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes.com/

Spoof
http://www.spoof.me.uk/

TV Output

eVGA
http://evga.com/

nVidia
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20011119_6315.html

VideoHelp – Nice picture of how to connect your computer to your TV
http://www.videohelp.com/play#problem

Wow – this is a very interesting (and funny) thread.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/archive/index.php/t-5697.html

Wedding Graphics

Anne's Wedding Gifs & Backgrounds
http://d21c.com/AnnesPlace/Wedding.html

Windows Things

Tweaking XP
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1722543,00.asp

Tweaking Windows Explorer - and any other chapter shown down the side of the article that appeals!
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1839018,00.asp

TweakXP – Loads of information about Windows XP (tweaks, forum...) (Thanks Mutznuts1 on my forum)
http://www.tweakxp.com/

Unlocking DVDs

Computer DVDs

Search for “unlocking DVD LTD 165”

CDFReaks – Lite-on part of forum
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=44

Proper explanation here (more useful than blooming forums !)
This is excellent – well done mate !
http://digitri.tk

Links to unlocking stuff
http://www.videohelp.com/play#problem

Domestic Players

Amazon Info on Regions (Help->Useful Info->DVD Help&Info->DVD Regions)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/502554/026-3857109-6747637

DVD Review
A list of most DVD players
http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/hackable.asp?Page=1
Hack Help Forum - Topic is "Hack for Targa DP-5100x"
http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=176&Thread=377240&Type=1

Video Help – This 'may' only cover DVD players that sit under your TV (not DVDs in computers)
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

Viruses

AVG (Grisoft) - Virus News, Warnings
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_vir_tt.php

McAfee - Main page
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp

McAfee - Newly Discovered Threats
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=recentlyDiscovered

McAfee - World Virus Map
http://mastdb3.mcafee.com/VirusMap3.asp?Cmd=Map&b=IE&ft=PNG&lang=en

Symantec - Latest
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html

Symantec – Search knowledge base/Viruses/vulnerabilities (choose USA to get English) – The best site
http://www.symantec.com/search/

Useful Sites

JimWorld - Internet related stuff - A good forum on web site promotion
(by the late Jim Wilson)
http://jimworld.com/

NetMechanic - Useful net related things, like fixing HTML code errors
http://www.netmechanic.com/

Website Development

Website Browser Bugs

IE 6 doesn't do colspan properly.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8455.htm

Browser Algorithms

W3 - Table width algorithms: the 'table-layout' property
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#width-layout

Website Copyright Protection

Methods for protecting your hard work.

CopyScape - Find if any of your web pages exist anywhere else.
http://www.copyscape.com/

Website Creation

Access

Access Solutions – Microsoft Access Database Solutions (particular queries are covered)
http://www.microsoft-accesssolutions.co.uk/queries.htm

Richard Holowczak – Microsoft Access Tutorial – This is a very good description of how to use Access.
http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/classes/2200/access/accessall.html

University of Texas – Getting started with Microsoft Access
http://www.utexas.edu/its/training/handouts/UTOPIA_AccessGS/

Counters

Search for “website counters”

Alexa – Traffic history graph
http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup?mode=graph

BraveNet
http://www.bravenet.com/

FastWebCounter
http://www.fastwebcounter.com/

MegaStats – Free, but only seems to give stats for the main page
http://www.mega-stats.com/

RealTracker
http://www.realtracker.com/

SiteMeter
http://www.sitemeter.com

Stat Counter – This works brilliantly and is simple to set up. What more can I say !
Well, the reports are really good. I can't recommend this enough.
It's based on a open source JavaScript, so you can alter it yourself.
Limited to information of the last100 visits for the free version.
http://www.statcounter.com/
Forum
http://my.statcounter.com/phpBB2/

WebStat – The free version has very limited information & you have to display their logo.
The script is hidden, so you can't alter it.
http://www.webstat.com/account/signup.php?start=1

Copy Protection

How to stop people nicking you ideas.

Google searches: “hide html”

Vortex-Webdesign – Lots of methods for getting round protection to demonstrate how useless some methods are. Also don'ts of web design.
http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm

Dreamweaver

SitesOutlet - About templates
http://www.sitesoutlet.com/dreamweaver-web-templates.asp

Form Processing (ie contact forms)

Karl Groves - "Simple PHP Contact Form System" used by DirectAdmin.
This is a very simply script.
http://www.karlcore.com

Phorm - PHP Form Processor.
The Lite version is free, and quite enough for a simple request form.
http://www.phorm.com/

Programming Resources

ActiveSeverPages – ASP help – Can't find anything on here !!!!
http://www.activeserverpages.com/learn/

ASPFreeServer Forum – ASP, PHP, ASPNet, CGI & Perl
http://www.aspfreeserver.com/phpbb/index.php

ASPwebServer – List of resource sites
http://www.aspwebserver.com/developer/

ASP Web Server – Programming & Database Help
http://www.aspwebserver.com/faq/showfaq.asp?fldAuto=12

Haneng.com – ASP lessons
Written by Alexander Haneng
http://www.haneng.com/lessons.asp
Forum
http://www.haneng.com/Forums.asp

HotScripts – This has masses of useful stuff.
Loads of scripts of all languanges
http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components

ScriptScoop – ASP & ASP.net Scripts Directory
http://www.scriptscoop.com

SourceForge – Open source software for web designers
http://www.sourceforge.net/

4 Guys from Rolla – APS with message board
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/

Resources

BraveNet – All sorts of things for website creation
http://www.bravenet.com/

FlexWiki - Quick collaborative website creation and changing system
http://www.flexwiki.com/

FreeBieList
http://www.freebielist.com/

GeekLog – List of News Feeds
http://www.geeklog.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20030206094434245

Fuzzy Webmaster
http://www.fuzzywebmaster.com/

Hypergurl - Lots here for website creators (tutorials, resources etc)
http://www.hypergurl.com/

Hypergurl - Lots of interesting Scripts
http://www.hypergurl.com/easyhtml.html

Paint Shop Pro (PSP) - Guide to creating gradient backgrounds
http://www.hypergurl.com/gradientbackground.html

Tesco
http://www.tesco.net/webspace/step5_p2.asp

TheFreeSite
http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/

TimeOnMyHands - Paint Shop Pro group who create frames etc
http://www.timeonmyhands.us

Wiki – Allows contributors to edit a website as a community
This is a typical 'creation by community' – what the hell is it about ?!
http://www.wiki.org/

W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/

Strategies

There are various tools and strategies that a web designer can employ.

AllMyFAQs - A good summary of pre-processor/include scripts etc options
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Include_one_file_in_another

Website Design

AnyBrowser
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

DevGuru
This has excellent quick reference guides
http://www.devguru.com/home.asp

HTML Source – This is a nice simple layout with everything from HTML to CSS an on.
This looks like a good place for a beginner to start learning all about website design.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/fullindex/

Web Page Design for Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com
Forum
http://www.wpdfd.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

W3Schools - A range of tutorials on HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript etc. Very good.
http://www.w3schools.com

Absolute versus Relative URLs

WebReference - good description of the options, including things like '/' & '//'
http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html

WebSiteOptimization - Good article on absolute versus relative URLs
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/relative/

ASP (Active Server Pages)

ASP
http://www.asp.net

Colours

ColorMatch 5K
This is an interesting way to create 6 matching colours.
http://www.colormatch.dk/

Cool eBay Colours – Hex colour chart
http://www.coolebaytools.com/html_hex_colors.html

Dave Stephens - Hex Colour Chart
Nice lot of colours in a chart with the hex values.
http://www.dave-stephens.com/computers/colors.htm

Dynakeewb – JavaScript that changes the whole background to the colour the cursor is on
This is very good.
http://www.clearink.com/dynakewb/

HTMLHelp - Hex Colour Chart. One A4 chart giving hex codes for various colours
http://www.htmlhelp.com/icon/hexchart.gif

RGB to CMY
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/colour/convert/

WebSiteTips – A good list of colour related links
This is a really good list of useful links. This is the place to start. I've just listed a few here.
http://www.websitetips.com/color/

WebSiteTips – Web-Safe Decimal Colour Table
http://www.websitetips.com/designer/visibone_decimal.html

WebSiteTips – Web-Safe Hex Colour Table
http://www.websitetips.com/designer/hex.html

WebSiteTips – Web Safe Printable Colour Chart in Hex & Decimal
I like this one.
http://www.websitetips.com/color/colourchart.html

WebWiseWizard – Colour chart in Hex & Decimal
http://web-wise-wizard.com/html-tutorials/html-web-rgb-hex-color-chart.html

HTML Help – by the Web Design Group

Main page
http://www.htmlhelp.com/

Authoring FAQ – This is a good place to start if you're thinking of creating a web site.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/all.html

Kat Korner – How to sparkle (using Paint Shop Pro (PSP))
http://groups.msn.com/KatKorner/howtosparkle.msnw

PBase Forum – Board on HTML & Style sheets – Pretty active forum on this
http://forum.pbase.com/

Psychology - Research into the usability of different layout methods
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/3S/layout.htm

PuterTutor – Huge list of Web Graphics sites (some out of date)
http://www.putertutor.net/paint/webgrs7.htm

Simplythebest – Guides, freeware
http://simplythebest.net/

SpiderPro
http://www.spiderpro.com/index.html

The Ish – Example of user selectable CSS of page
http://www.the-ish.com/

Web Alley - Explains how to use HTML (as text) to create web page designs
http://www.weballey.net/

Webhost Bridgew - Skidoo - Neat scaleable layout with DIVs, with the content first <<< Very Interesting
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo_too/
2 or 3 column layout - with explanation of how it's done
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo/

WebMasterWorld (with a forum)
http://www.webmasterworld.com

WellStyled – Simple good descriptions of a few HTML/CSS tricks, like graphics buttons that change appearance when the cursor hovers over them.
http://wellstyled.com/index.html

Cascading Style Sheets

A List Apart – Working with alternate style sheets
How to link to style sheets & use Javascript to offer users the choice.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/

BlueRobot
http://www.bluerobot.com/

CreateFreeWebsite – Creating buttons with CSS
http://www.createafreewebsite.net/html_tutorial/buttons.html

CSS Zen Garden – An excellent demonstration of what cascading style sheets can do
http://www.csszengarden.com/

DevGuru – CSS2 Properties List
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css_index.html

DevShed Forum
http://forums.devshed.com/archive/f-116

Glish – Various CSS layout methods, including descriptions of pros & cons
http://www.glish.com/css/

HTMLHelp – CSS Properties
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/properties.html

HTMLHelp – All CSS Properties – Good list of all properties on one page
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/all-properties.html

Hypegurl
http://www.hypergurl.com/csstutorial.html

John Wattie Stereoscopic Example of CSS (very nice)
http://nzphoto.tripod.com/sterea/3dvision.htm

MarkSchenk – CSS Experiments (various CSS examples)
http://www.markschenk.com/cssexp/index.html

MezzoBlue – CSS Tips web-wide
http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/

O'Reilly – A good article on the history of tables/CSS layout, with a worked example.
Unfortunately, the CSS example doesn't display some of the graphics in IE6 !
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/03/01/css_layout.html

Quick Reference Table – All CSS1 Properties in one table
http://129.69.59.141/css1pqre.htm

RealWorldStyle
http://realworldstyle.com/

SelfHTML – Microsoft CSS filters, like FlipH (flip horizontally)
These very nice filters only work with Internet Explorer !
http://en.selfhtml.org/css/eigenschaften/filter.htm

SitePoint – Exploring the limits of CSS Layout
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/1213

Sophie-G – Creating buttons from images & text with CSS & HTML
An excellent short simple explanation of how to create pretty, but quick downloading buttons.
http://sophie-g.net/jobs/css/e_buttons.htm

Tanfa – CSS Examples
http://www.tanfa.co.uk/

Web Developers Virtual Library – CSS page
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/

Web Reference – How to recreate the webref site with CSS
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/sheets/layout/advanced/

Forms

About – Guide to doing nice forms
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/forms/a/aauserfrdforms.htm

HTML

DevGuru – HTML Tags List
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/html/quickref/html_index.html

Getting hyperlinks to wrap

How to get links to wrap (or not)
You have to pay to be involved with 'expert-exchange', but you can view.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/Q_21069589.html

Is this a possible solution possible ?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm

Odd Tips

How to Draw a Circle in CSS
http://3couleurs.blogspot.com/2005/01/circle-in-css.html

Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images
http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

W3C SVG 1.1 Specification (zip archive of HTML download 2.82MB)
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/

Standards

Mozilla DOM ref – This is very nice
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/

Templates

Bravenet - 43 pages of free templates
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/template/index.php

Web Developers Virtual Library

Web Developers Virtual Library
http://www.wdvl.com/

HTML 4.0 Tags – Excellent summary sheet of all HTML tags
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/4/Tags/

Introduction to Style Sheets
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/Tutorial.html

Web Style Guide by Lynch & Horton

Main page
http://www.webstyleguide.com/page/grids.html

On the use of tables for page layout – Excellent simple decription
http://www.webstyleguide.com/page/tables.html

Work Arounds & Tips

w3development - How to hide CSS from buggy browsers
http://w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The main page
http://www.w3.org/

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
This is the new preferred way to layout you web pages
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning

Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

CSS Specification 2.1 (849KB)
I recommend downloading the “zip file”, and extract the resultant .zip files,
which you need to do to get the links to work correctly.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

HTML
3.2 Reference Specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32
4.01 Specification
I recommend downloading the “zip archive of HTML files”, and extract the resultant .zip files,
which you need to do to get the links to work correctly.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40

Tutorial – Starting with HTML & CSS
This is an excellent, simple, description of how to create your first HTML/CSS page.
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

The next page to read
http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/enter/

HTML Code Tutorial
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

XML

Garshol, Lars Marius – An Introduction to XML
A good starting point, but written on 1999, so a bit out of date.
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/xml-intro/index-en.html

Website Development Sites

Developer Shed - Masses of help for website developers and various forums
http://www.developershed.com/
Leading to:
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Chat - With various tools
http://www.seochat.com/

Forum4Designers - This forum is huge and covers Graphics Design (including GIMP), Web Design, Multimedia, Browsers (including Mozilla Webtools)
http://www.forum4designers.com/

Website Domain Names

Search for "domain whois privacy"

Things to look for:
Domain name parking
URL redirection
Cloaking
Domain name zone file management
DNS management inline
Support - email / online chat

Active Domain - With whois privacy
http://www.active-domain.com

DirectNIC
http://www.directnic.com/

DomainRegistrationHosting - Privacy - A good explanation of the options
http://www.domainregistrationhosting.net/domain-name-registration-privacy.htm

GoDaddy - I've read some good comments about them. This is the one I've chosen to use.
Including .co.nz and others (US$70/year though). Only ~US$8.95/year for others.
Accept PayPal. Do a bulk discount for similar names.
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
Privacy for an extra US$8.95/year (not sure how to get this)
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/dbp/landing.asp?se=%2B&ci=257
ManagingDomainNames pdf file
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/pdf/ManageDomainNames.pdf
UserGuides: User Guides

Hostway - Domain registration with privacy (limited range of countries)
http://www.hostway.com/smb/whoisprotector/

InvisionDomains - Quite a few countries listed
http://www.invisiondomains.com/help/faq_idprotect.asp

IPower - US$2.95/year with free privacy
http://www.ipower.com/

LaneChange
http://www.lanechange.net/html/whois_privacy_service.shtml

Moniker - Have a "whois privacy" section.
Only have a few domains - but claim they will soon have 200.
Domain whois privacy is US$4/year. US$18.99 for most, but US$3.99 for .info !
http://www.moniker.com/

NameCheap - with WhoisGaurd
http://www.namecheap.com/

NetworkSolutions (US$34.99 ~ £19.25 @ 0.55 June 2005) (They do .co.nz)
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/name-it/index.jhtml?PROMO=PCXXX00005&siteid=648
They do a privacy registration system for an extra $9/year ~ £4.95 (June 2005).
It appears that you can have a NetworkSolutions administered name/address/telephone number, and they will pass on important documents sent to you. You can also set other contact names & addresses.
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/name-it/private.jhtml

OpenNIC - Democratic alternative to traditional top-level domain registration.
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/

SecurePayments.net (domain registration link from www.newwebsite.com supposedly to Wild West Domains)
securepaynet.net

Wild West Domains - Do privacy
http://www.wildwestdomains.com

1&1
http://1and1.co.uk/

Choosing a domain name

Accord Marketing - Very good article on the options for choosing a domain name
http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/articles/domain-names-tutorial.html

Here are some websites to help you find a name:
http://www.nameboy.com/
http://www.splorp.com/domain/

Privacy

InternetPrivacyAdvocate
http://www.internetprivacyadvocate.org/

Sclund List of Registrant Agreements
The List

Vision Internet - An interesting read with options like PO Box number and a uk private individual option
http://www.visn.co.uk/whois-optout.html

Domain Name Information

BetterWhoIs – Supposed to be better than whois !
http://www.betterwhois.com

Domainz.net.nz – For getting domain name info for NZ
http://www.domainz.net.nz

GoDaddy
http://whois.godaddy.com

Internic
http://www.internic.net/whois.html

To find out who has registered a .uk domain name
http://www.nominet.org.uk/

To find out who is hosting your website name
http://www.allwhois.com/

Whois Source - This is very good. Give all the details about a domain name as well as offering lots of alternate names. It also has interesting statistics etc.
http://www.whois.sc/

Website Examples

Neat 3D moving Japan page
http://www.tfm.co.jp/on_the_web/

Website Getting Known & Visitor Analysis

A Promotion Guide
http://www.apromotionguide.com/keywords.html

Blog Tricks
http://www.blogtricks.com/referrer/index.php

Clickz - A huge resource of statistics (including browser use)
http://www.clickz.com

Downes - Offers a JavaScript & CGI script for a referrer system.
http://www.downes.ca/referrers.htm

Disenchanted - Interesting site.
http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/linkback.html

JimWorld – This page analyses your website for keywords
http://www.jimworld.com/tools/keyword-analyzer/

Notestips
http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/NAMO-5RF2ZQ

Open Directory
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

Programmers Heaven – Don't submit, get onto directories <<< This is the one to read first
http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Trent_SearchEngine

Search Engines - Importance of Keywords
http://www.searchengines.com/keywords.html

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Chat
Forum just about search engine optimisation (very good and very big)
http://forums.seochat.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7

TotalChoiceHosting - Very good long description of various search engine optimisation techniques
http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/search-engine-optimization-specifics.html

Web Analytics Tutorial
http://www.summary.net/manual/tutorial/lesson3.html

Website Tips
http://www.websitetips.com/

Web Wiz Guide - Search Engine Submission Tips
http://www.webwizguide.info/web_design/search_engine_submission/submission_tips.asp

Web Wiz Guide - Meta Tags Optimisation Tutorial
http://www.webwizguide.info/web_design/search_engine_submission/meta_tags_tutorial.asp

Yahoo – Directory Listings – Submit your site
https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/express/intro/

YayWasTaken (Sean Nolan)
http://www.yaywastaken.com/referer/default.htm

Search Engine Information

Google Add URL (submit) page
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Google - Information for Webmasters
http://www.google.com/webmasters/index.html
Need to remove content from Google's index?
http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html
How the search engine works
http://www.google.co.uk/technology/index.html
How to remove parts from the Googlebot crawl and control what Google displays: http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

Google – How to get known by google and various google answers
To find out who is linking to your site put this in a google a search like this: link:[https://www.angelfire.com/hi5/neuralnetwriter]
http://www.google.co.nz/webmasters/
Webmaster Guidelines
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Google Official stickers
http://www.google.com/stickers.html

Google Rankings – Find out what Google things of your site
http://www.googlerankings.com/

Google Sitemaps - Submit a site map to Google here
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
Protocols: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html
Using the Sitemap Protocol: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html
Sitemap generator - required Python and to run on the server.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html

Googlism – Find out what google thinks of...
For example, “uk2nz” will give a description of the site.
http://www.googlism.com/

Google Poodle Predictor – Find out what a search engine sees of your site (Thanks Netchicken)
This is very good.
http://gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go

GRSites - You can get your website ranking with a good list of search engines in one go.
http://www.grsites.com/webtools/rank.shtml

PRChecker – Page Rank Checker – You can add page ranking to your website with this.
http://www.prchecker.info/

Robotstxt - Information on how to control web robots looking at your website
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

The Main Blue – Find your websites rank for a particular Google search
Also a rather smart design.
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/GoogleRank

Website Hosting

Domain Names

Free domain names (you must get >25 visits in each 90 days to keep the domain name).
Or pay about $10 a year to own the license.
Disadvantages: It creates pop-ups, surfers loose the real web addresses so can't link to sub-pages,
and the refresh doesn't work.
http://www.dot.tk/index.html

Free URL Redirection
http://www.cjb.net/

Guide Sites

ClickHereFree (Thanks Netchicken)
http://clickherefree.com/
The forum
http://clickherefree.com/forums/
The forum also has members suggestions for good hosts
http://clickherefree.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=454

Excite Directory of Free Web Hosts
http://www.excite.co.uk/directory/Computers/Internet/
Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Free/Directories

Fairwayrvresort - Good info on ratings, what they offer and how long they have been going.
http://www.fairwayrvresort.com/top.php

Free ASP Hosting Guide
http://www.free-asp-hosting.com/

Free PHP Hosting Guide
http://www.free-php-hosting.com/

Free Web Hosts
http://www.free-webhosts.com/

Free Web Hosting Top20 Guide
http://www.free-webhosting.nettop20.com

HostAZ - Table with ratings and offers on the first page, but also a huge A-Z list of hosting companies with details of each on the same site, so very quick to look through.
http://hostaz.com/

httptalk – Forum on web hosting and web programming
http://www.httptalk.com/forum/

IraRichardSmith - 2x good articles on what to look for in a hosting system
http://www.irarichardsmith.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9

PHP-Nuke - List rated hosts for Nuke type dynamic websites.
http://www.php-nuke.org/

RateMyHost – Looks like quite a lot on here
http://www.ratemyhost.com/

TheFreeCountry - With website design & hosting tips
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webhosting/index.shtml

Top10Reviews
http://web-hosting-review.toptenreviews.com/

Top10WebHosting
http://www.top10webhosting.com/

UpperHost (prices in US$)
http://www.upperhost.com/

WebHostCoach
http://www.webhostcoach.com/

WebHosting - Global and country lists of companies
http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts

WebHostingTalk – a VERY large forum on web hosting. THIS IS VERY GOOD !.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

100 Best Free Web Space - List of hosts
http://100best-free-web-space.com
The list of free web hosts
http://www.100best-free-web-space.com/searchPage0/Free-Host.html
Forum
http://www.100best-free-web-space.com/forum/

Web Hosting Sites for Websites

AdvantageHost – Everything (FTP, POP email, CGI, PHP, SSI...) and 500MB disk storage !
UK based – Huddersfield
After you signup they ask for something – I've forgotten what – but I didn't !
http://www.advantagehost.co.uk/features.php

AngelFire (free option) - The one I'm using because it allows FTP file uploading.
20MB disk space, with 1GB bandwidth limit per month.
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
My Account page with disk usage, bandwidth & page views.
https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/cgi-auth/membership/my_account?web_detail=1

Bravenet
http://www.bravenet.com

BuildtoLearn (with forum) – 50 posts to get free hosting. Not mainly images.
http://www.buildtolearn.com/

DotHosting - 2GB disk space, 50GB bandwidth for US$5/month
CGI, Perl, PHP PHP Nuke, FTP, 10x sub-domains
http://www.dot5hosting.com/

Easyspace
http://www.easyspace.com

FastHosts
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk

FreeDomainName 2.5GB disk space, 40GB bandwidth for US$93/year !
http://www.free-domainname.com/

FreeSites (has FTP, 15MB, 500MB bandwidth)
http://www.freesites.ws/

FreeWebs
http://members.freewebs.com/

Fortune City (requires a fee)
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/

Freeservers
http://www.freeservers.com/

Go Daddy – 4GB webspace, 200GB transfer all for US$3.56/month (paid over 1 year)
Also 10Gb/500GB with PHP/Perl on Linux for US$8.96/month (paid over 1 year)
http://www.godaddy.com

Heart – Reseller Professional, Start Hosting – very good looking deals
http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/reseller-h.shtml

Hiya-Host – 50 posts gets you 500MB of webspace with FTP and loads more !
http://www.hiya-host.com/

Host Gator - 3.6GB disk space, 50GB bandwidth for US$6.95/month
20 subdomains.
CGI, PHP, Perl, FTP etc
Also unlimited domains and subdomains, 5BG/75GB for US$9.95 (£68/year @ 1.76)
http://hostgator.com/

Host Matrix - Free if you contribute to the forum
http://www.hostmatrix.org/

Host Ultra (free option)
http://www.hostultra.com/freehosting.html

IPower - US$3.95/month for up to 3x domains
http://www.ipower.com/

Lycos (requires a fee)
https://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/

MySiteSpace
http://www.mysitespace.com/compare.asp

NewWebSite - (as used by Soren Breiting on here and http://www.jubiii.com/ )
US$9.99/month for 6GB space, 50GB transfer, 20 domains, unlimited sub domains, 20x MySQL, CGI, PHP, Perl & FTP (£68/year @ 1.76). They make credit cards & Paypal.
You can signup for a 2 week trial without paying or giving any payment details :)
Good for resellers. Demos of user/reseller/admin control.
http://www.newwebsite.com/
A good read on what to look out for :) http://www.newwebsite.com/hosting-tips.html
Forum: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/index.php
Fairwayrvresort review: http://www.fairwayrvresort.com/reviews/N/newwebsite.com/
Jubileestallions review: http://www.jubileestallions.org/reviews/newwebsite.com
Webhosting report: http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/reports/total_domains/NEWWEBSITE.COM

You must add a domain to get all the options displayed.

Help:
SiteHelp: http://www.site-helper.com/
FileManager Help: http://www.site-helper.com/filemanager.html

Images: http://207.57.3.81/newwebsite/images/

Omega Web Hosting – You have to gain 'Megaz' by posting on the forum. Then you get 5,000MB disk space !
Loads of features. Interesting.
http://board.o-wh.com/

Piczo – Very user friendly, with online webpage editor. Looks good for the newbie.
http://www.piczo.com

Ripway
http://www.ripway.com/

ServInt Internet Services -Well thought of on a forum
http://www.servint.net/vps/

SiteSell - Lots of claims about providing better business success.
For me there is far too much US style sales hype, and the affiliate program sounds like pyramid selling to me.
Wow, I have never seen so much sales talk. Maybe they are right. At US$299 /year they'd need to be.
http://www.sitesell.com/
http://compare.sitesell.com/

Websitesource - 5GB disk space, 50GB bandwidth for US$6.85/month
Allows 4x websites to be hosted, and unlimited subdomains.
CGI, PHP, Perl, MySQL, FTP etc
http://www.websitesource.com/

Yahoo! Geocities (free option)
http://geocities.yahoo.com/

Yahoo! Geocities UK&Ireland (free option)
http://uk.geocities.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Small Business – 2GB disk space, 25GB bandwidth for US$11.95/month
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=1

150m – 100MB free web hosting with FTP.
Quick simple signup. They don't allow just image sites. They want 'real' content.
http://www.150m.com/

8-95
http://www.8-95.com/

Web Hosting Sites for ASP

ASPwebserver - No longer offer a free version.
http://www.aspwebserver.com/
Free host ends up on
http://aspfreeserver.com/
A pain of a registration process if you get anything wrong (a small gripe)
They manually check requests for accounts, got mine accepted after a few hours.
Features:

FTP, ASP, ASPNet, PHP, Perl, wap, Frontpage extensions
MS Access & MySQL database
50MB web space, 1G bandwidth/month

Help page
http://www.aspwebsoft.com/aspapp/help.asp
Error 405 Microsoft list
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?mode=s&cat=false&query=http+405&srch=sup

Domain DLX – Easy registration. Got my site up and running in 5 minutes !
Must have activity in 2 months or you get removed.
http://www.domaindlx.com/
Features:
ASP 3.0, MS Access, SSI(DHTML), WAP, Macromedia Shockwave
100MB web space, 1G bandwidth/month (can be unlimited)
No: FTP, CGI, Perl, PHP3 or Coldfusion

Free ASP hosting – A guide to free ASP hosting sites
http://www.free-asp-hosting.com/

ScriptScoop – List of free ASP hosts
http://www.scriptscoop.com/index.php?id=238&parentID=14

4Guys from Rolla – About free hosting ASP
http://www.aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=144

Web Hosting Sites for CMS systems (eg PHP-Nuke / Post-Nuke, Mambo etc)

Preferred according to Ira Richard Smith:
1. Linux, PHP (must), MySQL (must)
2. Microsoft, Apache (preferred), PHP (must), MySQL (must)

OpenSourceHost - Specialists in CMS hosting. Offer all the CMS packages on www.OpenSourceCMS.com
Well explained packages. From $71.40/year = £39.27/year (US$1 ~ £0.55 (June 2005))
They accept credit card & Paypal.
Get an extra 100MB & 1G by quoting referrer CMS.
https://www.opensourcehost.com/mos452/

Web Hosting for Perl

Free Webhosts - a good list
http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-cgi-web-hosting.php

Website Hosting in which country ?

The implications of hosting in one country for a website in another.

Search for: hosting country google searches
Search for: country specific google
Search for: google search country hosting <<< this one works well

http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/article.php?id=1572

http://www.unitedforums.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=6186

SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
TLD = Top Level Domain
SERP - Search Engine Result Page

Conclusions:
Google uses the IP address of the server
Google looks at the country code of the URL eg .uk
Google checks the contacts page and checks the address specified
Google may check the whois records
Google may use the country of the inbound links
Can get a DMOZ listing that states your location, http://dmoz.org/

Website Image Creation

These sites may help you understand about creating images for the web.

GIMP Talk - Superb :)
http://gimptalk.com/index.html

PSP Tutorials - How to create Neon Buttons
http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/interfacedesign-neonbutton.shtml

ScanTips - Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)
http://www.scantips.com/basics9g.html

Website Languages

ASP

CSS

CGI

Flex

Hotwired - A great 10x page tutorial on Flex.
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/05/index3a.html

Adobe
http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/
http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/flexbuilder2/

HTML

LibXML2

XML C Parser and Toolkit
http://www.xmlsoft.org

MySQL

MySQL
http://www.mysql.com/

Perl - Practical Extraction Report Language

MBStevens List of CGI/Perl sites
http://www.mbstevens.com/cgi/bc.pl

WorkyOurLeads - Loads of Perl links & Perl scripts
http://www.workyourleads.com/perl-script/

PHP

php - The official php website
http://www.php.net
Same as: http://us3.php.net/

SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

Efficient way to combine audio and images to create a slideshow.

Apple Explanation (Click on Quicktime and then SMIL on the left side)
The "Getting Started with SMIL" is a good summary of what it's about.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/

CWI SMIL Page - A good resource - more to check on here.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/SMIL/
Validator: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/symm/validator/

MultiMedia4Everyone - Learn SMIL with a SMIL
With various demonstration and examples.
http://www.multimedia4everyone.com/

Oratrix - Sell editors and players
http://www.oratrix.com/
Useful links: http://www.oratrix.com/Links

PCW Nigel Whitfield Article
http://www.vnunet.com/2129742

W3
Timed-Text: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/
www.w3.org/audiovideo

XML

O'Reilly XML
Creating Web Utilities Using XML::XPath
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/01/10/perlwebtools.html
Perl XML Quickstart: The Standard XML Interfaces
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/05/16/perlxml.html

Website Programming

For books, see Books

C/C++

Learn-C – Controlling the Real World with Computers. Control and Embedded Systems.
http://www.learn-c.com/index.html

DOS Commands

10 Batch commands
http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/bea/home/subjects/ith305/description.html

ComputerHope
http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm

HTML/CSS

HTML For the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro – Associated websites
http://www.cookwood.com/
Examples from 'HTML for the world wide web'
http://www.cookwood.com/html5ed/examples/
DocTypes for XHTML & HMTL docs
http://www.cookwood.com/html/extras/doctypes.html

A List Apart - An article about Doctypes
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/

Java Book Publishers

Head first Java publisher
http://www.oreilly.com/

Catalogue of books
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html

Head First Java Examples
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava/

Jacquie Barker - Author of “Beginning Java Objects”
http://objectstart.com

Java Resources

Java Ranch
http://www.javaranch.com/

JavaScript

dbforums
http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/f-195.html

faqts – A huge list of JavaScript frequently asked questions
Also FAQ on loads of other website programming topics.
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/53

Intelli Dimension
http://www.intellidimension.com/default.rsp?topic=/pages/rdfgateway/reference/script/

Mozilla – JavaScript Standards
http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/

Mozilla – Traversing an HTML Table with JavaScript and DOM Interfaces
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/technote/tn-dom-table/

Reloco – Making your web page compatible with Mozilla
http://www.reloco.com.ar/mozilla/compat.html

Web Reference – JavaScript Articles
http://www.webreference.com/js/

Interesting Websites

AlphaWorks - IBM
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/about

CodePedia
http://www.codepedia.com/

Programmers Heaven
http://www.programmersheaven.com/

Perl

CPAN
perlmodinstall - some install info, covering the basics for a number of platforms
http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/pod/perlmodinstall.pod

Perl - All things Perl
http://perl.com/
Common questions about CPAN - A great place to start
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/CPAN/misc/cpan-faq.html
ActivePerl faq - a good start for how to use PPM, which is the easier way to install things
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl-5.6/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html

Perl for Win32 - This is a great page for finding Perl things, specially if you are on Windows.
Including a list if Win32 modules with a description.
http://www.northbound-train.com/perlwin32.html
With a one page book buyers guide - superb :)
http://www.northbound-train.com/perlbooks.html

XPath

w3schools - XPath Examples
http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_examples.asp

Website Search Facility

SearchTools – A very good description of the details, benefits of a website having a search facility
http://www.searchtools.com/guide/

NetMechanic – How to do it and some providers listed
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/design_no16.htm

Website Testing

Once you've created a website, you need to test the HTML, CSS and because there is no real implemented standard, you need to check your website in all the browsers on all the platforms you are interested in supporting.

Browser Compatibility Testing

Google "browser compatibility testing"

AnyBrowser
SiteViewer - Only works with IE for me :) :)
http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html
HTML Validators
http://www.anybrowser.com/validateit.html

BrowserCam - $39.95/month for a very sophisticated service
http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx

Dan Vine's iCapture - see what your webpage looks like with Safari on the Mac
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

HTML/CSS Validation

CSE HTML Validator Lite v6.52 (2.7MB)
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/
There is also a standard & professional version for $65 & $125

W3C CSS Validation Service - Online service (there is a downloadable version too)
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

W3C Markup Validation Service - Online service
http://validator.w3.org/

Website Templates

Search for "free html templates"

FreeSiteTemplates - Lots of free templates, with info on what technologies they employ and browser compatability.
http://freesitetemplates.com/templates/

Steves Templates - Click on 'Templates' for the free ones.
http://www.steves-templates.com/

TemplatesBox
http://www.templatesbox.com/templates.htm

WebDesignHelper - 294 full page templates
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/

Winstart - This has some good free templates (look at the bottom of the main page for links to more sites with free templates)
http://winstart.com/template/