The following is a list of sites you can check out for information on designing your own home page.
A very easy to use and understand web site publisher is DeltaPoint's Quick Site, which was the program used to develop this site. You can download it for a thirty day free preview.
Online Page Generators
Places to get an idea of what a page looks like. Start here if you have no idea what your doing.
HAYI Homepage Generator
Create your own homepage without knowing anything about HTML.
Print the following Manuals
NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML
A great manual that you should print out for a reference guide
Tim Berners-Lee's Style Guide for Online Hypertext
Another great manual that you should print and keep for reference.
Web Publishing Programs
DeltaPoint's Quick Site
Download QuickSite 1.0.3 with a free 30 day evaluation period. Pampa Cyber Net offers a free tutorial on how to use this program. Call the office for details.
HomeSite Web Developers Program
Another great program to develop your page. However, you must understand how to use HTML tags. After you have become an expert with QuickSite and find it limiting on what you want to do, check out this program. Highly recommended by professional
WebMasters. Free version and shareware version. Great price and great program.
Carl Davis - HTML Editor Review
A very good page that reviews all the current web publishing programs. Very through information on all the positives and negatives on the programs he reviews. Links to all the program sites. Check this site to find the program best suited to your needs and abilities.
Beginner Reference Sites
W3Tech School of Web Design
Crash Course! This set of tutorials is designed to teach you everything you'll ever need to know to make an amazing web page. He has a HTML and JavaScript tutorial.
How to Write an HTML Page
Dedicated to helping people learn HTML and write their own homepages. You can access most of the tools and tricks you need to get going from this site.
Web Reference
From Net beginners to webmasters, webreference.com is the fastest way to learn about the Web and the art of web site creation. From browsing to authoring, from HTML to advanced site design, we'll keep you up-to-date, informed, and in touch.
Netscape Navigator's Creating Net Sites
Netscape Gold and the new Communicator has the ability to build web pages. This is the info on how to make it work.
Top Ten Ways to Tell if You Have a Sucky Home Page
Tired of reading dry texts about HTML? Try this page for a refreshing change.
Ten Commandments of HTML
A quick reference site that gives you ten rules to help you get started on a site. Recommended reading.
Site Builder Network
"We all love to hate Microsoft but sometimes it's easy to forget that they offer some of the more useful pages available on the Web today. This is one of those places that any reasonable web master should visit, join and use regularly." Please call
Pan-tex.net before using the Front Page Web Designer Program, we currently do not support the extensions necessary to use this program.
Live Image
This is a client side image mapping program for Win 95/NT. 14 day evaluation time period, $20 to purchase.
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
An award winning webmaster's encyclopedia. Everything you ever wanted to know.
Network Communication Design
Another web page encyclopedia site. Lots of information.
Web Page Design for Designers
If you are already into design work, this page is for you. Talks about correct fonts and designs to be used in Web Page Design, and more.
Barometer of the state-of-art Web Design
Devoted to following Web technology, including tracking the ever changing features of various browsers.
The HTML Writer's Guild
For the really serious minded HTML writers. Information on joining "...the premiere international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals"
JavaScript Resources A2Z - JavaScript Yellow Page
The ultimate JavaScript resource center where you can find examples, tutorials, and news about JavaScript. Also, information on How to learn Active X.
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Platinum VR Creator
A program with a free download to create VR. Platinum WIRL is a VRML browser plug-in.
Graphics and Icons
Cool Graphics Site
"I have scoured the Web for the BEST sites carrying free or low-cost Web page backgrounds, etc. You won't be wasting time working through tons of mediocre stuff."
Textures, Backgrounds, Icons, Clip Art, Graphics
Elated Graphics Site
Concentrates on button kits and icons - over 700! Free Site.
GIF Wizard
This utility can help you pare down the outlandish size that some graphic elements seem to take on and makes your site "bandwidth friendly". Excellent site.
Cloud Dancer
If you need flower borders or backgrounds, this is the place to find them.
Animated Gif Collections
Incredible site with lots of great animated gifs. Lines , balls, animals, space ships, and much more. Must see site to really make your site alive.
Holiday Graphics Page
Great place to get graphics to enhance your page with any holiday graphics.
Free Web Graphics
"This site is home to what I hope will someday be the largest collection of free and original web graphics on the net." Backgrounds, buttons, texture fills, banners, page themes, and border patterns - over 1000 images.
Abed's Cool 3D Buttons and Lines
3D Lines, Buttons, and Icons, etc.
Realm Graphics
One Stop Shop for web development images - 330 textures, 200 bullets, 130 buttons, 150 icons and lines
A+ Art
Free Clipart, Icons, Backgrounds, Bars, Bullets, and More
Lal Images
Small and Large Button Images
Computer Lab - University of Pisa, Italy
114 pages of icons
Netrunner Graphics Depot
Tons of graphics for free.
Texture Land
"We currently have 196 textures that you can use in web pages." Free for individual use. Color Manipulation Device, Abnormal Textures, Odds 'n Ends Textures
Eric's Graphics Collection (Incredible)
An excellent collection of graphics.
Links to Icons and Graphics
Major link site to graphics and icons.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
A wild, unusual site for graphics, web tools, and information on Web site publishing.
Validate Thy HTML!
Instructions on how to use a validator and a link to a free validation site.
Halsof
A free validation site.
A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator
Submit-it
Submits your site to several search engines.
The Internet Link Exchange
A free service that uses banners you design on-line to automatically advertise your site.
