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Page Introduction  
Anti Virus  
ASP  
Broadband  
Browsers  
Business - Starting your own  
CGI CGI scripts. Also see JavaScript
Composer Tutorials  
Computer Dictionaries and encyclopaedias Computer Dictionaries encyclopaedia.
CSS Tutorials  
Database  
Design  
Download Sites Tuscows. Davecentral. Shareware.
Dreamweaver  
E-COMMERCE  
First Class-Help Help on the First class conference and e-mail system
Flash  
Fonts  
Fun  
Graphics  
Help Sites  
HTML Tutorials Webmonkey. Joe Burns goodies and more
HTML Validation and Standards Validate your HTML code. HTML 4.0 specification
JavaScript Also see CGI
Miscellaneous  
Modems  
OU TMA Mark Calculator
Paint Shop Pro  
Password Protection  
PHP  
Poorly Computer or Software  
Spyware  
Starting your own business DTI advise on using IT. Lists government resources. DTI resources for e-commerce
Student Sites  
Student (T171, T170 and TT280) 2002 Sites Promote your site
T171 Tutor Sites Bob Buckley. Hilary Atkins- History of the Internet - Learning Style Theory and Computer Mediated Communication. Liz Thakrey-Using Netscape Composer. Michelle Dewey. Mike Hall- learning HTML - Site Map. Roger Beamont. Veronica Yuill. Wendy Clark
TCP/IP  
Technology Information Sites How things work. Techie things.
TT280 Course Information
Webmaster Tools Webmaster's Tools have been moved to there own page.
Windows  
XML and XHTML  

Page Introduction

I hope that you find this page of useful links helpful. The links have been sorted into various categories as shown above, but be aware that the some pages will include information covering several categories.

Links are constantly being added to this page.

I would be pleased to receive suggestions for inclusion and notification of any bad links.

Thanks John McGuinn

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Anti Virus

http://security.symantec.com/ Run a (free) online virus scan on your system.

 

ASP

ASP Books

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/asp/ASPover.asp Microsoft's ASP Overview pages provide information about Active Server Pages (ASP).
http://www.netmag.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?subsectionid= 33&articleid=54202&pagetype=2 Tutorial
http://www.aspzone.com/  
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/

ASP site

http://www.aspexpress.com/aspexpress.asp ASP Editor, tutorials etc.
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Broadband

http://www.bt.com/btbroadband/ns_about_broadband.jsp?targetSection=BB_
DEMO&showsub=ns_what_is_broadband&showsub3= NS-LM_Demo&obsNoSee
=Y&vStore=1322&obsPage=/btbroadband/ns_home.jsp&obsType=LINK&obsOID=30538
Demonstrations - the difference that broadband makes to the way you experience the Internet

Browsers

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See also Tutorial 1 Browsers section

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/tools/
practical-browser-sniffing/
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html
Browser Sniffing
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/detect.html Browser detect
http://www.dithered.com/javascript/browser_detect/index.html Browser detect - regular update to the script
http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/standards/ tells you that Opera conforms to ECMA 262.
ECMAScript Language Specification will find a monster pdf file of ECMA 262.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/version5.html W3C DOM Browser (Version 5) Compatibility Table
http://cross-browser.com/ CBE is a cross-browser DHTML Javascript library or API. You download CBE to your own computer and use it to develop dynamic web applications (DHTML). You then upload your application and the CBE files to your own site.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/browserreview.html Review of Browsers

 

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Business - Starting your own

Government Sites

http://www.ukonlineforbusiness.gov.uk DTI office offers advise on using IT, lists government resources.
http://www.beyondbricks.com DTI resorses for e-commerce
http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/ Data Protection Act
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk

Customs and Excise - VAT etc

Check the Trading on the Internet link

http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/nmw/ NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/

News and information on tax and national insurance matters in the United Kingdom

http://www.hmce.gov.uk/

HM Customs and Excise

Should I be registered for VAT?
Trading on the Internet
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm

Data Protection Act 1998

http://www.info4local.gov.uk/usefullinks.asp Long list of Goverment Links

Others

  Open university - OUSA Small Business Conference on First Class
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/ Basic company information is free
http://www.coddan.co.uk/?s=B1 LIMITED COMPANY ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES. WHICH FORM OF BUSINESS TO CHOOSE?

 

 

CGI

http://www.hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/26/index4a.html "CGI Scripts for Fun and Profit" is an article from the Hotwired Webmonkey site on incorporating ready-made CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts into your pages.
http://www.cgi-resources.com/ The CGI Resource Index is a repository of all things related to CGI, including ready-made scripts, documentation, books, and even programmers for hire.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ The Common Gateway Interface site includes an introduction to CGI.
http://htmlhelp.org/faq/cgifaq.html CGI Programming FAQ and check out the rest of the site.
cgi.resourceindex.com  

 

 

Composer Tutorials

Tutorials for Netscape Composer HTML Editor.

http://www.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/
Netscape's own composer tutorial
http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/composer/  
http://www.guide.net.nz/mtn/web2.html A more advanced tutorial, with links to others, including counters, forms etc.
http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/frames.html Netscape's frames tutorial.
http://www.pageresource.com/html/frame1.htm Frames tutorial
http://www.education.umd.edu/blt/tcp/composer.html  
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Computer Dictionary and encyclopaedias

http://www.pcwebopaedia.com Computer related terms .
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html Computing Dictionary
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/ List of Computer Dictionaries
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CSS

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/index.html Some fabulous demos of what you can do in CSS, and info on how it is done
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html CSS Popup menu
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 The Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 specification (CSS1) is the official specification for style sheets from the World Wide Web Consortium.
http://webreview.com/style/index.shtml Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide explains what CSS styles are and which browsers they work in.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ CSS Validator you can enter your URI (URL) or Download version 2.0
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/index.html Tutorial
http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/webpublish/fwstyle.shtml CSS Editors
http://www.webmasterbase.com/subcats/70 Good site and newsletter Loads of good help, advise and articles.
http://www.w3schools.com Basic intro to styles.
http://www.dynamicdeezign.com/css/introduction.html

good css tutorial
http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/fac/engtech/aandersen/htmlclass/mod4/ Tutorial Creating Web Pages With Style - CSS2
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/35/index2a_page2.html A very good tutorial on CSS text size control.
A far more comlicated subject than one would imagine. Many pros and cons for various solutions. I suppose in the end you use a compromise.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/  
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp ?  
http://www.mako4css.com/Basics.htm The CSS Know-How Site
http://www.d-jw.co.uk/ The Test Bed. Experiments with CSS
http://www.uiaccess.com/scaletext.html Scalable Text - Absolute and Relative sizing text
http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/scale/ The Amazing Em Unit - but does it work?
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_units.asp CSS Units - Info about sizing in CSS
http://www.wired.com/news/explanation.html This site- Uses CSS - Check out the change "Text Size" buttons, the 4 As
http://www.d-jw.co.uk/ Experimenting with CSS
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/26/index1a.html Tables or CSS Layout positioning
http://www.osborne.com/programming_webdev/0072131780/0072131780_ch01.pdf Chapter 1 Basic CSS Concepts - Review this chapter - experiment with CSS and reread
http://alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/ Practical CSS Layout. Tips, tricks and techniques Tutorial
http://www.glish.com/css/ Good CSS resource
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Menu
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Database

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/ Tutorial

Design

http://www.iwdp.co.uk Independent Web Designer Portal. Web Designer get your site listed here. Run by Wickie an Open University student.
http://www.isii.com/ui_design.html#Web%20Design %20Style%20Guides Web Design Style Guides
http://www.isii.com/ui_design.html User Interface Design and Usability

Download Sites

http://www.tucows.com One of the top sites to download programs from available. Loads of shareware programs.
http://tuscows.cableinet.net A good site for program reviews.
http://www.davecentral.com If its not at Tuscows it will probably be available at Davecentral
www shareware.com Another top site
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.shtml Hundreds of headings, to select from
http://www.moosoft.com


The Cleaner is a program that searches out www.moosoft.com and cleans them from your system.

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Dreamweaver / Ultradev

See my recommended Dreamweaver books section
See my Dreamweaver Tutorial - Set Up your new Site, Set up your working space

Check out:

  • Using Dreamweaver PDF file on the CD Rom
  • The Guided Tour, and Lessons in the Help Menu


http://www.web-building.com/pgm_dreamweaver.php3 Top Dreamweaver and Ulradev Resource site
http://www.udzone.com/
http://www.dwzone.net/
good sites for Dreamweaver and UltraDev
http://www.contractoruk.co.uk/freeskills.html?vs_category=5 Tutorial-
http://www.basic-ultradev.com/articles/Links.htm  
http://www.udzone.com/ Very good
http://www.cwdesigner.com/links/Online_Tutorials/Dreamweaver/  
http://www.udnewbie.com/home.cfm  
http://www.massimocorner.com/  
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver  
http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver tools you can always trust
http://www.flashthief.com/freeextensions/
ultradev_extensions.htm

Ultradev Extensions

http://www.projectseven.com/ Tutorials, free extensions (also pay for extensions)
http://www.dwzone.net/  

 

E-COMMERCE

http://www.mals-e.com/ FREE E-COMMERCE SERVICE
If you want to start selling goods or services on the internet then you probably need to add some sort of additional functionality to your website. Mal's free e-commerce service will help you do just that.
http://www.ecommercebase.com/subcats/66 Articles about setting up a business.
www.cubecart.com  
www.paypal.com On line payments
www.oscommerce.com  

First Class- Help

http://www.fcguru.org.uk
http://fcguru.dyndns.org/public60/index60.shtml
Some people have problems with the first link
http://www-emerg.open.ac.uk/fcguru/  
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Flash

See my recommended Flash books section

http://flashkit.com  
http://flashkit.com/flashtyper FlashTyper is a fast tool for making an animated text banner for your site.
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/home.swf

See some neat Flash

http://www.designsxchange.com/ Flash, PHP, HTML, JS etc
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Fonts

http://www.identifont.com/identify.html Answer a few questions ti identify a font

Fun

http://www.talkinggreeting.com Talking messages from cartoon characters to send to your mates.

 

Graphics

http://www.xara.com/ Download Xara Webstyle 3 free trial version grahic program. Makes Banners, logos, buttons, navigation bars and menus, dividers, themed sets, headings, photos, and backgrounds
http://www.xat.com/  
http://webservices.adobe.com/optimize/main.html  
  Ifranview
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Image search engine

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/
Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp

How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page
http://www.axialis.com/axicons/ Create, Edit and Manage your Windows Icons! 30 Day free trial
http://www.favicon.com/ favicon.ico - Adding your own Favourite icon
http://www.webattack.com/get/iconediter.shtml Download a freeware IconEditor
http://www.3-t.com/pub/png/pngs-img.html Miscellaneous Transparent PNG Images using IMG Tags
Millennium 3D Textures, models,tutorials and lots of other free stuff.     http://www.m3corp.com Millennium 3D Textures, models,tutorials and lots of other free stuff.
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Help Sites

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/help You may have to register at these forum style sites, and navigate to the correct forum, but you will get answers to your problems.
http://support.pcpitstop.com
http://groups.google.com
http://www.help.com
http://www.virtualdr.com
http://www.experts exchange Point system, you must answer some problems, thus gaining points, before you can submit your own problem.

 

Hosting

http://www.webhostingstuff.com

Web Hosting Stuff - a hosting directory site, that currently lists and reviews 5,800+ web hosting plans.

 

HTML Tutorials

See my recommended HTML books section

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author /dhtml/reference/objects/doctype.asp

DOCTYPE Internet Development Index

Specifies the Document Type Definition (DTD) to which the document conforms.

Webmonkey's HTML Basics tutorial
www.webmonkey.com
Web Monkey
  • All Levels
  • Reviews of the latest Web authoring tools,programs and applications.
  • Quick reference guides to:
    • HTML.
    • Stylesheets.
    • Javascripts.
  • How to library
Joe Burns goodies Site  
HTML Tutorials  
http://www.stickysauce.com/

The Web Master`s Development Resource ::Web Templates, Tutorials on many subjects. Massive site

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/ Index DOT HTML is a comprehensive listing of HTML tags, attributes, and values, as well as their compatibility with the various browsers.
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/resources/tag_library/ The ZDNet Developer Tag Library is another listing of information about all HTML tags.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/  
http://www.cookwood.com/html4_4e/ Popular with 2001 T171 students
http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/ Popular with 2001 T171 students
http://www.mcjeff.com  
http://ohioline.osu.edu/~ames1/webpages/composer.htm Using Netscape Composer Html Editor
http://t171.open.ac.uk/t171/welcome/composer.cfm?DisplayMode= live&CFID=197156&CFTOKEN=72214824 Netscape Composer Tutorial.
T171 Login and password required
http://www.lizit.com/lizi_things/web_authoring/index.htm Tutorial: Creating a simple web page
http://www.ncdesign.org/html/index.htm NCD HTML Design Guide
http://www.ncdesign.org/html/sindex.htm NCD Style Sheet Guide
http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/PixelSmith/colors/index.html Coordinated colours
www.echoecho.com HTML tutorial on Metatags:
http://www.oswd.org/ 100s of neat web site designs, that may assist you with your own design ideas.
http://www.the5k.org/index.asp Creative web design with a 5k limit. May assist you with your own design ideas.
www.findtutorials.com

Find Tutorials

  • Intermediate Level
  • Links to 2000 tutorials
  • Lists number of visits to the site.
  • Site review
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ Viewable in all browser Design, online or downloadable zip file
http://www.hypergurl.com/custom404.html
http://www.eservers.com.au/emanual/howto_404.phtml
http://www.404lab.com/
Customising your own 404 pages
http://www.artlung.com/lab/scripting/the-problem-with-blur/ Demo and drawbacks of disabling the dotted lines around links with blur
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HTML Validation and Standards

Accessability

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html Accessiblity Checklist
http://www.cast.org/bobby/ Accessiblity Validator.
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html See what your site looks like through the eyes of a text only browser
http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/tools.html #validation

Lots of Accessibility and Validation Tools.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/ Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing Accessibility issues - demos and some free downloads
http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html Validate your HTML or XHTML code. Upload file to be validated from your computer
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ HTML 4.01 Specification
http://validator.w3.org/ Validate your HTML or XHTML code by supplying URI (URL)
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Check all links on a page

http://www.nic.uk/whois/ WHOIS for  .co.uk domains
http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois http://whois.registrar.aol.com/whois/

Who is queries finds the Name and address of a website owner

http://www.samspade.org/   Sam Spade Who is queries and other Tools .Lots of online tools
Sam Spade for Windows, The Library,Tools and utilities
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ HyperText Markup Language Home Page
http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html
http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html

Test your page in different browsers, or at different resolutions on line

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
Free trial then costs £12.00 and its yours
Give this online WDG validator
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JavaScript

See my recommended books Java Scripts section

http://javascript.internet.com/ Java Script Source. Great site
http://www.a1javascripts.com
http://www.jsworld.com
http://www.javaside.com
http://www.siliceo.com/java.html Java
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html Java
Javascripts and references:
http://www.java.sun.com Tutorials and download Bruce Eck's Thinking in Java which comes free in .pdf format
http://www.webreference.com/js/tools/rollovers/ Good rollover creator
http://www.hotscripts.com/ Java and other scripts
http://www.the-cool-place.co.uk/javascript/cutandpaste/cutandpaste6.html  
http://www.javascriptworld.com/scripts/ Script examples for the book
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/  
http://webteacher.com/javascript/index.html Tutorial with examples
http://www.hotscripts.com/ Loads of Java and other scripts
http://evolt.org/article/thelist/17/20938/ Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony
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Macromedia

   

Miscellaneous

http://filext.com/

File extensions
http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html File extensions
webdevelopersjournal.com There are areas dedicated to design, business, javascript, coding and discussion groups
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi A wonderful resource for internet trends & statistics, can always find interesting survey results. Quoted by Sam. Holland T171 tutor
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans Training, Lesson plans, tutorials on Microsoft programs
http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html Entities Table lists the entity names used in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/ reference/events.asp#om40_event The Dynamic HTML Events page provides information about events in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/ Sun's JSP page provides information about JavaServer Pages (JSP).
http://www.allaire.com/Products/ColdFusion
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/
Allaire's (now Macromedia) ColdFusion product page provides information about ColdFusion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/alert Obtain an e-mail notification of some topic that will appear on BBC TV.
http://www.open2.net/systems/ Looks like an interesting site for OU students.
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/mags/corner.htm List of British Computer Magazines with links to their Web sites
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~sxw/robots/check/ robots.txt syntax checker
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html Stopping robots
http://www.internic.net/whois.html

To cheYou can stop search engines from spidering the pages too, by using a couple of lines of code in a robotsck the ownership of a domain name
http://software.xfx.net/ pop-up killer
http://www.ripe.net Who is attacking you, connect to[ www.ripe.net ] and type in their IP address. This should give you an address to contacy for abuse reports. Email this address with the date and time of the attack and the details of the IP address attacking you. You will need to include a copy of your firewall log.
http://www.dslreports.com/secureme Check your Firewall-request a security scan.
www.grc.com/su-leaktest.htm Steve Gibson's clever LeakTest program, analyses your PC's firewall for weak spots. Zone Alarm comes out well in this test.
http://www.webreference.com/  
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ Nerds -Robert X. Cringely et al
http://www.educause.edu/conference/e98/webcast98.html Alan Kay - The Computer "Revolution" Hasn't Happened Yet!

A webcast presenentation

http://www.contractoruk.co.uk/freeskills.html Tutorials on many programming languages and other subjects
http://visualroute.visualware.co.uk/ This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from this server to any other network device you choose. To trace back to your computer, just press the button with your IP
address below. To trace to any other network device, enter the host name or URL
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf Moores Law: Moore's original submission of his theory to the Electronics Journal in April 1965.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ Extensive Mathematics resource. By the makers of Mathematica
http://www.trafficzap.com/linkpopularity.asp Check who is linking to your site, using Alta Vista, Lycos, Hot Bot or MSN search encines
http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm Use this tool to analyze the pages of your competition to determine the optimum density for your keywords.
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT= &REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=53546 Top ten Internet fraud list
192.com Similar to telephone enquires. Either pay for the service or sign up with a sponser and recieve their newletter.
http://www.iberpass.com/ Useful if you want interner connection and doing a lot of travelling.
http://www.sophos.com Trojan removal instructions
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lsmp/index.html Medical Problems - Self help
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tpsr/html/default.asp Telephone preference service sytop spam calls
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Modems

http://www.speedtest.com/ Check your Modem speed

 

 

Open University

Some OU links may require your login and password

http://telemat.open.ac.uk/webapps/

Technology Short Course Program
Web Application Development Certificate

http://www.westnet.u-net.com/marx/online/marxonline.htm TMA Mark Calculator
https://msds.open.ac.uk/sams/sams001.asp?URL=
http://etma.open.ac.uk/student/student.asp
permutations of grades required to gain each class of honours degree
http://www.open.ac.uk/courseviews/ Students and Tutors comments on OU courses
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ousa/frame1.html Welcome to the Open University Students Association (OUSA)
www.open.ac.uk/etma/student The ETMA system

 

 

Paint Shop Pro

Tutorials

www.Gograph.com
www.kirupa.com
www.pspiz.com
http://loriweb.pair.com/howto.html
http://www.pinoy7.com/default.htm
http://www.state-of-entropy.com/ (this guy is an OU student!!)

these two are photoshop, but can be used for psp:
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/index.htm


http://www.vtc.com/productdetail.php?sku=33299&dealercode=A337

01 - 24 { press the number ]
http://www.grafx-design.com/psp_tut.html

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/psp/tutorials/link2g.htm

http://mardiweb.com/web/

http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP/TOC.html

http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/default.htm


 

Password Protection

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth .htaccess method
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml .htaccess password protection
   

 

PHP

http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html PHP security vulnerabilities
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/525 Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL
http://www.php.net/ The PHP pages provide information about PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor.
http://www.php.net/release_4_2_2.php Security problem in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1.
http://www.3dbuzz.com/ PHP Video tutorials. Log in ->home section ->downloads
http://www.thedemosite.co.uk/index.php PHP/MySQL/Javascript example on password protection.
http://www.bravenet.com/samples/password.php Cut-and-paste' password Bravenet
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Poorly Computer or Software

http://computerdocter.com/  

Promote your site

Student (T171, T170 and TT280) 2002 Sites

This is a new category. I will be pleased to a reciprocal link to any of this years students who have started there own permanent site . The site must contain as main content subject matter that is relevant to HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, Web design, etc, or information suitable for T171, T170 and TT280 students.

This site is listed on the Google search engine and has an excellent ranking with the following search query
HTML T171 tutorial
Test it out if you want.

A reciprocal link to your site from below will give your site a better chance of being listed, and if listed being listed with a higher ranking, on Google. Before submission to a search engine your site should be prepared, with suitable META tags. See my tutorial Site promotion.

Please e-mail to my First class OU mailbox John McGuinn details as below headings. Please note that I am looking for sites that are not OU homepages, because they are only temporary sites.

Student Name URL Site Description or Title
Jim Taylor http://www.users.waitrose.com/~taylorjp/SafeColours.htm very neat Safe Colour Chart.
Sam Covington http://www.sam.covington.btinternet.co.uk/sam_computing_tu170.htm Sams T170 page
Jenfer Dando http://www.jenfer.co.uk Tu170 T171 T209
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Protocols

http://compnetworking.about.com/library/gateway/blip.htm Internet Protocol tutorials
http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm Internet Protocol Self Test

 

Search Engines

http://www.archive.org The Waybackmachine - Very useful reference archive of cached copies of over 10 billion web pages

 

Spyware

http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm Info on adware (spyware)
http://www.spychecker.com/ is it spyware?
http://grc.com/oo/aureate.htm opt out
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Student Sites

I have just placed these OU student sites onto the list below. I will be checking that they are still active links. I have accumulated them over a period of time. Many of them will be ex T171 students with relevant T171 information. Some are there because to me they are cool sites, or contain some useful feature that I would like to use. Other may be less relevant to T170 and T171 ers and be there because of my OU previous courses.

I hope to split the list into suitable subsections

http://www.adbh.co.uk/ou_index.htm Andy Hannon: In the T171 section help can be found for HTML, Page Problems and AOLPress, Netscape Navigator and Frontpage Express.
http://www.ouguru.org.uk/~kindahelpful/oulinks/t171ers.htm  
http://www.stephuk.com/  
http://jimsprograms.com/index.htm John J Cook: Jims Programs. A must for Game lovers, also has java applettes, C tutorial, downloads, VB, source code
http://www.sam.covington.btinternet.co.uk/ Contains info and links re: OU courses, studying French, animal rights.
http://www.angiesweb.co.uk/  
http://www.dingdongdesign.co.uk/  
http://instanceofvisiblefrog.fws1.com/favorite_links.html  
http://www.spookyspace.net/  
http://home.clara.net/martin.reed/webTools.html  
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.davies9/main.htm  
http://www.astentech.com/tutorials/New.html  
http://website.lineone.net/~ou/  
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martyshaw/computing.htm  
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philzy/broadband.html  
http://www.bikingbint.co.uk/  
http://www.2rps.com/  
http://www.d-jw.co.uk/  
http://www.jagsontheweb.com/  
http://www.martyshaw.co.uk/  
http://www.dave-tutssel.com/open_university/assignments.html  
http://www.lizit.com/ou/links/links.htm  
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nog/t171/students.htm  
http://website.lineone.net/~jenweb/171.htm#os  
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nog/t171/  
http://website.lineone.net/~jenfer/  
http://oufcnt5.open.ac.uk/~Andy_Kolassa/Study-2.htm A local Yorkshire 2002 T171 group
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T171 Tutor Sites

Nigel Gibson 2
http://www.nigel.gibson2.btinternet.co.uk/timelines/index.htm
Liz Thakrey Region 3 Using Netscape Composer
Bob Buckley (Also M206)
Roger Beamont (Also M206 M301) Region 7
Chris Bird
Wendy Clark
Mike Hall - learning HTML - Site Map
Michelle Dewey Region 13
Hilary Atkins - History of the Internet - Learning Style Theory and Computer Mediated Communication
Veronica Yuill

Nigel Cubitt. Tutor T171, Co-moderator T171 Tech. Help II and Forum II, CO-moderator TU170 Tutor Help.
TMAs flat file structure
Guidance on requirements for eTMA submission - File names, Naming Conventions, flat file structure, Folders, Path
Jim Dobbs For Site Map click "My Site" link. Loads of info.
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TCP/IP

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/projekte/linux/books/nag/node23.html

 

Technology Information Sites

http://www.howstuffworks.com It tells you how things work.
http://whatis.com Techie things
http://www.wired.com Top technology site
http://www.newlogic.co.uk/fdisk.htm Quick Guide To Partitioning A Hard Drive
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Travel

Cities, Countries and Towns

Benidorm

Leeds

Tenerife

 

TT280

http://telemat.open.ac.uk/webapps/index.html Information about the Open University Web design course

Web Design

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
After reading all these links on web design and good and bad pages
http://www.unfccc.int/resource/library/criteria.html http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm  
http://www.wdvl.com Good Site
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Webmaster Tools

Bravenet webmaster tools

This section has been moved and is being geatly enlarged you may want to bookmark the new Webmaster Tools page

 

 

Windows

Some useful 'built in' Windows programs

regedit - Registry editor. Use with caution
rsrcmtr - Resource monitor
msconfig Check the configuration.
msinfo32 - System information
sysmon - System monitor
sysedit - System editor. Edit the files autoexec.bat, config.sys etc
winfile - Windows 3.1 file manager.

Microsoft Sites

http://support.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Support
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/  
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsxp/servicepacks/sp1.asp Windows MX Service Pack 1
Download (It's massive- requires broadband), or Order Free (Delivery about 1 month)
PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp Tweek UI
http://support.microsoft.com The Knowledge Base, over 250,000 articles: FAQs troubleshooting .
UK section i.e. UK spellings, click international support, UK, Search our Technical Database. Try alternative words if no results.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows XP Tips, How to. For beginners and experts.
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet For IT professionals and support workers. You can register for an e-mail for latest info.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp Library - Information - Tutorials
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp Font information

Other Sites

http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm Startup / shutdown troubleshooting
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
http://www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/PENINDEX.HTM
links useful in sorting out which tasks you can remove from the startup folder:
http://www.viglen.co.uk/support/Manuals/manuals.asp Manuals
http://www.windowsxp-drivers.com/ Drivers
http://www.winguides.com/registry/
http://windows.about.com/cs/registrytips/
Windows Registry. BACKUP before you do anything with the registry
http://www.annoyances.org/ Complete collection of Microsoft Windows information
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm Information on W2000 or XP Task Manager
http://www.labmice.net/windowsxp/default.htm Windows XP Resource Center
http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/ All about MSConfig All windows versions
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,55701,00.asp WPA Technology
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,55699,00.asp EMS Emergency Management System
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,29645,00.asp working with WebDAV
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,29082,00.asp rethinking registry
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,57380,00.asp power saving
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,57168,00.asp remember your memory
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,57038,00.asp pre fetch I/o
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,31361,00.asp boot faster
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,56234,00.asp XP Kernel Enhancements
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Registry Edits for Windows XP
"Tweaks and Tips"
http://www.greatis.com/regrun3startuporder.htm Specify an order of the startup programs
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XML and XHTML

See my recommended books XML section

 

http://www.xml.com