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Flash
See my recommended Flash books section
Fonts
Fun
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/ |
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| http://webservices.adobe.com/optimize/main.html |
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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
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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 |
http://www.m3corp.com |
Millennium 3D Textures, models,tutorials and lots of other free stuff. |
Help Sites
Domain Names & Hosting
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1&1 Domain Names & Web site Hosting
*** Recomended ***
- 1&1 have more than 7.5 million customers world wide
- Feature-packed web hosting services
- Easy website creators
- Superb customer service & support including 24/7 phone support
- The latest technology at unbeatable prices
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123 Reg Domain Names & Hosting
- The UK’s largest domain name registra
- Web site HostingDomain
- Easy to use website builder
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Network Solutions, based in America is a leading provider of Web services including: Search Engine Marketing, Web site design, e-mail security,
Web hosting and more.
Network Solutions offers a comprehensive suite of products and services to help customers use the Internet to enhance their lives and drive traffic to their Web sites.
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Web Hosting Stuff - a hosting directory site, that currently lists and reviews 5,800+ web hosting plans. |
| Dedicated Servers |
HostingSource, Inc. is a leading web hosting
provider,
offering reliable, scalable solutions for customers of all sizes and services.
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HTML Tutorials
See my recommended HTML books section
HTML Validation and Standards
Accessability
JavaScript
See my recommended books Java Scripts section
Macromedia
Miscellaneous
| 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
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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/ |
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| 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 |
Modems
Open University
Some OU links may require your login and password
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
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Password Protection
| http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth |
.htaccess method |
| http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml |
.htaccess password protection |
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PHP
Poorly Computer or Software
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.
Protocols
Search Engines
| http://www.archive.org |
The Waybackmachine - Very useful reference archive of cached copies of over 10 billion web pages |
Spyware
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
T171 Tutor Sites
TCP/IP
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/projekte/linux/books/nag/node23.html
Technology Information Sites
Travel
Cities, Countries and Towns
Benidorm
Leeds
TT280
Tutorials
Photoshop
& Flash Tutorials
Web Design
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
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 |
XML and XHTML
See my recommended books XML section
| http://www.xml.com |
Iinformation, tutorials, and tips about Extensible Markup Language (XML), as well as other Web technologies. |
| http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/ |
As the companion site to Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition, this electronic café offers an
assortment of free samples and tasty treats to help you get up to speed on HTML in a hurry.
Hover over a clock number |
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