PC Software
Most Internet related programs i.e. FTP and HTML editors are reviewed
and available from
FTP Programmes:
HTML Editors:
Paint Shop Pro
- shareware, is wonderful for creating/editing gifs and jpgs, for
making gif backgrounds transparent and for screen capture.
Microsoft offer a wonderful free program called Gif
Animator - (1.2MB) for combining gifs into one animated gif.
Web Development / Tutorials
Zip file of Kidlink's individual Small
flags 
Download most Kidlink icons in one 420k icons.zip
file (includes all the small flags)
NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
Free Javascript wizard from the Anfy
Team.
BBC
Webwise
Professional Web Design.
This site provides step-by-step
tutorials and resources for beginners to advanced site designers.
Tips for Writers
and Designers of Web Pages.
Designing
Web Pages from West Loogootee.
CNET.com
offers a selection of advanced and fun, HTML and Java techniques.
Other Reference and Tutorials
Learn how
to create gif animations.
Good
Paint Shop Pro tips.
Two
letter country codes that are used at the end of email addresses
The codes for unusual
and accented characters
The The Web Developer's Virtual Library
(WDVL) is a comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology
for webmasters, designers and developers. The WDVL is a well-organised
goldmine of tutorials, demos, and links to great resources.
For comprehensive information about WWW, start with http://www.w3.org/.
A Word Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions file is available at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/wwwfaq.txt,
while updates are posted to news.answers, comp.infosystems.gopher,
comp.infosystems.wais and alt.hypertext.
A valuable collection of FAQs from the HTML Writers Guild can be
found at http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/index.html
The Virtual Library of WWW Development http://www.stars.com/Vlib/
is a must for Web page developers. Topics span Authoring, Annotation,
CGI, Database, Forms, HTML, HTML Editors, Imagemaps, Images and
Icons, Java, MIME, Perl, SGML and CyberVR to Mail, News, Protocols,
Security, and much more.
A collection pointers to tools, technical documentation, and standards,
both current and under development, for World Wide Web and the Internet
in general, is at http://www.mcs.com/~lunde/web/aboutwww.html
Utilities
Make gifs as small as possible by using Raspberry
Hill's Gif Wizard.
Just submit the url of the gif here:
Run your web pages through Bobby http://www.cast.org/bobby/,
a free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible
to people with disabilities. It also finds HTML compatibility problems
that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers.
Resources
Need more pictures, icons or animated gifs? Try http://www.iconbazaar.com/
Also, make sure you visit the Best Viewed with any Browser Campaign
at http://server.berkeley.edu/~cdaveb/anybrowser.html.
Please forward any link suggestions to Kidlink
Weblinks. We also need links for useful software for other platforms.
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