Web Sites for Steven's Web Design Workshops

Part I Sites

Search Sites for Graphics

http://www.ditto.com -
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msub10.htm - web sites from about.com
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msub31.htm - clipart search sites from about.com
http://www.altavista.com - lets you click on the image button before searching. Many times will return photos more than clipart.
http://www.clipart.com - large list of clipart, much of which is free - is SEARCHABLE
http://www.lycos.com/picturethis - Lycos image gallery
http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/instructions.html - searchable database of museum paintings and similar
http://nix.nasa.gov - search NASA photos
http://disney.ctr.columbia.edu/WebSEEK - image search engine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm - The amazing picture machine search engine

Collections, tutorials and Other Information

http://webclipart.about.com - very good collection of links
http://www.freeimages.com -
http://www.reallybig.com - large collection of clipart, buttons and other graphics.
http://www.andyart.com/index2.html - nice collection of buttons, backgrounds and animated gifs. Also has tips and other tools.
http://www.barrysclipart.com - a nice site with a range of gifs.
http://www.animfactory.com/index.html - large collection of animated gif files

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html - copyright and fair-use information
http://webclipart.about.com/msubmenu28.htm?pid=2747&cob=home - About.com page of links and info. on copyright issues
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/copyright.html - copyright answers
http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/acceptable.html - creating an acceptable use policy

Design guides and information

http://webdesign.about.com - good collection of material
http://www.htmltips.com/index.html -
http://www.cyberkorean.com/webdsgn/indexF.htm
http://www.hope.edu/resources/lib/www/goodbad.html -
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html - one of the best, basic guides
http://www.sun.com/styleguide - has good list of references
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com

http://www.randomness.com/webtips
http://www.cedarnet.org/newbies
http://www.devry-phx.edu/webresrc/webmstry/styltips.htm
http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~texas/web.html - good general list of resources

Sites for web page design specifically for educators

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/kids - a site for students, very basic and easy to use
http://www.microsoft.com/education/curric/activity/website.htm - an activity using MS Publisher to create a basic page.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online - A guide from an elementary school
http://ftp.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/departments/htmlclass/htmldocs/schweb.html
http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/ssn/homepage/webagogy.htm
http://www.learningspace.org/content/default.html
http://www.teachers.net/sampler - a place to build a quick page
http://www.upnaway.com/~kareneh
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/webbuilder/reference.html

Part II Sites

Table examples

http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa122797.htm - some reasons to use tables
http://www.cyberbits.com/Tables/tablmain.htm - click on columns and rows
http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/hour15/fearful2.htm - basic table
http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/hour15/fearful3.htm - still a basic table
http://browserwatch.internet.com - created using tables
http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/look/look.htm - graphics and tables
http://24hourhtmlcafe.com/hour15/tabula.htm - tables within tables
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/thinkers.html - more tables within tables

HTML

Take a look at the site below. It is a great site for HTML I strongly recommend going through them all.

http://www.bfree.on.ca/HTML

Some Web Sites to check for HTML information

http://html.about.com/index.htm?COB=home&PID=2747 - About.com's HTML home page
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html - an interactive HTML tutorial
http://www.webreference.com - nice reference site
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/hyper.html - good reference with design tips
http://www.ahandyguide.com/cat1/h/h219.htm - list of references
http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/index.html - How'd they do that with HTML?

Colors in HTML - some reference sites

http://www2.4dcomm.com/livingsj/colorchart.html -
http://html.about.com/msubcolor.htm?pid=2747&cob=home - using color on web pages
http://jeffline.tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/hslc/sym96/bones/color.html - DESIGN TIPS for color
http://www.colormix.com - mixes colors for you. You can save as a GIF file
http://home.flash.net/~drj2142 - includes a nice chart and a color picker.
http://www.btinternet.com/~paulr/color - another chart and goodies
http://www.imagitek.com/bcs.html - an image selector

Site Promotion

http://www.web-sitepromotion.com/index.html - intro to site promotion
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msubmenu2.htm - tools to help you optimize access to your web page
http://reallybig.com/wpromote.shtml - some good links (some items free, some require fee)
http://www.webtimetools.com/Site_Promotion/site_promotion.shtml -
http://www.pr2.com - tutorial and links for web site promotion (geared more to business)
http://www.registrationwizard.com - helps you register, but you must actually click a button for each major site.
http://www.hileytech.com/freesub.html - submits to major search engine

More information on Steven's web site

Other help on the Web (software, counters, web host sites, other good stuff)

http://webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/style.html - list of HTML style guides
http://www.webpedia.com/webpedia - good tutorials
http://davesite.com/webstation/html/html_links.shtml - good list of references
http://www.webtimetools.com/index.shtml - mix of counters, web hosting sites and other tools
http://www.stars.com - has some nice design tips and links, sometimes hard to find what you want
http://www.pageresource.com/counters5.htm - large list of free sites
http://www.whobuiltit.com - tracks down who designed a site
http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/aa072099.htm - good article about creating a search function for your web site
http://softseek.com/Internet/Web_Publishing_Tools - SoftSeek's list of tools (includes HTML validation programs)
www.sitemeter.com - a site with free counters
http://reallybig.com/webmanag.shtml - has counters, site statistic programs and utilities
http://www.cern.ch/WebOffice/Tools/Styles/Validation.html - example of an URL validation service - you enter URL and it checks it for you. Many services will check ONE URL at a time.
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead - ZDNet's web developer guide. Has link and code checkers.
*** http://netmechanic.com - many free programs including a link checker and HTML validation, very basic but good

For those who want a quickie Internet page for class activity or help setting up online classes

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/intro.html - helps you create a web page Internet activity
http://www.blackboard.com -
http://www.freehomepage.com -
http://scrtec.org/track - you build a web page using URL activities
http://www.iupui.edu/ithome/services/media/www/pbasic.html - Use the form to create a page
http://www.teachervision.com -

More information on Steven's web site