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Visit my clipart links page:

Noel's Clipart Links

Learn about Microsoft's FrontPage program:

	Visit My FrontPage tips & Info Page
	Microsoft's FrontPage home site (Great information) Excellent FrontPage tips site

Learn about graphics:

PaintShop Pro A great graphics program and it does great captures also! A great tutorial is located here.

Learn HTML...the language of the Internet:

	Introduction to HTML (Great site to read.)
	So you want to make a web page! (Good step by step tutorial of HTML)
	Hot Source HTML is a site with various tutorials and information,
	HTML interactive tutorial (excellent) (Great topical site)
	The web developer's virtual library (Excellent tutorials and information)
	The htmlcodetutorial site is a great site for HTML and tips (great tutorial on rollover image effects and opening windows automatically)

Once you have built your site...have these doctors check it for proper HTML:

	Doctor HTML will check your site for free
	Excite's list of HTML checkers
	HTML Checker and Meta Tag builder
	HTML Checker and other tools
	Netmechanic offers a great site tune-up (Recommended by our very own Andrew Zetterman!)
	Media Builder also offers some excellent tools for web development
	Minitor your web site to make sure it is online... this free service by netwhistle is great.
	Add a nice calendar to your site at CalendarsNet
	Another nice calendar program for your web site.
	Register your site at 000doamins at a reasonable price.
	No-IP will help you with DNS resolution if you are trying to run a web site from home.

Want to add a little Java or Java Script to your page?

	Cut N Paste Java Script
	24 Hour Java Scripts
	JAR's Java Scripts
	Darren's Script Archive has some nice scripts-- all for 5$
	Hot Style --Java Script resource and files
	Dave Central- Java and tools
	The web reference site offers Java Script and other programming references.
	Yahoo's Java listing
	Java Boutique or JavaScript.com offer resources for Java Script and more
	Java Script resources, another Java Script site
	Dynamic Drive, The Java Script Source, JavaScript KIT and BrainJar have excellent sites on JavaScript and other nice web page enhancements
	A really nice rollover fading effect
	Excellent Menu applets.... also a great ticker window applet.
	Hot Scripts has Java, ASP and other scripts available.
	The Java Script Source site has some nice resources. Including a nice Popup window wizzard.
	Tip: APPLYING DYNAMIC HTML EFFECTS TO TEXT IN SHARED BORDERS in FrontPage To apply dynamic HTML effects to text in the shared border region of a page, double-click the appropriate shared border file (i.e. top.htm, left.htm, right.htm or bottom.htm) in the _borders folder and then select the text you want to apply the effect to. If you don't see the _borders folder in your folders list, select Settings from the Tools menu, then click the Advanced tab, and make sure the check box labeled "show documents in hidden directories" is selected.

Want to learn Java? (Not for the faint at heart!) Check out these links:

	Learn Java
	Netscape's Java Script Guide (very good)

Add Active Server Pages...

	Excellent Resource page on Active Server Pages
	ASP101 has some nice ASP tutorials and examples
	ASP info from Microsoft and other web technologies
	Tip: Inside Out: Active Server Pages Takes the Bite out of Forms Use ASP instead of Microsoft FrontPage to handle forms. --Mark Minasi http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7951

Use Server Variables within your web pages

	Sample
	Shows you the ASP code for using variables
	W3Schools has a wealth of information on many web programming issues. GREAT SITE!

Add Panoramic Pictures

	A great Java applet is found at ampersand
	The Iplanner applet also adds panoramic pictures to the web
	MGI makes a nice software package for making Panoramics

Want to create more traffic to your site... Check these out:

	Submit it or 1,2,3 add it
	A nice information site is located here

A little Visual Basic Language?

	The Developer's Exchange ... some Visual Basic and Java
	Visual Basic Directory- Good site with allot of links

RSS feeds and information

	What is an RSS feed and how to create one.
	Placing an RSS feed on your web site

Misc. Web tool and items

	Great site with many online tools for developing web pages!
	Add a nice free news ticker to your website.
	ScreamDesign's Site has some general web resources
	Excellent Site on learning about Cascading style sheets
	Add a guestbook
	This site has a nice HTML section and includes a nice wizard for changing the color of your frames navigation bars.
	This program creates nice html calendars Another HTML Calendar Program Calendar Server is a free solution Another Free Calendar Site
	Have a page that changes often... force it to reload every time.
	Want a link to Open a new window with the window sized the way you want it.... visit this link for a How-To
	Misc. Web Development site, A list apart, and www.builder.com
	The internetbaglady has a few tools including a nice web-safe color chart.
	Add a map to your site at MapBlast
	MediBuilder's Gif Optimization site will reduce the size of your Gif graphic files... thus reducing the download times
	Add a index using this great free utility by Mark Howard
	IBM is giving away Hotmedia.... a great tool for making panoramic pictures and graphics!
	Joomla! is a very nice bulletin board and media distribution system. (It is open source.)

Microsoft IIS info and tools:

Nice Tutorial on How to Enable SSL on IIS (For SSL newbies) http://builder.com.com/5100-6389_14-5055536.html

Blocking Malicious URLs with URLScan (If you need any more encouragement to run the free Microsoft tool) http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=44668,00.asp

IIS Security Basics (You can never have too many links like this in your Favorites -- the section on monitoring is an especially good starting point) http://www.secwiz.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39

Hardening Windows NT/2000/XP (This article covers everything you need to do for security, short of hiding your servers in a locked room) http://www.WindowSecurity.com/pages/article.asp?id=1264

Troubleshooting Windows 2000 (An excellent resource site with tips to save you time -- read about event logging, memory leaks, performance tuning, memory dumps and more) http://www.labmice.net/troubleshooting/

IIS 6.0 Resource Kit (A prescriptive, task-based, and scenario-based guide to help you effectively plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot IIS 6) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=80a1b6e6-829e-49b7-8c02-333d9c148e69&DisplayLang=en