STC Washington DC Chapter World Wide Web Resources

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If you are new to the World Wide Web and want to learn how to create your own home page, you may want to look at these sites first.

Beginner's Guide to HTML
Web Design course
Web Developer's How-to-do-it information about HTML tagging basics with examples, HTML specs, Netscape extensions, common mistakes and tips and tricks
Web Pages That Suck!
Creating Killer Web Sites
Reference Desk for Creating Web Sites
"Home Pages and the World Wide Web" presented to the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Washington, DC Chapter on 12 December 1995.
W3C site index
World Wide Web FAQ
1991-92 World Wide Web Seminar by Tim Berners-Lee

Audio Collections
- Audio collection of multimedia sounds
- Classical MIDI archives classical music midi files
- Daily.wav
- Midi information for Macs and PCs
- Monty Python movie sounds
- Ibiblio collection of FTP multimedia sounds
- Ragtime MIDI music
- Retro Radio 20s - 50s: Hillbilly, Swing, Rockabilly, Jump Blues, Big Band, Western Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Stride Piano, Rhythm & Blues and more…
- Sun Sound effects wav
- Sound effects for CD-ROM royalty free
- Text-to-speech IP & voice services AT&T's demo of vocalizing typed words
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Browsers
- Adobe® Acrobat® Reader software
- Apple's Safari 1+, 2+ (Mac OS X)
- Browser Watch information about browsers, plug-ins and ActiveX controls
- Camino 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1+ (Mac OS X)
- Firefox
  - Firefox 2 for Developers
  - Spread Firefox
- iCab (Mac OS X)
- Konqueror (Linux KDE Desktop)
- Galeon (Linux GNOME Desktop)
- Lynx 2.8.5+
  - See also, the Lynx Viewer, which simulates what Web pages will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
  - Internet Explorer IE7
  - MSDN Library
- Netscape
  - Creating High-Impact Documents images adjustments for GIF and JPEG
  - Netscape 3.0 Handbook Authoring Guide, Release Notes, Technical Support Pages, Navigator User Group, JavaScript Guide, Plug-in Guide
  - Netscape News
  - Netscape Navigator software products
  - Netscape Plug-ins
- Opera 7, 8, 9+ (all platforms)
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CGI and Perl (also see the JavaScript resources)
- Bignosebird.com
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- CGI City
- The CGIexpo.com
- CGI: Common Gateway Interface W3.org
- CGI Resource Index
- CGI scripts and tips
- CGI scripts archive
- CGI Script Search
- FileMaker Pro
- InfoSheet Scripts
- Perl Reference
- Response-O-Matic FREE form processor
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Graphics and Icons
For graphics and video software and tools, see Web Software and Tools
- Adobe Community Experts is a community based program made up of Adobe customers who share their product expertise with the world-wide Adobe community.
- Animations—the 1st Internet Gallery of GIF Animations
- Animation Factory
- Animations from Kitty Roach
- Animations from WebPromotion
- Anthony's WWW icons, bars, buttons, and miscellaneous graphics
- ArtBitz stock design and illustrations
- Bonzai—online icon collection
- Clipart.com
- Corner images available for free in all Web-safe colors
- Cynthia's collection of favorite backgrounds
- Cynthia's collection of favorite bars, lines, and rules
- Clip art links
- Clip art service
- Colors and utilities for color
  - Accessibility Color Wheel Version 1.0 by Giacomo Mazzocato. When you hover over the color wheel, you'll see text in colors for normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia color vision simultaneously. An "OK" message is displayed when you hover over an accessible color. By clicking on the color, you can copy the hex values. The tool may be used for foreground and background color contrasts. You may download the javascript if you want to use it offline.
  - Accessible Color and Typography
  - Browser Safe Color Palette 216 colors for all platforms
  - 6X6X6 Color Palette Clickable Map used by Netscape and other browsers
  - Color resource links
  - Color palette: Is the Browser-Safe Palette Dead?
  - ColorPicker a color picker that converts the standard RGB in the color picker dialog box to the HTML hex code hex; for Macintosh
  - ColorPicker dynamic page
  - ColorPicker Java applet
  - ColorPicker Java applet background and text colors
  - Color science from an astronomical perspective
  - Color spectrum: course grain
  - Considering user differences for Web design
  - Feng Shui color theory and Western color spectrum differences
  - GIMP's photo touchup tutorials
  - HTML Color Chart — Crayola Crayon Colors
  - Pangloss ColorHelper a color picker that provides the RGB for the selected color swatch, shows you what it looks like, and converts it to the HTML hex code; for Macintosh and Windows
  - RGB/HEX Calculator
- Cynthia's collection of construction site graphics
- Daniel's icon archive icon collection at the Copenhagen University Observatory
- Disability Graphics
  - Disability Access Symbols
  - Disability Graphics
- Free Favicons
- Fish CAM continuously refreshing
- Flower motifs and a great collection of graphics collections
- Globe Gallery
- Graphic Communication Resources
- Graphic Design Resource Center
- Graphics File Formats FAQ Image Conversion and Display Programs
- Icon browser
- University of Karlsruhe icon collections:
  - Icon collection
- Illustration Works (Stock Illustration)
- Laboratory Safety Signs and Posters
- Lynda Weinman, web graphics specialist and author <designing web graphics>
- Music Graphics Galore
- Site Graphics and Multimedia Design forum
- Stock Photography:
  - Fotosearch stock photography and photo search
- 3-D Web stereoscopic imagery and supplies
- Web clip art service
- World animation galleries worldwide cartoon art showcase

Arts and Sciences • Communication Aids • Search Tools • Web Resources

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