Page spice

Animated page title script

A script that lets you animate the page title in the browser.

Animated message page

This script displays text messages on an introduction page before redirecting it to another page.

Bouncing image script

A script with which you can make an image bounce across the page.

Circling images

A script that will draw a circle consisting of a set of images around your mouse pointer.

Dynamic animation

This script can be used to fly text or images onto the browser screen from different directions.

Falling images

With this script you can make images fall down and then disappear from your page.

Floating images

A script that will float one or several images around the screen.

Search light

This DHTML script creates a search light effect on images using a start/stop link.

Transition effects

A script you can use to create transitions between images.

Text animation

A script to animate and fade in and/or fade out with text.

Labels: Code, HTML, Tips

and other graphics

" Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights to someone."

Free Photographs and Other Visuals

A dozen sources are listed including:
PD Photo.org

"PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The photos are here to be used, but I don't want you to get either of us in trouble over it."

Labels: Graphics

and Flash Movies

"Want a great new look for your website? Free Layouts.com offers you just that - select from our huge database of complete "look and feel" designs. Professional, sports, technical and others — they are all here. Free Web Templates are available for you to download now.

Look around and download your favorite page layouts — for free. Also, submit templates of your own and increase traffic to your website greatly. Currently over 500 free HTML templates and 50 Flash templates for you to download!"

Labels: Layout, Templates

Tech Stuff for the Web

"There are many Web technologies, from simple to complex, and explaining each in detail is beyond the scope of this article. However, to help you get started with developing your own Web sites, beyond simple WYSIWYG designing of Web pages in FrontPage, this article provides brief definitions of the major Web technologies along with links to sites where you can find more information, tutorials, and reference documentation."

Introduction to Web Technologies for FrontPage Users

If you have seen or heard these terms, and want a definition with links to more background material, this maybe the place to start.

• Access
  
• ActiveX Controls
  
• Apache
  
• ASP
  
• ASP.NET
  
• C#
  
• CGI
  
• CSS
  
• Databases
  
• Ecma International
  
• FrontPage Server Extensions
  
• HTML
  
• IETF
  
• Internet Information Services
  
• Java
  
• JavaScript (JScript/ECMAScript)
  
• MySQL
  
• Oracle Database
  
• Perl
  
• PHP
  
• SharePoint Team Services
  
• SQL Server
  
• VBScript
  
• Visual Basic .NET
  
• Windows SharePoint Services
  
• World Wide Web Consortium
  
• XML
  
• XSLT

Labels: HTML

Web based Newsreader

"The Web-based Newsreader allows you to participate in discussion groups directly in your Web browser; you don't need to install or configure anything. You can use the Web-based Newsreader to read, post, search for, and reply to messages in discussion groups from the part of Usenet that concerns Microsoft products and technologies."

Labels: General

Writing resources

..."the personal website of Matt Pfeffer. It is an experiment more than anything. An attempt to learn a thing or two, get some exercise, maybe have a laugh now and then.
Everything here is either trivial, or wrong."

"The guidelines this document describes will tell you how to improve the user experience on your site. They apply to web copy generally - both marketing copy and navigational (or instructional or "guide") copy - and their value is indirect but significant: Observing them will improve your site's ability to do its job well. "

"This style guide seeks to serve as a resource for anyone writing or editing web copy, and to document some of the conventions that distinguish good writing, as published on the web, from writing published in other media."

"I am glad to provide free editing help to nonprofit organizations and independent web publishers. The offer is generally for one-time edits of a web site, or of any reasonable amount of web content."

Labels: Tips

Art in 16x16 pixels

"FavIcon from Pics is an online tool that can generate a favicon from a picture, logo or other graphic of any size/resolution. It was also the first online tool that simplified the creation of favicons using a regular image without requiring manual edits."

" Here's a roundup of some of the favicons that caught my eye. Please click through to the sites themselves, to see how the favicon works (or not) with the site. Maybe it will get you thinking about your own site's favicon."

Labels: HTML, IE, Internet