Beginning Web Design

Web Style Guide - Complete guide for creating your website from the planning stage straight through to marketing, tracking, graphics, and multimedia elements. Wonderfully helpful site for designers of any experience level.

Killer Sites - Creating Killer Web Sites Online is the companion site to David Siegel's best selling book. If you want to learn how to create third-generation web sites, this site is a must see!

Page Tutor - Award winning HTML and Javascript tutorials. You'll find easy to learn material on HTML tables, forms, frames, javascript, style sheets and much more.

Web Design Tutorial - A beginner's tutorial on how to create web pages and web sites

Basic Tips - Original articles and tips for webmasters including CSS, web design, graphic design, site promotion, timesavers and money making ideas.

Web Page Design for Designers - Web design archive. The cumulation of over eight years of articles, reviews and information about the graphic design of Web sites.

2 Create a Website - Designed for web beginners, 2 Create a Website offers tutorials that have helped hundreds of people create and publish their own personal or business website from scratch. You CAN do it yourself and this site will guide you to success using a step by step method.

HTML Tutorials

HTML Primer - This is a primer for producing documents in HTML, the hypertext markup language used on the World Wide Web. This guide is intended to be an introduction to using HTML and creating files for the Web. Links are provided to additional information. You should also check your local bookstore; there are many volumes about the Web and HTML that could be useful.

HTML Goodies - You can see the titles but what do they all mean? Where should you start? Where will you find what you're looking for?

W3C - An excellent, thorough HTML tutorial from the World Wide Web Consortium, the leaders in what is and is not right in coding standards.

HTML Code Tutorial - The site name says it all.

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial - This tutorial is for anyone who is serious about learning HTML code. Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire web site. Perhaps you're setting up a web site for your business or organization. You've come to the right place. You do not need any prior experience in making web pages to take this course

Introduction to HTML - This introductory tutorial has two sequels: HTML 2.0: Forms and Obscurities, which covers interactive forms, among other things; and HTML 3.2: Here's Wilbur!, which deals with tables, backgrounds, text color, and other cool stuff. Once you're through here, give one of the others a try!

Web Design Group - HTMLHelp.com is maintained by the Web Design Group to provide Web authoring reference material, tips, and answers to frequently asked questions.

HTML Dog - Featuring HTML Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Guides.

CSS Tutorials

W3C - An excellent, thorough CSS tutorial from the World Wide Web Consortium, the leaders in what is and is not right in coding standards.

Web Design Group - The Web Design Group's guide to Cascading Style Sheets.

The Complete CSS Guide - A reference to every aspect of cascading style sheets. If you need help learning CSS or if you're looking for info about selectors, properties and all the other aspects of cascading style sheets, this is the place.

HTML Dog - Featuring CSS Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Guides.

Mulder's Stylesheets - Walkthrough online tutorial by Steve Mulder, manager of information architecture in the user experience group of Terra Lycos.

CSS Tutorial - 21 different topics from What is a Selector? to positioning and display.

The Complete CSS Tutorial - The title says it all.

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Development Tool & Design Tip Sites

Website Optimization.com Website Optimization analyzes websites for optimization and makes suggestions on how to improve the overall load times of a page. It is an awesome tool.

DevMechanic - Webmaster tools, developer tools, programming tools at Dev Mechanic! How to, tutorials, web development, web programming, web site creation, online business help, marketing help, domain name tips, search engine tricks and more! Thousands of articles to help you improve your site.

Web Reference - Featuring articles on everything from code and programming to choosing colors to promotion and search engine optimization. Hundreds of articles to help you improve your site, lure more visitors and even make money on the web.

SitePoint - With a vast variety of web design tutorials and articles coupled with a vibrant and well informed community, SitePoint the natural place to go to grow your online business.

WebSite Tips - Websitetips.com, an educational resource, provides CSS, HTML, and XHTML tutorials, graphics tutorials, articles, tips, information and resources to build or improve your Web site presence. You'll also find over 2,400 annotated resources around the web to HTML, CSS and color charts, font sites, search engine optimization sites, graphics and HTML tutorials and programs, usability and information architecture sites, informative articles, tips, and more.

Dan's Web Tips - Some helpful hints and tips for Web developers. Includes information on making sites more widely accessible and getting better indexing in search engines.

Evolt.org - A world community for web developers, evolt.org promotes the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.

Webdevelopers - WebDeveloper.com Forums, Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Create Graphics, Program in Java and JavaScript and More!

WebMonkey - Filled to the brim with articles, tips, and tutorials by leading industry experts, Webmonkey is one of the main sources for web design and development information for beginners through advanced.

W3C - W3C's nearly 400 member organizations lead the World Wide Web to its full potential. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia.

BoogieJack - Welcome to Boogie Jack's, a webmaster's resource site featuring free graphics, HTML tutorials, CSS tutorials, copy and paste JavaScript, very cool products you won't find elsewhere, and many other features for webmasters.

4 WebHelp - The members of the 4WebHelp team are pleased to welcome you to 4WebHelp, the site with resources for the budding webmaster. Coming from a variety of web related backgrounds, our tutorial writers will endeavour to help you along your journey as a webmaster, web designer or programmer, whether you are an expert or a beginner. If our vast variety of tutorials, scripts, links, and online tools do not meet your needs, our community members will be sure to help you.

Developer's Shed - Network of sites devoted to all things developer. Dev Articles, Dev Hardware, Dev Archives, SEO Chat, Scripts Dev Mechanic and ASP Free are all part of this network. Dev Shed also boasts the most popular Developer forums on the internet.

Taming the Beast - Free Internet marketing, ecommerce web site design & development resources. Affiliate strategies & training, promotion & ecommerce articles and tutorials

Basic Web Layout and Design Tutorial - This tutorial provides information on the basic elements of Web page design and layout. It is not meant to be a comprehensive course on Web site construction. Rather, it is meant to provide an overview of the most important issues that anybody building a Web page will confront. The tutorial takes about 20 to 30 minutes to complete.

Online Manuals - PHP, MySQL, Javascript & O'Reilly

O'Reilly Network - Web development links to reference content on XML, Linux, Apache, Java Servlets, MySQL and Perl. O'Reilly Network is a reference site for developers who rely on O'Reilly books to provide in-depth technical content on open source and emerging technologies important to them.

MySQL Manual - MySQL Reference Manual

PHP Manual- PHP Reference Manual

Javascript Manual - Javascript Reference Manual

Search Engine Optimization & Helpers

SEO Chat - Learn how to optimize your site for search engines, including MSN, Yahoo and Google, plus web directories Learn about link trading, site promotion and marketing. Read up on the latest search engine news, find out the latest developments and how to use them to benefit your site. Site also includes tools to help you generate and analyze meta tags, check link popularity and check your page's current rank.

Strongest Links - At Strongest Links you can find good linking partners, track directory submission and manage your online promotion campaign.

Search Engine Watch - Search Engine Watch is the authoritative guide to searching at Internet search engines and search engine registration and ranking issues. Learn to submit URLs, use HTML meta tags and boost placement.

Search Engine Guide - Search engines are covered in depth with daily search engine news, information on search engine marketing, and our directory of thousands of general and specialty search engines.

Submit Express - Submit your website URL to 40 major search engines for FREE ! Search engine optimization services. Website Submission to over 75,000 search engines and directories. Free META Tags generator. Free Newsletter.

Search Engine Showdown - Detailed analysis of Internet Search Engines, their features, databases, and strategies. Learn advanced searching secrets and more.

Search Engine Strategies - Welcome to 2005 version of our Search Engine Optimization Strategies Website. Here you will find a large how-to resource dedicated to optimizing your website for search engines. Whether you are experienced in optimization and internet marketing or a first timer, the information provided will no doubt be of use in your search engine optimization goals.

All Search Engines - The net's top search engine index, a handy search engine directory

Big Search Engine Index - Search Engine Index offers you links to search engines and directories from almost 200 countries around the world. With Search Engine Index you can; Conduct extensive web searches, Choose from more then 900 Search Engines, Make your own website submissions, Locate your new favorite search engines and search the web using your choice of language.

Age of Dot Com - A Meta Index (Portal to Portals) to Web Portals, Search Engines, Start Pages, Directories, Resources & International Guides to Country specific Portals and Vortals by Subject. A fresh and fast Index for clever web surfing."

1Hit - Skip the pay services and go to the free site tools, extensive articles archive, thorough Q&A, library, and tips, tricks and links.

Site Content

Mind-n-Magick News - Mind-n-Magick is now offering RSS feeds featuring news of interest to the pagan community. They are also offering code to allow webmasters to feature Witchvox articles on their sites. Code is all cut and paste and easy to install on your site.

Witchvox News - Direct link to the Witchvox News XML code.

Pagan News - Add information about herbs and daily correspondences to your site for free. Includes Daily Rune, Daily Tarot, Daily Deity, Herb-a-Day, Herb Selector and Sun and Moon Positions.

Facade - You are welcome to include these daily feeds, free readings, or banners wherever you like, as long as you do not alter the output in any way. Includes Daily I Ching, Daily Rune, Tarot Reading, Rune Reading, I Ching Reading, Biorythym Reading, Numerology Reading and more.

Calculator Cat - Animated individual date or montly calender's for your site.  Free!

Sacred Days - Sacred Days is a unique calendar output-only application that displays events and moon phase for each day of the calendar year. Installs easily to your site and requires no maintenance. Comes with a complete read-me file and 6 different display options that may also be customized to suit your site design. (Title will automatically download zip file.)

Digitope's Pixelshop

Favicons appear next to your website's address in the browser address bar and next to the site's title when a visitor bookmarks your site. Favicons make your site unique and make the title pop out of a long list of favorites.  Digitope's Pixelshop is user-friendly and can help you create favicons for your site in seconds.

 

Banners Promote!

Banners for banner exchanges, for search engine submissions, for TopList submission, for your own promotions. Banners drive traffic to your site. Try these free banner creators to help get the traffic moving in your direction.

Xara Banner Creator
QuickBanner
CoolText
3D TextMaker
Banner Generator