- BestOfWebHosting.biz
- Looking for a company to host your web site? Here's
a selection of company that host brochureware to major
e-commerce sites in a variety of price ranges.
- Webmaster
Affiliate Programs Section
- A selected list of affiliate programs through which
you can make money from your web site.
- Site
Promotion Section
- Resources to use to promote your web site. Click
here to download your free ebook about site
promotion! (For Windows only).
- Javascript-Coder
- Add ultimate interactivity to your web pages without
writing even a single line of code. It allows you to
Design visually. takes care of generating the precise
code, and inserts the code at the proper locations in
the HTML file.
- Blocklock
- With Blocklock protecting your pages, visitors won't
be able to take any content from your page -
text, graphics, or anything.
- Clipart.com.
- 5,860 Fonts plus 2.5 million clipart images
available immediately.
- Linktools
- Easy-to-use software allows you to automatically
place a hotlink to your site in various places on your
visitors' computer ... including their START menu,
their "Favorites" folder... and even
directly onto their Desktop.
- Domains
Bot
- Check for good domain names that are close to
expiring.
- Photos.com
- This site has thousands of royalty-free photos for
your web site at one low price.
- WebEdit
Professional
- Powerful, ingeniously simple browser-based
application that enables any non-technical user to
create, edit and manage their entire website. The
simple to use, powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What
You Get) editor, gives you the ability to edit any web
page within your site. Effortless point and click
interface enables you to edit text as you would in a
word processor (eg. Microsoft Word), modify text font,
size, color, formatting, alignment and more.
- CogniSurf
- Surf the web with unlimited access for only
$12.45/month from thousands of cities. No setup fee,
all 56kb modems (ISDN available in some areas).
- Designer360.com
- An extremely inexpensive way to build your own
multimedia rich, high impact web site using their
professionally designed Flash templates. No Flash
knowledge necessary.
- WebBizBuilder
- Host your site where it's easy to create!
WebBizBuilder's online site guide will walk you
through the process of designing your web site from
selecting your theme to editing pages. There is online
help included at each step. The WebBizBuilder site
guide sits on top of your site, allowing you to see
the progress of your site as you complete each step.
- Faxaway
- Here's an easy way to integrate fax into your web
site (or fax from your own email). Just set up an
account and email faxes to faxnumber@faxaway.com.
- CodeCharge
- CodeCharge is the only tool that generates the same
server-side code that you are familiar with. It allows
you to stay focused on implementing business logic,
while significantly accelerating the development of
forms, grids, search and login elements. Best of all,
CodeCharge produces robust, bug-free code in the
language of your choice - ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, PHP,
Perl and ASP.NET/C#.
- Clickseva.com
- It's time to chat with your customers. Offer real
time sales and customer service to your visitors to
humanize your web site. Their Live Customer Service is
the leading customer service application over the
Internet for the Small and Medium Enterprise market,
facilitating Live, 24/7 Interactive Sales and Customer
Support.
- eCriteria
- Presents professional Web database publishing
solutions for businesses, organizations, online
communities, and individuals. Allows individuals and
businesses to quickly create &shrink-wrap& Web
databases without any database or programming
experience.
- SmarTech
Laboratory
- Most of their templates are 1-page layout with basic
graphics. The templates usually feature
customer-friendly navigational structure and will give
your customers a better online experience.
- DollarTemplates.com
- Top quality web site templates that are low cost,
royalty-free, ready-to-use, and customizable.
- Discount
Internet Services
- Great prices on DirectTV DSL, an ISP for
$12.50/month, UNIX and Windows 2000 Web Hosting,
Domain Name Registration, and more.
- A+
Templates
- With membership, you get unlimited downloads of
templates (.psd files included), support, and use of
Flash Intro Builder.
- Information Packaging
- They've got a variety of software for webmasters,
including AMeta
- a meta tag generator, BMail
- opt-in email software, ALink
- a reciprocal link manager, and APassword
- a random password generator.
- LocalWhois
- Looking for a good web site name? Every day, they
publish a complete list of Expiring Soon, Expired, and
On Hold domains.
- Vibrant
Media
- Full technology and business content delivered
seamlessly to your site from leading publishers and at
no cost to you.
- Clari.net
- Keep people coming back to your site. Their service
includes general, international, sports, technology,
entertainment, and financial news -- plus special
features and columns, press releases from major
companies, and information about the U.S. government.
- IndexTools
- Tune up your web site stats. They offer an easy to
use web site traffic tracking service with all the
features a small business web site owner or individual
needs for professional web site tracking.
- CoffeeCup
Software
- Download free web design software here. Over a dozen
different software products to download.
- perlcoders.com
- At least 155 very sophisticated and useful cgi
scripts.
- Bravenet
- Web tools for webmasters including guestbooks,
forums, polls, chat, email forms, and more. Over 20
different tools are available.
- SmartAutoresponder.com
- Use a Smart Autoresponder to put your offer in front
of your prospects 2, 3, 4... times. For example, offer
a 5-day course via autoresponder - each day, the
recipient will automatically receive a new mailing.
- Free
@bestofwebmasters.com mailbox
- Get your free yourname@bestofwebmasters.com
address now!
- NoMonthlyFees.com
- Thinking about offering web hosting as part of your
business? Check out these very attractive wholesale
prices.
- Search
Engine Commando
- Here's how you can get accurate control of all your
sites and all your pages, as you automatically submit
to the search engines. Click to find out more.
- McAfee
Clinic
- Provides a complete suite of online services to keep
your PC in peak condition. Scan for viruses, clean
your hard drive, update your software, and more.
- Nothing
But Net
- Shows step by step, in plain English, how Michael
Campbell generated $750,000.00 in internet revenue,
selling real world products in less than a year,
without paying for any conventional advertising of any
kind, not even a business card.
- Sitegauge
- Free website traffic measurement and reporting.
Learn who your visitors are, where they're coming from
and when.
- Unclaimed
Domains
- Offers lists of unused, freely-available
unregistered domain names. There are a lot of names in
their list, and many are quite good.
- Free
samples of Webcards
- Printed postcards with an image of your home page on
one side and your custom message on the other.
-
- A
List Apart
- A weekly magazine and daily discussion list for
people who make websites.
- Aestiva
HTML/OS
- oftware program for everyone interested in having a
sophisticated dynamic Web site.
- AnfyTeam
- Their free Anfy package contains 41 applets using
Java™ technology, ultimate effects and navigational
menu for web sites. Usable also as screensaver.
- Boogie
Jack's Web Depot
- A webmasters resource site with over 500 pages of
free high quality web page graphics, HTML and CSS
tutorials, graphics tutorials, cut and paste
JavaScript, sound effects, software and software
reviews, computer tips and more.
- BrowserCam
- A service for web-developers that creates screen
captures of your web pages loaded in any browser, any
version, any operating system ... so you can quickly
site check your webpages on Windows, Linux, Macintosh,
in IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, even the Macintosh
Safari Browser in just about every version of every
browser ever released.
- builder.com
- A large reference site about developing web sites.
- Domain
Registration by country
- Takes you to sites to register over 150 different
first-level domains (such as .com, .net) including
most foreign countries.
- Dynamic
Drive
- A great selection of DHTML scripts.
- e-gineer
Domainator
- A interesting site to check if you're looking for a
domain name. It asks you to enter words, then makes
suggestions.
- eCriteria
- Offers webmasters and small businesses the ability
to create Web databases and integrate them seamlessly
to their website, without any programming experience.
It only takes ten minutes to click through the Wizard
process to create a searchable database or Web form,
and free.
- Emacs
reference materials
- All about the editor.
- FindSticky.com
- A directory of free and almost free content to make
your website sticky. Listings include dynamic content,
news feeds, email, forums, and more.
- Flash
99% Good
- A first aid manual for usable Flash sites.
- Frames
Tutorial
- Everything you need to know about frames to get them
going on your web site.
- FreeSSL
- A Web Server certificate offering for low volume
sites that allows web sites to conduct safe eCommerce
with an encrypted SSL connection. FreeSSL is available
for no charge the first year.
- greatdomains.com
- Looking to buy or sell a domain name? Check here.
- HTTP_USER_AGENT
list
- Helps correlate information in site logs with what
browsers they represent.
- Internet
Weather Report
- From Clear Ink.
- Internet
Weather Report (MIDS)
- Animated maps of current Internet lag.
- Intranet
Design Magazine
- For intranet professionals. Includes software
reviews, features, and current industry buzz.
- ITtoolbox
- Content, community, and service for Web Designing
professionals. Providing technical discussion, job
postings, an integrated directory, news, and much
more.
- Jeff
Zeldman Presents
- A creative web designer and ad man provides his
tips, magazine, patterns, contests and more, include
over 400 32x32 wacky icons.
- JoeExpert
- The search engine for web design.
- LockedArea
- Locked Area is a very powerful Perl script designed
for creating password protected member communities for
web sites. It offers all the great features that you'd
expect of a program of this type as well as some
others like members area statistics, powerful
administration panel and an easy to use, 60-second
installation program. There are free and paid
versions.
- mozilla.org
- Netscape Source Code
- mSQL
- A compact version of SQL oriented toward net
databases.
- QBullets
- A free collection of elegant, animated icons that
attach to hypertext links to indicate their function.
- NetMechanic
- Server Monitoring and Performance Testing
- Put your URL in - they'll test your server every 15
minutes for the next eight hours and report back
performance &reliability.
- Sober
Witness, The
- "A hype-free guide to the web".
- SpiderPro
- Aimed at professional web developers. Among the
subjects handled you'll find HTML, XML, JavaScript,
Java and Perl but also database publishing, generating
webpages, designing and publishing your site.
- Statistics
Server Live Stats
- LiveStats (http://www.deepmetrix.com/livestats/index.html)
Real-time website statistics, site usage and marketing
reports via automated log analysis. Generate reports
in seconds. Perfect for corporate websites or large
ISP/ASPs. From DeepMetrix (formerly MediaHouse). Also
check out their ipMonitord
which is network monitoring, alerting and recovery
software.
- StatMarket
- Global Internet market data. Presents raw data
computed from millions of daily Internet visitors to
Web sites monitored by WebSideStory's HitBOX Tracker.
StatMarket is all about real statistical counts.
- The
Single-Pixel GIF
- An explanation of how single-pixel gifs are used for
accurate spacing on a web page. Download a
single-pixel clear gif.
- SurfStats
Log Analyzer
- Rated 5 Stars by Tucows, 5 Star Shareware, SoftJam
and others.
- URL-minder
- Keeps track of Web pages and other resources on the
Web. URL-Minder send a notification via email whenever
pages change.
- useit.com
- Jakob Nielsen's Website addressing web site
useability issues.
- USPS
Web Integration tools
- Want to integrate U.S. Postal Service information
into your web site? Here are their free tools.
- Virtual
Library of WWW Development
- Comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web
technology.
- Voytech.com
- A company that sells banner and button development
services. Great quality, and they're fast.
- The
Web Masters Den
- An extensive directory of web master related
resources on the internet.
- Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines
- These guidelines explain how to make Web content
accessible to people with disabilities. Following them
will also make Web content more available to all
users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g.,
desktop browser, voice browser, etc.) or constraints
they may be operating under (e.g., noisy or noiseless
surroundings, in a hands-free environment, etc.). They
will also help people find information on the Web more
quickly. These guidelines do not discourage content
developers from using images, video, etc., but rather
explain how to make multimedia content more accessible
to a wide audience.
- Web
Developer Magazine
- Magazine offering a good general source of
information on developing web sites.
- Web
Developer's Virtual Library
- by Selena Sol. Another great source of information
on just about everything web-related.
- Web
Monitor
- A free remote web monitoring service that tests
transactions, response time and availability from
outside your location to help you understand your
customers' experience. If problems are detected, email
alerts the appropriate person for quick problem
resolution.
- WEBalley
- Excellent html tutorials and web design guides.
Templates to help beginners writing their first basic
homepage. Tips on how to use graphics on your website.
Tutorials to teach you everyting you need to know to
create and publish your first website. Online home
page wizard, online search engine submission.
- Webmaster
Yellow Pages
- Webmaster resources, search engine marketing tips,
web design tools and tutorials, free scripts, web page
hosting, and development resources for webmasters and
b2b services.
- webreference.com
(sm)
- The Webmaster's Reference Library
- WebReview
- A large and long-standing weekly site dedicated to
Web professionals. Published each Friday, their stance
is about Web teams -— ensuring that each member of a
team gets what he or she needs to do their jobs
quickly, efficiently, and with the best information
and skills available.
- WebServer
compare
- Provides HTTP server specs for all web servers.
- Website
Abstraction
- Web site page building resource.
- Websitebroker
- Valuation of web sites
- WebTechniques
- Readers range from CTOs to creative directors, from
content developers to Java programmers.
- Windy's
Fashionable Page Designs
- Has a graphics gallery, themes, javascript, font,
and HTML tips.
-
Access Counters
- AccessWatch
- Website traffic analysis tool written in Perl.
Will run on any server. Licensed.
- eXTReMe
Tracking
- Analyze the visitors on your website using
numbers, percentages, stats, totals and averages.
- Web
Counters and Tracker Services
- Acounter displays the number of visitors; a
"tracker" displays either a counter or a
logo, but also provides more site stats.
Apache servers
- Apache
1.3 documentation
-
- Apache
Week
- Aims to become an essential resource for anyone
running an Apache server, or anyone responsible for
running Apache-based services.
CGI
- CGI
Book
- Web programming reference
- CGI
Environment Variables
- In order to pass data about the information
request from the server to the script, the server
uses command line arguments as well as environment
variables. These environment variables are set when
the server executes the gateway program.
- cgi101.com
- CGI Training, CGI-friendly web hosting, script
libraries and resources.
- Common
Gateway Interface (The)
- A technical explanation of CGI.
- FTLS's
Free GPL Perl CGI Scripts Archive
- Over 15 free Perl CGI Scripts to help make your
web site more interactive.
- Jeff's
Free CGI Scripts
- includes File Upload
- Matt's
Script Archive
- A large archive of mostly Perl (and some C++)
scripts.
- Perl
CGI Scripts
- Good list of scripts in multiple categories.
Provided by PlanMagic Corporation.
Chat and Messaging
- Coolboard
- Free, customized message boards that match the
look-and-feel of individual web sites.
- HyperNews
- For Unix servers; uses Perl 5.004. Download free
source.
- ICQ
- User-friendly Internet tool that informs you who's
on-line at any time and enables you to contact them
at will. Chat, send messages, files and URL's, play
games.
- Multicity.com
- Multilingual communications tools with instant
translation. Suite includes chat rooms with instant
translation, message boards, web and wireless
auctions, web polls, instant messanger, and people
profiles.
- paraCHAT's
Home page
- From Paralogic Software Corporation.
- Ultimate
Bulletin Board
- an online discussion forum program written
entirely in Perl. To use the UBB, you must install
it on your web server. Used by some major sites like
Warner Brothers.
- Web
Crossing
- Web-based discussion software. Threaded
discussions, support for Live Events, Internet
Tours, and a fully integrated chat feature are part
of the latest version. Other new features include
newsreader access and email list archiving.
- WebScripts:
WebBBS
- A Web-based bulletin board. WebBBS stores messages
as simple text files and creates HTML pages "on
the fly." This means that the message index can
be tailored by the user based on date and/or subject
(via built-in keyword search capability), and can be
viewed as either a chronological or a threaded list.
Cookies
- Client
Side State - HTTP Cookies
- Fropm Netscape - the Cookie spec.
- Cookie
Central
- Dedicated to provide full information about
Internet Cookies.
Email
- Junk
Email Resource Page
- Resources for fighting spam.
- Mail
Abuse Protection System
- Home of the RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) - a list
of IP numbers from which some ISPs will
automatically reject mail.
- Mailto
encoder
- Siteup Networks provides this service which takes
as input your email address, and outputs it as a
concatenation of numeric ASCII values (check it out
to see what this means). The result is that a
spammer will not be able to lift an email address
from a web page.
Frontpage tools
- Webs
Unlimited
- A source for Microsoft Frontpage add-ins.
HTML, XML Sites
- Bare
Bones Guide to HTML
- Lists every official HTML tag in common usage,
plus Netscape and Microsoft extensions. Version 4.0
of the Guide is designed to conform to the HTML 4.0
specification.
- Compendium
of HTML Elements
- A complete listing of HTML and CSS.
- Doctor
HTML (checks links too)
- A Web page analysis tool which retrieves an HTML
page and reports on any problems that it finds.
- Dynamic
HTML in Netscape Communicator
- Describes how to use Dynamic HTML to incorporate
style sheets, positioned content, and downloadable
fonts
- Frame
Basics
- The syntax of frames from Netscape.
- HTML
2.0 Example
- Shows a simple HTML 2.0 document broken down into
the source code on the left and the results (more or
less) on the right.
- HTML
ASCII
- Decimal ASCII for HTML (for example, the ASCII
code for the ™ sign).
- HTML
Bad Style Page
- An educational tool for users learning HTML. Shows
some of the more common problems.
- HTML
Tidy
- A free DOS program to fix HTML mistakes
automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely
layed out markup.
- Index
Dot HTML: THE Advanced HTML Reference
- All about the HTML language, Cascading Style
Sheets, the popular browsers that support them, and
the history behind each.
- Introduction
to HTML
- From Case Western Reserve University. 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 more.
- iso8859-1
table of HTML special characters
- Textual description of possible characters,
followed by various codes to create them.
- xml.com
- XML from the inside out.
Image Maps
- Imagemap
Help Page
- An educational resource intended to provide
assistance with the implementation of imagemaps.
IP Address blocks
- American
Registry for Internet Numbers
- For North & South America, the Caribbean and
sub-Saharan Africa.
- Asia
Pacific Network Information Center
-
- RIPE
Network Coordination Center
- For Europe.
Java
- Sun's
Java Site
- The ultimate source for Java technology.
Javascript
- Form
validation power with MegaScript
- Detailed code to validate Form input - from
builder.com
- JavaScript
Guide at Netscape
- Javascript 1.1 as used by Netscape 3.x.
- Javascript
Guide at Netscape (current)
- Includes Javascript 1.2
- Javascript
Reference
- Includes objects in the core language and both
client-side and server-side extensions.
- Javascript
Source
- Over 300 free cut-and-paste JavaScripts including
a working demonstration of all the scripts and a
text box with the complete actual JavaScript coding
used.
Mailing List services
- ONElist
- A free service to manage mailing lists.
- ListBot
- Free way to keep in touch with web site visitors
by giving you a Web-based email list management
system. Charges for advanced capabilities.
- Listserv
by L-Soft
- Allows you to create, manage and control
electronic mailing lists on corporate network or on
the Internet. Since 1986.
- UnityMail
- NT-based mailing list server software. Collect
opt-in demographic data or import a list. Filter and
sort the list using any characteristic. Personalize
the message. Use standard email or HTML mail.
Deliver trackable URLs and track clickthroughs on
links or banners. Measure list performance.
-
Perl
- PERL
-- Practical Extraction and Report Language
- A re-organized version of the "perl.1"
man page for PERL version 4.
- Perl.COM
Home Page
- A great Perl resource from O'Reilly.
- libwww-perl
- a collection of Perl modules which provides a
simple and consistent programming interface (API) to
the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is
to provide classes and functions that allow you to
write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW
client library. The library also contain modules
that are of more general use.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- PHP
Official Site
- Contains official documentation and downloads of
PHP source.
Promotion
- Promotion
World
- All about web site promotion.
- VirtualPROMOTE
- Virtual promotion and web commerce electronic
community.
Robots
- robots.txt
Syntax Checker
- Checks the contents of a site's robots.txt against
that contained in the latest specification, along
with providing warnings on the use of new features
that are not yet widely deployed.
- The
Web Robots database
- An index of known robots which may be
investigating your web site.
-
Search Engines
- Add
a Site
- Add your site the major seach engines.
- Search
Engine Advertising Review
- A detailed and informative site for paid search
engine listings on the internet.
- Search
Engine Terms
- A glossary for understanding Internet search
technology.
- Search
Engine Watch
- News, Tips and More About Search Engines.
- Spiderline
- Add a free search engine to your web site in just
minutes. Offers complete control of page design and
search results, comprehensive query reports, and
reliable service.
- whatUseek.com
- Add free search engine capabilities to your web
site.
Servers
- WebServer
compare
- Provides HTTP server specs for all web servers.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
- BigNoseBird.com's
Server Side Include page
- Everything you need to know on including text
files into your web pages and other uses of SSI.
Shopping Cart software
- PerlShop
- A cgi shopping cart script written in perl.
- How
Does Store-Building Software Work?
- by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson. (Originally printed in Web
Commerce Today)
- The
Internet Shopping Cart Server
- No server CGI required - runs on their site.
- Zero-Cost
Ecommerce
- A free shopping cart service for internet
businesses of all kinds and sizes. It's not just a
free script - those are everywhere. This is already
installed on their servers and all the merchant has
to do is add products. Tax, shipping, etc., even
secure collection of credit card information is part
of the free service.
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