Useful Links

Browsers	Web Developer Toolkit
Graphics Resources & Software	Domain Names & Site Hosting
Reference & Tutorials	General Resources
Search Engines

• NCSA Mosaic: the original web browser - for fans like me, it is still available from this link
• Firefox: a really fast and excellent web browser in my opinion with some fantastic plug-ins, great for web designers
• Opera: a really fast and excellent web browser in my opinion - it is our favourite alongside Firefox
• Safari: Apple's answer to web browsing - this is also a really cool browser
• Netscape: was around before Internet Explorer!
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• NoteTab Pro: probably the most-used program on my PC - this is a fabulous and highly functional text editor
• FTP Voyager: our FTP client of choice
• Coffee Cup Pro: this is a great suite of web design tools and we use it all sorts of things to save time
• Adobe Cold Fusion: another useful editor
• Adobe Dreamweaver: this is a truly fabulous WYSIWYG site builder (used to be "Macromedia Dreamweaver")
• Adobe Flash: once "Macromedia Flash" this one is what produces all those fancy animation effects on web sites
• Hot Wax Pro: another useful application for adding extra functionality to your web site
• Linksleuth: a link checking service
• Netmechanic: a web site building tool
• HTML Tidy: an HTML source code validator
• W3C's "CodeChecker": another HTML source code Validation Service
• Autoresponder: send automatic email reponses
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• Clipart.com: a subscription graphics site
• Texture Station: background texture graphics
• Faststone: a fantastic and free image management solution - the one we use
• Canto Software: home of "Cumulus" (image management)
• Cerious Software: home of the excellent image organiser "Thumbs Plus"
• Corel Draw Graphics Suite: a fantastic suite of tools - the designers choice before Photoshop was around
• Adobe Photoshop: our photo and editor of choice
• Adobe Lightroom: a truly fabulous tool if you do photography
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• FreeWebSpace: an index of free ISPs
• Pair.Com: the company that hosts this site
• Nominet: the Internet registry for .uk domain names
• Fasthosts: who we use for domain name registration
• SmatWhois: who we use for domain lookups as it is great for organising information and doing bulk searching, etc
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• W3C (WWW Consortium): the dudes that govern the web - you can read the HTML standards here if you are brave!
• Developer.com: an extremely useful web design resource
• HTML Goodies: another excellent web design resource
• Sitepoint: as above...
• Webdeveloper: a great JavaScripts resource
• BigNoseBird: loads of info. and tutorials
• Persuing Page Publishing: a great and chatty HTML tutorial
• Web Teacher: useful tutorials
• Java Technology Homepage: check this out as it is where Java was born!
• CSS Guide: tutorial on "Cascading Style Sheets"
• Matt's free CGI scripts: scripts for forms, etc
• About SSL: a guide for putting a shopping facility on your site
• HTML Writers Guild: the first guild for web design that ever existed
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• Downloads.com: for every hot download imagineable
• Expansys: all sorts of software and links
• Dell Computers: we think they do nice, functional PCs and laptops
• Overclockers: for if you want to build your own PC
• Netlingo: techie acronyms and dictionary
• Wired Magazine: for "intellectual" webheads!
• WhatIs: techie terms explained
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• Google: the most popular search engine of the new milenium - you'd better made sure your web site appears in it!
• Alta Vista: used to be the "God" of the search engines for geeks
• Excite: pretty groovy
• Hot Bot: doncha just love the name!
• Lycos: was once the most popular back in the late nineties for "general" use
• MetaSearch: a "big gun" search engine
• PowerSearch: another "big gun" search engine
• Yahoo: the famous web-directory - once the most famous way to search for stuff
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